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What document declared the colonies as the free and independent United States of America?

Declaration of Independence

100

 Do bugs have lungs?

No, bugs do not have lungs.

 Bugs also do not breathe through their mouths like we do! Their respiratory system is made up of a network of tubes called tracheae (tray·kee·ee). Openings, called spiracles, allow oxygen to flow throughout the bug's body through the tracheae

100

What is the capital of the Netherlands?

Amsterdam

100

What is the most dangerous type of thunderstorms?

Supercells

100

What is Wasabi?

Japanese horseradish

200

What US president was the target of two assassination attempts in 17 days?

Gerald Ford 

200

What's a community of ants called?

A colony 

200

Which is bigger, the state of Florida or England?

Florida

200

What is the term for an organism that lives on or in another?

Parasite

200

What type of fruit is a pomelo?

 largest citrus fruit, and the principal ancestor of the grapefruit

300

What object, which debuted in 1949, is sometimes called a "45"?

An LP single vinyl record

300

Where does a baby dragonfly grow up?

In water (Dragonfly nymphs are aquatic insects and they may spend up to 5 years underwater, before becoming an adult.)

300

What famed falls are split in two by Goat Island?

Niagara Falls

300

If you were to be in space would you get taller or shorter?

taller, due to the lack of gravity 

300

Which smoky-voiced singer sang Too Young in 1951?

Nat King Cole

400

On what holiday did Harry Houdini died in 1926?

Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 in Detroit, Michigan from appendicitis

400

Which insect has been named “America’s Top Nuisance Pest?”

Ants

400

What part of the world did the Vikings come from?

Scandinavia

400

What layer of the Earth's atmosphere sits between the troposphere and mesosphere?

Stratosphere

400

What three crops, when planted together, are known as the “Three Sisters?

corn, bean, and squash

500

What was Atlas famously forced to do by the Greek gods?

Hold the Heavens on his shoulders

500

What is the loudest insect?

Cicada

500

What currency is dispensed from Antarctica's only ATM?

U.S. dollar

500

What is the resistance to changes in motion or speed called?

Inertia

500

What country makes the most wine, Italy, France, or the United States?

Italy. Italy is the world's leading wine producer, producing about one-third of the world's wine annually. In 2022, Italy produced almost 50 million hectoliters of wine, with a quarter of that coming from the Veneto region alone. Italy's wine industry is worth over $10 billion and accounts for 17% of the world's wine

600

What mascot represented the women who went to work in factories to help with the war effort during World War II?

Rosie the Riveter

600

The insect known as the yellow jacket is a type of what?

Wasp

600

Which US state is nicknamed the "Magnolia State"?

Mississippi

600

What is the name of the point at which condensation begins?

Dew point

600

What soft drink was billed as “the real thing?”

Coca cola

700

What famous leader was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC, the Ides of March?

Julius Caesar

700

What's the oldest bug?

fossilized millipede 425 million years

700

What is the highest mountain in Greece?

Mount Olympus

700

Diamonds last forever, True or false?

False, Diamonds degrade to graphite, because graphite is a lower-energy configuration under typical conditions. Diamond (the stuff in wedding rings) and graphite (the stuff in pencils) are both crystalline forms of pure carbon 

700

What did Jack Dempsy do before he was a boxer?

Farm Hand, and miner

800

What was the incident where British troops fired on a mob, killing five people in Boston, later called?

Boston Massacre

800

What insect lives the longest at a highest recorded 51 years?

wood-boring beetles

800

Which is the largest of the Caribbean islands?

Cuba

800

What structure in the back of the brain governs motor control?

Cerebellum

800

What famous baseball player married Marilyn Monroe in 1954?

legend Joe DiMaggio

900

What do the 36 columns surrounding the Lincoln Memorial represent?

The number of states at the time of Lincoln's death

900

Which insect has the shortest lifespan?

Mayfly

900

Which state is home to America’s first public beach?

Massachusetts -- Revere Beach, just north of Boston, is considered America’s first public beach

900

Which elements are so reactive with water that they have to be stored in oil because they will react with the air’s moisture?

possible answers: Alkali metals, Lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, and cesium 

900

What was the name of the very first Saturday morning cartoon?

Crusader Rabbit was the first animated series produced for television and aired on Saturday mornings, debuting on NBC in 1950.

1000

Which famous entrepreneur is credited with inventing the weekend in 1932?

Henry Ford ( by closing his factories on Saturdays and Sundays in 1926. Ford believed that giving his workers more time off would encourage leisure activities like shopping and vacations, which would in turn boost the economy. In 1932, the United States officially adopted the five-day workweek to help with unemployment during the Great Depression)

1000

What is the biggest bug?

Giant Weta


1000

What are the Benelux countries?

Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg

Known as the Low Countries because much of the land along the North Sea is below or at sea level, they are often called the Benelux countries, from the initial letters of their names.

1000

What discovery earned Wilhelm Rontgen the first Nobel Prize for Physics?

X-rays

1000

What are the ingredients in a Boulevardier?

1 oz Campari

1 oz Sweet red vermouth

1 oz rye whisky or bourbon