Great Moments in Heroism
Mother Goose
Long Nosed Animals
Dancing
Odd Facts
Science
Potpourri
100
This biomedical researcher developed the Polio vaccine in 1955 and never patented it. He gave up what would have been a fortune of over $1 billion in order to get the vaccine out as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Who is Jonas Salk?
100
In Sing a Song of Sixpence, this many blackbirds are baked into a pie
What is 24?
100
Named for this fictional character whose nose grows when he tells a lie, the Indonesia-native tiny tree frog's nose rises up to amplify its mating call.
Who is Pinocchio?
100
This dance, named for an aviator, was an evolution of the Charleston, which started in jazz clubs in Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the lindy hop?
100
Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia are the top three producers of this stimulating beverage.
What is coffee?
100
Pando is the largest single living organism on earth, made up of 47,000 trunks of this member of the willow tree family.
What is the quaking aspen?
100
This, in meters, is the length of an Olympic swimming pool.
What is 50?
200
Known as the "Angel of the Battlefield," she was a nurse during the Civil War and the founder of the American Red Cross. She was instrumental in providing care for wounded soldiers and advocating for humanitarian relief.
Who is Clara Barton?
200
All around the Mullberry bush, this animal chased the Weasel.
Who is the monkey?
200
The star-nosed variety of this digging, subterranean mammal uses its 22 tentacles to navigate underground and assess their prey.
What is a mole?
200
In this dance variety, there are five basic positions of the dancer’s feet. They are characterized by the way the dancer’s feet point outward, and they are balanced by matching positions of the arms and head
What is Ballet?
200
This condiment was prescribed and sold to people suffering from indigestion back in 1834.
What is ketchup?
200
The largest of this "largest animal on earth" was 110 ft 17 inches long.
What is the blue whale?
200
This monarch officially made Valentine's Day a holiday in 1537.
Who is Henry VIII?
300
On April 26, 1986, an explosion in this nuclear plant in Ukraine lead to nuclear fallout throughout the region. A second explosion was avoided when 2 engineers and a soldier swam through radioactive water to keep the radioactive material at bay.
What is Chernobyl?
300
In Baa Baa Black Sheep, the three bags of wool go to these three people.
What is One for my master, one for my dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane?
300
Finding its home in South Africa and Central America, this animal twists their delicate adaptable noses in every direction looking for fruit and leaves. They are also seed-dispersers, eating seeds and depositing them through their waste around the forest floor.
What is a tapir?
300
In 1989, George HW Bush signed into law that March 25 would be National "This" Day, to celebrate the birth of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who was a pioneer in the art.
What is Tap dancing?
300
Gustavo Eiffel pitched his tower to this Spanish city first. But they thought it was ugly, so he took it to Paris.
What is Barcelona?
300
Due to its harsh acidic environment, the epithelial cells lining this organ can be replaced every two to three days.
What is the stomach?
300
The languages of Arabic, Aramaic, Azeri, Dhivehi, Fula, Hebrew, Kurdish, N'ko, Persian, Rohingya, Syriac, and Urdu all have this in common.
What is They are written right to left?
400
Alfred Vanderbilt, her to the Vanderbilt empire, was a first class passenger on this ship when it was attacked by German U-Boats on May 7, 1915. Given his status, he could have easily gotten on a lifeboat and saved himself, but he refused, trying to get as many children out safely as he could.
What is the Lusitania?
400
The nursery rhyme, 'One, Two, Buckle my Shoe', is a great way to learn to count to ten. This is the rhyme used for number 10.
What is Big Fat Hen?
400
The long-beaked version of this monotreme is covered in fur and spines. Along with the platypus, its one few mammals that lays eggs.
What is the Echidna?
400
Born in Chicago, his style of dance is on display of the Broadway show of the same name. If you see bowler hats, turned in knees and toes and lots of finger snapping, you're probably watching something he choreographed, perhaps something from Cabaret or Sweet Charity. He's the subject of the movie All That Jazz.
400
Dolphins rest by way of uni-hemispheric sleep, also known as doing this, allowing them to stay alert to potential dangers in the ocean while still getting some rest.
What is sleeping with one eye open?
400
This male reproductive part of the flower consists of a long slender stalk, the filament, with a two-lobed anther at the tip.
What is the stamen?
400
This fairy tale story was the first full length animated movie ever released, in 1937.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
500
They were an all-female Soviet air unit during World War II, officially known as the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. They gained notoriety for their unique and daring nighttime bombing missions against German forces. The Germans, impressed by their stealthy attacks, nicknamed them "Nachthexen." which translates to this.
What is "Night Witches"?
500
The farmer's wife used this implement to punish the three blind mice for chasing her.
What is a carving knife?
500
Taking its name from the Greek word for Elephant trunk (and what an erudite person may just use for the word nose) this variety of monkey's bulbous nose is used to attract a mate.
What is the proboscis monkey?
500
This woman was an American-born dancer and choreographer and a pioneer of modern contemporary dance, focusing more on natural body movements than the rigid structure of ballet. She met an unfortunate end while traveling in France, as her scarf wrapped around the axle of her car.
Who is Isadora Duncan?
500
Since 2004, an orchestra in Boston has been playing concerts, making and performing music by only using this vintage office machine. The various sounds of clacking, sliding carriages, bells, and spinning rollers contribute to the orchestra’s unique sound, according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
What are typewriters?
500
This classification order for moths and butterflies comes from the Greek word for Scaly Wings
What is Lepidoptera?
500
A duel between three people, where one person tries to eliminate the other two, is called this.
What is a truel?
