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