TRIVIA

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1.Which famous member of Order Carnivora has a meat-eater’s digestive system but mostly only eats a single type of very tall grass?

2.Mount Pinatubo’s eruption in 1991 was big enough to make it the which-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century?

3.The genus of the shield-shrimp Triops q. 2 australiensis is called Triops because it has three what?

4.In Greek myth, Chrysaor is the human brother of which famous winged non-human, best known for helping defeat the Chimera?

5.Which Game of Thrones major character has a historical namesake who, in 1854, knew so much he proved the connection between Cholera and contaminated water?

6.Tadpoles obviously don’t have legs, or lungs. What other major type of body structures do they have to grow as they metamorphose into frogs (or toads)?

7.Neutrinos are especially hard to detect because they usually just pass straight through what?

8.After a virus made them grow stripy flowers, futures-contracts for the bulbs of which plant became (briefly) extremely valuable to merchants in January 1637?

9.Which country, in 1597, defeated the Japanese navy in an epic “last stand” battle near Jindo Island?

10.In 1969, outside a Sydney bank, security company Chubb installed the first Australian what?