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September, April, June, November

What months have 30 days?

Madagascar

What nation produces two thirds of the world's vanilla?

1 billion

What number does "giga" stand for?

knight

What piece on a chess board moves in an L-shape?

chlorophyll

What pigment gives leaves their green color and absorbs light that is used in photosynthesis

Fusion

What powers the sun?

smelting

What process involves heating an ore to obtain a metal?

The pH scale.

What scale of zero to 14 is used to measure acidity or alkalinity?

Hedgehog

What sort of animal is the video game character Sonic?

Buzz Lightyear

What special toy does Andy receive for his birthday in the original "Toy Story" movie?

Proxima Centauri

What star other than the sun is closest to the earth?

Hawaii

What state is nicknamed Aloha State?

California

What state is nicknamed the Golden State?

Texas

What state is nicknamed the Lone Star State?

Spare

What term in tenpin bowling describes having knocked all the pins down after your second bowl?

deciduous trees

What trees lose their leaves in winter?

K,M

What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?

bamboo

What type of grass do pandas eat?

The Watt

What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per second?

World War II

What war took place from 1939 to 1945?

a pumpkin

What was Cinderella's coach made from?

Harry Houdini

What was Erich Weiss better known as?

Shredded wheat

What was the first commercially manufactured breakfast cereal?

kidney

What was the first organ successfully transplanted from a corpse to a live person?

Mt. Vernon/Potomac River

What was the name given to George Washington's home and along which river did he live?

binary

What word describes a number system with a base of two?

hologram

What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?

salt

What's removed from water in the process of desalination?

bit

What's short for "binary digit"?

Fe

What's the Symbol to iron?

liter

What's the common name for a cubic decimeter?

Hypoglycemia.

What's the medical term for low blood sugar?

gold

What's the most malleable metal?

mercury

What's the only metal that's not a solid at room temperature?

1616

When did William Shakespeare die?

July 4th

When is the Independence day of the United States?

Greece

Where did the Olympic Games originate?

South America

Where did the pineapple plant originate?

Knee

Where in your body is your patella?

It's head

Where is a shrimp's heart located?

The White House

Where is the Executive Branch located?

The Supreme Court

Where is the Judicial Branch located?

The Capital Building

Where is the Legislative Branch located?

Between Spain and France

Where is the Pyrenees?

Delaware

Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond State?

Idaho

Which American state produces the most potatoes?

Sleeping Beauty

Which Disney movie is Princess Aurora the main character?

The Beatles

Which band produced the hit song "Yellow Submarine"?

Rice Krispies

Which breakfast cereal is advertised with the slogan "Snap, crackle and pop"?

Toyota

Which car company makes the Celica?

Bishop

Which chess piece can only move diagonally?

Microsoft

Which company is owned by Bill Gates?

France

Which country gave the USA the 'Statute of Liberty?

Italy

Which country would you visit if you wanted to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Frankenstein

Which famous monster was created by a doctor?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Which leader died in St Helena?

Duck billed platypus

Which mammal lays eggs?

Mercury

Which of the planets in our solar system is closest to the sun?

Jupiter

Which planet spins the fastest?

Venus

Which planet spins the slowest?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Which president led the US through WWII and the Great Depression and served more terms than any other president (3.5 terms)?

Poncho

Which six-letter word refers to a Mexican blanket often slipped over the head and worn draped over the shoulder?

John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison

Who are the four members of the Beatles?

the president, the vice president, the cabinet

Who are the members of the Executive Branch?

The Supreme Court and the lower courts

Who are the members of the Judicial Branch?

The Congress- the Senate and the House of Representatives

Who are the members of the Legislative Branch?

Yitzhak Rabin- fifth Prime Minister of Israel

Who did Yigal Amir assassinate in 1995?

Benjamin Franklin

Who founded the first public library in the U.S.?

Electoral College

Who in the US officially elects the President and the Vice President?

Spider-Man

Who is Peter Parker's secret identity?

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

Who is still living from the Beatles?

Queen Elizabeth II (just beat Queen Victoria on Sept. 9, 2015)

Who is the longest reigning British Monarch?

Greg Heffley

Who is the main character in Diary of a Whimpy Kid?

Katniss Everdeen

Who is the main character in The Hunger Games

Jackie Robinson

Who was the first African-American Major League baseball player?

George Washington

Who was the first President of the United States?

Amelia Earheart

Who was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation? Abraham Lincoln

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

JK Rowling

Who wrote the Harry Potter series?

Roosevelt

Whose face is on a dime?

