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100
Are most calico cats female or male?
Female (Calico cats are red, black and white)
100
Was the body of Henry IV dug up after 200 years to make a death mask or to investigate his murder?
To make a death mask (He had been assassinated in 1610.)
100
Which is our closest animal relative: the gorilla, chimpanzee or baboon?
The chimpanzee (gorillas are next closest.)


100
What were yo-yos originally used for?
Weapons (by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century)
100
Is "bladderwort" the name of an insect, a disease or a plant?
A plant (it eats insects that it catches in the bladders on its leaves, which spring open when touched.)
200
What vital organ forms a thin line down the middle of a caterpillar's back?
the heart (a tube that pumps blood to the rest of the body)
200
In ancient times, was a hole bored into a person's head to cure migraines, insanity or dandruff?
Insanity (The process was called trepanning, and the patient often survived.)
200
Every day do you swallow about an ounce, a quart or a gallon of mucus?
a quart (it slides down your throat into your stomach)
200
What is the chief food for half of all the people in the world?
Rice (eaten by huge numbers of people in China, Japan, India and other Asian countries.)
200
Horseshoe crabs aren't really crabs. Are they close cousins of the spider, the centipede or the cockroach?
the spider (Both belong to the arachnid class.)
300
What shoots out of the eyes of an angry horned toad?
blood (the horned toad, a kind of lizard, uses this tactic to foil its enemies.)
300
In Japan, was hara-kiri a ritual of birth, marriage or death?
death (Hara-kiri, or suicide by falling on a sword point, was outlawed in 1868.)
300
Is the water inside your body most like the water in an ocean or a freshwater lake?
an ocean (Both contain a high level of salt.)
300
Which was NOT part of a Puritan Christmas: presents, carols or decorations?
Carols (Christmas was considered too solemn an occasion for singing joyful songs.)
300
On the average, is the temperature at the South Pole lower or higher than the temperature at the North Pole?
lower (the South Pole is mostly an icecap.)
400
Which can an elephant NOT do: jump, swim or pick up small objects?
Jump (elephants are great swimmers and can pick up small objects with "fingers" on the tip of their trunk.)
400
Did the Roman emperor Caligula give his favorite horse a room in the palace or a high government job?
A high government job (The emperor made him Consul of Rome, a position higher than that of senator.)
400
What is the only organ in your body light enough to float on water?
your lungs (made up of millions of tiny hollow sacs)
400
Frontiersmen spent their leisure time at events called hurdy-gurdies. Were they dances, rodeos or all-night poker games?
dances (Women were scarce on the frontier, so the men danced mostly with each other.)
400
Which is the only poisonous lizard in the U.S.: the flying dragon or the Gila monster?
the Gila monster (which makes its home in southern deserts)
500
When is a leopard called a panther?
when it has no spots. (Panthers are born into otherwise ordinary leopard litters.)
500
Did King Mogut of Siam have 9,000 children, wives or slaves?

wives (He was the model for the king depicted in "The King and I")

500
If you could line up all your red blood cells, would they reach all the way around a city block, Lake Superior or the equator?
the equator (with 6,000 mile to spare)
500
Was the song "Ring Around a Rosy" written about a wedding, a coronation or a plaque?
a plaque (A rosy rash was one symptom of the Black Death, which killed millions in Europe.)
500
Which lizard can walk upside down across a plaster ceiling: the gecko, the skink or the basilisk?
the gecko (slits in its toes function as suction disks that allow the lizard even to cling to a pane of glass.)
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