Where is the United Nations headquartered?

Turtle Bay Neighborhood- Manhattan

a liking or tendancy to do something

a person of great wealth or prominence

What is a peridromophile?

Someone who is fascinated with transportation and streetcar systems

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1
What is the superlative of fantastic?
Most fantastic
More fantastic
Fantasticer
Sponge Bob is the best
2
When was the last time the poles flipped?
420,000 years ago
4.2 million years ago
42,000 years ago
4,200 years ago
3
Who played all 9 positions in one game for the Minnesota Twins?
Willie Mays
Cesar Tovar
Ty Cobb
Ted Williams
4
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is a fear of what?
Pumpkins
Friday the 13th
Needles
Ghosts
5
What is the average life-span of a baseball?
1 home run
2 games
6 innings
7 pitches
6
What does perspicacious mean?
relating to space
sound judgement or indight
atmosphere
a type of rock
7
Who would use a styptic pencil?
Student
Barber
Actor
Artist
8
What is a synonym for hassock?
foot stool
soldier
table
Nobleman
9
What is a group of wild bunnies called?
Flock
School
Fluffle
Cute
10
A group of badgers is known as a...?
Troop
Cete
Corps
Pack
11
Where might you find an example of a Panopticon?
Prison
Staircase
Town square
NASA
12
What famous river in Africa flows north?
Ganges
Euphrates
Tigris
Nile
13
What is the patella?
knee cap
shoulder blade
funny bone
ear bone
14
Where is the United Nations headquartered?
Geneva
Turtle Bay Neighborhood- Manhattan
15
Fear of the number 13 is called what?
Acrophobia
Nyctophobia
coulrophobia
triskaidekaphobia
16
What is a penchant?
a financial decision
a necklace
a new age philosophy
a liking or tendancy to do something
17
Who wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?
Mark Twain
neither
Samuel Clemens
both
18
What is the largest lake totally within the United States?
Lake Tahoe
Great Salt Lake
Lake Michigan
Lake Superior
19
A natatorium is a building containing a....
Swimming pool
Badminton court
Volley ball
Tennis court
20
How much is a quid worth in England?
50p
One pound
10p
100 pounds
21
Water that collects on a cold surface when in contact with warm air is
precipitation
condensation
22
The antonym of diurnal is...
nocturnal
solitary
intermittent
daytime
23
What is not one of the four areas of Horticulture?
Floristry
Beef production
Landscaping
Arboriculture
24
Who was president during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Stonewall Jackson
25
Which two countries are associate with the Iberian Peninsula?
Portugal and England
Spain and France
Spain and Portugal
England and France
26
Largest city in the United States is...
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Chicago
27
I can jump up to 200 times the length of my body
Frog
Flea
Kangaroo
Rabbit
28
How long is The Great Wall Of China?
1 mile
18,980 miles
13,171 miles
16,742 miles
29
What is another word for yams?
Sweet potato
Eggplant
Pasta
Carrot
30
This is where you can find the MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Okinawa, Japan
Leyte, Philippines
Guam, USA
31
What is a nabob?
a caricature
a neuroses
a foolish person
a person of great wealth or prominence
32
what is a polyglot?
speaks only english
speaks elegantly
speaks many times
speaks many languages
33
What is a peridromophile?
Someone who is fascinated with transportation and streetcar systems
Someone who is afraid of the dark
Someone who is obsessed with food.
Someone who is afraid of spiders
34
Who wrote 'Charlotte's Web'?
Maurice Sendak
Lewis Carroll
Beatrix Potter
E.B. White
35
What is the definition of Cairn?
a place to sleep
a place in the underworld
a memorial
a type of food
36
Where are the Pillars of Hercules?
Guadalcanal
Bering Straight
Suez Canal
Straight of Gibraltar
37
The colder the room you sleep in, the better chances are that you'll have good dreams?
False
True
38
The daily rise and fall of the ocean water is caused by
currents
tsunamis
tectonic plates
sun and moon
39
The largest city in Pennsylvania is...
Pittsburg
Phildelphia
Wilmington
Newark
40
What is the Bombacoideae considered?
Money Tree
a Politician
Clothing
a Language
41
What president was responsible for the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Millard Fillmore
42
A Burnouse is typically worn by?
Patrician
Soldier
Plebeians
Monarch
43
Finish this simile... as hungry as a(n)
Bear
Hog
Elephant
Hippo
44
Around 1,600 New Yorkers are bitten every year by other New Yorkers?
False
True
45
Where is the Vinicunca Rainbow Mountain located?
Peru
New Mexico
Arizona
Chile
46
Translate this "chacun a son gout".
Time is money
To each their own
Do as I say, not as I do
Fortune favors the bold
47
I can grow up to 9 feet tall and weigh 300 pounds
Elephant
Ostrich
Hippo
Giraffe
48
Who is Kemal Atatürk?
King of Siam
First President of Turkey
Prime Minister of India
Shah of Iran
49
Where are the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers?
South America
North America
Africa
Asia
50
This religious haircut was known as a ?
Reverse bowl cut
Barba
Tonsure
Tonsorial
51
Delaware's largest city (by population) is...
Dover
Newark
Middletown
Wilmington
52
The amount of water vapor in the air is
humidity
heat
precipitation
air pressure
53
What is Miasma Theory?
Cosmology
