Spokane
Flowers
Space
Animal
True or False?
100
What year was the Davenport hotel opened?
A. 1902
B.1934
C. 1914
C. 1914
The hotel is named after Louis Davenport, its first proprietor and overseer of the project. Kirtland Cutter designed the building in 1914. The Davenport Hotel was the first hotel in the United States with air conditioning, a central vacuum system, pipe organ, and dividing doors in the ballrooms. It is also the place at which the first Crab Louis (named after Louis Davenport) was created and served.
100
What is the nickname of Spokane?
A. Lilac City
B. Sunflower City
C. Rose City
A. Lilac City
Spokane is called “The Lilac City” for the purple blooms that thrive in the area.
100
What does it rain on Jupiter?
A. Diamonds
B. Rocks
C. Graphite
A. Diamonds!
Diamonds form when lightning storms turn methane in the planets' atmospheres into carbon, which clumps together, creating graphite. As pressure builds, graphite is compressed, making it literally rain diamonds.
100
Where is the heart of a shrimp located?
A. Head
B. Feet
C. Chest
A. Head
A shrimps heart is located on its head. If we base it on the exact anatomy of a shrimp, its heart is located on its thorax just after the head, but both the head and the thorax are covered with a single exoskeleton only
100
The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.
A. True
B. False
A. True!
Koala fingerprints are like human fingerprints not only in their shape, but also in the way they differ from koala to koalas – i.e. the combination of whirls, swirls and loops that make human fingerprints so unique.
200
What does "Spokane" mean in the local native language?
A. "Children of the Sun"
B. "Big River"
C. "Little cleared place"
A. "Children of the Sun"
The Spokane language belongs to the Interior Salishan language family.
200
What is Washington states flower?
A. Lilac
B. Sunflower
C. Pacific rhododendron
C. Pacific rhododendron
Washington officially designated the coast rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum) as the state flower in 1959, though it was actually selected as the state flower in 1892 by the women of Washington for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
200
How long is a day on Venus?
A. 23 hours
B. 224.7 Earth days
C. 2.53 Earth years
B. 224.7 Earth days
A year on Venus (that is the length of time it takes to complete one whole orbit around the Sun) is 224.7 Earth days. However it takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis just once.
200
How many noses does a slug have?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
B. 4
They use these tentacles to gather information about their environment. The pair of tentacles located on the top of the head has a small black spot at each tip. These tentacles are used to detect lightness and darkness
200
Sliced Bread was invented after the television.
A. True
B. False
B. False
Sliced bread was invented two years before the invention of the television.
300
What was the first name of Spokane?
A. Spokane
B. City of the sun
C. Spokane Falls
C. Spokane Falls
Spokane Falls was founded in 1872, by James Nettle Glover.
300
What is the U.S.A's national flower?
A. Rose
B. Daffodil
C. Tulip
A. Rose
On November 20th, 1986, then president Ronald Reagan declared the rose the national flower.
The rose has been around for about 35 million years and grows naturally throughout North America.
300
How many earths can fit into the sun?
A. 563
B. 1 Million
C. 2.3 Billion
B. 1 Million
Ancient astronomers once believed the Earth was at the centre of the Universe but now we know that the Sun is at the centre of our Solar System and our planets orbit the Sun. The Sun makes up 99.8% of the entire mass of the whole Solar System. One million Earths would be needed to be the same size as the Sun.
300
On Average, how many cups of milk will a dairy cow provide in its lifetime?
A. 100,000
B. 127,500
C. 200,000
C. 200,000
The average dairy cow produces 22.5 quarts (60lbs) or 90 glasses of milk a day,1,500 gallons or 16,000 glasses of milk a year, and 18,750 gallons or 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.
300
A lady once joined a search party looking for herself
A. True
B. False
A. True!
In August 2012, a tourist in Switzerland was accidentally marked as "missing" when the tour guide failed to count the correct number of people in the group. The tourist had changed clothes and freshened up and no one had recognized her and called a search group.
400
How long is the Centennial Trail?
A. 26 Miles
B. 37 Miles
C. 126 Miles
B. 37 Miles
It is a 37-mile path stretching from the Idaho state line to Nine Mile Falls, WA, built for walking, running, skating, or biking.
400
How many known flower species are in the world?
A. 50,000
B. 78,500
C. 400,000
C.400,000
As of 2010, there were approximately 400,000 types of flowering plant species in the world, according to The Guardian. More than 600,000 plant names were deleted due to discoveries of duplicate species upon further examination by botanists
400
How many planets are in our Solar System?
A. 9
B. 6
C. 8
C. 8
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Unfortunately Pluto is not seen as a planet sine 2005 and was demoted to a dwarf planet.
Here are the new requirements of planethood status:
1. A planet has to orbit the Sun. Okay fine, Pluto does that.
2. A planet needs enough gravity to pull itself into a sphere. Okay, spherical. Pluto's fine there too.
3. A planet needs to have cleared out its orbit of other objects. Uh oh, Pluto hasn't done that.
For example, planet Earth accounts for a million times the rest of the material in its orbit, while Pluto is just a fraction of the icy objects in its realm.
400
What is a Rhinoceros horn made of?
A. Keratin
B. Calcium
C. Ivory
A. Keratin!
Rhino horn is made up primarily of keratin – a protein found in hair, fingernails, and animal hooves.
400
In some places in China, it is common to use Geese as police animals over Dogs.
A. True
B. False
A. True!
Police in rural parts of China's Xinjiang Province are no longer turning to dogs to stand guard at policestations at night. They're using geese instead. And it works. Because of their aggressive nature and keen vision, geese are used as police animals instead of dogs
500
What percentage of buildings downtown are registered as historic?
A. 50%
B. 25%
C. 15%
A. 50%
The first historic building registered was the Turnbull Pines Rock Shelter on May 6, 1975.
500
What is the tallest flower in the world?
A. Helianthus annuus (Sunflower)
B Amorphophallus titanum (Corpse Flower)
C. Delphinium
B. Corpse Flower
It is also known as the "corpse flower" for its unpleasant odor. Like the Rafflesia, the Titan emits the smell of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. Technically, the Titan arum is not a single flower. It is a cluster of many tiny flowers, called an inflorescence. The Titan arum has the largest unbranched inflorescence of all flowering plants. The plant can reach heights of 7 to 12 feet and weigh as much as 170 pounds!
500
Which language do we get the word Astronaut from?
A. English
B. Russian
C. Greek
C. Greek
The word astronaut comes from the Greek word “Astron” which means star and “nautes” which means sailor. The Russian cosmonaut has a similar meaning from ‘kosmos’ meaning universe and again “nautes” sailor.
500
What percentage of orangutans have a fractured a bone?
A. 25%
B. 50%
C. 35%
B. 50%
Orangutans seem to drift through branches from tree to tree with relative ease. However, almost all orangutans suffer serious falls at least a few times in their lives. Proving this is the fact that 50 percent of adult orangutans have fractured bones somewhere in their body.
500
You can have thunder without lightning
A. True
B. False
B. False
That’s because thunder is the sound caused by lightning. A charged, superheated lightning bolt creates a “resonating tube” as it travels. The air in the tube rapidly expands and contracts causing vibrations that you hear as the rumble of thunder.