Sounds like fun! I'll try to enter later.

Yay! I love these! R~D~'s comment isn't up yet, by the way.

1.       What gas makes up the majority of the air we inhale? Nitrogen

2.       What is a truffle hog used for? A truffle hog is a pig trained to sniff out truffles (the mushrooms, not the chocolate)

3.       If an enormous amount of ocean water freezes, does it form an iceberg? No

4.       What is the longest river in the world? The... Amazon? If not, it's in Africa.

5.       Who was president during the great depression? Franklin D. Roosevelt

6.       Are all snowflakes different? As far as we know, but as no-one has seen every snowflake ever, there's no proof of this.

7.       What is a guillotine? A device for chopping off people's heads quickly and cleanly. It's named after the man who invented it, who did so during the French revolution because so many people were being executed, and he wanted them to be comfortable while doing it, which was a nice thought, but unfortunately, he tested each version on sheep, so I don't really think it was worth it...

8.        Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address starts with these six words: I have absolutely no idea whatsoever.

9.       The length of a rectangle is 16 feet and the height of this rectangle is 12 feet.  What is the area? 192 feet

10.   What is the tallest mountain in the world? Everest

11.   Can a puffin fly? No?

12.   What is the chemical formula for carbon dioxide? For every carbon atom, there are 2 oxygen atoms and no atoms of anything else.

13.   How do zebras use their stripes as camouflage?  When a predator approaches a herd, the zebras get really close together and, because of their appearance, the predator can't tell where one zebra ends and another begins, so it may end up attacking the space between 2 zebras, or else a really strong zebra that kicks, or may even just give up and leave in confusion.

14.    How old was the oldest person ever to live (besides those in the Bible?): Um, 114, right? (Also, I'm assuming this also excludes really old people in other religious texts?)

15.   How many miles is a 5K? 5K what? Miles? Inches? Grafuts? Kilometers? If you mean miles, 5,000

Again, I'm taking this quiz because I know the first answer. :)

1. Nitrogen

2. What's a truffle hog?  Is it an animal, a chocolate, or something completely different? *feels ignorant again*

3. Good question.  I'd say possibly yes-ish.

4. Oh, I should know this!  But I don't!  The Nile?  No, I don't think so.

5. Wasn't it Franklin Delano Roosevelt?  

6. Yes.  I know that because I read an article about it in Muse awhile back. Yay for magazines!

7. A guillotine is a machine used for chopping off people's heads, used during the French Revolution.

8. "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."  That's more than six isn't it?  See, at least I remember something from 5th grade!

9. 192 square feet... wait, length and width is the same as length and height, right?  There isn't a trick I'm missing?

10. Mt. Everest, though if you meant a mountain in the sea, it's something in Hawaii.

11. No.  I don't think so.  Maybe they can flap their wings, but they can't fly.

12. CO2 (The two is a subscript, but I don't know how to do that on Safari.) (And are you coordinating your questions with my science class?  We just had a test on chemical formulas.)

13. I really should know this, but I actually don't.  Maybe with rocks or something?  Or each other? Or puffins? ;) (Yes, I'm getting desperate.)

14. No idea.

15. 3 and a little bit.  Like 3.5 or something?  I just remember doing a 5k in abut 29-ish minutes in sixth grade. 

Hmm, I really feel like I don't know a lot taking these... I guess I wished I remembered random facts more, because at some point in my life I could have answered these questions.  But thanks for the quiz Robyn!  I enjoyed it, despite all my comments that lend to my frustration.  I think it's fun to have facts for a change!

Yay, I got a lot right! R~D, out of curiosity, why is it that large amounts of frozen ocean water don't form icebergs? I didn't actually know, but there seemed to be more possible reasons for it not being an iceberg than otherwise--but I don't know which were the right ones. I have a few ideas, but some of them are bound to be wrong. By the way, the puffin question was a really good idea. I should have known better; I've read plenty of articles about flightless birds, and puffins were never mentioned, but I just assumed that you wouldn't bring it up if there wasn't some factoid attached to it; if you go up to someone and tell them that a puffin can fly, they won't be amazed, so I assumed they couldn't, and I'd just never heard it--after all, none of the pictures of puffins I'd seen depicted them flying, as far as I could recall. It also embarrassed me a bit becaused I'd once drawn a picture with a puffin in it, and in addition to the puffin being the worst-drawn thing in the picture by far, it was flying, which I thought I'd just learned was inaccurate.

Leaf, width and height aren't really the same, but width was the correct term here. A 2-D object like a rectangle has no height unlessthe paper it's drawn on is held up at an angle where you can't write on it... That probably makes no sense; it's hard to explain, but, well, height is how tall something is, and 2-D objects are flat, so they have a height of 0. Width is... the side that isn't long, though I don't know why that is; it would make more sense for it to just be the horizontal side. Sorry if none of that makes any sense; it's hard to explain without showing you an example.

Looks like so much fun! :D Awesome idea R~D~!

1.       What gas makes up the majority of the air we inhale? Hydrogen

2.       What is a truffle hog used for? To search for truffles, a really hard to find   mushroom.

3.       If an enormous amount of ocean water freezes, does it form an iceberg? Hmmm...I'm going to guess yes. :)

4.       What is the longest river in the world? The Nile

5.       Who was president during the great depression? Herbert Hoover? Ha, ha, too bad I can't ask for help, my brother would know for sure. :)

6.       Are all snowflakes different? Yes.

7.       What is a guillotine? Hmm...I that's what people used to use for an execution

8.        Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address starts with these six words: Four score and seven years ago.

9.       The length of a rectangle is 16 feet and the height of this rectangle is 12 feet.  What is the area? 32 ft. squared

10.   What is the tallest mountain in the world? Bah, I know it but I don't remember. :[

11.   Can a puffin fly? Nope

12.   What is the chemical formula for carbon dioxide? 1 carbon atom, 2 oxygen atoms?

13.   How do zebras use their stripes as camouflage? Do they blend in to nearby bushes? Ha, ha, I'm really not sure. :)

14.    How old was the oldest person ever to live (besides those in the Bible?): I want to say 112...I'm probably wrong. ;)

15.   How many miles is a 5K? ....if I wasn't so tired I'd probably remember. :]

Really fun quiz Robyn! Thanks for keeping the CB up and running. :) *hugs*

Hopefully tomorrow I won't look over this comment and think "Darn, I knew that answer! How could I have said that?" ;)