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Inauguration Trivia
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100

What semi-aquatic, egg laying mammal, is native to Australia and Tasmania?

Platypus

100

The malleus, incus and stapes are found in what part of the human body?

Ears

100

In 1797, who became the second president of the United States of America?

John Adams

100

Inauguration Day used to be scheduled on this date

March 4th

100

In the US, a pint of milk is equal to how many cups of milk?

Two

200

Believed to grow as large as 60 feet (18 meters), what is the largest species of shark currently living in the ocean?

Whale Shark

200

What part of the human body contains five metacarpal bones?

Hand

200

The Hershey Company, commonly known as Hershey, was founded in which U.S. state?

Pennsylvania

200

This Amendment is commonly referred to as the "Lame Duck Amendment"

20th amendment 

200

What heavy metal element was once known as quicksilver?

Mercury

300

Which marine animal is the only known natural predator of the great white shark?

Killer Whale

300

What is the name for the pigment found in your skin and hair that gives them color?

Melanin

300

What private research university was founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1701?

Yale

300

His inauguration was the first to be held on January 20th

Franklin D. Roosevelt

300

Which outspoken former Scientologist was the female lead in the hit sitcom King of Queens?

Leah Remini

400

Native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean, which marine mammal is the heaviest member of the weasel family?

Sea Otter

400

The world’s fastest growing plant is a species of what?

Bamboo

400

“Oro y Plata” (Spanish for gold and silver) is the motto of which U.S. state?

Montana

400

This president gave the longest address in history on Inauguration Day, then died a month later of pneumonia

William Henry Harrison

400

What is the highest mountain when measured from the center of Earth?

Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador (Due to equatorial bulge)

500

Existing as recently as 100,000 years ago, Gigantopithecus blacki is an extinct species what animal?

Ape

500

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by which Scottish scientist?

Sir Alexander Fleming

500

Which New York City nightclub was originally built in 1927 as the Gallo Opera House?

Studio 54

500

At a frigid 7 degrees Fahrenheit, this president was sworn in in 1873 on the coldest Inauguration Day ever

Ulysses S. Grant

500

What French sculptor created the Statue of Liberty?

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

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