Brain Teasers VII : Christopher Columbus, Heinrich Himmler

1. Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella financed Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.
2. The belt of forest running from Scandinavia to Japan is known as the Taiga.
3. The largest living creature without a backbone is giant Squid.
4. Bulls are not excited specifically by  the color red because they are color-blind.
5. Study of fossil fuels is called Palaeontology.
6. Whale's nostril is called blowhole.
7. The anaconda of South America is the largest and heaviest of all snakes.
8. Heinrich Himmler was head of Hitler's SS.
9. About 40,000 muscles are there in the trunk of an elephant.
10. SCUBA stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.