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