Strange Animal Facts
The Amazing Quirky Human Body
The Wonderful World of Space
Plants Puzzlers
Yum Yum Food
100
What do slugs attack with:mucous, pee, or vomit?
What is mucous. When attacked, slugs use slime to fight back!
100
What is cleaner: fresh pee or spit?
Fresh pee. Pee starts out clean, bacteria only grow in it if it sits around.
100
Which is bigger the sun or the moon?
What is the sun. (400x bigger)
100
Who invented popcorn, Native Americans, the French, or the U.S. Navy.
What is the Native Americans. They showed the Pilgrims how to throw bits of corn onto hot stones. Aren't you glad they did?
100
What are the white spots in salami: bits of salt, globs of fat, or bleached meat?
What is globs of fat. The animals' fat is mixed in along with the meat to add flavor and texture.
200
What is the horn of a rhinoceros made of:bone, hair, or mucous?
What is hair, it is hardened, matted hair.
200
There are only three places on your skin that are not growing hair right now. Name one.
What is your lips, palms of your hands, and soles of your feet. The rest of your body is covered with hairs, some to teeny to see.
200
How often does it rain on the moon: never, every year, or every day?
What is never. Actually the weather on the moon never changes. No wind, no rain, no nothing.
200
True or false: there is a plant that generates enough heat to melt the snow around it.
What is true! Skunk cabbage can do it. As you may have guessed, this plant also stinks!
200
Which is in your Jello- horse hooves, rat tails, or fish eggs?
What is horse hooves. Ground up cartilage is a common ingredient in gelatin, which gives Jello it's jiggle.
300
What do you call a baby fly?
What is a maggot. These wormy little larvae aren't such cute babies. They like to eat rotten things.
300
How long does your large intestine let food hang around before it leaves your body: two minutes, two hours, or two days?
What is two days? Your large intestine takes your food and removes the water, shrinking it to 1/3 of its original size. After a 2-day dry out, it's time to go.
300
Is the planet Venus hot and windy or cold and icy?
What is hot and windy. That's because it is close to the sun!
300
Is broccoli a root, a stem or a flower?
What is a flower
300
True or False: when your cereal says "iron fortified," it means there are tiny bits of metal in it.
What is true. The iron breaks down in your stomach so that your body can absorb it.
400
True or False--You get tapeworm by getting mud in your mouth. False they come from eating undercooked or infected meat. Ask for your burger well done.
What is false-- they come from eating undercooked or infected meat. Ask for your burger well done.
400
You got a polio vaccine when you were little. What does polio do- swell the brain, paralyze muscles or rot skin?
What is paralyze muscles. If it paralyzes the legs, it makes people unable to walk, if it paralyzes the heart and lungs it can be fatal.
400
What is the only planet in our solar system that can experience total eclipses of the sun?
What is the planet Earth
400
Where would you find a peanut: at the pea family reunion or the nut family reunion?
What is the pea family reunion! A peanut is a legume, which means it's a pod that splits in two. Isn't that nuts!
400
Where did carrots originate: Finland, Afghanistan, or Brazil?
What is Afghanistan. Carrots showed up there thousands of years ago, but they did not look like carrots today. They were purple or yellow.
500
Which of the following might be in your mom's lipstick: fish scales, mold, or beaver fur?
What is fish scales. Cosmetic makers use fish scales for shimmer.
500
Your body makes enough spit each day to fill which of these: a 1-liter soda bottle or a 12 ounce soda can?
What is a 1 liter soda bottle! Chug a lug!
500
The first person in outer space was from what country: the US, China, or Russia?
What is Russia--Yuri Gagarin, in 1961.
500
Are any spiders vegetarians?
What is no--all spiders eat meat! In fact some large spiders will even catch and eat large mice and birds.
500
What makes milk sour- bacteria pea, milk worms or bits of cow skin?
What is--bacteria pea. When milk sits around it starts to grow bacteria and well, they have to pee somewhere.