Q: Is the word dictionary actually listed in the dictionary?
A: Yes. Even though You'd think that someone who is looking in a dictionary would know what a dictionary is, it is defined by Webster's dictionary as: "A book of alphabetically listed words in a language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information."
Q: What is the longest word in the English Language?
A: It ends up that there is not a simple answer to this question. The longest word that's listed in a major dictionary is Pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. But that is disputed because it is a technical term and was coined to be the longest word. The longest word without any dispute is Antidisestablishmentarianism. Check this link for the rest of the list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_the_English_language
Q: Do bees have ears?
A: I've been wondering about this one since I saw that stupid roadrunner commercial where the kid goes "mom, do bees have ears?" and the mom goes "I don't know [you freakish nerd], lets check roadrunner and see!" I've just been too lazy too google it. Anyway, it ends up honeybees do not have any kind of ears, so they cannot hear sounds, but they can feel vibrations in the air (that the sound waves would produce). Also, they have a fantastic sense of smell.
Q: Why is the sky blue?
A: The sky is blue because the sun's light rays act like waves and are diffracted (the prism effect, where white light is refracted through a prism to seperate all the different colors because of their different indices of refraction. There's a famous picture of this on a Pink Floyd album) then refracted (changing speed in a different medium) and/or reflected (like a mirror) to produce the blue hue that the rods and cones in our eyes register. *Thank God I took AP Physics.*
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