South Africa

World's largest diamond producing country

Damascus (Syria)

World's oldest known city

Theodore Roosevelt 42

Youngest president of USA

griffin

a fabled monster, usually having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion

kraken

a legendary sea monster causing large whirlpools off the coast of Norway

Manticore

a mythical beast typically depicted as having the body of a lion, the face of a man, and the sting of a scorpion/Novel by Robertson Davies

chick, hatchling

baby bird

fawn

baby deer

kit

baby fox

tadpole, polliwog

baby frog

gosling

baby goose

lamb

baby sheep

hatchling

baby snake

course

cadaver

hackles

feathers on a bird's neck

hen

female bird

cow

female bovine

doe

female deer

vixen

female fox

nanny

female goat

mare

female horse

ewe

female ship

roe

fish eggs

herd or drove

group of cattle

bull

male bovine (cattle, oxen, buffaloes, etc.)

stag or buck

male deer

dog

male dog

drake

male duck

billy

male goat

ram

male sheep

tom

male turkey

dried plum

prunes

Cerberus

three-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld

the Dark Knight

what is Batman's nickname?

Venice

City of Canals

Peking

City once called "Forbidden City"

Zambia

Country known as "Country of Copper"

Norway

Country known for Land of the Midnight Sun

Russia

Country which has biggest land area

Monaco

Country which has highest population density

Malaysia

Country which is largest producer of rubber in the world

China

Country which is largest producer of tin in the world

Canada

Country which ranks second in terms of land area

Swimming

Crawl, backstroke and butterfly are different methods in which sport?

Liffey

Dublin is situated at the mouth of river

New Amsterdam

Earlier name of New York city was

Alexander Eiffel

Eiffel tower was built by

May

Emerald is the birth stone for which month?

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Father of modern Italy

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21

Fibonacci sequence

England

First Industrial Revolution took place in

Abraham Lincoln

First republican president of America

Margaret Thatcher

First woman Prime Minister of Britain

Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, Rafael

Four Masters of High Renaissance

Bashful

Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who's missing?

the thymus gland or pancreas of an animal (food)

Sweetbreads

Waterloo

What 1815 battle in Belgium marked the final defeat of Napoleon?

Galileo

What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?

22nd Amendment

What amendment limited the amount of terms a president could serve after Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mountains in Scotland

What are Munroes?

string, brass, woodwind,percussion

What are the four sections in an orchestra?

Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan

What are the great lakes of North America?

red, yellow, blue

What are the three primary colors?

goose

What bird was domesticated first?

English Channel

What body of water separates France and England?

Las Vegas

What city is nicknamed Sin City?

New York City

What city is nicknamed the Big Apple?

Los Angeles

What city is nicknamed the City of Angels?

Chicago

What city is nicknamed the Windy City?

red

What color are Mickey Mouse's shorts?

Nike

What company's logo is called the "swoosh"?

Antartica

What continent is subjected to the world's largest ozone hole?

India

What country is the Taj Mahal located in?

freedom for the slaves

What did it (Emancipation Proclamation) declare?

Zero

What digit does not exist in Roman Numerals?

cancer

What disease is the focus of oncology?

ophthalmoscope

What do doctors look at an eye through?

White blood cells, or leukocytes

What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?

Turkey

What do you call three consecutive strikes in bowling?

oxygen

What does a fire need to keep it going?

honey

What edible substance do bees make?

Christopher Columbus

What explorer introduced pigs to North America?

apple

What falling fruit supposedly inspired Sir Isaac Newton to discover the law of gravity?

Old Faithful

What famous geyser might you get to observe if you visit Yellowstone Park?

Robin (Batman and Robin)

What is Dick Grayson better known as?

the Man of Steel

What is Superman's nickname?

Kryptonite

What is Superman's weakness?

a kid

What is a baby goat called?

a joey

What is a baby kangaroo called?

cub

What is a baby lion called?

blood systems

What is classified by the A B O system?

Iron Man

What is name of Tony Stark's superhero persona?

First 10 amendments (additions) to the US Constitution

What is the Bill of Rights?

the branch that carries out/enforces laws

What is the Executive Branch?

the branch that decides the meaning of laws, how they are applied, and interprets laws based on Constitution

What is the Judicial Branch?

the branch that comes up/makes all the laws

What is the Legislative Branch?

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500

What is the address of the white house?

98.6

What is the average core body temperature of a human (in Fahrenheit)?

Honolulu

What is the capital of Hawaii?

Washington DC,District of Columbia

What is the capital of the United States?

Super Bowl

What is the championship game called for the NFL?

pride

What is the collective noun used to describe a group of lions?

moss

What is the first organisms to grow back after fire?

World Cup

What is the international soccer competition held every four years?

the Pacific Ocean

What is the largest ocean in the world?

Alaska

What is the largest state in the USA?

cerebrovascular accident

What is the medical term for stroke?

Herring

What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?

the iris

What is the name for the colored part of an eye?

iris

What is the name for the colored part of the eye?

Tangled

What is the name of the Disney movie about Rapunzel?

U.S. Open

What is the name of the annual open golf tournament of the U.S.?

NBA Finals

What is the name of the championship series that the NBA has to end the playoffs?

