| Question: Which country is the oldest on | | | | on every continent except Antarctica. The |
| earth?Answers: San MarinoTrivia Teaser: | | | | millets are a group of small-seeded species |
| According to tradition, San Marino is known | | | | of cereal crops, widely grown around the |
| as the world's oldest republic. The tiny | | | | world for food and fodder. They do not form a |
| republic was founded by a Christian | | | | taxonomic group, but rather a functional or |
| stonemason named Marino (or Saint Marinus) on | | | | agronomic one, based on similar |
| September 3, in the year 301 C.E.Question: | | | | characteristics and uses. Sorghum originated |
| Which continent is the largest?Answers: | | | | in the north-east quadrant of Africa and |
| AsiaTrivia Teaser: Asia is the largest and | | | | spread from there throughout Africa and into |
| most populous continent or region, depending | | | | India. In 1994, sorghum ranked fifth among |
| on the definition. It covers 8.6 percent of | | | | the most important cereal crops of the world |
| the Earth's total surface area, or 29.4 | | | | after wheat, rice, maize, and barley in both |
| percent of its land area, and it contains | | | | total area planted and production.Question: |
| more than 60 percent of the world's human | | | | What is the largest fish in the |
| population. Australia is the smallest and | | | | world?Answers: Whale sharkTrivia Teaser: The |
| lowest-lying of the Earth's continents, | | | | whale shark is a the biggest shark and the |
| having a total land area of some 8,560,000 | | | | biggest fish in the world. Despite its name |
| square kilometres.Question: What is the earth | | | | it is NOT a whale. The whale shark is up to |
| creature with the longest neck?Answers: | | | | 46 feet (14 m) in length and weighs up to 15 |
| SauroposeidonTrivia Teaser: Sauroposeidon, a | | | | tons. The average size is 25 feet (7.6 m) |
| huge, long-necked sauropod, was found in | | | | long. Females are larger than males (like |
| Oklahoma, USA, and may be the biggest | | | | most sharks). It has a huge mouth which can |
| dinosaur yet found. The name Sauroposeidon | | | | be up to 4 feet (1.4 m) wide at the very |
| means "Lizard Earthquake God," because this | | | | front of its head (not on the underside of |
| behemoth probably shook the ground when it | | | | the head like in most sharks). It has a wide, |
| walked. This giant plant-eater weighed about | | | | flat head, a rounded snout, small eyes, five |
| 60 tons and was about 60 feet tall. It has | | | | very large gill slits, two dorsal fins (on |
| the longest neck in the fossil record, | | | | its back) and two pectoral fins (on its |
| beating even the enormous dinosaur | | | | sides). Whale sharks have about 3,000 very |
| Mamenchisaurus. Individual vertebrae (neck | | | | tiny teeth but they are of little use. This |
| bones) are up to 4 feet (1.2 m) long. A | | | | enormous shark is a filter feeder and eats by |
| single bone looks more like a tree trunk than | | | | sieving huge amounts of plankton through its |
| part of an animal's neck. Sauroposeidon lived | | | | gills as it swims. The whale shark has |
| about 110 million years ago, during the | | | | distinctive light-yellow markings (random |
| mid-Cretaceous period.Question: Name one of | | | | stripes and dots) on its very thick dark gray |
| the first crops ever cultivated? (there are | | | | skin. Its skin is up to four inches (10 cm) |
| 3)Answers: Rice, Millet, or SorghumTrivia | | | | thick. There are three prominent ridges |
| Teaser: Rice, millet, and sorghum are thought | | | | running along each side of the shark's |
| to be the first crops ever cultivated. Rice | | | | body.Question: What is the longest river in |
| has been cultivated for over 5000 years. | | | | the world?Answers: NileTrivia Teaser: The |
| There are thousands of different varieties of | | | | longest river in the world is the Nile River |
| rice (Oryza sativa). At the International | | | | at 4,157 miles long. The Nile is located in |
| Rice Research Institute Genetic Resources | | | | northeastern Africa, originating from |
| Center in the Philippines, there are 80,000 | | | | tributaries of Lake Victoria, and flows into |
| rice samples in cold storage. Rice is grown | | | | the Mediterranean Sea. |