Plagues caused by 'bad air'
Pandemic
Germ Theory
54
What is the longest river in the United States?
Mississippi
Missouri
Colorado
Allegheny
55
What is Skellig Michael?
Fjord
a Gulf
Island
Peninsula
56
My tongue can be longer than the length of my body
Giraffe
Chameleon
57
What was the original meaning of the swastika?
well being
unity
military strength
racial superiority
58
Which president was credited with popularizing ice- cream?
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
59
This city is known as the birthplace of the United States...
Boston
Washington D.C.
Philadelphia
Virginia
60
What was Saint Paul originally known as?
It was always known as Saint Paul
Saint Thomas
Galtierville
Pigs eye
61
What does SCOTUS stand for?
Second Court of the United States
Second Child of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
None of the above
62
What does cozen mean?
Mislead
Trust
Code
Cozy
63
The push of air on the earth is
air pressure
heat
wind
humidity
64
He entered Harvard at age 11 and was considered to have the highest IQ? Who am I?
William James Sidis
Leonardo DaVinci
Jacob Barnett
Albert Einstein
65
What is an oubliette?
Dungeon
Turret
Moat
Castle
66
What seas are connected by the Suez Canal?
The Red and the Mediterranean seas
The Mediterranean and the Black seas
The Aegean and the Red seas
The Mediterranean and the Aegean seas
67
What do you call a female donkey?
A Mule
A Jenny
A Joey
A kid
68
Who is on the Half-Dollar?
JFK
Jefferson
Lincoln
Hamilton
69
What former actor became president?
Ronald Regan
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Jimmy Carter
70
What city is famous as a Steelmaking center (in the US)?
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Pittsburg
71
Pneumatics is a branch of Engineering relating to what?
Hydraulics
Liquids
Gas or pressurized air.
Thermal/ Heat
72
What breed are these puppies?
Maltese
English Spaniel
Pekingese
King Charles Cavalier
73
Who painted "Tree at a Track"?
Goergia O'Keeffe
Adolf Hitler
Bob Ross
Vincent van Gogh
74
The MET - world famous center for the arts is located where?
Houston, Texas
San Francisco
Paris, France
New York City
75
President Zachary Taylor died from -
pneumonia after delivering a 3hr speech in freezing weather
an infection after an assassination attempt
cherry overdose at a Fourth of July picnic
a stab wound in a famous battle in the Mexican-American War
76
Philology is the
study of muscles
study of architecture
study of bones
science of languages
77
Who were the Brothers Grimm main influence?
Walt Disney
Hans Christian Anderson
Homer
Aesop
78
A ferroequinologist studies what?
Planes
Trains
Wild horses
Lava flows
79
A philatelist collects what?
Fish
Stamps
Coins
Comic Books
80
What are two ways water vapor is removed from the air?
Condensation and Precipitation
Evaporation and Sublimation
Precipitation and Sublimation
Evaporation and Transpiration
81
Aside from egg laying, what else makes Platypuses fascinating?
All of the above
Biofluorescence
Venomous Spurs
Use of Electrolocation
82
In Numismatics I collect what?
Baseball Cards
Stamps
Coins
Dolls
83
What is the average number of baseballs used in a Major League game?
9 dozen
13 dozen
3 dozen
5 dozen
84
Who wrote 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'?
Beatrix Potter
Bellatrix Lestrange
Lewis Carroll
E.B. White
85
How many stomachs does a Dolphin have?
Two
Four
One
Three
86
When fully manned, how large is the US Capitol Police Department?
2200
750
1289
3500
87
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Harding's administration was caught spying on the DNC
The British were caught infiltrating classified documents
Republicans took a bribe from private oil companies
The US made a backdoor deal with Britain regarding POW's
88
Ichthyology is a branch of Zoology devoted to the study of what?
Mammals
Fish
Marsupials
Porpoise
89
Finish this simile... as light as a
brick
flower
feather
board
90
What is significant about Belka and Strelka?
1st cartoon dogs
from Poland
1st space animals returned safely
Trained police dogs
91
What is a daguerreotype?
a photograph printed on a metal plate
a type of treatment for brain injuries
a weird word, what's wrong with you Mrs. G?
a type of typewriter
92
How many pence are there in a pound?
100
250
500
1000
93
What is the first National Park in the United States?
Yellowstone
Yosemite
94
What is Psyllium?
Virus
Plant
Clothing Fiber
Bacteria
95
What is the scapula?
scalpel
knee cap
ear bone
shoulder blade
96
What is a rostrum on a dolphin?
It is used to make sharp turns in the water
It is a long snout where the teeth are located
It is used to make noises
It is the area behind the ears
97
What are the only two mammals to lay eggs?
Seahorse and the Orca
Koala and Panda
Duck-billed platypus and the spiny anteater (or echidna).
Penguin and the Duck-billed platypus
98
Who were the two defense attorneys for the OJ Simpson trial?
Johnnie Cochran & Marsha Clark
Marsha Clark & Robert Shapiro
Rob Kardashian & Johnny Cochran
Rob Kardashian & Marcia Clark
99
What is a group of cats called?
Pounce
Clowder
Glaring
all of these
100
Who received a lunar burial?
Yuri Gagarin
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Neil Armstrong
No one

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