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It’s the season that follows summer. Is it spelled a-u-t-o-m or a-u-t-u-m-n?

Was the first mammal to be cloned successfully a chicken, a pig or a sheep?

What South American people built the great city of Machu Picchu?

Give the most degrees an obtuse angle can have.

(hint: an obtuse angle is between 90°~180°)

What American holiday marks the unofficial end of summer?

On what continent will you find the cities of Munich, Marseilles and Warsaw?

Which was not a Chinese dynasty:

Han, Ming or Zen?

In which process do plants bend toward the light: phototropism or geotropism?

Which sentence is correct?

(a)That’s real hard to do.

(b)That’s really hard to do.

Name the four Presidents whose faces are carved on Mount Rushmore.

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It’s the season that follows summer. Is it spelled a-u-t-o-m or a-u-t-u-m-n?

Ans: autumn

Was the first mammal to be cloned successfully a chicken, a pig or a sheep? Ans: a sheep (in 199

7) called Dolly

What South American people built the great city of Machu Picchu?

Ans: the Incas

Give the most degrees an obtuse angle can have.

Ans: 179°

(Remember, 180° is a straight line or straight angle.)

What American holiday marks the unofficial end of summer?

Ans: Labor Day

On what continent will you find the cities of Munich, Marseilles and Warsaw?

Europe

Which was not a Chinese dynasty:

Han, Ming or Zen?

Ans: Zen (a Buddhist sect)

In which process do plants bend toward the light: phototropism or geotropism?

Ans: phototropism (photo- = light)

Which sentence is correct?

(a)That’s real hard to do.

(b)That’s really hard to do.

Ans: (b) That’s really hard to do.

Name the four Presidents whose faces are carved on Mount Rushmore.

Ans: (left to right: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln)