tom brady ate this fruit for the first time in 2018
a strawberry :)
which cat was the first to climb on altare's laptop while she was making this jeopardy?
Mattress!!!
true or false: grasshoppers existed before grass
true!
Which US state is closest to Africa?
Maine
most toilet paper sold in france for home use is this color
pink!
a pomegranate can have, at most, this number of seeds
1400
name the 2 foods altare is allergic to (200 points per correct guess)
kiwi and water chestnut
which evolved first? sharks or trees?
sharks!
The last payment of an American Civil War Veteran pension was made in ___, more than 150 years after the Civil War ended.
2020
Titanic survivors who said the ship split in half before sinking were not believed for ___ years, with one survivor saying people would 'argue' with her about what she really saw, until the Titanic's wreckage was found in half in 1985.
73
Apples are __% air which is why, when placed in water, they float.
25%
how many college level ELA classes did Altare take in high school?
4! AP Lang, AP Lit, Dual Enrollment Comp 1 and Comp 2 :)
how old is the world's oldest shark?
it's a Greenland shark and it's about 400 years old!
The USA dropped __ nuclear bomb(s) on North Carolina in 1961.
2
the belief that ___ bring bad luck on boats, especially fishing boats, is a long-standing nautical superstition that dates back to the 1700s.
bananas
this (evil) fruit was originally grown in China and was known as the Chinese gooseberry until 1959
Kiwi
how many hours has Altare spent playing Undertale?
67.6 hours
how long can a bird fly without stopping?
up to 10 months! at least for the Common Swift (not to be confused with Taylor Swift)
In the US alone, about ____ people die every year from falling down the stairs.
12,000
The USDA defines sandwiches as, "at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50% bread" for closed sandwiches, and "at least ___% cooked meat" for open sandwiches.
50%
this fruit was, at one point, called star berries.
blueberries!
how many hours has altare spent playing Fallout: New Vegas?
174.7
the largest and oldest organism in the planet is in the US. What is it and what state is it in? and for bonus points: how much does it weigh and how old is it?
the honey mushroom, aka the shoestring fungus, aka the "humongous fungus." it's in Oregon, weighs 7500-35,00 tons, and is 2400-8650 years old.
In the US, cows are estimated to cause the deaths of around ____ people annually
20-22
this state covers 100% tuition to any resident with a high school diploma or GED
New Mexico