Week 1
Quiz by Ashley Snider
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- Q1
In which of these places are you scientifically more likely to flatulate?
At the grocery store
In the shower
On an airplane
Sydney, Australia
30s - Q2
Way before it lined grocery shelves, soda (or maybe pop, depending on where you live) was mixed on the spot using special devices called soda fountains. In which type of business did these early soda fountains most often appear during the early 1900s?
Bars
Pharmacies
Ice cream parlors
Candy stores
30s - Q3
In 2018, NASA launched a pair of satellites to monitor the climate. They are nicknamed Tom and Jerry, after the classic cartoon cat and mouse. Why was that nickname chosen?
One is gray and the other is brown
One chases the other
One is bigger than the other
One has pointed fins and the other has round ones
30s - Q4
A duckbill platypus looks like it was built out of random spare animal parts. They're native to Australia, but fossils of ancient platypuses have been found in South America. Which of the following is not true about the platypus?
They have electroreceptors in their bill
They are venomous
They are born with teeth
They have no nipples
30s - Q5
If you get this one right, you're entitled to gloat. What was the first kids' book that Dr. Seuss wrote?
Horton Hatches the Egg
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Gerald McBoing Boing
30s - Q6
The further back you go, the more history and myth become intertwined. Which "fact" about George Washington is actually true?
He chopped down a cherry tree and could not tell a lie about it
He wore dentures made of wood
He skipped a silver dollar across the Potomac River
He had no biological children
30s