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Trivia Bits for Mar 30, 2020

By Leslie Elman

Just 250 or so people live on the Pacific atoll Pingelap, and about 10% of them are completely colorblind. This isn’t ordinary colorblindness, though. It’s the result of a rare hereditary condition called achromatopsia that inhibits development of cone cell color receptors in their eyes. The prevalence can be traced to a tribal chief on the island, who passed the condition to the generation that followed him. It’s continued ever since. By comparison, achromatopsia affects about 1 in every 30,000 Americans.

Almost all the residents of what island are descendents of the crew of the HMS Bounty?

A) Ascension Island

B) Pitcairn Island

C) Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

D) Tortola