
Week 2
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Q1: Which planet has the shortest day of any planet in our solar system - only 9 hours and 55 minutes?
Q2: Who was Little Orphan Annie's benefactor?
Q3: Which of these events occurred FIRST: the computer chip was patented, the Berlin Wall was erected, the birth control pill was OK'd by the US Food and Drug Administration?
Q4: What is the world's oldest sport that uses a ball?
Q5: Inhabitants of which country speak tagalog?
Q6: What does a taxonomist do?
Q7: When viewed from space, a hurricane rotates about its eye in what direction, clockwise or counter-clockwise?
A1: JUPITER
A2: Daddy Warbucks
A3: COMPUTER CHIP 1959 / berlin wall 1961 / birth control pill 1960
A4: POLO
A5: PHILIPPINES
A6: CLASSIFIES ANIMALS OR PLANTS
A7: COUNTER-CLOCKWISE, low pressure spins that way