Animals
The koala bear is not actually a bear at all. What type of mammal is it?
Answer: A marsupial
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Why are polar bears threatened by climate change?
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How is a black hole formed?
Answer: Most are born when a giant star runs out of nuclear fuel and implodes, causing an explosion.
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Where did photographer Will Burrard-Lucas find meerkats in the wild?
Answer: Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana
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2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
Answer: The Berlin Wall blocked East Germans from traveling to West Germany.
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How many toes does a sloth have on each front paw?
Answer: Two or three
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Which British leader is working to prevent overfishing and the amount of plastic that lands in the ocean every year?
Answer: Prince Charles
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What is the inner core of the Earth made of?
Answer: The inner core is a solid center made mostly of iron and nickel.
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Name a British explorer that visited Antarctica in the early 1900's. (His hut is still there.)
Answers include: Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, and Edward Wilson
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Which famous castle is said to have inspired Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle?
Answer: Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria
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What is a group of leopards called?
Answer: A leap
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What fraction of the Earth's plants and animals live in tropical rain forests?
Answer: One half
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Some of the first telescopes were not used to look at the stars. What were they used for?
Answer: They were used to spot enemy ships.
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What is a herpetologist?
Answer: A herpetologist is a person who studies amphibians, like snakes and crocodiles.
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What is the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial?
Answer: This site in Honolulu, Hawaii marks the memory of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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