Thursday, February 23, 2012

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) On this date in 1997, the first adult mammal was successfully cloned. What kind of animal was it and what name was it given?

2) Which former planet got demoted from its planet status, making the official number of planets in our solar system eight instead of nine?

3) Which animal has the largest brain in terms of its weight when compared to the animal's total weight?

Answers:

1) She was a lamb named Dolly.

2) Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf" planet.

3) The squirrel monkey's brain accounts for roughly 5% of its body weight. The human brain makes up about 2.3% of total body weight.

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