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What is the largest cat in the Americas?
Jaguar
Mountain lion
Puma
Bobcat
What's the second-largest planet in the solar system?
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
What country is plagued by the most tornadoes?
U.S.A.
Mexico
India
Egypt
Who said "God does not play dice"?
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Werner Heisenberg
Walther Gerlach
How many logrithmic scales are there on a slide rule?
2
1
3
4
What planet travels around the sun every 248 years?
Pluto
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Who was the first man to hit a golf ball on the moon?
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Buzz Aldren
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
How many stars make up Orion's belt?
3
4
5
2
What is the most intelligent creature on Earth after man?
dolphin
chimpanze
orangutan
dog
What inventor was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"?
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Sir Issac Newton
Werner Von Braun
What Roman god is January named for?
Janus
Janeau
Jan
Janoath
Where's the Sea of Showers?
the moon
the persian gulf
Mars
Venus
What was the name of the Wright brothers' plane?
Flyer
Kitty Hawk
Spirit of St. Louis
No. 1
Where is the human skin least sensitive?
the heal
the knee-cap
the ear lobe
back of the neck
What became mandatory equipment on U.S. cars on March 1, 1968?
seat belts
tail lights
blinkers
high/low beam head lights
What is Japanese "sake" made from?
rice
seaweed
fish
fermented tea leaves
How many eyes does an earthworm have?
none
two
ten
more than a hundred
What is a Portuguese man-of-war?
a jellyfish
a militant national
a Portuguese native flower with many thorns
a kind of snail
Who invented the bifocal lens?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Robert Bifocough
Leonardo DaVinci
What's the best way to pick up a rabbit?
by the scruff of the neck
by the ears
by the tail
with both hands
What product's secret formula is 7X?
Coca-Cola soft drink
Head and Shoulders shampoo
Arid Extra Dry Anti-persperant
Cheeze Whiz
What does a panophobe fear?
Everything
bedpans
fear
fried foods
In 1844, what was the first telegraph message Samuel Morse sent?
"What hath God wrought?"
"Testing 1 2 3"
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"
"Mary had a little lamb"
What is a somnambulist?
someone who walks in their sleep
someone who studies sleep disorders
someone with a sleep disorder
someone who talks in their sleep
What do nictitating women do to men?
Wink at them
give them a cigarette
blow ciggarette smoke in their face
spit at them
In 1978, what did a U.N. organization say consisted of 356,000 metric tons?
all the tea in china
the weight of the tea thrown into the harbor during the boston tea party
the amount of cocaine produced in Colubia from 1968-1978
all the borscht eaten in the Soviet Union that year
How many pairs of chromosomes does a normal human have?
twenty three
forty six
seventeen
sixty nine
What fastner did Whitcomb Judson patent in 1893?
the zipper
velcro fastner
button
snap fastner
What's the most popular beverage in the U.S.A.?
milk
beer
coffee
soda
How many times larger than life size is the Statue of Liberty?
twenty
ten
eighteen
twenty six
Who went into space aboard Freedom 7 on May 6, 1961?
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Buzz Aldren
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
What did Lewis E. Waterman invent?
the fountain pen
the garden hose
the motorized toothbrush
the paperclip
What does the Greek "geo" denote?
earth
circular
a land mass
a car
What number does the Roman numeral C represent?
100
50
10
500
What was first dug at Artois, France?
an artesian well
a shaft mine
a basement
an underground sewer system
What is the longest bone in the human body?
femur
tibia
fibula
humorous
How do you write 99 in Roman numerals?
XCIX
IC
LXXXXVIIII
IM
What color does litmus paper turn if a solution is acidic?
red
blue
yellow
green
What is the belt of low pressure around the equator called?
the doldrums
the the bump
the geothermal equidistance imbalance
the gulf stream
What scale measures earthquakes?
the Richter scale
the richtus scale
the phalic scale
the sphincter scale
What is the date when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorn?
Dec. 21 or 22
June 21 or 22
March 21 or 22
Sep. 21 or 22
What is a Mexican hairless?
a dog
a bald Mexican
a Mexican dish
an illegal alien
What is the study of fossils called?
Paleontology
Fossology
Archaeology
Chronology
What is the oldest and most numerous class of animals?
insects
mamals
reptials
fish
What number did Adalf Hitler believe possessed supernational power?
7
666
13
6
What did Gail Borden give to the world in 1853?
condensed milk
pasteurized milk
chocolate milk
milk duds
What is a gluteous maximus?
it's the largest muscle in the human body
someone who eats like a pig
the name given to the vats Elmers glue is mixed in
it's a large bird
What was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935?
Iceland
U.S.A.
Mexico
England
What is the only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue?
Chow
St. Bernard
French Poodle
Mexican Hairless
What is heaven known by to the Norse?
Valhalla
Shangrala
Gehenna
Sheol
How many colors are there in the spectrum?
7
3
9
5
What is the dumbest domesticated animal?
turkey
cow
pig
chicken
What is the nearest star to Earth?
Sol
Alpha Centauri
Proxima Centauri
the Dog Star
What part of the body does glaucoma strike?
the eyes
the joints
the liver
the brain
How many sides are there on a pentagon?
5
4
3
6
What does a typical man have 13,000 of?
whiskers
chest hairs
hairs on his head
leg and arm hairs
What month were you born in if your birthstone is sardonyx?
August
September
January
May
What metal makes up 10 percent of yellow gold?
copper
tin
zinc
silver
What fraction of an iceberg shows above water?
1/9
1/3
1/12
1/6
What Boeing jet is nicknamed Fat Albert?
737
727
747
707
Whose brainchild was the geodesic dome?
R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Fuller Buckminster
R. Minbuckster Fuller
R. Fuller Minbuckster