What mineral form makes up most stony coral skeletons?
Answer
Aragonite
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which mammal order contains manatees and dugongs?
Answer
Sirenia
Which class of cartilaginous fish includes sharks, rays, and skates?
Answer
Chondrichthyes
Which Anne Brontë novel is partly framed by Helen Graham's diary?
Answer
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Which village near Bradford was Charlotte Brontë born in?
Answer
Thornton
What name does Helen use as the mysterious tenant at Wildfell Hall?
Answer
Helen Graham
In Wuthering Heights, who is Hareton Earnshaw's father?
Answer
Hindley Earnshaw
Which Charlotte Brontë novel is narrated by Lucy Snowe?
Answer
Villette
On what date was Charlotte Brontë born?
Answer
21 April 1816
Which North Pacific current flows northeastward past Japan?
Answer
Kuroshio Current
Which instrument measures ocean depth by sending sound pulses to the seafloor?
Answer
Echo sounder
What is the ocean zone between about 200 and 1,000 meters deep, also called the twilight zone?
Answer
Mesopelagic zone
Which explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name after finding calm waters in 1520?
Answer
Ferdinand Magellan
How many books divide the Kokin Wakashu?
Answer
20
Which Japanese poet wrote the kana preface to the Kokin Wakashu?
Answer
Ki no Tsurayuki
What writing system in the Man'yōshū helped give kana its name?
Answer
Man'yōgana
Which anthology's title means Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems?
Answer
Kokin Wakashū
Which oldest extant waka anthology is noted as having no preface?
Answer
Man'yōshū
Who is widely believed to be the final compiler of the Man'yōshū?
Answer
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Which waka form is a tanka with one extra 7-on phrase at the end?
Answer
Bussokusekika
Which Japanese card game uses a deck based on the Hyakunin Isshu?
Answer
uta-garuta
Who compiled the standard Ogura Hyakunin Isshu?
Answer
Fujiwara no Teika
Which court poet led the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū?
Answer
Ki no Tsurayuki
Which emperor ordered the publication of the Kokin Wakashū?
Answer
Emperor Daigo
What is the literal English meaning of Man'yōshū?
Answer
Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves
In which Japanese city did Matsuo Bashō die in 1694?
Answer
Osaka
What name is given to the hard forewings of beetles?
Answer
Elytra
What insect order is made up of fleas?
Answer
Siphonaptera
What fungus-growing insects cut fresh leaves to feed their underground gardens?
Answer
Leafcutter ants
What insect is the adult form of a caterpillar in the family Papilionidae?
Answer
Swallowtail butterfly
What insect order includes cockroaches and termites?
Answer
Blattodea
What genus contains periodical cicadas with 13- or 17-year life cycles?
Answer
Magicicada
The Colorado potato beetle is a major pest of what crop?
Answer
Potato
What is the scientific name of the German cockroach?
Answer
Blattella germanica
What fruit fly species is a classic model organism in genetics?
Answer
Drosophila melanogaster
Which small bird is New Zealand's smallest endemic bird?
Answer
Rifleman
What is the common name of the New Guinea bird Pitohui dichrous?
Answer
Hooded pitohui
Which parrot is the world's only flightless parrot?
Answer
Kakapo