Q 01/05

Which company's 'Grasshopper' test rocket made short hops and landed back on its legs in 2012 and 2013?

A) Blue Origin

B) SpaceX

C) Virgin Galactic

D) Boeing

Answer · why

B) SpaceX

SpaceX. Its Grasshopper rig rose, hovered and settled back on its landing legs at a Texas test pad, rehearsing the booster landings that later made Fa...

Q 02/05

Grasshoppers, locusts and crickets all belong to which insect order?

A) Orthoptera

B) Lepidoptera

C) Coleoptera

D) Hymenoptera

Answer · why

A) Orthoptera

Orthoptera. The name comes from the Greek for 'straight wings', and the order once also took in cockroaches and mantises, which were later split off f...

Q 03/05

The oldest grasshopper fossils date from roughly when?

A) Before the first dinosaurs

B) In the time of Tyrannosaurus rex

C) After the dinosaurs died out

D) During the last ice age

Answer · why

A) Before the first dinosaurs

Before the first dinosaurs. The oldest known grasshopper fossils are about 250 million years old, so the group saw the dinosaurs arrive and was still ...

Q 04/05

Where is a grasshopper's hearing organ located?

A) On the abdomen

B) On the hind legs

C) On the antennae

D) Behind the eyes

Answer · why

A) On the abdomen

On the abdomen. A simple eardrum sits on each side of the first belly segment, tucked under the wings, so a female can listen for a male's courtship c...

Q 05/05

Butterflies and beetles pass through which life stage that grasshoppers skip entirely?

A) Egg

B) Nymph

C) Pupa

D) Adult

Answer · why

C) Pupa

Pupa. A grasshopper hatches as a wingless miniature of its parents, called a nymph, and simply moults its way up to adult size with no resting stage i...