Things Big & Small – 11-16-13
1. The giant hamburger called the Whopper is sold by what fast-food restaurant
chain?
Burger King
2. Some of the world’s largest creatures feed on some of the smallest forms of life.
The great whales are also sometimes called baleen whales. What is baleen?
Bristles and combs that filter the water for tiny food
3. What large green man represents this frozen vegetable brand that competes with
Bird’s Eye?
Jolly Green Giant
4. This country, the smallest in the world, is basically a walled enclave inside the
city of Rome.
The Vatican
5. This 102-story metropolitan skyscraper and American cultural icon was
named for the nickname of the state in which it stands.
Empire State Building (named for New York, the Empire State)
6. The largest mammal in the world does not live on land. What is it?
Blue whale
7. This rarest member of the bear family is among the world’s most threatened
animals. It is a national treasure of China and symbol of the World Wildlife Fund.
Giant panda
8. What tree species contains the largest and tallest trees in the world?
Redwood
sequoia
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noun : a redwood tree, esp. the California redwood.
9. Goliath, the giant Philistine warrior, was defeated by this future king of Israel.
David
10. The name for these giants who once walked the Earth means “terrible lizard”
in Greek.
Dinosaur
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11. This idiom comes from the racetrack. If a finish is very tight and the
winner has barely won by the smallest margin, we say he has won by what?
Won by a nose
12. This large flightless bird is native to Africa, and contrary to popular belief,
they do not stick their heads in the ground to avoid danger.
Ostrich
13. What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
14. This tallest terrestrial animal is native to Africa.
Giraffe
15. Yao Ming, the superstar basketball player and the tallest player in the NBA at
the time of his final season, hailed from what country?
China (he played for the Houston Rockets)
16. In a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, a tiny girl has to deal with toads,
beetles, and other small animals before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince
just her size.
Thumbelina
17. Brown dwarfs, red dwarfs, white dwarfs, giants, bright giants, and super
giants are all varieties of what?
Stars
18. Clifford, in the series of children’s stories, was big and red. What kind of
species of animal was he?
Dog
19. This cinnamon-flavored chewing gum, manufactured by Wrigley, is also the
nickname of sports teams from Nebraska and Cornell.
Big Red
20. What is the name of lumberjack Paul Bunyan’s animal companion?
Babe (hint: it was a Blue Ox)
21. What is the highest mountain on Earth?
Mt. Everest, at 29,029 feet
22. Your digestive system has both large and small versions of this organ
Intestines
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23. The Airbus A380 replaced a Boeing craft known by this number to achieve
the distinction as the world’s largest passenger jetliner.
Boeing 747 - (seats 525 people)
24. Tall, Grande, and Venti are sizes of Starbuck’s coffees. Which is the largest?
Venti
25. A millimeter, a micrometer, and a nanometer. Which is the smallest?
Nanometer: a billionth of a meter
nanotechnology refers to building machines on a molecular scale.
26. The bright colors lining Yellowstone’s thermal areas are actually colonies of
these single-celled microorganisms.
Bacteria (hint: some people call these “germs”)
27. Fungi reproduce by ejecting these tiny reproductive units.
Spore
28. Just near the 3 great pyramids of Giza reclines this largest monolith statue in the
world, a mythical creature with a lion’s body and a pharaoh’s head.
The Great Sphinx.
29. What computers get sometimes, as well as the name of the tiny organism
that causes the infection that leads to the common cold.
Virus
30. A type of small fish that resembles the animal Kentucky is most famous for
Sea horse (hint: the shape of this fish is equine)
31. The name of this small dogbreed includes the name of something you might
have on your breakfast table.
Teacup Chihuahua (hint: named for a state in Mexico)
32. Name the wingless bloodsucking insect famous for spreading Bubonic
plague, or Black Death, and performing in tiny circuses
Fleas
33. What is the name of the adventurous little boy in English folklore who was
no bigger than his father’s opposable digit?
