Rat Attack

1. In what state of India does the NOVA investigation begin?
Bangladesh          Pradesh   
    Bengal        Mizoram

2.  What was in the bag that the villagers dumped out to count?:
rat tails           rat nests   rice bamboo stalks

3. Every 48 years a massive rat plague followed by a famine occurs. What else happens on the same schedule? 
the earth tilts        villagers make new huts       
bamboo flowers         rivers dry up

4.  When food is scarce, mother rats will often
forage in water              eat their young
  fight        kill male rats

5.  During flowering, what insect is common (and also edible)
cockroach      crawl in a hole       fight        hang out

6.  What is the underground stem of the bamboo called?
tuber            mankrik rhizome      xylem

7.  Bamboo seeds lead to the domestication of what common farm animal?
cow    pig goat      chicken

8.  To find out when the next "pulse" of rats would occur, Ken collected what from the environment?
a nest          a pregnant rat    bamboo flowers rat droppings

9.  When Ken examined the rats that had eaten crops at a nearby village, he found that all the rats were:
 diseased      deformed young  pregnant

10. Based on this research, Ken concluded that future crops can be saved from rats by:
timing the plantings         burning the bamboo       killing stinkbugs      removing chickens