Corny Trivia
Games We Played
Wizard of Oz
Plants and Nature
Zoo Clues
100
Who first planted corn in North America?
Native Americans. Corn cultivation dates back 9,000 years in Mexico.
100
During what game did one player shout, “Ready or not, here I come”?
Hide-and-seek. This game has universal appeal, and it’s played by children around the world with slight variations.
100
Dorothy wants to go back home to this place.
Where is Kansas. The line “There’s no place like home” polled as one of the top lines in the movie, ahead of “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
100
What is the fruit of an oak called?
Acorn. Acorns are an important food source for many animals. However, they can be harmful to some animals such as horses and dogs if a large amount is consumed.
100
Which marine animal rarely gets sick and has a natural immunity to cancer?
Shark. The Florida Museum of Natural History reported on a study where scientists tried to induce cancer in sharks. They were unsuccessful. Today, scientists are trying to find human applications for the results of the study, but there’s a major difference between sharks and humans: sharks have no bone structure or bone marrow.
200
What did Native Americans call corn?
Maize. Maize is corn to the peoples of North America, Central America, South America, and Australia, but the rest of the world uses corn to refer generically to the grains.
200
What did we do in an open field on the first windy day in March as an annual rite of passage into spring?
Fly a kite. Kite festivals are popular events, and kite flying is a competitive sport.
200
The scarecrow lacks these.
What are brains. If you look closely, you’ll see shadows from the cameras during the dance scene where Dorothy and the Scarecrow sing “We’re Off to See the Wizard.”
200
What food comprises 99 percent of a giant panda’s diet?
Bamboo. But land clearing and habitat destruction in China, the giant panda’s native home, is causing a big drop in its traditional food supply.
200
How many bugs can an anteater eat in one day—300, 3,000, or 30,000?
30,000. The solitary anteater is native to the region from Belize to Argentina. It survives on a diet of termites and ants, and attacks termite and ant hills to eat. It also eats ripe fruit when it can find it on the ground. Its tongue can be up to two feet long.
300
How is corn measured?
In bushels. Approximately 72,800 kernels of corn make up a bushel.
300
What game did we play by tossing a marker into a square, hopping through the court, and picking up the marker on the way back?
Hopscotch. The game dates back to the early Roman Empire era and originated in Britain.
300
This was the name of Dorothy’s dog.
What is Toto? The dog is said to have earned $125 per week while filming. The Munchkins earned only $50 per week.
300
How many trees are planted in the U.S. each year? a) 1.5 million b) 150 million c) 1.5 billion d) 1 trillion
1.5 billion seedlings are hand-planted in addition to what Nature plants.
300
What is a baby tiger called?
Cub. Tigers weigh around 500 pounds and predominantly come from Asia. While most tigers live in a warm climate, some live in the cold in eastern Russia.
400
What leading manufacturer is most often associated with corn flakes?
Kellogg’s. Corn hit an all-time high price of over $8.00, and it settled back to around $5.50 in 2013. At $6.00 per bushel of corn, the typical box of corn flakes’ corn content (not necessarily Kellogg’s) is worth 9¢.
400
What popular game did we play on the ground or other smooth surface by rolling small spheres?
Marbles. The traditional version is also called ringer.
400
Dorothy’s nemesis, the wicked witch is from this direction.
What is west. When the witch tries to remove Dorothy’s slippers, we see her hands on fire. They simulated the fire with apple juice.
400
What plant was used in ancient Egypt as a writing material?
Papyrus. It was used so much throughout Egypt that its hieroglyph was the symbol for Lower Egypt.
400
What animal shares 95 to 98 percent of its DNA with humans?
Chimpanzee. They are the closest living relative to humans, according to Dr. Jane Goodall, a British scientist who moved to Africa in 1960 to study chimpanzees. Just like humans, chimpanzees form close bonds and “communicate through sound and calls…touch, facial expressions and body language.”
500
Zea mays corn has red, white, purple, brown, and sometimes blue or multicolored kernels. What is the common name for this type of corn?
Indian corn. Native Americans ate Indian corn, a variety that’s starchy, not sweet. Today we use it mostly for decorative purposes, but you can also use it for popcorn.
500
This kids toy can be stretched out and rolled into a ball and bounced.
What is Silly Putty. Peter Hodgson and James Wright invented Silly Putty in 1943 entirely by accident. While trying to create a synthetic rubber, Wright made what became Silly Putty while working for an electric company. Hodgson suggested packaging it in an egg and selling it as a toy that bounced and stretched.
500
What type of road do Dorothy and her friends follow?
What is a yellow brick road.
500
How many kinds of trees are in the world? 12,000 23,000 40,000
There are over 23,000 different kinds of trees in the world.
500
Why is the koala bear called a marsupial?
It carries its young in a pouch. Only the female marsupials have pouches. After about six months, the baby koala leaves the pouch and rides on its mother’s back or belly. While the koala appears cute and cuddly, it is anything but—it has sharp teeth and claws and can become violent.
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