PAST TRIVIA

• 25
• 71 – correct answer
• 10
• 100

As adults, Orcas have no natural enemies, which makes them the top predator in 71 percent of the world! They feed on everything from salmon to sharks to minke whales. 

• Isle de Pico
• Monaco
• Nauru – correct answer
• Fiji

East of Australia, Nauru, at 8 square miles, is the smallest island country in the world.

• 35 years – correct answer
• 10 months
• 8 years
• No one knows!

Larger starfish live longer than the smaller species, but the average lifespan is 35 years for starfish in the wild. (Thanks to a 4th-grade student at North Star Elementary for today's question!)

• Beast
• Millennium Wave – correct answer
• OMG wave
• Angry Wall

On August 17th, 2000, Laird Hamilton rode the ‘Millennnium Wave’, one of the heaviest waves ever surfed and said to be the day big wave surfing changed forever.

• Bone
• Cartilage – correct answer
• Titanium
• Keratin

Sharks have skeletons made of cartilage and connective tissue. Cartilage is flexible and durable, yet it is about half the normal density of bone.

• 25 – correct answer
• 5
• 100
• 55

Coral reefs are believed by many to have the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem on the planet. More than 25% of marine life call these reefs home, yet they occupy less than 0.2% of the ocean floor.

• Common dolphin
• Bottlenose dolphin
• Dusky dolphin – correct answer
• Cirque du Soleil dolphin

Dusky dolphins are arguably the most lively dolphins in the world and are master acrobats. Watch out Cirque du Soleil! 

• 1 million
• 1,100 – correct answer
• 335
• 20

More than 552 million shampoo bottles are ending up in landfills every year - which is enough to fill over 1,164 football stadiums! 

• Personality traits – correct answer
• Species of eels
• Holidays
• Types of coral

The acronym OCEAN is helpful in remembering the Big Five personality traits -  openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.