Which Came First?
The name of Charles Darwin's boat.
HMS Beagle
What organ causes blood to circulate the body?
The Heart
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The HMS Beagle was commanded by young Robert Fitzroy after the death of its previous commander, Pringle Stokes. What was Stokes' cause of death?
Suicide
Who was the first American in Space?
Alan B. Shepard
The year Charles Darwin set sail.
1831
When breathing becomes rapid, what is it called?
Tachypnea
This dude circumnavigated the globe from 1831 to 1836
Charles Darwin
What started World War 1?
The assassination of Austrian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
Charles Darwin's age when he set sail.
22
What can be described as a "lightening storm in the brain?"
Seizure
This Scottish lad wrote "The Principles of Geology."
Charles Lyell
In 1776, what did the term "well regulated" mean?
Well-organized, well-disciplined, well-maintained, prepared.
The theory (as Chuckie Darwin would have called it) that Darwin came up with.
An asymmetrical, droopy face. Slurred speech. What could these symptoms describe?
Stroke
This dude wrote was an economist who wrote an essay about population growth.
Thomas Malthus
A victory that came at such a great cost it's essentially no different than a defeat.
Pyrrhic Victory
What are structures that are the reduced forms of functional structures in other organisms?
Vestigial Structures
Joaquin Phoenix portrayed a very dark version of the Joker in the movie "Joker." In it, he explains that he has some condition that causes him to laugh hysterically, manically even, when stressed. This is a real condition. What is it called?
Pseudobulbar Affect
This early naturalist theorized that traits were passed on based on "use versus disuse."
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Apollo 8 was what can arguably be called the riskiest of all Apollo missions. It marked the first time man orbited the moon. This mission took place around from December 21-Decemner 27 1968. While in lunar orbit, the three astronauts, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, did something that got them, and NASA, sued. What did they do?
They read parts of the Book of Genesis during a live broadcast on Christmas Eve.