Of the forty-eight different kinds of eagles, only two are native to North America. Name them.
Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle
100
This vessel left Plymouth, England in 1620. Two months and five days later it arrived in Massachusetts bay. Name this ship.
Mayflower
100
In 1773, the harbor of what city became the world's largest teapot?
Boston
100
What results when the main trunk of a woody plant is buried and each cell is eventually replaced by minerals?
petrified wood
100
There were 800 alligators in a county in 1988. in 1989 that number increased to 848. express the 1989 number in comparison to the 1988 number as a percentage
106%
200
Jed was walking along in some shallow sea water when he stepped on a floor-dwelling echinoderm in a round, symmetrical shell covered with spines. What had he stepped on?
Sea urchin
200
In 1818, it cost $100 to transport a ton of freight from Buffalo to New York City. Soon thereafter, the price fell to $15 because of what massive construction project had been completed?
Erie Canal
200
The first catholic parish in North America was established in 1565 in what colonial settlement?
St. Augustine
200
What first name should have Joe Theismann have used when he said this?
Nobody in football should be called a genius.
A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein
Albert
200
By 1610, only 150 of the 900 colonists who landed in Virginia during the previous years survived. to the nearest whole number, what percentage of the colonists had not?
83%
300
What tree-dwelling marsupial lives exclusively on eucalyptus leaves?
Koala
300
During the fifty years following the Civil war, what was the dominant mode of commercial transportation in America?
Railroads
300
Sir James Oglethorpe founded the oldest city in Georgia. Name it.
Savannah
300
The moon is falling toward the Earth but the pull of gravity is not strong enough to counteract its tendency to move forward in a straight line. The resulting path the moon takes around the Earth is called an...
orbit
300
express 8 1/3% as a fraction
1/12
400
Name the largest primate.
gorilla
400
What was completed in the 1990s that connected Coquelles near Calais in France with Folkestone in England?
Eurotunnel (Channel Tunnel)
400
What colony taken over by the duke of York was renamed "New York"?
New Netherland
400
You are sneaking up on someone. Your head is flush against a wall and you want to see 90 degrees around a corner. You could hold a mirror at what angle?
45 degrees
400
Ralphie the realtor sold a $25,000 lot and got a 1.5% commission. How much did he receive?
$375
500
The smallest fish is the dwarf pygmy goby which can be less than 3 tenths of an inch long. At the other extreme is a fish that reaches 60 feet in length. Name this shark.
Whale Shark
500
As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations in 2002, whose grandson took off in a single-engine aircraft to fly across the Atlantic and replicate a flight made in 1927?
Charles Lindbergh's
500
His mother was Indian and his father African American. Name this man killed in the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
500
Complete this limerick.
The first law of Newton I sing
My voice has a relevant ring:
"An object left free
Of hassles will be
Engrossed in just doing its..."
Thing
500
A striking bronze statue of a Great Auk is composed of 75% copper, 18% lead, and 7% tin. the statue weighs 500 pounds. How many pounds of copper are in theis fine work of art?