Sebastian

What is the name of the crab in Disney's "The Little Mermaid"?

Angel falls in Venezuela

What is the name of the worlds higest water fall?

18

What is the number of holes on a golf course?

4

What is the number of months that have exactly 30 days?

bat

What is the only mammal that can fly?

The Hobbit

What is the prequel to the Lord of the Rings series?

February

What is the shortest month of the year?

Vatican city

What is the smallest country in the world?

12

What is the square root of 144?

Mt. Everest

What is the world's highest mountain?

the ostrich

What is the world's largest bird

V

What letter represents 5 in Roman numerals?

calorie

What measure of energy comes from the Latin word meaning "heat"?

200,000

A cow gives about how many glasses of milk in her lifetime?

Excalibur

According to legend, what was the name of King Arthur's sword?

pot of gold

According to myth, what is found at the end of the rainbow?

Peter Piper

According to the rhyme, who picked a peck of pickled peppers?

The eye

Astigmatism, strabismus, conjunctivitis, ophthalmia, and presbyopia are disorders affecting what organ?

James Cook

Australia was discovered by

Dugout

Baseball players stand in a certain area while they're waiting to play. What is this area called?

Ganges delta

Biggest delta in the world

Sahara desert

Biggest desert in the world

Greenland

Biggest island of the world

Baggins

In Lord of the Rings, what is Frodo and Bilbo's last name?

Goal Keeper

In soccer, which player is allowed to use his or her hands in the field of play?

Fred Flintstone

In the world of classic cartoons, whose best buddy is Barney and wife is Wilma?

the Civil War

In what war did the United States fight itself?

1912

In what year did the Titanic sink?

The Little Mermaid

In which Disney movie is there a fish called Flounder?

Beauty and the Beast

In which Disney movie is there a man named Gaston?

Egypt

In which country would you find the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Right

In which hand is the Statue of Liberty's torch?

Boxing

In which sport was Muhammad Ali the world champion?

Humphry Davy

Inventor of Light Bulb

Walter Hunt

Inventor of Safety pin

Huber Booth

Inventor of Vacuum cleaner

Lee Harvey Oswald

John F Kennedy was assassinated by

Mona Lisaa

La Giaconda is better known as what

Korea

Land of Morning Calm

Tailand

Land of White Elephant

Brazil

Largest coffee growing country

Sicily

Largest island in Mediterranean sea

United States Library of Congress, Washington DC

Largest library in the world

Trans-Canada

Longest highway in the world

Nile river

Longest river in the world

Coastal area of Dead Sea

Lowest point on Earth is

Guermica

Most famous painting of Pablo Picasso

Retreiver

Most popular breed of dogs

Sir George Everest

Mount Everest was named after

igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

Name the three types of rock.

Rose

National flower of Britain

Narcissus

National flower of China

Lily

National flower of Italy

Amazon river

River which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea

John Adams

The second president of the United States.

Oakland

This city, also among the top 50 in population, lies directly across the bay from San Francisco.

Carrie Underwood

This season 4 winner has country hits of "Undo It," "All-American Girl," and "Before He Cheats." Her 2009 album Play On included "Temporary Home."

Arizona

This was the 48th state and is the only state that does not follow Daylight Saving Time, except for on its Navajo Reservation.

13

Triskadeccaphobia is the fear of what?

United Nations Organization

UNO stands for

Michelangelo

'Last Judgement' was first painting of Italian painter named

about 360,000 to 405,000 kilometers

How far is the moon from the earth?

About 8 minutes and 18 seconds.

How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?

366

How many days in a leap year?

6

How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?

425 members, number per state based on population of state

How many members are there in the House of Representatives?

100 members total, two from each state, 6 year term if not reelected

How many members are there in the Senate?

9

How many members are there in the Supreme Court?

3

How many periods are in an ice hockey game?

8

How many planets are in the solar system?

5

How many rings are on the Olympic flag?

32

How many teeth does an adult human usually have?

52

How many weeks are in a year?

1,000

How many years in a millennium?

Every 4 years

How often are leap years?

about 4.5 billion years old

How old is the earth?

about 5 billion years

How old is the sun?

15-20 million years old

How old is the universe?

Femur

Identify the bone found in the leg between the knee and the hips.

Skin

Identify the largest organ of the human body.

Atlantic Ocean

If you flew from New York City to London, what ocean would you cross?

Beards

If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of

orthodontist

If you needed braces, what kind of doctor would you visit?

Piano

If you're a "master of the ivory keys," what instrument do you play?

Bottom

On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?

Table Tennis

Ping-pong is an alternative name for which sport?

Tiber

Place known as Roof of the World

Sugar

Principal export of Jamaica

Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria

The boats of Christopher Columbus's original expedition are

Japan

The flag of what Asian nation includes a red circle on a white background?


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