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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