The World
Rochester
History
Random Facts
100
How many continents are there in the world?
7
100
Rochester has how many Target stores
2
100
Cockroaches are older than dinosaurs. Yes or no
Yes
100
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit
200
What hemisphere do we live in?
The northern hemisphere
200
How many Rochesters are there in the United States?
19
200
Which came first the Great Wall of China or the Pyrimads at Giza in Egypt?
The Pyramids
200
What does an AQUEDUCT carry?
Water
300
Madrid is the capital of what country
Spain
300
Who is the mayor of Rochester
Ardell Brede
300
Aztec people had a written language. True or False
False Aztec had no alphabet of their own, but they used picture writing to record their history.
300
A herd of deer A pride of lions A pack of wolves A _____ of fish
School
400
What is the world's tallest mountain?
Mount Everest
400
Rochester has had two natural disasters in its history. Name 1.
Tornado 1883 Flood 1978
400
Th largest library in the ancient world was located in LONDON or ALEXANDRIA?
Alexandria, Egypt
400
What planet is closest to the sun
Mercury
500
True or False The Mariana Trench is located underwater.
TRUE: The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a crescent-shaped scar in the Earth's crust. It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10,994 metres (36,070 ft) (± 40 metres [130 ft]) at a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep.
500
Mayo is the big clinic in town. What is the name of the second biggest medical facility?
Olmsted Medical Center
500
The first computers were women. True or False
TRUE: In 1935 Virginia Tucker worked with four other women in Langley’s first “Computer Pool.” or in 1843 Ada Lovelace has been called the world's first computer programmer. What she did was write the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
500
Who wrote the Captain Underpants books?
Dav Pilkey
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