Which North American shrew has venomous saliva that can immobilize small prey?
Answer
Northern short-tailed shrew
94428 Intermediate Trivia Questions
94428 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What heat-sensing organ gives pit vipers their common name?
Answer
Pit organ
Which venomous snake's common name honors Scottish naturalist Patrick Russell?
Answer
Russell's viper
What animal group does the Portuguese man o' war belong to?
Answer
Siphonophore
What is the name of Amazon's planned low Earth orbit satellite internet network?
Answer
Project Kuiper
Which online pharmacy did Amazon acquire in 2018?
Answer
PillPack
What AWS object storage service organizes data in buckets?
Answer
Amazon S3
What AWS service provides resizable virtual servers in the cloud?
Answer
Amazon EC2
What Amazon crowdsourcing site lets requesters post Human Intelligence Tasks?
Answer
Amazon Mechanical Turk
What class of liver-damaging plant toxins is found in ragworts and many other species?
Answer
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
What toxin found in ginkgo seeds is also called 4'-O-methylpyridoxine?
Answer
Ginkgotoxin
What carcinogenic toxin is found in bracken fern?
Answer
Ptaquiloside
What is the common name of Aethusa cynapium, a poisonous parsley relative?
Answer
Fool's parsley
What poisonous alkaloid group is found in yew trees?
Answer
Taxine
What carcinogenic acid is found in birthworts of the genus Aristolochia?
Answer
aristolochic acid
What cardiac glycoside is found in lily of the valley?
Answer
convallatoxin
Which air base was the site of the first successful official tornado forecast in 1948?
Answer
Tinker Air Force Base
What radar signature uses lofted debris to confirm a tornado is occurring?
Answer
Tornado debris signature
What term describes several tornadoes produced by the same storm cell?
Answer
Tornado family
Which Italian valley is a noted European tornado hotspot?
Answer
Po Valley
Which country has the most annual tornadoes per land area?
Answer
United Kingdom
What Japanese-born meteorologist was nicknamed Mr. Tornado?
Answer
Ted Fujita
Which university employed Ted Fujita during much of his tornado research career?
Answer
University of Chicago
On what date did the Tri-State Tornado occur?
Answer
March 18, 1925
What 1974 tornado outbreak produced 148 confirmed tornadoes across North America?
Answer
1974 Super Outbreak
What radar-detected rotation algorithm is abbreviated TVS?
Answer
Tornadic vortex signature