The Nature of Things
This sweet food is made by bees.
Answer: What is honey?
Honey never goes bad because it is inhospitable to bacteria.
This is the base number of innings in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game.
Answer: What is nine?
The games sometimes go into more innings to break a tie. The MLB game with the most innings was played in 1920 between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Robins. It ran for 26 innings and would have gone longer if it had not been called due to darkness.
Baby cow
Answer: What is a calf?
A calf weighs 60–100 pounds at birth.
You hear a sonic boom on Earth when this happens.
Answer: What is when something exceeds the speed of sound?
When you hear a whip crack, it’s because it breaks the speed of sound. You’re hearing a mini sonic boom.
This is the number of primary colors.
Answer: What is three?
The colors are red, blue, and yellow. Primary colors can be mixed to make the secondary colors orange, green, and violet.
It is the hardest gem in the world.
Answer: What is diamond?
The stone is made entirely of carbon. Russia has the largest reserve of diamonds 650 million carats out of an estimated 1.2 billion carats in the ground.
When we do something at the very last minute, it is called doing it at this hour.
Answer: What is 11th?
You can think of the 11th hour as “just in the nick of time.”
Baby horse
Answer: What is a foal?
A foal’s legs are 80–90% the size of its adult legs at birth, and they can walk within an hour or two of birth.
These flying mammals have poor night vision, but their hearing can be better than human hearing.
Answer: What are bats?
They navigate by what is called echolocation. They send out a sound and wait for an echo, which helps them locate or avoid objects.
When dieticians tell us to eat a variety of colored fruits and vegetables, they tell us to eat the colors of this.
Answer: What is rainbow?
Five to nine servings are suggested per day.
Found in the northern hemisphere, this is the world’s biggest island.
Answer: What is Greenland?
Eighty percent of the island is covered in ice. Of its 56,000 inhabitants, 17,000 live in the capital city of Nuuk.
Those who are intuitive are said to have this sense.
Answer: What is sixth?
It can refer to a spiritual experience.
Farm animals with curly tails
Answer: What are pigs (or hogs or swine)?
Pigs are smarter than dogs, and you can train them.
These pets hear higher frequencies than humans.
Answer: What are dogs?
That’s the reason they sometimes react to things we cannot see or hear.
These items have this color in common—stop or danger sign, Coca-Cola, and Valentine’s Day.
Answer: What is red?
Red is the international safety color used in graphical symbols.
This country owns almost all the pandas of the world.
Answer: What is China?
They loan their 1,600 pandas to other countries but retain ownership of them. They call it panda diplomacy.
People often don’t want to play this fiddle with their spouse.
Answer: What is second?
The term comes from the orchestra’s second violin section, which plays a supporting role.
Baby sheep
Answer: What is lamb?
Lambs are herbivores and feed off grass and plants.
This part of the ear continues to grow.
Answer: What is earlobe?
Genetics do not determine whether earlobes grow.
To see the essence of someone is to see their [missing word] colors
Answer: What is true?
When you tell someone a secret and they tell others, they have shown their true colors; that is, they are not trustworthy.
Baby owls are mostly called this.
Answer: What are owlets?
A female owl is called an owl hen, and a male owl is called an owl coco. Owlets remain with their parents from four to 10 weeks, depending on the species.
This is the degree of the most serious burn.
Answer: What is fourth?
First-degree burns are superficial and affect the epidermis, which is the outer layer of skin. Second-third-and fourth degree burns damage the underlying skin and organs.
Small farm animal that is one of the closest living relatives to the T-rex
Answer: What is chicken?
Some chickens lay green and blue eggs.
When we place this next to our ear, we are not hearing the ocean.
Answer: What is seashell?
What we hear is the sound of blood traveling through veins in our ear.
A heart of this color is used for a military medal.
Answer: What is purple?
Any military member who has been wounded or killed in action qualifies for the Purple Heart.