November Teen Trivia 3 (10/11/24)

Random Mammals

100

We domesticated wolves into what companions?

Dogs

200

What large Arctic predator is one of the only mammals to regularly see humans as prey?

Polar bear

300

True or false? Bison/buffalo are the largest living mammals native to North America.

True

400

Manatees are large gray marine mammals, most closely related to what large gray land animals?

Elephants

500

A process called convergent evolution means unrelated animals can fill similar niches. South America has anteaters, Africa has aardvarks and pangolins, and Australia has what marsupial?

Numbat

US States by Cities

100

Bloomington, Elkhart, Columbus, South Bend, Indianapolis

Indiana

200

Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia, Joplin, St. Louis

Missouri

300

Pearl City, Hilo, Wailuku, Kailua, Honolulu

Hawaii

400

Fernley, Carson City, Reno, Sparks, Las Vegas

Nevada

500

Nome, Utqiagvik, Fairbanks, Juneau, Anchorage

Alaska

Holiday Scramble

100

HNSKTAIVNGIG

Thanksgiving

200

TVERNAS'E YAD

Veteran's Day

300

YDA FO HET EDAD

Day of the Dead

400

LEOTICEN YDA

Election Day

500

VIGNGI UESDTYA

Giving Tuesday

Math

100

10 + 10

20

200

37 - 14 + 2

25

300

(100 / 4) + 15 - 10

30

400

2x + 12 = 82

x = 35

500

(44 - 24) (3 + 2) / 2 - 10

40

Natural Disasters

100

What do you call a powerful storm with high wind speeds that can release multiple feet of snow in hours?

Blizzard

200

The first news event I remember was from 2004, when an earthquake caused what giant waves that destroyed towns in 14 countries?

Tsunami

300

A rapidly rotating storm system with a central eye has three (main) different names depending on what part of the world you're in. What are these three names?

Hurricane, typhoon, cyclone

400

The Richter scale measures the intensity of what natural disasters?

Earthquakes

500

The 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado was the fastest tornado ever recorded. What was its top speed? (its between 100 and 500mph)

321mph