Animals, Plants, and Other Lifeforms
How many legs to most spiders have?
8
What are the four arithmetic operations?
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
Who wrote the book of Acts (of the Apostles)?
Luke
What state is Mount Rushmore in?
South Dakota
Who wrote Charlotte's Web?
Elwyn Brooks White
(Accept E. B. White)
The monarch ______ has a beautiful, distinctive wing pattern containing orange and black. It is an insect.
Butterfly
(Accept: Monarch Butterfly, Danaus Plexippus)
All animals and plants are made of ____, which are tiny structures containing organelles such as a nucleus, chloroplasts in plants, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, etc.
Cells
What are the first five books of the Bible, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy called?
The Pentateuch
Which ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza?
The Egyptians
Johanna Spyri's Heidi was her most famous work. Which decade did it come out?
The 1880s
By what process do plants use to make their own energy?
Photosynthesis
Neutral oxygen has how many electrons?
8
How tall was Goliath?
Six cubits and a span
Which president signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
Ray Bradbury wrote the book _____ 451, protesting the banning, specifically the burning, of books. The title makes sense, with the temperature that wood starts charring and can potentially ignite.
Fahrenheit
A pastor preaches to which kind of animal?
(Hint: Pastors preach to congregations. What group of animals is called a congregation?)
Alligators
Name three atomic bonds in physics.
Ionic bonds, covalent bonds, hydrogen bonds, metallic bonds, Van der Waals interactions (dipole-dipole forces, London dispersion forces), polar covalent bonds, 3-center 2-electron bonds, 3-center 4-electron bonds, halogen bonds, agostic interactions, π (pi) effects (like π-π stacking and cation-π interactions), hydrophobic interactions/effects, mechanical bonds, metavalent bonds, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, dative bonds, network covalent bonds, 3-center bonds (or banana bonds), entropic bonds, ion-dipole interactions, induced-dipole interactions, muonic bonds, single-electron bonds
(Accept any three)
Of what wood was the Ark made of?
Gopher wood
(Accept Gofer wood)
Which four US states meet at a corner?
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona
Who is the main character in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien?
Bilbo Baggins
What are the five kingdoms of organisms?
(Hint: they start with A, P, F, P, A)
Name 3 for 2000, 4 for 2500, 5 for 3000
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Archea
(Accept: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists, and Archea)
Who is the xy-plane named after?
René Descartes
What was the name of Moses' brother's wife?
Elisheba
Which river flows through the most country capitals of any river in the world, and how many?
The Danube: 4 capitals (Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade)
Who is the second most generally known author of the 14th and 15th centuries?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra