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