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