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General Studies Trivia Quiz
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1. What is the name of the large cavern found in Harmony, MN that, fittingly, includes a large waterfall?

2. What wireless telecom company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T and shares its name with the insects in the Gryllidae family?

3. Which mammal has the longest gestation period?

4. Generally defined as drought-resistant plants because of parts with thickened flesh for retaining water, what class of plants has had huge growth driven by Millennial purchasers?

5. Despite the name, poison dart frogs never develop toxicity when raised in captivation. What is the presumed reason for this non-toxic development process?

6. Beginning nearly 12,000 years ago (after the last glacial period), what is the name of the current geological epoch? It's also the name of a song on Bon Iver's self-titled 2011 album.

7. With a name resembling a funeral-attending jacket, what butterfly is the state insect of Montana?

8. What type of chemical will an ant will lay down to lead others to a food source?

9. What critter with an equine-esque name can move its dorsal fin back and forth as quickly as 35 times per second in order to propel through water?

10. Straddling two southeastern states and the first national park to be paid for in part with Federal funds, what is the name of the most visited National Park that was the most-visited in 2016?

11. Neovison and Mustela are the two genuses of what territorial mammal lives near water and is rarely found more than 200 meters from a riverbank, lake, or marsh? The animal's fur is considered especially durable and valuable with its short, thick, soft hairs.

12. In a popular example of Batesian mimicry, the black, red, and yellow coloring of the harmless milk snake look strikingly similar to what 'underwater' type of snake?

13. What is the common term for the nut from the oak tree?

14. Rhinoceros horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and what other oft-trimmed mammalian body part?

15. What U.S. national park, located in the northwest corner of Montana, has the nickname 'Crown of the Continent?'

16. Although plentiful when European settlers first arrived, the white-faced owl or whekau that was native to New Zealand was largely extinct by 1914. Because of its 'mischievous-sounding' calls, the owl had what a common, comic name?

17. The two main species of the coffee tree are Arabica and which other one that is more resistant to disease and yields more coffee?

18. Often considered the world's largest living thing, a 2,200 acre creature living in eastern Oregon is in what kingdom, taxonomically speaking?

19. The American red, the Eastern gray, the Fox, and the Western gray are all specific species of what common family of mammals?

20. Australia built a 3,000-mile-long fence during the 1880s just to block the movement of what baby-snatching species?

21. Also found in Central and South America, what is the name of the only marsupial in North America?

22. The Sumatran species of what famously horned mammal officially went extinct in Malaysia in November 2019? The animal is not yet extinct globally as a few dozen live in Indonesia.

23. Also known as the spiny anteater, what animal native to Australia and New Guinea is highly unusual in that it is a mammal that lays eggs?

24. Cucurbita pepo is the scientific name for a specific fruit that is popularly associated with two different American holidays which occur ~4 weeks apart each year. What is this fruit?

25. Commonly found on live oaks and bald-cypresses, what is the name of the flowering plant with a doubly-inaccurate name that is referred to as 'grandpas beard' in French Polynesia and is generally considered to be in a commensalistic relationship with the trees on which it lives?