John Bernhisel

Questions:

1. Rounded to the nearest tenth, how many miles is 10 kilometers?

2. How many nonpresidents are on the six most common U.S. currency bills?

3. What animal’s name comes from the Latin for “spotted lion”?

4. What is the latest possible date for Mother’s Day?

5. Which common Italian ingredient was first developed in Emilia-Romagna by monks trying not to waste milk?

Fun Facts:

Just days after the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, U.S. forces arrived at Guam, then a Spanish possession. The Spanish garrison, unaware that war had been declared, welcomed the Americans rather than resisting. Guam remains a U.S. territory today.

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 during the presidency of Jimmy Carter and is now more than 16 billion miles from Earth, still sending scientific data back.

The plural of goose is geese. The plural of tooth is teeth. The plural of feet is foot. The plural of moose is … moose.

Norway has more than 1,000 named waterfalls and many times that many with no name.

There are over 700 McDonald’s locations in India. They do not serve beef or pork. Most menu items are chicken or vegetarian.

Dogs at a healthy weight typically live about one to two years longer than overweight dogs.

Twister was the first movie released on DVD in the United States.

The last verified person to die who was born in the 1800s was Emma Morano, who died in April 2017. Most children born today are expected to live into the 22nd century.

The Amazon River stretches more than 4,000 miles and, remarkably, has no bridges or dams spanning its full width. A structure of that scale would pose a major obstacle to the thousands of boats and ships that rely on the river for navigation. 

Komodo dragons are the largest animals capable of reproducing asexually 

A human fingernail is roughly the width of a hundred millions atoms.

Answers:

1. 6.2 miles

2. Two — Alexander Hamilton ($10) and Benjamin Franklin ($100)

3. Leopard

4. May 14

5. Parmesan cheese