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