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RESEARCH COMPETITION QUESTIONS

Part One - Do The Research               Part Two - Tie Breaker! Brainy Research

Do The Research and Save Your Answers in Your Own U:/Drive, But DON’T PRINT!  Your team will merge your answers into one file at the end of the game and then print one answer sheet.

Use the Internet to answer the following questions. 

1. Who invented the game of baseball?

31. When was the first credit card issued?

2. Which war in history claimed the most lives?

32. Who invented the television?

3. What is the capital of Peru?

33. Who is credited with inventing Penicillin?

4. What year was the Empire State Building Built?

34. What is the study of ants called?

5. Which volcanic eruption caused the most deaths?

35. Who is the current U.S. Secretary of State?

6. What is the fastest land animal in the world?

36. What is the distance between the Earth and Sun?

7. How deep is the deepest part of the ocean?

37. Whose picture is on the U.S. dime?

8. How old is the oldest living person in the world?

38. What is the Capital of Canada?

9. What town was Abraham Lincoln assassinated in?

39. What is the world's largest living thing?

10. Who wrote the first opera?

40. Where is tallest building in the world?

11. What is utopia?

41. What building is found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

12. What is the smallest bird in the world?

42. In what sea creature are pearls found?

13. Can a mole see?

43. Who played Gilligan on Gilligan's Island?

14. What is a 'twitcher'?


44. What breed of dog was Lassie?

15. Where is the world's oldest theme park?

45. How many squares are on a checkerboard?

16. What is the tallest species of dog?

46. How many bones are in the human body?

17. When was the chocolate chip cookie invented?

47. Who is the second richest person in the world?

18  How long can a person live without food?

48. How old do you have to be to run for President?

19. What is the world's best selling book of all-time?

49. Which two planets have no moon?

20. A dollar is not made of paper, what is it made of?

50. How much do you weigh on the moon?

21. How much does a human brain weigh?

51. Name 3 cities where the U.S. capital has been located.

22. When was the first photographic image developed?

52. Which planet has the greatest gravity?

23. Name the U.S. President who served in office the longest?

53. Who composed the U.S. national anthem?

24. Who was the first person to win an Oscar for best actor?

54. Who composed the Canadian national anthem?

25. Where was the system of democracy first introduced?

55. What is the capital of Belgium?

26. How many stitches does a baseball have?

56. Which comet is visible from Earth every 76 years?

27. How many leather panels does a soccer ball have?

57. Where is the Alamo located?

28. How much garbage do humans make every year?

58. What is the longest river in the world?

29. Approximately, how many bicycles are in the world?

59. What does your pulse measure?

30. In what year were the Oscar Awards held twice?

60. Which U.S. president served the shortest time in office?

 

 

Save your answers in your own U:/drive until the end of the game.  Then your team will merge your answers and print on one page.

  1. What are the three main parts of the brain?
  2. How much oxygen and blood flow does the brain receive?
  3. What is the size of an adult brain?
  4. The brain and the ___________ make up the CNS or the ___________________.
  5. What is the function of the CNS?

  6. Is your entire brain made of gray matter?

  7. Is your brain the size of a deck of cards, an apple, a volleyball, or a grapefruit?

  8. Your brain and your spinal cord form your ___________ ____________ system.

  9. Four different structures make up the brains of most vertebrates - the brainstem, the cerebellum, the limbic system and the cerebrum. Of these structures, which is responsible for the most basic functions of your body, such as breathing?  Brainstem, cerebellum, cerebrum or lymbic system.

  10. What side of your body does your right hemisphere control?

  11. The two halves of your brain can function independently.  True or false?

  12. What happens if you damage your  occipital lobes?

  13. What percent of your total blood supply does your brain require?

  14. What does the thalamus do?

  15. What does your cerebral-spinal fluid do?

  16. What does your Frontal lobe control?

  17. What does your Temporal lobe control?
  18. What does your Parietal lobe control?
  19. Does the size of an animal's brain have anything to do with its intelligence?