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How do you determine the age of a tree?
Count its growth rings
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What was the world's first antibiotic?
Penicillin -- Dr. Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 the mold, penicillium, inhibited bacterial growth on his samples.
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What city is graced with Michelangelo's David?
Florence
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What is a baby kangaroo called?
Joey
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in 1965, what coastal city was re-organized by consolidating five smaller coastal towns?
Lincoln city
200
What planet is closest in size to Earth?
Venus
200
What was the first cash crop in the U.S.?
Tobacco
200
On which island is the Empire State Building located?
Manhattan
200
What color are an American porcupine's teeth?
Orange
200
What new entertainment industry began in 1909 in Astoria?
First movie made in Oregon "The Fishermans bride"
300
Which is the most abundant element in the universe?
Hydrogen
300
What era marked the beginning of farming?
The Stone Age
300
Which country’s flag features an eagle eating a snake?
Mexico
300
What is the tube that carries food into the stomach called?
Esophagus
300
By 1922, what has Sarah Melnick 16-acre land demolition on the Lucinate River become?
First state park
400
Which planet is known as the Evening Star?
Venus
400
Which U.S. President was head cheerleader in high school?
George W. Bush
400
Princeton University is located in which state?
New Jersey
400
Which Ice Age creature, related to the elephant, went extinct around 4,000 years ago?
Woolly mammoth
400
What series of forest fires from 1933-1938 burned 350,000 square miles in the northern coast ranges with a loss of 442.4 million dollars, but only one life was lost?
Tillamook Burn
500
What is the name of the red pigment found in vertebrates that functions in oxygen transport?
Hemoglobin
500
John Adams wanted the President to have which controversial title?
His Highness
500
Which country is also the world's largest archipelago?
Indonesia
500
How is the groundnut better known?
The peanut
500
What was Oregon's second largest post-war city of 40,000, between Portland and Vancouver on the Columbia River floodplain that was swept away on May 30, 1948. Leaving 15 deaths, 18,000 homeless and 21.5 million dollars of damage?
Vanport
600
What element's atomic symbol is "Co"?
Cobalt
600
What country is East Pakistan now known as?
Bangladesh
600
Which US state shares a nickname with the Australian state of Queensland?
Florida
600
What is the minimum speed for a Category 5 hurricane?
157 mph
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The center of what southern Oregon town was destroyed on August 7, 1959, when a truck filled with 2 tons of Dynomite and 4 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer caught fire and exploded, leaving 14 dead, 125 injured and 4 million dollars of damages?
Roseburg
700
What do you call molten rock before it has erupted?
Magma
700
Which gulf gave its name to the 1991 Gulf War?
The Persian Gulf
700
What is the only nation that shares a land border with Qatar?
Saudi Arabia
700
What is the tallest type of horse?
Shire
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What was the name of the October 12, 1962, storm when pacific typhoon "Freda" came ashore with 170 mph gusts causing 46 fatalities and 230-million-dollar damages?
Columbus Day
800
What are electrically charged atoms called?
Ions
800
What was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, in 1888?
Brazil
800
If you are in Thailand and cross the bridge over the River Kwai, what country will you be in?
Myanmar
800
From where did pumpkins originate?
Pumpkins are believed to have originated in Central America over 7,500 years ago.
800
On June 17, 1979, A pod of what marine mammals became beached south of the Siuslaw River, Jetty and died despite attempts to rescue them?
Sperm Whales
900
What is the name of the largest known satellite of Pluto?
Charon
900
Which pioneer of modern nursing had a cat called Bismark?
Florence Nightingale
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In what country would you find the mouths of the Orinoco river?
Venezuela
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What is the only part of the human body can not heal itself?
Tooth enamel
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Where did the Japanese freighter "Blue Magpie", run aground on November 19, 1983, spilling 70,000 gallons of Bunker C oil along 100 miles on the coast?
Newport Jetty
1000
Between which two planets does the asteroid belt lie?
Jupiter and Mars
1000
Where did the world's first commercial flight travel to?
St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida
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"The Blue House" is the official residence of the leader of what country?
South Korea
1000
What snake will roll over and fake a gruesome death to confuse its attacker?
Hog-nosed snake
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What major change in state government took place in 1991?
First female governor, Barbara Roberts, 34th governor