Biology
ESTIMATION: the number of bones in an adult human body
What is 206?
The number of syllables in each of the three lines of a haiku
What is 5-7-5?
An electric train travels east while the wind blows south. Which way does the smoke go?
Electric trains don't produce smoke.
The most common element found in air
What is nitrogen?
A country with an area of 496,225 mi2, a population of 35 million, and whose neighboring countries are Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, and Bolivia
Name the two species of egg-laying mammals.
What are echidna and platypus?
Spell the longest word in the English dictionary.
What is P N E U M O N O U L T R A M I C R O S C O P I C S I L I C O V O L C A N O C O N I O S I S?
Solve carefully!
230-220x0.5=
You probably won't believe it, but the answer is 5!
How is this correct?
ESTIMATION: the temperature in Fahrenheit where the element tungsten becomes liquid
What is 6,192 degrees Fahrenheit?
The only country which measures Gross National Happiness as well as GDP to estimate national progress, earning it the nickname "the Kingdom of Happiness"
What is Bhutan?
There are exactly ____ species of Gentoo penguin.
What is 4?
ESTIMATION: The total number of words in all Shakespeare's 38 plays combined
What is 835,997?
Give me a twist and tape my ends,
Watch how normal geometry bends.
An ant can walk my single track
And end up right where it started back.
With only one edge and only one side,
What am I on this endless ride?
What is a Möbius strip?
The temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius have the same measurement (Hint: F = 9/5C + 32)
What is -40 degrees?
The Portuguese explorer who famously circumnavigated the globe
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
These bulbous air pockets give giant kelp buoyancy.
What are pneumatocysts?
The author who wrote novels including "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The B.F.G."
Who was Roald Dahl?
ESTIMATION: The lowest number greater than 0 where, if you move its last digit to the front, it doubles.
What is 105,263,157,894,736,842?
The name given to hydrogen atoms with two neutrons
What is Deuterium?
Put these historical events in order:
- The birth of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama
- The arrival of the first humans in New Zealand
- The creation of Hammurabi's Code
1. Hammurabi's Code created (~1750 BCE)
2. Settlement of New Zealand (~1300 BCE)
3. Birth of the Buddha (~500 BCE)
Here is a pretty easy one. Fill in the blank (You must get all five correct).
Each year, Magellanic penguins migrate thousands of miles in a _______ direction, right after their ___________ (two words), when their pectoral muscles are weakest. After this, they migrate back for _______ season. During the next part of their year, they have to prepare for a month of starvation by gaining weight. They usually gain ____-____% of their body weight, but in some cases, they can _______ their body weight.
What is north, a catastrophic molt, breeding, 50-70, and double?
The main language spoken in Ethiopia
What is Amharic?
Good, Bad, and Ugly are in a three-man gunfight. Ugly, who only has a shot on target 1/3rd of the time, will shoot first. Bad, whose shots are perfect 2/3rds of the time, will shoot second, and Good, who has 100% accuracy, will shoot last. Who should Ugly shoot to maximize his chances of survival if everyone else behaves logically?
No one. In this scenario, Bad would aim at Good. If Bad misses, Good will shoot him. If Bad shoots Good, then Ugly's chances of shooting Bad are much better than in any other scenario.
This subatomic particle is commonly referred to as the "God Particle".
What is the Higgs Boson Particle?
ESTIMATION: The amount of time after the Big Bang that the first atoms formed