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1. Who said "Fish and visitors smell in three days"? Benjamin Franklin Johnny Carson W.C. Fields Groucho Marx

2. When bodies decay, several stages of decomposition have been identified. Before putrefaction and butyric fermentation ever happen, the enzymes of the body actually cause cell structure to fail in a process named from two Greek words for "self" and "split". What name is given to the first stage of decomposition? autolysis cataclysm onoschism cytomorphism

3. Mostly all mammal feet are divided into three categories based on which part of the foot bears the weight of the animal. How are the feet categorized for dogs, Danes and deer respectively? plantigrade, , digitigrade, unguligrade digitigrade, plantigrade, unguligrade unguligrade, plantigrade, digitigrade centigrade, plantigenet, unguent

4. Your poor beagle has popped home from her neighborhood trash bag tour with the sickening smell of freshly sprayed skunk. Which of the following is the best treatment for her? tomato juice sodium bicarbonate lemon juice perfume

5. Flatulence is caused when bacteria breaks down one's dinner, thereby creating new compounds, some of which are helpful to the body and others of which are unwanted waste. What is the least commonly created compound (referred to as "flatus")? nitrogen methane carbon dioxide hydrogen

6. You walk out into your peach orchard in the southeastern United States and notice a peculiar smell. Looking up into the tree, you see the image of a grinning cat looking at you and notice that all of the peaches look like smiling cats to you. What or whom should you suspect? lysergic acid diethylamide euschistus servus Lewis Carroll Duane Allman

7. This cheese is well known for smelling like human feet. This is because the bacterium used to ferment it (brevibacterium linens) is actually found on human skin. Rodoric Tilsit Gouda Limburger

8. Cod is soaked in water for a week, bathed in lye for the weekend, then soaked in water for another week, and when you get home Friday, you have what gelatinous delicacy to look forward to? wallpaper paste lutefisk whitefish filets torsk

9. Said to smell like rotten eggs, sulphur, in actuality, has no smell until it is combined with other elements to make hydrogen sulfide (sewage) or sulphur dioxide (matches). Sulphur doesn't seem to care where it finds its friends. What is sulphur's atomic number? fifteen thirty-four six sixteen

10. If you have answered 1-9 correctly, you should be able to use the first letter of each correct response to sniff out the theme uniting these questions. Answer: (Two Words)