Four moon walking astronauts still living

Questions:

What is the longest U.S. river east of the Mississippi River that flows into the Atlantic?

What is the difference between an opossum and a possum?

What is the lowest whole number spelled with a “c”?

By what unique method did Alexander the Great attack the Phoenician Island of Tyre?

As a basketball passes through the hoop, what percent of the inside area of the rim is filled?

Fun Facts:

April 30 is National Honesty Day in the United States. It was intentionally placed at the end of April to contrast with April Fool’s Day.

Albert Einstein has a great-grandson who is an anesthesiologist in Los Angeles. Dr. Thomas Einstein was born in Switzerland and is fluent in German, Spanish, French and English.

On his third return voyage from the New World in 1500, Christopher Columbus was in chains. He had been arrested for abuse of power while serving as governor of Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti). 

Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license. She attended aviation school in France because neither women nor Black applicants were admitted in the United States.

Many of the fires following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were not caused by the quake itself but were set intentionally by people who had fire insurance but not earthquake coverage.

On Saturday, May 2, at 4 p.m., 2026 will be one-third over.

In 2013, burglars who stole computers from an office building in the suburbs of Los Angeles returned the items, along with a letter of apology, after realizing they had ransacked a nonprofit that helps victims of sexual violence.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union successfully landed ten probes on the surface of Venus. Most survived only about an hour due to extreme conditions, with temperatures around 860°F, crushing atmospheric pressure and acidic conditions.

Four of the 12 men who walked on the moon are still alive: Buzz Aldrin is 96, David Scott is 93, Charles Duke is 90, and Harrison Schmitt is 90.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to Louis VII of France for 15 years before their marriage was annulled, largely due to the lack of a male heir. She later married Henry II of England and had eight children, including Richard the Lionheart.

Answers:

The Susquehanna River (444 miles) (#2 is Roanoke River - 410 miles #3 St. Johns River - 310 miles)

Opossums live in N. and S. America. Possums live in Australia. Both are marsupials but distantly related.

Octillion (1 followed by 27 zeros)

He built a fortified half-mile-long causeway out to the island.

28 percent (approximately 70 in² out of 254 in²; rim diameter 18 inches, ball diameter about 9.4 inches)