Science Class
Tricky Questions
Secret of the whales
World Geography
? Random ?
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).