GEOLOGY ROCKS
ARITHMETIC
HELLO MY NAME IS YOHANAN
AREOGENIUS
GOT MILK?
PORTMANTEAU
400
Earthquakes occur when the ground strains “under pressure” along these fractures, such as California’s infamous San Andreas.
What are faults?
400
(Number of countries bordering Lesotho) * (Number of Kenyan capital cities)
What is 1?
400
From the original Hebrew to an Aramaic dialect, possibly on the outskirts of Aleppo or Homs: Yohannan
What is Syria?
400
Mars’ southern ice cap is topped with a permanent layer of dry ice, the solid form of this greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Yak’s milk is an important source of nutrients for the Balti and Pamiri people of this continent’s highlands.
What is Asia?
400
State where the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, Charlotte football team
What is South Carolina Panthers?
800
“All along the watchtower” in Maharashtra, you’ll have a view of the Deccan Traps, a region formed from this rock that underlies the oceans.
What is basalt?
800
(Age of the Earth) - (China’s population), to the nearest billion
What is 3 billion?
800
Eating Mayo, reciting Limericks: Shane, Sean, Siobhán
What is Ireland?
800
The Red Planet's color comes from oxides of this element mined Down Under, in Australia and Brazil.
What is iron?
800
Dukha herders in the Tuva Republic milk reindeer near this country’s border with Mongolia.
What is Russia?
800
Nation whose Akan royals dressed in kente cloth, twin to Barbuda
What is Ghanantigua?
1200
“Panama” formed about 3 million years ago with volcanic buildup along the trailing, southwestern edge of this mid-sized tectonic plate.
What is the Caribbean Plate?
1200
(Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer) + (Latitude of the Arctic Circle), to the nearest degree
What is 90°?
1200
For Kikongo-speaking Kimbanguists from Katanga and Kasai: Dzon
What is the DRC?
1200
One of Mars’ 6 operational manmade satellites, the Trace Gas Orbiter analyzes the planet’s atmospheric chemistry, and was launched from extraterritorial land within this country.
What is Kazakhstan?
1200
This country with Africa’s longest coastline and a sizable diaspora in Minnesota reportedly produced over 950,000 tons of camel milk in 2017.
What is Somalia?
1200
So-called ‘Hawaii of China’ (the country’s southernmost province), Massachusetts isle located east of Martha’s Vineyard
What is Hainantucket?
1600
Found a rock? Estimate its age with luminescence dating, which measures this property of unstable trace elements in quartz grains. With “the times, they are a-changin.”
What is radioactivity?
1600
(Number of the first completed transcontinental interstate) - (Number of the longest north-south interstate). They meet in New Jersey.
What is -15?
1600
From the peninsula that spread the name to the rest of Europe: Gianni, Ioannis, Joanna, Ioannou, Yanni, Yannis, Yiannis…
What is Greece?
1600
Matt Damon made it to the Schiaparelli Crater, named for an astronomer who supposedly saw these artificial structures crossing the planet.
What are canals?
1600
Is protein-rich Pacific beetle cockroach milk the next superfood? Probably not, for Bhojpuri-speaking residents of India and this nation, where the species makes its Melanesian home.
What is Fiji?
1600
Area where a tectonic plate is forced into the mantle, division of urban land into functional chunks (i.e. residential or industrial)
What is subduction zoning?
2000
It was “floodin’ down in” this state, submerged during the Permian era, hence the name of that fracking humongous basin a long way from Spindletop.
What is Texas?
2000
(Number of Canadian provinces) modulo (Number of official languages in Rwanda)
What is 2?
2000
In a region 1,500 miles from its Ukranian counterpart: Xoán
What is Spain?
2000
When Mars was habitable, rainwater flowing from canyons would deposit sediment across the land in this “ventilating” feature, common across Death Valley and the Tarim Basin.
What are alluvial fans?
2000
Cows may have been domesticated from a population of just 80 wild aurochs in the mountains of this country that feasts on kumpir, ayran, and, for dessert, (Narnian) lokum.
What is Turkey?
2000
Translation of the Spanish “terra argentina,” plants on Kiwi sports jerseys (nearly ended up on the flag)
What is land of silver ferns?