Science Class
Tricky Questions
Secret of the whales
World Geography
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200

In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes ,this element is most abundant in the human body & the Earth's crust. 

What is oxygen?

200

Just before Mount Everest was discovered this was the highest mountain in the world?

What is Mount Everest?

200

After a long trip from warmer climes,mom shows baby how to score some krill,expertly employing bubble nets off this continent's coast.

What is Antarctica?

200

The Sundarbans is the swampy Delta where the Ganges , Meghna & Brahmaputra rivers all flow into this bay .

What is Bay of Bengal?

200

 A man lives on the 100th floor of an apartment building. On rainy days he rides the elevator all the way up. However, on sunny days, he goes half way and takes the stairs the rest of the way. Why?

The man is short and can only reach the button for the 50th floor on the elevator. On rainy days, he uses his umbrella handle.

400

Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century,Laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits .

What is opium?

400

If you enter a room with a matchbook & there's a candle ,oil lamp & and a heater, this is what you would light first ?

What is matchbook?

400

Australia's humpback highway has whales splashing their position to attract mates.Breaching is perhaps part of this procreative ritual.

What is courting?

400

What is currency in Albania ?

What is Lek?

400

 Who is bigger, Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?

The baby, since he is a little Bigger.

600

 This process in which a single atom or molecule absorbs light and then quickly re-emits it is used in fluorescent lights and certain biological studies.

What is fluorescence?

600

It's the 11-letter word all Canadians pronounce incorrectly ?

What is in incorrectly ?

600

 Belugas get a spa day at secret site off Canada's coast. Traveling far to use rocks there to shed the surface old skin.What are they doing?

What is mold?

600

The Attica region of Greece includes this plain,the site of a pivotal 490 B.C. Battle. 

What is the Plain of Marathon.

600

A girl fell of a 50 foot ladder but, didn't get hurt.How come ?

What is she fell of the bottom step?

800

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive

What is nitroglycerin ?

800

If a British farmer has 22 sheep & and all but 9 die in a tragic shearing incident ,this is how many he has left?

What is 9?

800

This kind of whale in New Zealand know a trick for hunting rays,flipping them aside puts them into sleep.Then it's family mealtime.What are these whales?

What is orcas? 

800

The 23 provinces of the South American country include Catamarca & Mendoza,home to the highest peak in the hemisphere

What is Argentina ?

800

If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men ?

What is no time because the wall already built?

1000

Around 1908 Geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to help establish  the chromosome theory of heredity.

What is a fruit fly?

1000

It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister ?

What is because he's dead?

1000

Apart from it's pod, the young sperm whale plays hide and seek with the photographer in these weeds that give an Atlantic sea it's name . 

What is Sargasso ?

1000

The Hudson strait & the Fury & Helca strait are bodies of water between this large island & the Canadian mainland. 

What is Baffin island ?  

1000

What is the fastest train in the world ?

What is the Shangai Maglev ?With a top operating speed of 460 km/h (286 mph).