Animals
ocean
history
geography
science
100

Cockroaches, earwigs, and moths all have the same number of legs—how many?

6

100

A "smack" is the collective term for a large group of what stinging, tentacled sea creatures?

Jellyfish

100

Who was the first President of the United States to live in the White House?

 John Adams

100

What is the world's largest rainforest?

The Amazon

100

How many phases of the moon are there?

8

200

The pattern of wrinkles on the noses (a noseprint) of which large primate act like a fingerprint in humans, as they are unique to each individual animal?

Gorilla

200

What oceanic animal has the scientific name monodon monoceros, Greek for "one-tooth one-horn?"

Narwhal

200

Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Michelangelo

200

What do you call a piece of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water but is still connected to the mainland?

A peninsula

200

Who is the biggest land predator?

Polar Bear

300

What group of large hairy spiders is named after a town in Southern Italy, which also names the largest gulf in Italy?

Tarantulas (named after the town of Taranto)

300

The global intersection of zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude is found in which ocean?

The Atlantic

300

In what year did the United States land on the moon?

1969

300

Which US states intersect at the Four Corners Monument?

Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado

300

Which is the tallest grass?

Bamboo

400

Which part of an owl’s body is not a “true” organ in the sense that it can’t move? (It’s also not shaped as you’d expect—it’s tubular instead of round).

 Eye

400

 During some feeding frenzies, blue whales can eat a daily total of more than 8 tons of what tiny crustaceans, whose name in Norwegian means "small fry of fish"?

Krill

400

What event started World War I?

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

400

The Great Lakes are made up of how many bodies of water?

*bonus points if you can name all five

5

Huron

Ontario

Michigan

Eire

Supirior 


400

What type of energy is stored in an object due to virtue of its shape or position?

Potential Energy

500

If dogs are canine, and cats are feline, what type of animal is vulpine?

Foxes

500

What is the loudest animal on earth? Talking about the loudest noise it can generate, not its proportion of time spent making noise.

Sperm Whale

500

What year was 7-Up invented?

1929

500

Where are the Cliffs of Moher?

Ireland

500

Which is the only metal to exist in liquid state at normal temperature?

Mercury

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