Famous Firsts
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Amelia Earhart
If you reorder the letters in "LISTEN", you get this related word.
SILENT
What is the largest bone in the human body?
Femur
A group of lions is called this.
Dorothy's destination in Oz + a famous San Francisco prision.
This Soviet cosmonaut became the first human in space in 1961.
What is the only number whose letters appear in alphabetical order?
forty
What organ produces insulin?
Pancreas
What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
A Shakespeare tragedy + a flying mammal.
Hamlet Bat
This man became the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911.
Roald Amundsen
What common English word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Double Jeopardy
Short
The stapes, incus and malleus are located in what part of the body?
Ear
What is the only bird known to fly backwards?
The Hummingbird
A famous detective + a home run king.
Sherlock Holmes Aaron
This invention, patented in 1903 by Mary Anderson, became standard equipment on automobiles.
Windshield wipers
What punctuation mark shares its name with a symbol used in email addresses?
at sign (also known as @)
What vitamin is primarily produced in the skin through exposure to sunlight?
Vitamin D
Baobab trees are most closely associated with this continent.
Africa
A famous biblical boat + a famous rock formation in Utah.
Noah's Arkches
This nation became the first country to grant women the right to vote in national elections in 1893.
New Zealand
What is the longest one-syllable word used in common English?
screeched
(will also accept strengths)
What physician's oath is traditionally associated with medical ethics?
Double Jeopardy
Hippocratic Oath
What is world's largest coral reef system still in existance?
Great Barrier Reef
The ship on which the Pilgrims said + a flowering spring bloom.
Mayflower