1. Pacific Ocean
2. Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
3. yes
4. yes
5. True
6. True
7. Ka Lae Island, Hawaii
8. Jacksonville, Florida
9. Minnesota
10. North America is not exactly directly north of South America. All of Alaska, 85 percent of Canada, 90 percent of the lower 48 states in the US, all of Mexico, and all of Central America except Panama lie west of South America.
11. Pensacola, Florida
12. Reno, Nevada
13. Virginia
14. All are Americans
15. 10 percent
16. 5th
17. 9,200
18. 90 percent
19. India
20. bamboo
21. basketball
22. Africa or Asia. The term buffalo is commonly, but erroneously, applied to the North American animals that are correctly called Bison.
23. Buffalo, New York was not named after the animal erroneously called the Buffalo in North America. The name of the city actually derives from an Indian mispronunciation of a French word for the river where the town was established. Early French missionaries named a small creek at the site of this settlement the "belle fleume"' meaning beautiful river. Local Indians, who were familiar with the white man's word "buffalo", failed to distinguish "belle fleume" from the word "buffalo" and began calling the town "boof-flo". Although the town was officially name New Amsterdam in 1803, it was still commonly called Buffalo Creek by most people. The name remained in popular use and was later shortened to Buffalo and made official.
24. Breeds Hill
25. The truth is, the western portion of California is actually sliding north and is in no danger of suddenly disappearing into the sea. Los Angeles and the western portion of California are sliding toward Alaska averaging 2 inches per year. At this rate, Los Angeles will be in the vicinity to Fairbanks, Alaska in about 10 to 15 million years.
26. The islands were originally named "insulae cannariae" by the Romans, meaning "island of dogs" in reference to the numerous wild dogs that inhabited the islands. The name eventually became "Canary" in the mistaken belief that it originally referred to the small, yellow songbird.
27. The inner core of the earth, with a diameter of about 16 hundred miles, is actually a dense region of solid, magnetic, and probably iron metallic rocklike material. This solidified core IS surrounded by an outer layer of molten iron about 23 hundred miles thick.
28. England
29. Nowhere. Coffee beans are not beans at all. They are actually the seeds or pits of a red, cherrylike fruit that grows on treelike shrubs.
30. Neither, it has no temperature at all.
31. A compass needle does not point to the geographic North Pole. It does not usually point to the magnetic North Pole either. In fact, a compass needle does not really point to anything, but merely aligns itself with the earth's magnetic lines of force at a given time.
32. False - The earth is an oblate spheriod, which means it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator.
33. Technically, there are only 46 states in the United States. The remaining 4 are not officially states but are referred to as commonwealths. These are kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The two words actually have the same meaning. The term commonwealth was preferred and retained by these 4 when admitted to the Union.
34. "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed."
35. The foul line is actually in fair territory.
36. 7
37. No one is buried in Grant's Tomb. Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Grant are entombed in Grant's Tomb. To bury means to put into the ground.
38. Greenland
39. Chicago, IL
40. Relative Humidity
41. Absolute Humidity
42. Igloo is simply the Eskimo term for house. It is applied to any form of dwelling, not just the icehouse.
43. China
44. India
45. In the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year is June 21, except in years preceding a leap year, when the longest day is June 22.
46. In the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year is December 22, except leap years, when it is December 21.
47. Moss does not grow on tres. The fuzzy little plant life found on the side of a tree is actually liverworts or lichens.
48. Mrs.
49. No. Because there is no zero year in the Christian era calendar, the first century lasted from A.D. 1 to the end of the year 100. The second century began the year of 101. Thus, the first day of the new century will begin on January 1, 2001.
50. They are all considered "nuts" but none of them are.
