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Who won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine?
Emil Adolf von Behring
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What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
K
100
The city of New Orleans is on which river?
Mississippi
100
What is the standard of strength of distilled alcoholic liquors called?
Proof
100
Who wrote "Charley Brown"?
Charles M. Schultz
200
In what year was the 15th amendment ratified?
1870
200
What cooking fuel is produced by heating wood without oxygen?
Charcoal
200
Which U.S. state has zero natural lakes?
Maryland
200
Why do snakes flick their tongues in and out?
To smell
200
Who wrote stories of her childhood living in a "Little House on the Prairie"?
Laura Wilder
300
What country did the first hot air ballon take flight?
France! They sent a sheep, a duck, and a rooster into the air to test the safety before human flight.
300
Which element has the chemical symbol "No"?
Nobelium
300
On which Caribbean Island are the Blue Mountains?
Jamaica
300
What units are ship speeds measured in?
Knots
300
Who wrote "Leaves of grass'?
Walt Whitman
400
What play was President Abraham Lincoln attending at Fords Theatre on the night John Wilkes booth assassinated him?
Our American Cousin
400
What is the liquid component of blood called?
Plasma
400
Thursday Island is located in the Torres Strait off the coast of what country?
Australia
400
Which member of the cat family cannot retract its claws?
The Cheetah
400
Who wrote "Profiles in Courage'?
J.F.K
500
How did Norman E. Shumway make medical history?
He performed the first successful transplant
500
What vitamin deficiency causes Rickets?
Vitamin D
500
What US state is nicknamed "The Ocean State"?
Rhode Island
500
Roughly many calories are stored in 1 pound of body fat?
3500
500
What horror-story by Robert Louis Stevenson had a split personality?
The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
600
Who is credited with inventing the first practical automobile powered by an internal combustion engine
Karl Benz with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
600
What does mass multipled by velocity give you?
Momentum
600
What name is given to a triangular or fanlike river?
Delta
600
What does Fauna refer to?
Animal life
600
Who wrote an essay on "Civil Disobedience"?
Henery David Thoreau
700
roughly year did Napoleon Bonaparte die?
1821
700
This science deals with the behavior of projectiles? what type is it?
Ballistics
700
Which state is home to America’s first public beach?
Massachusetts -- Revere Beach, just north of Boston, is considered America’s first public beach.
700
What type of creature generally lives on land but starts life in the water?
Amphibian
700
What-novel and movie by Orsen Wells left the mystery of 'Rose bud'?
Citizen Kane
800
King John of England signed what document stating that limited the powers of the monarchy and is considered one of the cornerstones of modern democracy.
the Magna Carta
800
What does the medical acronym PET stand for?
Positron Emission Tomography
800
what is the largest bioluminescent bay
The Mosquito Bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico is the largest bioluminescent bay in the world. It contains up to 160,000 microscopic dinoflagellates per liter of water1
800
Approximately how many teeth can a shark grow in a lifetime?
50,000 - A shark’s teeth aren’t rooted, so they can fall out fairly easily with most only lasting a few weeks.
800
What singularly famous novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black sharecropper accused of molesting a young white girl
To Kill a Mockingbird
900
The first Olympic games were held in honor of who?
Zeus, the ancient Olympic Games began in Olympia, Greece, as a religious festival in honor of Zeus. started in 776 BC
900
How far is Earth from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy?
25,000 light years
900
Which US state hosts the world lumberjack championship?
Wisconsin
900
What is the only marsupial found in the U.S. and Canada?
Opossum
900
Which of Hemingway's novels is a study in "ecology"? with predator (2) and prey (1)
The old man and the sea had one prey (fish) and two predators (fisherman and shark)
1000
What country discovered king tuts tomb after being untouched for over 3,000 years?
United Kingdom. British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.
1000
What is the largest gland in the human body?
The liver
1000
The islands New Britain and New Ireland are part of what country?
Papua New Guinea
1000
What is the only mammal covered with scales?
Pangolin -- They are similar to anteaters, as they eat ants and other insects using a long, sticky tongue — so long, it can be longer than their whole body.
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What did author Tom Wolfe the story of the "Space Race"?
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