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1
A 2007 study found that music, especially classical music, helps ____ grow faster.
teeth
babies
plants
hair
2
Butterflies taste with their ____.
tongue
antennae
thorax
feet
3
There is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from ___.
the Sun to Pluto and back 17 times
Pluto and back to Earth
to Venus and back to Earth 10 times
the moon and back to Earth
4
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to ___.
polka music
classical music
heavy metal music
pop music
5
An individual blood cell takes ______ to make complete circuit of the body.
4 minutes
2 minutes
10 minutes
60 seconds
6
Where did Vincent van Gogh paint
The Starry Night?
Psychiatric hospital
His house window
In a graveyard
Sitting at a cafe
7
______ teeth never stop growing.
Lion
Beaver
Prairie dogs
Orcas
8
The average person walks the equivalent of ____ in their lifetime.
1 million miles
twice around the world
5 times around the world
10 times around the world
9
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as _____.
deodorant
medicine
floor wax
wallpaper removal
10
Sneezes regularly exceed ____ mph.
25
50
75
100
11
Each foot contains about ____ sweat glands.
525
30,000
0
250,000
12
Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural, and belonged to The _____ Club.
Haunted
Ghost
Spirits
Phantom
13
_______ have more genes than a human.
Giraffes
Apes
Sharks
Tomatoes
14
None of the Beatles could ____.
drive
read
read or write music
15
Eating ________ helps hair grow faster.
salmon
snails
crabs
frogs
16
A song that gets stuck in your head on repeat is called a(n) ____.
earpeat
earwig
earworm
earwrap
17
Odontophobia is the fear of _____.
odometers
donuts
teeth
oceans
18
Leo Fender, inventor of the Stratocaster and Telecaster, couldn't ___.
write music
read music
swim
play the guitar
19
The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with ____.
mint leaves
bark
animal saliva
urine
20
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) had a room in his house full of __, hidden behind a bookshelf.
crazy costumes
crazy paintings
crazy hats
crazy glasses
21
Van Gogh had more than 2,000 paintings during his life. How many did he sell when alive?
100
134
0
1
22
The strongest muscle in the body is the ____.
bicep
tongue
hamstrings
quads
23
The Monster in
Frankenstein
has no name, but Mary Shelley once referred to him as ____.
Gerald
John
Frank
Adam
24
It takes 23 muscles to smile and ____ muscles to frown.
12
15
2
17
25
More than ______% of people in the world, have never made or received a telephone call.
40
10
50
30
26
The average life span of a MLB baseball is ___ pitches.
15
5
42
35
27
What was Michael Jordan's nickname in high school?
Magic
Boom Boom
Swish
Flash
28
Coca-Cola would be ____ if coloring wasn't added to it.
red
clear
green
white
29
The original title for
Where the Wild Things Are
was
Where the Wild _____ Are.
Monsters
Horses
Cowboys
Indians
30
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
had the highest 1st print run in history, with ___ copies
200 million
100 million
12 million
19 million
31
Earth has traveled ____ during the last 5 minutes.
25,000 miles
200 miles
1 million miles
5,000 miles
32
________ can't look up at the sky.
Pigs
Turtles
Anteaters
Giraffes
33
The average person passes gas ____ times a day.
14
2
7
10
34
What NFL team was named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem ‘The Raven’.
Atlanta Falcons
Arizona Cardinals
Seattle Seahawks
Baltimore Ravens
35
Russia has a larger surface area than ____.
Venus
the sun
Uranus
Pluto
36
Every day an average person loses ____ strands of hair.
45-55
10-15
60+
20-30
37
A group of twelve or more cows is called a ___.
gaggle
flink
mob
group
38
Bill Gates bought ‘Codex Leicester’, one of Leonardo Di Vinci’s scientific journals for ___.
$5 million
$24 million
$30 million
$10 million
39
The average golf ball has how many dimples?
250
550
350
450
40
____ entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
156
12
315
29
41
For every $1000 in music sold, the average musician makes $ ___.
$50.24
$23.40
$214.78
$100.97
42
It takes _______ cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs
800
500
1,000
3,000
43
Bees can be trained to ___________.
find gold
detect fires
find missing people
detect bombs
44
"Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia" means what?
the study of algae
the study of vomiting
brain freeze
science of crayfish
45
A human on average will eat ___ spiders while sleeping.
10
3
6
1