Bats
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Baseball
100
Kitti's hog-nosed bat is the world's smallest mammal, weighing less than a penny and is sometimes nicknamed after this insect due to a size comparison, bot because they sting.
What is a bumblebee (bat)?
100
The phrase for a rudimentary set of tents and shacks provisioned with supplies at the base of Mt. Everest, used by climbers during their ascent and descent. The South one is at an elevation of 17,600 feet, already at an altitude higher than the peak of any of the Rockies.
What is a base camp?
100
Essentially a rock opera all in one song with three variations in style, Queen released this hit single in 1975, which was made famous to a newer generation in 1992's Wayne's World.
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
100
The famous and exceptionally large hope diamond is this color due to trace amounts of boron.
What is blue?
100
The outer casing of a baseball is made of two pieces of leather stitched together with this color thread.
What is red?
200
Over 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination, including this fruit, also called the alligator pear, with a greenish flesh, a buttery consistency, and a nutty flavor.
What is the avocado?
200
The Naval Air Station in this Florida city is the home base of the Blue Angels.
What is Pensacola?
200
This band introduced the world to grunge rock in 1991's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Who is Nirvana?
200
It is the unit of measurement for the weight of a diamond.
What is carat?
200
A home run hit when the bases are loaded is called this, sounds like it would hurt if it was a wrestling move.
What is a grand slam?
300
These large fruit bats, which have wingspans approaching 6 feet, are named after vulpine mammals.
What are Flying Foxes?
300
Not always the case, most marine bases are called "camps" while most army bases are called this.
What are forts?
300
He proclaimed that Billie Jean's kid is not his son in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
300
Diamonds are made purely of this chemical element, also the predominant element in coal.
What is carbon?
300
It is the position played by a player in position six on these diagrams.
What is short-stop?
400
Bats use this approach to finding their way around in which they emit ultrasonic sound waves.
What is echolocation?
400
This word means a collection of raw but organized information, often contained in a single computer file.
What is a database?
400
The Righteous Brothers wonder what went wrong in the relationship in this 1964 hit, perhaps made even more iconic by it's use in an attempt to woo a girl in a wildly popular 80s military flick.
What is You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'?
400
As the earth's hardest naturally occurring substance, diamonds rank as a ten on this scale.
What is Mohs (hardness) scale?
400
Robbery is apparently encouraged in baseball, if a runner swipes an extra bag by running during the pitch and avoiding getting tagged out, it is called this.
What is a stolen base?
500
Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly even though this rodent's name might make you think otherwise. (it's just falling with style, not flying).
What is a flying squirrel?
500
This, abbreviated as BMR, is the number of calories you burn performs basic life-sustaining functions.
What is basal metabolic rate?
500
The lead singer of this English band crooned about how his "fool heart aches" in a hit single from 1983 that topped the Billboard charts for 8 straight weeks.
Who are The Police?
500
The shape of the diamond, such as pear or round, is often confused with this attribute, which is really the arrangement of the diamond's facets which impacts how light is reflected to the eye and impacts brilliance and sparkle.
What is the cut?
500
If a pitcher performs this infraction, all base runners automatically get to move up one base. It's different from a "ball" although it sounds a lot like it.
What is a balk?