Tom Thumb (The Tale of Tom Thumb is the first English fairy tale in print.)
34. The name of the race of tiny people who take Gulliver prisoner on his first
voyage. (Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735 by Jonathan Swift)
Lilliputians (hint: they lived on the island of Lilliput)
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35. This little sea lady appears in a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale that was
made into a popular Walt Disney animated film.
The Little Mermaid
36. Name FOUR of the seven dwarves
Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey, Doc
37. What group of small people was Dorothy with when she first meets Glinda,
the Good Witch of the North?
The Munchkins
38. What is the largest religion in the world, in term of number of believers.
Christianity. 1. Christian – 2.1 billion
– 1.1 billion 4. Hindu – 1 billion
6. Buddhist – 380 million
2. Islam – 1.5 billion
3. Agnostic
5. Chinese traditional – 400 million
39. Which ocean is the largest ocean in the world?
Pacific Ocean.
40. Tiny Bubbles was sung by this Hawaiian American entertainer.
Don Ho
41. This ukulele-playing singer was famous for his rendition of Tiptoe Through
the Tulips
Tiny Tim (hint: also the name of a character in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol)
42. Who was famous for running around shouting “The sky is falling!” when he
thought the world was coming to an end?
Chicken Little
43. Name two of the six largest nations in the world by total area.
(1) Russia, (2) Canada, (3) China, (4) U.S., (5) Brazil, (6) Australia.
44. Digital pictures are measured by this unit, referring to
the little dots on a display screen or digital photograph.
pixel
44. These bright tiny green sprouts found in salad bars and on sandwiches are
usually harvested from which plant?
Alfalfa (hint: horses like to eat this in hay form)
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45. What is the largest state in the U.S.?
Alaska
46. What is the smallest state in the U.S.?
Rhode Island
47. What is the name for these diminutive trees, grown in containers, that are
deliberately kept small by aggressive pruning.
Bonsai (hint: this art was developed in Japan)
48. If the question or debate has no obvious practical value you may as well ask
“How many angels can dance [on what small surface]?”
… the head of a pin
The question, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" has
been used many times as a dismissal of medieval angelology in particular,
and of scholasticism in general. … In modern usage, this question also
serves as a metaphor for wasting time debating topics of no practical value,
or questions whose answers hold no intellectual consequence.
49. What two lines come next in the refrain to the well-loved hymn All Things
Bright and Beautiful:
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
…
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
50. This scientific instrument is used to see objects that are too small for the
naked eye.
Microscope
51. This famous Italian scientist looked through one of the earliest telescopes to
discover that the giant planet Jupiter had its own moons.
Galileo
52. In Chinese, Tiananmen means ‘Gate of Heavenly Peace.’ In what Chinese city
would you find Tiananmen Square, the third largest city square in the world?
Beijing. Freedom Square in Indonesia is larger followed by Square of the Sunflowers
in Brazil.
53. Comic character Marmaduke belongs to this breed. Scooby-Doo is inspired by
dogs of this breed.
Great Dane.
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54. This orchestral instrument is a tiny version of the flute
Piccolo
55. This Greek word is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. It means “the
slightest amount,” as in, “there is not one ___ of truth in that statement.”
Iota
56. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons and what other subatomic
particle?
Electrons
57. This Scottish nursery rhyme is about a man who checks on the homes in his
town to make sure the children are all in bed.
Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs
in his nightgown,
Tapping at the window and crying through the
lock,
Are all the children in their beds, it's past eight o'clock?
58. This small arachnid ascends and descends the vertical part of a house’s
gutter system,
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (or Eency Weency, etc.)
Itsy-Bitsy Spider The itsy-bitsy spider
/ Climbed up the water spout
/ Down
came the rain
/ And washed the spider out
/ Out came the sun
/ And dried up
all the rain
/ And the itsy-bitsy spider
/ Climbed up the spout again.
