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