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ANIMALS
100
Which sport uses terms like "Home Run," "Strikeout," and "Inning"?
Baseball
100
Which legendary driver is known as "The King" and holds the record for the most career wins (200)?
Richard Petty
100
What are the three main states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, Gas
100
Bulls get angry when they see the color red.
False. Bulls are actually colorblind to red. They react to the movement of the matador’s cape, not the color.
100
What is the only mammal that can truly fly?
Bat
200
In American Football, how many points is a touchdown worth (before the extra point)?
6 Points
200
What is the name of the most famous race in NASCAR, often called "The Great American Race"?
The Daytona 500
200
Which of these words is a "verb" (an action word): Apple, Run, Blue, or Quickly?
Run
200
A camel's hump is filled with water to help them survive in the desert.
False. The hump is actually a giant mound of fat. This fat provides energy when food is scarce, and as it is used, it releases a small amount of water as a byproduct.
200
Which animal is known as the "King of the Jungle" (even though it mostly lives on the grasslands)?
Lion
300
Who is often called "The Greatest of All Time" in basketball and wore the number 23 for the Chicago Bulls?
Michael Jordan
300
What color flag is waved to signal one lap left to go?
White
300
What is the "product" of 9 x 4
36
300
Humans only use 10% of their brains.
False. Brain scans show that we use almost every part of our brain, and most of it is active all the time.
300
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Three. (Two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body).
400
In Tennis, what is the term for a score of zero?
Love
400
How many lug nuts were traditionally used on a NASCAR wheel before the move to the "single lug" system in 2022?
5
400
Which fraction is the largest: 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 ?
1/2 (If you cut a pizza into 2 pieces, the pieces are much bigger than if you cut it into 8!).
400
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from the Moon.
False. You can't even see the Great Wall from low Earth orbit without help! From the Moon, even the continents are hard to see clearly.
400
Which land animal has the longest tail, often used for balance while running?
Giraffe 
500
What is the only country to have participated in every single modern Summer Olympic Games since 1896?
Greece
500
Before it became a professional sport, what were the original NASCAR drivers' "day jobs" that led to the development of fast stock cars?
Bootleggers (Moonshine runners). They modified their cars to outrun the police on winding country roads.
500
How many years are in a "Century"?
100
500
Sound cannot travel through space.
Space is a vacuum, meaning there are no molecules for sound waves to "vibrate" against.
500
Which animal has the thickest fur of any mammal, with nearly one million hairs per square inch? A. Sea Otter B. Penguin C. Seal D. My Father In-Law
A. Sea Otter