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Fun and Interesting Facts Quiz
Quiz
- Where was Alan Shepard when he famously hit two golf balls with a makeshift club?
- The world record for the fastest growing plant belongs to what species?
- Created by 15-year-old Richard Skrenta in 1982, 'Elk Cloner' was one of the world's first what?
- Which 1865 English children's novel by an Oxford University maths don has been translated into 174 languages?
- What is the full four word title of The Statue of Liberty?
- Which dog breed's name do we get from the Welsh words for 'dwarf' and 'dog'?
- Name the most visited museum in the world?
- At the equator, would you weigh slightly less, slightly more, or the same as you would at the poles?
- Which Post-Impressionist painting depicts a view from an asylum window at Saint-Remy-de-Provence?
- Which country has the longest coastline of any country in the world?
- What is the collective noun for a group of crows?
- According to Guinness World Records, the hottest temperature recorded in the world was in which American state?
- The global population surpassed how many billion in 2022?
- Josiah Wedgwood’s daughter Susannah was the mother of which famous Briton?
- Bananas are radioactive due to containing high levels of what?
- Can you name the world's largest structure composed of living entities?
- The International Space Station is planned to crash into Point Nemo in 2031? Why Point Nemo?
- The origins of the Dalmatian dog can be traced to which country?
- Which European country's government banned television on a Thursday until 1987 so residents would get out and socialise instead?
- The historical region of Mesopotamia is known as which modern-day country?
- The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which Pharaoh?
- What sort of ceremony in Japanese culture is chanoyu?
- The olfactory memory refers to the recollection of what?
- In English, what is the largest number that has just one syllable?
- Which brand of snack food is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid?
- In music, a violin bow is usually made with the hair of which animal?
- Can you name the only two letters not to appear on the periodic table?
- The final episode of which television series was the most-watched television broadcast in American history from 1983 until 2010?
- Which musician had a four-octave vocal range partly due to his extra set of teeth?
- Where exactly, voted to leave the European Union in 1985 and has never rejoined?
Answers
- On the moon
- Bamboo
- Computer viruses
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland)
- Liberty Enlightening the World
- Corgi (cor (dwarf) and ci (dog))
- The Louvre in Paris
- Less (due to the Earth's spinning, which generates centrifugal force that counteracts gravity)
- The Starry Night (by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh)
- Canada
- Murder
- California (in Death Valley)
- 8 billion
- Charles Darwin
- Potassium
- The Great Barrier Reef
- It's the remotest oceanic location
- Croatia
- Iceland
- Iraq
- Khufu
- Tea ceremony
- Odors and smells
- 12
- Pringles
- Horse-tail hair
- J and Q
- MASH
- Freddie Mercury
- Greenland