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The organism that produces more oxygen by photosynthesis than all plants combined.
What is algae?
The recipe for home-made slime includes white glue, water, optional food colouring, and this sodium tetraborate compound, also used in the laundry.
What is borax?
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The "slimy" material that coats many epithelial surfaces and is secreted into fluids such as saliva.
What is mucus?
This slimy fellow made his debut in The Two Towers, where he trails Frodo in pursuit of the ring.
Who is Gollum?
Celiac disease affects about 1 in 200, and is the intolerance to this slimy substance found in cereal crops such as wheat, barley and rye.
What is gluten?
The name of this reptile is the Maori word for "living spines".
What is the tuatara?
The only American state in which alligators and crocodiles are native.
What is Florida?
The common box variety one of these can live to 120 years old.
What is the box turtle?
A venomous lizard named for a river basin in the US.
What is the Gila monster?
Overhunting of deer and wild boar have threatened the existence of this large Indonesian reptile.
What is Komodo dragon?
This Swiss mountain is a near-perfect horn.
What is the Matterhorn?
This mile-deep hole formed from erosion by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
In this Rocky Mountain locality you may encounter Anomaloceras and Hallucigenia.
What is the Burgess Shale?
A volcano looms over Mexico City.
What is Popocatapetl?
This Scottish locality displays undeformed Devonian sandstone sitting on steeply tilted Silurian slate.
What is Hutton's unconformity?
The three pyramids of Giza are aligned parallel to the three belt stars of this constellation.
What is Orion?
This constellation resembles a man pouring water.
What is Aquarius?
The star Antares, meaning "rival of Mars" because of its bright red colour is the brightest star in this arthropod constellation.
What is Scorpio?
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The faintest constellation in the Zodiac also has a tropic named after it
What is Cancer?
The northern constellation, often used to locate the Pole Star, is called the Plough in Britain, the Big Dipper in North America, and this by astronomers
What is Ursa Major (or the great bear)?
The official national sport of Canada.
What is lacrosse?
The country that lost in the final of the World Cup on 2002.
What is Germany?
One of the boxers who fought in the "Thrilla in Manila".
Who are Mohammed Ali or Joe Frazier?
They are the recipients of the Curse of the Bambino.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
The
North American first woman to play in a men's professional hockey league.
Who is Haley Wickenheiser?
A version of this letter is the last letter of the Greek alphabet.
What is o?
The main programming language of Unix computers.
What is c?
M.J. Fox's real middle initial - maybe it was too Canadian?
What is a?
The Queen signs her name Elizabeth this letter.
What is R (for Regina)?
The typical cross-sectional shape of a valley after it has been deepened by glaciers.
What is U?