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All cats are born with this eye color.
What is blue?
The three main agricultural crops of various Indigenous peoples of North America, also called the Three Sisters, are ____, maize (corn), and beans.
What is squash?
This kitchen staple derives from the latin "furca", and was once associated with the devil.
What is a fork?
The shy motel proprietor from the famous 1960 movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
Who is Norman Bates?
This treetop mammal can hold its breath underwater for a whopping 40 minutes, even longer than dolphins.
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What is a sloth?
The largest big cat is the _____ ____, which can weigh an astonishing 660 pounds and stretch more than 10 feet nose to tail.
What is a Siberian Tiger?
This native American group is one of the most associated with the story of Thanksgiving.
What are the Wampanoags?
This shipping material was originally created to sell as wallpaper.
What is bubble wrap?
"psi" is the name of a greek letter. But it is also an abbreviation/acronym for this non-metric measurement ratio.
What is "pounds per square inch"?
This fungal microorganism was likely the first organism "domesticated" by human beings?
What is yeast?
The first cat video is said to be an 1894 American short silent film of two trained cats doing this sport.
What is boxing?
Macy's Thanksgiving parade in Manhattan began in this year. It was deliberately staged as a means of inaugurating the Christmas shopping season.
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What is 1924?
This food was used as a sort of napkin by the Spartans; used to clean oily fingers and then thrown to the dogs.
What is bread? (apomagdalie)
This 11-letter word describes "delusions of greatness; a form of insanity in which the subjects imagine themselves to be great, exalted, or powerful personages,". Its suffix means "madness".
What is megalomania?
The varicella-zoster virus causes skin outbreaks in children. This virus has a more common name.
What is chicken pox?
Cats are ______; that is, they walk on their toes.
What is digitigrade?
The bird "Turkey", originally called "guinea fowl"-- got its English name from the fact it came to Europe from North Africa, which was then ruled by the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. The Turks, though, called this same bird, this name.
What is "hindi"?
What is a nurdle?
The four major lobes of the human brain are the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, and two others.
What are the occipital and temporal lobes?
This "ology" is the branch of biology dedicated to the study of moths and butterflies.
What is Lepidopterology?
Most big cats are members of the genus Panthera. Small and medium cats, including housecats, are member of Felis. But Cheetahs, which do not have this certain cat-typical feature, are in their own genus, called Acinonyx.
What are retractable claws?
The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Starting from 0 and 1, the 11th term in the sequence is this.
i.e:
1st term = 0; 2nd term = 1; 3rd term = 1 ....
What is 55?
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 ...
A Full House is one of the hand types you can make in Poker games where you have three of a kind, and a pair of two.
In typical games, there are three hand types stronger than a Full House.
What are "Royal Flush", "Straight Flush", and "Four of a Kind"?
This reference book used by psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose psychological disorders, is referred to by a three-letter acronym: D _ _.
(Provide the full name of the book)
What is the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)"?
This irregularly-shaped carpal hand bone helps our thumbs move.
What is the Trapezium bone?