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ENTOMOLOGY
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SKEPTICAL MOVEMENT
100
The most dangerous insects, they kill a million people per year.
What are mosquitoes?
100
It is derived from the Greek astron, meaning "star" and -logia meaning "treating of.”
What is astrology?
100
It is not true that these continue to grow after we are dead.
What are fingernails? (And/or hair.)
FACT: Hair and fingernails may appear longer after death simply because the skin around them has retracted. Dehydration causes the skin and soft tissue to shrink, but the hair and nails remain the same length.
100
The name of this creature means “terrible lizard.”
What is dinosaur?
100
Originally from Canada, he created the skeptical convention The Amazing Meeting, or TAM.
Who is James Randi?
200
The largest one, found in New Guinea, had a wingspan of 11 inches.
What is a butterfly?
200
Monday is named for this, first visited by humankind 40 years ago.
What is the moon?
FACT: In Old English it means "day of the moon." In Latin it is "Lunæ dies," which is the source of the word in Romance languages (lundi in French, lunes in Spanish, etc.).
200
Only those not using the full capacity of theirs believe that humans use 10% of ours.
What is the brain?
FACT: This is just plain wrong; no truth to it whatsoever.
200
These are the oldest known vertebrates.
What are fish?
200
This de facto leader of the anti-vaccine movement now has a body count of over 200.
Who is Jenny McCarthy?
300
These insects can jump 200 times their body length.
What are fleas?
300
Slang for nonsense, it was derived from the name of Buncombe County, North Carolina.
What is bunkum, or bunk?
FACT: In 1820 N.C. Representative Felix Walker began what promised to be a "long, dull, irrelevant speech," and he resisted calls to cut it short, saying, "I shall not be speaking to the House, but to Buncombe" (meaning his home district, where he hoped newspapers would print his words). Bunkum has been slang for "nonsense" since 1847.
300
It may take 7 years to get off the bottom of your shoes, but not to go through your digestive system.
What is gum?
FACT: Gum is no match for the enzymes and acids in your stomach that will break it down, just like anything else.
300
Fossils are most often found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
300
This popular podcast’s name is derived from a Douglas Adams book.
What is The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe?
400
They make up 10% of the total weight of all the animals in the world.
What are ants?
400
This word is partly derived from the Latin for "knowledge."
What is science?
400
You cannot kiss your own one of these, no matter how flexible you are.
What is the tip of your elbow?
400
The evolutionary term for variations caused by a change in the genetic information of a cell.
What is mutation?
400
She is the creator of Skepchick and recently got married at TAM 7.
Who is Rebecca Watson?
500
To signal danger, they bang their heads against the walls of the nest.
What are termites?
500
The name taken by the disciples of the Greek philosopher Pyrrho around 360 B.C.E.
What is Skeptic?
500
These creatures do not throw themselves off of cliffs committing mass suicide.
What are lemmings?
FACT: The producers of the 1958 Disney documentary White Wilderness manufactured this behaviour and then created "evidence" for it by rigging a turntable-like device and filming lemmings being thrown from it.
500
Discovered in 1912, this was considered one of the most important fossils until it was found to be a complete hoax 41 years later.
What is Piltdown Man?
500
British science writer Simon Singh’s 2008 Guardian article got this organization bent out of shape.
What is the British Chiropractic Association?