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Question: What creature can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light?
Answer: Goldfish
Interesting Fact: The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. The goldfish was one of the earliest fish to be domesticated and is still one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish and water garden fish. A relatively […]

Question: What is a blue moon?
Answer: Second full moon in a calendar month
Interesting Fact: ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ is a common way of saying not very often, but what exactly is a Blue Moon? According to the popular definition, it is the second Full Moon to occur in a single calendar month. The average […]

Question: Who were ziggurats?
Answer: Stepped towers or temple towers
Interesting Fact: A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
Question: Who wrote Bambi?
Answer: Siegmund Salzmann aka Felix Salten
Interesting Fact: Bambi, ein Leben im Walde (Bambi, A Life in the Woods) is a book by Felix […]

Question: What was the first animal to fly in a manmade device?
Answer: If you answered a sheep, duck, rooster or dog you were right!
Interesting Fact: A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
Question: What is the fastest creature in […]

Question: How do honey bees communicate?
Answer: Dance
Interesting Fact: The ability of honeybees to communicate direction and distance from the hive to nectar sources through dance “language” has received widespread attention. In 1973, Karl von Frisch received a Nobel Prize for deciphering the language.
Question: What is the deepest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Interesting Fact: Lake […]

Question: What is the heaviest snake?
Answer: Anaconda
Interesting Fact: There is a lot of controversy over which snake holds the world’s record for massive size. The dimensions that have earned the anaconda the title of king is its total body mass or weight. While the Asiatic Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus) holds the world’s record for length […]

1. Which state is the largest in the union?
A. Alaska
B. Texas
C. California
D. Hawaii
A. Alaska
TOPICS: That’s with a land area of 570,374 square miles!
2. What is Alaska’s position relative to the United States?
A. It lies along the northern boundary of the 50 contiguous states
B. It is separated from the other mainland states by British Columbia, Canada
C. […]

1. Renowned paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is known for uncovering many fossils of early humans. He left school at the age of 16 to start a business doing what?
A. Leading safaris
B. Hunting fossils
C. Printing newspaper
D. Making movies
A. Leading safaris
TOPICS: He left school at the age of 16 to start a business leading safaris to photograph wild […]

1. Where are lions still found in the wild?
A. Africa south of the Sahara Desert
B. Northwest India
C. Both A and B
D. The zoo
C. Both A and B
TOPICS: Today, lions are found in the wild in only two places on earth. About 100,000 lions survive in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Another 300 lions, called […]

1. If you are a teenager living on Elm Street what should you never do?
A. Go to sleep
B. Play with dolls
C. Go to the prom
D. Have sex
A. Go to sleep
TOPICS: We all know from “Nightmare on Elm Street” that your dreams can get you killed by Freddy Krueger. Written by Craven, a former English teacher, […]