Turtle Day
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100
What type of pollution is the most dangerous to turtles?
Plastic! Especially plastic bags as they look like jellyfish floating in the water
100
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
The original 13 colonies
100
Who is this?
Elizabeth Taylor
100
What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn't alive?
A glove.
100
What popular two word cable TV channel, owned by Discovery, offers shows such as “Chopped” and “Iron Chef America?”
Food Network
200
What is the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?
A tortoise only lives on land.
200
Fill in the blank: The 19th Amendment guarantees ____ the right to vote
Women
200
Which singer, who was prominent in the '60s, was referred to as the 'Queen of Jazz'?
Ella Fitzgerald
200
What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole
200
Lox is a fillet of the brined version of what type of sea critter?
Salmon
300
How many different species of turtles are there?
A.)720
B.)180
C.)360
D.) 90
C.) There are approximately 360 species of turtles, and they can be found on every continent except Antarctica.
300
Name 2/4 presidents on Mount Rushmore?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt
300
Diana Ross was a member of which 1960s American singing group?
The Supremes
300
What goes all away around the world, but stays in a corner?
A stamp
300
Retired in the 21st century, "it's finger lickin' good" had been the slogan for over 50 years for what restaurant chain?
KFC
400
What is a group of turtles called?
A.) Troop
B.) Bale
C.) Surfs
B.) Bale
A group of turtles is called a "bale", and a group of tortoises is called a "creep."
400
What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled the racial segregation of schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. The Board of Education
400
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic ‘Psycho’ was the first American film to show what?
A.) A skeleton
B.) A flushing toilet
C.) A running shower
D.) An airplane taking flight
B.) A flushing toliet
400
What has a head and tail but no body?
A coin!
400
If you take a cabbage, cut it finely, and ferment it with various lactic acid bacteria, the output is typically what German side dish?
Sauerkraut
500
How many bones makes up a turtles shell?
A.)25
B.)50
C.)1
D.)75
B.)50
500
What country did the United States buy Alaska from?
Russia
500
In 'The Great Race', what food was thrown in the great food fight?
A.) Tomatoes
B.) Mashed Potatoes
C.) Pie
D.) Stew
C.)Pie
500
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
500
Dramatically different from today's sweet fruit associated with summertime, what large fruit was cultivated for hundreds of years simply for hydration purposes rather than food?
Watermelon