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Friday, November 03, 2006

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Arctic and Antarctic. Answers here.

1. Is Antarctica bigger or smaller than the USA?
2. Is the North Pole in the Arctic or the Antarctic?
3. In the Antarctic in 1912, what were the last words of Lawrence Oates before he vanished into a blizzard?
4. Which Norwegian explorer of the Arctic won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his humanitarian work?
5. Who wrote the 1905 book The Voyage of the "Discovery" about his first expedition to Antarctica?
6. The Arctic gets its name from being below which stellar constellation?
7. In 1911, who was the first explorer to reach the South Pole?
8. Do polar bears live in the Arctic, the Antarctic, or both?
9. In 1928, the Australian Sir George Hubert Wilkins was the first to explore the Arctic in what form of transport?
10. Which Antarctic explorer had to abandon his ship, the Endurance, on his 1914-16 expedition, and died in 1922 on his fourth expedition to the Antarctic?

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