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The Questions…

1. Which two planets in our solar system have no moons?

2. What is the capital of Greenland?

3. Who is the all-time best-selling author of fiction?

4. Which state has the smallest population?

5. What is a wobbegong?

The Answers…

1. Mercury and Venus.

2. The capital is Nuuk, pronounced nuke. It is the world’s northern-most capital. It has 18,000 residents, which is about one-third of Greenland’s total population.

3. Agatha Christie. Over two billion of her mystery novels have been sold worldwide.

4. Wyoming. It is the 10th largest in area, with a population of only about 578,000. 31 U.S. cities are bigger than that.

5. A wobbegong, aka “carpet shark,” is a type of bottom-dwelling shark found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They are well-camouflaged ambush predators.

The word wobbegong means “shaggy beard” in the language of the aboriginal people of Australia. The mouth of a wobbegong is fringed with small sensory lobes that are, in fact, sort of beard-looking.