What animal is the closest relative of humans?
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Chimpanzee
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Orangutan
Are coelacanths "living fossils"?
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No
Does the planet Gliese 581g actually exist?
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No
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Yes
Does "dark matter" exist?
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No
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Yes
How old is the Universe?
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13 billion years
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14 billion years
How did King Tut die?
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Accidental Death by Chariot.
How many degrees Fahrenheit is 1/2 degree Celsius?
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About 1/4 degree Fahrenheit
Is the Bible inerrant -- completely free of error and contradition?
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No
Was Archeopteryx the first bird?
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Yes
How many continents are there?
True or False? "Global warming dried up Lake Chad in Africa."
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False
How many species exist on earth?
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9 million
What percentage of our DNA do humans and chimpanzees share?
How long ago did Neanderthals die out?
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28,000 years ago.
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30,000 years ago.
True or False? "Redheads are going extinct."
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False
Why did the Neanderthals die out?
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Climate change.
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They were killed or outcompeted by early modern humans.
How long ago did humans first arrive in the Americas?
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11,000 to 14,000 years ago.
True or False? "The Clovis culture was the first people in the Americas."
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False
True or False? "Antimatter has the same gravitational charge as matter."
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False
True or False? "dogs were first domesticated in East Asia."
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False
Why did the dinosaurs die out?
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The dinosaurs died out because of a single meteorite or asteroid impact.
True or False? "Humans interbred with Neanderthals and the gene pools merged."
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False
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True
Neanderthals, Humans Interbred—First Solid DNA Evidence
Neandertals, Modern Humans May Have Interbred, Skull Study Suggests
Neandertals, Modern Humans May Have Interbred, Skull Study Suggests
But days later a bone study suggested that they mated much more recently than that.
How much did the Stegosaurus weigh?
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2 tons
True or False? "Climate change has caused the shrinking of the glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro."
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False
When was the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees?
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6 million years ago
When did horses become extinct in the Americas?
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12,000 years ago.
True or False? "The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born."
When will summer sea ice disappear in the Arctic?
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2040
When was the last common ancestor of modern humans and neanderthals?
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400,000 years ago
Is a male praying mantis capable of mating with its head still on?
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Yes, a male mantis can mate with its head on.
How high is Mount Everest?
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8848 meters
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8850 meters
Did birds evolve from dinosaurs?
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Yes
Do ostriches stick their heads in the sand?
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No, ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand.
Is the Theory of Evolution correct?
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Yes
Is Pluto a planet?
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No.
When did humans first domesticate dogs?
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40,000 years ago
How fast can a cheetah run?
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113 km/hr (70 miles/hour)
What percentage of scientists believe in god?
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About 40% of scientists believe in god.
Is global warming caused by humans?
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Yes, humans are primarily responsible for global warming.
How many species have been identified?
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1.2 million species
Is all life on Earth descended from a single common ancestor?
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Yes
True or False? "The Bible creation story in Genesis is factually correct."
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False
What is the biggest pyramid in the world?
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The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza, Egypt.
True or False? "The lost continent of Atlantis really existed."
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False
What is the wild ancestor of the domesticated dog?
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Wolves
Was NASA's space shuttle program a success?
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Yes
Is global warming occurring?
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Yes.
Is Oceania a continent?
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No
When did modern humans arrive in Europe?
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40,000 years ago
How fast does the sun travel through space?
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52,000 miles per hour
What percentage of the Earth is covered by clouds?
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60%
How many countries are there?
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193
How fast can an ostrich run?
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43miles/hr (70 km/hr).
How long ago did animals evolve?
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600 million years ago
Which side of the chest is the heart located in?
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The middle of the chest.
How many species of ants are there?
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10,000 species
Can animals be homosexual?
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Yes
Can some species of squid fly?
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Yes
Did slaves build the Egyptian pyramids?
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No
How far does a lion's roar travel?
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8 km (5 miles)
Did Americans really visit the Moon, or did NASA fake the moon landings?
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Americans really went to the moon.
Did humans and dinosaurs live at the same time?
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No
Is the multiverse hypothesis testable?
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Yes
How many Americans can find the United States on a map?
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89% of Americans can find the United States on a map.
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94% of Americans can find the United States on a map.
How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
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5 to 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
What is the longest river in the world?
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The Nile
How old is the Earth?
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4.5 billion years old.
Was 2012 the hottest year on record in the United States?
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Yes
When was the last common ancestor of lions and tigers?
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7 million years ago
What is the cause of the New England fisheries disaster?
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Overfishing
True or False? "The biblical account of creation contradicts modern scientific thinking."
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True
Are bats blind?
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No, bats are not blind.
Are humans apes?
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Yes
When did the Yellowstone volcano last erupt explosively?
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640,000 years ago
Is there significant debate among scientists about the theory of evolution?
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No -- essentially all serious scientists believe in evolution.
True or False? "Many dinosaurs had feathers."
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True
Do whales have tongues?
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Yes
How much did the level of the Black Sea rise when it connected to the Mediterranean 9,400 years ago?
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5-10 meters
Can fish use tools?
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Yes, some can.
Was Yuri Gagarin the first human in space?
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Yes
True or False? "ligers are sterile."
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False
What organ is responsible for the circulation of the blood?
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Heart
Can science ever disprove religion?
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No
True or False? "Current evidence suggests all dinosaurs laid eggs of a wide variety of shapes and sizes—from 3 inches (8 centimeters) to 21 inches (53 centimeters), round or elliptical."
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True
True or False? "When mammoths and other Ice Age "megafauna" disappeared from the Americas about 12,800 years ago, the animals took with them their planet-warming burps—spurring the mysterious cooling period known as the Younger Dryas, a new study says."
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True
True or False? "Yet scientists may be just as likely to believe in God as other people, according to surveys."
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True
True or False? "Charles Darwin, in his 1859 book The Origin of Species, explained that the myriad species inhabiting Earth were a result of repeated evolutionary branching from common ancestors."
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True
True or False? "The first humans date back only a hundred thousand years or so."
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True
True or False? "Like other scientists of faith, Primack, who is Jewish and reads the Bible regularly, argues that the Bible must not be taken literally, but should be read allegorically."
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True
Does the Bible contain a contradiction regarding how many animals of each kind Noah took on the Ark?
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Yes
When was the term "scientist" first used?
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1833
Is it possible to prove religion scientifically?
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No
True or False? ""Every piece of data that we have indicates that the universe operates according to unchanging, immutable laws that don't allow for the whimsy or divine choice to all of a sudden change things."
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True
True or False? "Earth's average global temperature has increased by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) since 1880, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies."
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True
True or False? "That was the second-largest blast in human history and may have destroyed the Minoan civilization on nearby Crete (and possibly inspired the myth of Atlantis)."
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True
True or False? "Earth's first animals may have evolved in salty lakes, not oceans, a new study suggests."
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True
True or False? "The cub, born last week at Novosibirsk Zoo, may be the only liliger in existence."
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True
True or False? "The left ventricle pumps most forcefully, which is why a person's heartbeat is felt more on the left side of the chest."
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True
True or False? "More than 10,000 known ant species occur around the world"
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True