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Trivia Questions

In 1957 this undersea explorer became director of Monaco's Oceanographic Museum

The largest crustacean is a Japanese species of this; it can measure 12 feet between its claws

(Jeff Probst, host of Survivor, delivers the clue from Palau.) The nearly extinct sea cow is found in the coastal waters of Palau, & even here, it is threatened by poaching

After Sir James Chadwick's 1932 discovery of this fundamental particle of matter, the world went fission

Meredith Gourdine's work on gas dispersion led to a way of clearing this from airport runways

Entomologist Thomas Eisner helped decipher the flash code used by the femmes fatales of these insects

In the '70s Hans Dehmelt took a color photo of Astrid, a single charged ion of this element, Ba

The UNIVAC computer used this format for permanent data storage

Cosmic rays were first detected by V. F. Hess during a flight by one of these

The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet's ring system