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What is Johannes Kepler best known for?

the laws of planetary motion

What hormone does the pancreas produce?

insulin

How many new species are discovered each year?

18,000

Who is considered the founder of the modern science of genetics?

Gregor Mendel

How many pencils could you produce from the carbon in the average human body?

9,000

Which is the flattest of all the planets?

Saturn

What did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize for in 1921?

the law of the photoelectric effect

Which organ can account for up to 30% of a shark's total body mass?

liver

What is the largest of the great apes?

mountain gorilla

The largest colony of ants in the world stretches … km.

6,000 km from northern Italy, through the south of France to the Atlantic coast of Spain

What animal has the highest blood pressure?

giraffe

A hummingbird can flap its wings about … times per second.

80

To go from being poor to having a lot of money means ‘to go from …’?

rags to riches

What planet has the highest density?

Earth

What is the most abundant element in the Martian atmosphere?

The Martian atmosphere consists of approximately 96% carbon dioxide.

What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?

The crust - less than 1% of our planet's volume

Someone who comes from a wealthy and successful family is born with…?

A silver spoon in one’s mouth

‘To sit tight’ means…?

To wait patiently and take no action until you hear otherwise

‘Hit the books’ means to…?

study/learn

What style of art and literature developed in the 20th century, stressed the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery?

Surrealism

What type of novel is a story told exclusively through fictionalized letters, emails, newspaper articles, and other primary sources?

An epistolary novel

The increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect is named…?

global warming

Medieval narratives hailing from Iceland or Norway are called…?

sagas

Popular in Victorian times, the cheaply made ‘penny dreadful’, also called …, featured serialized tales of adventure, crime, and horror.

dime novels

What type of fiction relates to the emotional awakening of a young character?

Bildungsroman

When was Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” unveiled to the public in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City?

On October 31, 1541

A popular All Hallows' Eve ritual was mirror-gazing, as people hoped to catch a vision of …?

their future

What is the study of the movement of air and other gases called?

aerodynamics

Where can you find the protective ozone layer that surrounds Earth and absorbs ultraviolet rays from the sun and prevents them from reaching the surface?

stratosphere

What’s the name of the gaseous envelope that surrounds Earth?

atmosphere

Finish the rhyme: April showers bring…?

May flowers

What does ‘a pretty penny’ mean?

A considerable sum of money

In 1974, one state had four rhyming team names, what was it? (Jets, Mets, Nets, and Sets)

New York

The Dodgers weren’t always in Los Angeles. What US city did they get their name from?

Brooklyn, New York

Before ending up in Los Angeles, the Lakers were named after what geographic region?

Minnesota – Land of 10,000 Lakes

What does “mets,” as in New York Mets, stand for?

Metropolitan

One of New York’s basketball teams, the Knicks, is shortened from the word “knickerbocker,” which means what?

A New Yorker

What does the “A” in the baseball team Oakland A’s stand for?

Athletics

What is a misstep?

an error

What does ‘to pinpoint’ mean?

to locate exactly

The F word was first recorded in…?

the 1500s

The vulgar term asshole is first recorded in the …?

in the 1400s

Wednesday was named for the Germanic god Woden/Wotan also known as …?

Odin

Starting around 1965, Wednesday began being referred to as …?

Hump day

What Roman god was the messenger to the gods, along with being the patron of science, the arts, travellers, and athletes?

Mercury

In Romance languages, the name of Wednesday is derived from the Roman god …?

Mercury

What do you call a device for making arithmetic calculations, consisting of a frame set with rods on which balls or beads are moved?

abacus

Who ascended to the throne around 800 and set about reforming education?

Charlemagne

Who’s the chief of Tesla and SpaceX?

Elon Musk

The smile in Amazon’s logo refers to the fact that …?

They sell everything from A to Z.

Why did Steve Jobs named the company Apple?

Because at that time he was on “one of [his] fruitarian diets.”

What English writer coined ‘Yahoo’ in 1926 for Gulliver’s Travels?

Jonathan Swift

When was the web portal Yahoo created?

In January 1994

The name Google is a play on the mathematical term googol, which is a one followed by…?

100 zeros

What was Google’s original name?

BackRub

What do vaccines stimulate?

The antibody production in the body

What do we call the liquid part of blood and lymph?

plasma

What term is used to define special protein molecules that the immune system produces in response to antigens?

antibodies

How is the Friday before Thanksgiving called?

Black Friday

How is the Monday after Thanksgiving is called?

Cyber Monday

In what domain are the phrases ‘in the black’ and ‘in the red’ used?

business

In Romanian Friday is vinery, the day of …?

Venus

Freyja, goddess of fertility, gold, and death, rides a chariot driven by two …?

cats

What is the capital city of the Norse gods?

Asgard

What does Thor mean in Old Norse?

thunder

What Norse god’s name does Thursday bear?

Thor

What Scandinavian god is represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir?

Thor

What is the Germanic correspondent to the Scandinavian chief god Odin?

Wotan

Tuesday is named for a one-handed war god named …?

Tiw

Sol (Sun) and Mani (Moon) form a sister and brother pair in what mythology?

Norse

Who was the Roman goddess that personified the moon?

Luna

What people were the ones who decided on a seven-day week, and they named five of the days for planets, and one each for the sun and for the moon?

Babylonians

What is any foodstuff that has been genetically modified called?

Frankenstein food

What term defines a familiar, pet, or derisory name given to a person, animal, or place?

nickname

In legal proceedings, the pseudonyms John Doe, Jane Doe, Richard Roe, and Jane Roe are used in when …?

A person’s name is being kept anonymous

What pseudonym/pen name did Mary Ann Evans use?

George Eliot

What is the term for a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity (pen name/ nom de plume)?

pseudonym

The term for a false name used to conceal one's identity or an assumed name is…?

alias

Who wrote the 1818-novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus?

Mary Shelley

What popular board game was invented during the Great Depression by architect Alfred Mosher Butts who couldn’t find work?

Scrabble

What was Scrabble’s original name in the 1930s?

Lexiko

What’s the term used for a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters?

anagram

What’s the meaning of mead?

honey wine

What’s the capital of Norway?

Oslo

What is another word used to refer to the white cells in a crossword puzzle?

lights

When did Arthur Wynne, credited with inventing the crossword, publish his first puzzle?

1913

What term is used for an organization claiming to be an institution of higher learning but existing for profit only and granting degrees without demanding proper qualifications of the recipients?

Diploma Mill

How many air signs are there in the zodiac?

3

What is the eighth sign of the Zodiac?

Scorpio

Also called “The Land of the Midnight Sun,” Alaska is best known as …?

The Last Frontier

What US state is also called “The Land of Lincoln” in honour of Honest Abe’s political career there?

Illinois

Which US state was the first state to give its women citizens the right to vote?

Wyoming

The state of Mississippi’s nickname is…?

Magnolia State

How is the revision of the Julian calendar introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII called?

Gregorian calendar

What had been the name of Augustus before he became emperor in 27 BC?

Octavian

What 2 of the highest officials of Nazi Germany, besides Adolf Hitler, committed suicide before they could be brought to trial?

Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler

How many of the Nazi leaders were tried In Nuremberg?

22

What nomadic people originating between India and Iran migrated to Europe in the 14th or 15th century?

Gypsies

What term was applied by Nazis to the genocide of European Jews during World War II?

Final Solution

What inspired the German National Socialism?

Italian fascism