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1
The average life span of a MLB baseball is ___ pitches.
15
42
35
5
2
A song that gets stuck in your head on repeat is called a(n) ____.
earwig
earworm
earwrap
earpeat
3
____ entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
315
12
29
156
4
A human on average will eat ___ spiders while sleeping.
10
6
3
1
5
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as _____.
wallpaper removal
medicine
deodorant
floor wax
6
Leo Fender, inventor of the Stratocaster and Telecaster, couldn't ___.
play the guitar
write music
read music
swim
7
Butterflies taste with their ____.
tongue
feet
antennae
thorax
8
Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural, and belonged to The _____ Club.
Spirits
Phantom
Ghost
Haunted
9
A group of twelve or more cows is called a ___.
group
gaggle
mob
flink
10
A 2007 study found that music, especially classical music, helps ____ grow faster.
plants
teeth
hair
babies
11
Coca-Cola would be ____ if coloring wasn't added to it.
red
green
white
clear
12
None of the Beatles could ____.
read
read or write music
drive
13
Sneezes regularly exceed ____ mph.
50
75
100
25
14
What was Michael Jordan's nickname in high school?
Flash
Boom Boom
Magic
Swish
15
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to ___.
classical music
heavy metal music
polka music
pop music
16
Eating ________ helps hair grow faster.
salmon
snails
frogs
crabs
17
The average golf ball has how many dimples?
250
350
550
450
18
For every $1000 in music sold, the average musician makes $ ___.
$100.97
$50.24
$23.40
$214.78
19
Odontophobia is the fear of _____.
teeth
odometers
donuts
oceans
20
An individual blood cell takes ______ to make complete circuit of the body.
60 seconds
2 minutes
10 minutes
4 minutes
21
Bill Gates bought ‘Codex Leicester’, one of Leonardo Di Vinci’s scientific journals for ___.
$30 million
$24 million
$10 million
$5 million
22
There is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from ___.
Pluto and back to Earth
to Venus and back to Earth 10 times
the moon and back to Earth
the Sun to Pluto and back 17 times
23
Each foot contains about ____ sweat glands.
525
0
30,000
250,000
24
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
25
More than ______% of people in the world, have never made or received a telephone call.
40
10
30
50
26
Every day an average person loses ____ strands of hair.
10-15
20-30
60+
45-55
27
Russia has a larger surface area than ____.
Uranus
Venus
Pluto
the sun
28
It takes _______ cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs
800
1,000
3,000
500
29
Bees can be trained to ___________.
detect fires
find gold
find missing people
detect bombs
30
________ can't look up at the sky.
Giraffes
Pigs
Anteaters
Turtles
31
______ teeth never stop growing.
Prairie dogs
Beaver
Orcas
Lion
32
"Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia" means what?
the study of algae
brain freeze
the study of vomiting
science of crayfish
33
Van Gogh had more than 2,000 paintings during his life. How many did he sell when alive?
0
1
134
100
34
The average person walks the equivalent of ____ in their lifetime.
5 times around the world
twice around the world
1 million miles
10 times around the world
35
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
had the highest 1st print run in history, with ___ copies
200 million
19 million
12 million
100 million
36
_______ have more genes than a human.
Apes
Giraffes
Tomatoes
Sharks