59. In this 1960 novelty song, a girl on the beach was wearing an itsy bitsy teeny
weeny polka dot bikini. What color was it?
Yellow
60. Jumbo, the famous 19th century circus creature, who performed in Barnum
& Bailey, was what kind of animal?
Elephant (hint: it’s a pachyderm)
61. This smallest bird hovers and sucks nectar.
Hummingbird
62. What is the highest peak in North America
Mt. McKinley (or Denali) at 20,237 feet
63. Grace Kelly, became princess of this country, the second smallest country in
the world.
Monaco
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64. The largest country ever to exist ceased to exist in 1991
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) or Soviet Union
65. What is the largest lake in the United States
Lake Superior
The Great Lakes … consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron,
Erie, and Ontario,
66. Before it began to break up in 1922, the sun never set on this, the world’s
largest empire.
British Empire
67. Jesus said that if a person had as much faith as this tiny thing, that he could
move mountains.
Mustard seed
68. Ronald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory also wrote this
children’s classic about a boy named James and an enormous piece of fruit.
James and the Giant Peach
69. What is the largest bone in the human body
Femur (thigh bone)
70. Popular Disneyland attraction featuring international settings and choruses
singing about global unity.
It’s a Small World After All.
It's a Small World .. found at Disneyland Park in California, the Magic
Kingdom (in Florida), Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong
Disneyland, and Shanghai Disneyland Park.
“It’s a world of laughter a world of tears, it’s a world of hopes and a world of
fears, there’s so much that we share, that it’s time we’re aware …”
It’s a small world after all
71. This stringed orchestra instrument is larger than a violin but smaller than a
cello.
Viola
72. Mr. Big is a villain in the film Live and Let Die, one of a series of films about
this suave British spy.
James Bond, 007
73. In which country would you find the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Egypt
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74. What is the name of the much loved large yellow ostrich-like creature on
Sesame Street?
Big Bird
75. One of Robin Hood’s merry men whose name probably refers to his diminutive
size.
Little John
76. This largest ship in its day famously hit an iceberg and sank off the Greenland
coast in 1912.
The Titanic.
77. The diminutive characters who inhabited The Shire in Lord of the Rings were
called what?
Hobbits
78. 60. What is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states?
Mt. Whitney, California
79. Little Red Ridinghood was afraid of which wild creature?
Big Bad Wolf
80. The Grand Canyon is one of the largest canyons in the world . What river carved
it?
The Colorado River.
------This 1956 cartoon is about a large flying robot who is operated by remote
control by a 12-year old boy named Little Jimmy Sparks. It is an American
adaptation of a Japanese anime.
Gigantor
The professional wrestler André the Giant also played the role of Fezzik in this
beloved American film from 1987 directed by Rob Reiner. What is the film?
The Prince Bride
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This short-lived science fiction television program featured the crew of a
spacecraft, the Spindrift, that landed on a planet where everything was twelve
times larger than its counterpart on Earth. What is the name of the show?
Land of the Giants
7. The Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Florida, was largest in the
world when completed in 1965. What kind of vehicles were assembled there?
Manned space craft (hint: located at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center) It is
now the fourth largest building (by volume) in the world
Geoduck, an East Asian delicacy, is of what giant bivalve species?
Clam (native to coast of North America, about 6x8-inches, also one of the
longest-lived animals, sometimes living more than 100 years)
In the 1966 science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, starring Raquel Welch, a
submarine and its crew were miniaturized so they could travel somewhere to
save a man’s life. Where did they travel?
Inside the man’s body
What is the name of the largest Sequoia tree in the world (by volume)?
General Sherman (hint: named after this Civil War general who burned
Atlanta on his march to the sea) (a type of redwood, it is located in
Sequoia National Park, California)
59. In this movie, Dustin Hoffman plays a white man raised as an Indian during
the 19th century. What is the name of the movie?
Little Big Man