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What do you call a word that sounds like the noise it is describing? (Example: BOOM)
Onamotepia
What is the most basic unit of life?
A Cell
Who wrote the social contact?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A Penny
What is the most common additive in gasoline, used as an octane booster and often derived from corn?
Ethanol
What does the phrase “Caught between a rock and a hard place” mean?
Being in a situation where there are no good options
What is the process of a cell dividing during Mitosis called?
Cytokinesis
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
A calendar
What was the world’s most mass-produced and widely affordable car during the 1900’s?
Ford Model T
What is the term for a word that has exactly the same spelling but a different meaning and pronunciation?
(Example: Bass as in fish compared to Bass in music)
Homograph
What are vestigial structures?
Anatomical structures that lost their original functions.
Who was Hitlers Role Model according to his book Mein Kampf?
The Early United States
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
A fence
What innovation allowed for cars to use exhaust gasses to make more power?
A turbo / turbocharger.
What do you call a word that can be read from left to right and right to left and still retains its spelling?
(Examples: noon, radar, defied)
A Palindrome
Robert Hooke was the first person to see cells when he examined what kind of plant tissue under a microscope?
Cork
Who led the deadliest genocide in human history, killing 40-60 million?
Genghis Khan
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
They were all married.
What material was the outside of the Delorean made out of? And what was the most known characteristic of this?
Brushed unpainted stainless steel.
Who was the Italian poet known for writing “The Divine Comedy”in the 14th century?
Dante Alighieri
What “T” eight-legged segmented micro-animals can actually survive in the vacuum of space?
Tardigrade
Which continental European country financed its explorations of North America and Asia with the use of capitalist innovations like stock exchanges and joint-stock companies?
The Dutch Republic
You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.
A candle.
What was the most common issue with the Cadillac V8-6-4 engine?
Often Failing solenoids managed the motor’s hydraulic lifters.