The clinical name for the thigh bone
What is a Femur?
This technology helps people breathe and swim underwater
What is SCUBA/Snorkeling gear?
The science of making maps
Cartography
The oldest living president is whom?
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Jimmy carter was born in 1924 and is 98 years old. He was the 39th president.
The famous singer from Minneapolis who sang 'Purple Rain'
Who is Prince?
The presidential picture on the five-dollar bill
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
Decade that Apple Computers, Inc was founded
What is the 1970s?
Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers.
Water exists on the moon (true/false)
True. There is water on the Moon. This is in the form of ice trapped within dust and minerals on and under the surface. It has been detected on areas of the lunar surface that are in permanent shadow and are therefore very cold, enabling the ice to survive. The water on the Moon was likely delivered to the surface by comets.
The longest serving president
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)?
He served from 1933-1945. The only American president in history to be elected four times, Roosevelt died in office in April 1945.
The city that is known for Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
What is Bemidji?
There are this many inches in two yards
What is 72 inches?
Finish the name of a game made popular on the Internet, '6 Degrees of ____'.
Who is Kevin Bacon?
Based on research by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s
The world's largest ocean
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world's ocean basins. Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth.
This president was an actor and former governor
Who was Ronald Reagan?
Ronald Reagan served as the 40th president from 1981 to 1989.
The population of Minnesota (in millions)
What is 5 million?
Maine borders which U.S. state?
What is New Hampshire?
Google estimates the internet to be how big (5M TB, 2M TB, 200B TB, 1B TB)
What is 5M TB?
It would take 728,177 floppy disks or 1,498 CD-ROM discs to store just 1 TB worth of information.
The country that has the most natural lakes
What is Canada?
Canada has more lake area than any other country in the world, with 563 lakes larger than 100 square kilometers. The Great Lakes, straddling the Canada-U.S. boundary, contain 18% of the world's fresh lake water
The principal author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The meaning of the name "Minnesota"
What is 'cloudy water' or 'sky-tinted water'?
The first American in space
Who is Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
Control structures in OOO languages
What is something that controls sequence or sequential flow, selection logic or conditional flow, iteration logic or repetitive logic (if/else block, for loops, while loops)
Also my first interview question at my first real job :-)
The worlds second tallest mountain
What is K2?
K2 is located in Karakoram, Pakistan/China. It took its name from the notation used by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India. K2 is also nicknamed the ‘Savage Mountain’
The first and only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms?
Who is Grover Cleveland (1837-1908?
He was our 22nd and 24th President.
Highest Mountain/Hill in Minnesota
What is Eagle Mountain?