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