Elephant Appreciation
Pirates, Argh!
Candy
Solar System
Plants
100
Elephants have good ____ and ____ but poor ____.
A. Hearing and Smelling -- Sight
B. Sight and Hearing -- Smelling
C. Smelling and Sight -- Hearing
What is A. Hearing and Smelling -- Sight?
Elephants have an excellent sense of smell and hearing but poor eyesight.
100
Pirates wore earrings for this reason.
A. Fashion Statement
B. To ward off evil spirits
C. To ward of bad weather
D. To ward of sea sickness
What is D. To ward of sea sickness?
Unfortunately, though your inner ears do affect your sense of balance, putting earrings in your earlobes does nothing to mitigate seasickness.
100
This candy's slogan is "You aren't you when you're hungry".
What is Snickers?
100
Aurora Borealis, the so-called the _____, are not only found on Earth, but also on many other planets of our solar system.
What is the Northern Lights?
100
85% of plant life is found in ____.
A. Ocean
B. Land
C. Marsh
What is A. Ocean?
200
This is the length of gestation time for an elephants.
A.25 months
B. 23 months
C. 22 months
D. 20 months
What is C. 22 months?
This is longer than any other animal in the world.
200
The three main character's names of Pirates of the Carribean were inspired by ____.
A. Cats
B. Birds
C. Frogs
D. Lemons
What is B. Birds?
William Turner was a celebrated English naturalist who studied birds.
200
This candy bars slogan is "have a break.. have a ___" What am I?
What is a Kit Kat?
200
Mars is red as its surface contains lots of ____.
A. Iron Oxide
B. Helium
C. Iron Monoxide
D. Potassium
What is A. Iron Oxide?
Which is also the same compound that gives blood and rust their red tone.
200
Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s ___.
What is age by rings?
300
Elephants only sleep for this amount of time a day.
A. 1 - 2 hours
B. 5 - 10 hours
C. 2 - 3 hours
D. 4 - 5 hours
What is C. 2 - 3 hours?
300
One of the most influential and powerful pirates was a woman who commanded more than ___ ships.
A. 400
B. 100
C. 300
D. 200
What is C. 300?
300
The name of a candy bar that is similar to the name of one of Boston and New York's most famous baseball players.
What is Baby Ruth?
300
Mercury was hit by a giant asteroid an estimated four billion years ago. It left a ___-sized crater – the Caloris Basin. It is 950 miles (1,525 kilometers) wide.
A. Arkansas
B. Texas
C. Nebraska
D. Alaska
What is B. Texas.
300
Cabbage has ____ water content.
A. 60%
B. 75%
C. 91%
D. 95%
What is C. 91%?
400
Elephants are absolutely terrified of this.
A. Bees
B. Mice
C. Spiders
D. Fire Ants
What is A. Bees?
Elephants being scared of mice is actually a myth created by the movie Dumbo.
400
This famous historical figure was captured by pirates.
A. Julius Caeser
B. George Washington
C. Plato
D. Leonardo Divinci
Who is A. Julius Caesar?
Caesar made himself at home among the pirates, bossing them around and shushing them when he wanted to sleep.
He made them listen to the speeches and poems that he was composing in his unanticipated downtime and berated them as illiterates if they weren't sufficiently impressed.
400
This candy bar was originally packaged to include three separate pieces of candy that were flavored vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
What is a Three Musketeers?
400
Saturn has this many moons.
A. 79 moons
B. 80 moons
C. 82 moons
D. 56 moons
What is C. 82 moons.
The planet with the most moons with Jupiter being the second with 79 moons.
400
This fruit and two vegetables have the same taste, to test this eat them with your nose closed.
A. Apple, Potatoes, and Onions
B. Apple, Cucumber, and Onions
C. Apple, Potatoes, and Squash
What is A. Apple, potatoes and onions?
500
Male elephants leave their families around this age.
Between 10-18 years old
What is 14 years old?
500
This famous star denied the role of Captain Jack Sparrow before Johnny Depp accepted.
A. Robert De Niro
B. Al Pacino
C. Leonardo DiCaprio
D. John Travolta
Who is A. Robert De Niro
It’s hard to picture anyone else starring as Captain Jack Sparrow, but Robert De Niro was offered the role before Johnny Depp. The acting legend turned it down because he too believed, just like the Disney executives, that the pirate genre was over and the film would perform poorly at the box office.
500
Milk chocolate was invented in this country.
What is Switzerland?
500
____ is the smallest Pluto moon and has a maximum diameter of ten miles (16 kilometers).
A. Charon
B. Styx
C. Nix
What is B. Styx?
500
This tree is struck by lightning more than any other species of tree.
A. Oak
B. Red Wood
C. Spruce
D. Pine
What is A. Oak Tree?