General knowledge Questions (To get your brain going!)
The Brain
Brain Teasers
Riddles
Puzzles
100

What is the distance around a circle called?

Circumference

100

Is your brain an organ?

Yes, it is a complex organ.

100

If you were in a race and you passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?

Second Place

100

How long is the answer to this question.

How long :D

100

Arnold Schwarzenter has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?

Their surname.

200

How many years are there in a millennium?

1000

200

How many neurons are in the brain?

More than the people on Earth.

200

What was the President's name in 1975?

The same as it is today.

200

What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

Your shadow

200

A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?

The man was bald.

300

What does "Einstein" mean?

Genius 

300
What is something your brain controls?

Any answer choices from thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger, and every process that regulates our body. 

300

Which is heavier a ton of gold or a ton of silver?

Both are equal. 1 ton = 1 ton

300

There are 6 mangoes in a basket and 6 kids eagerly waiting to get one. Each kid is given one mango, yet there is one mango in the basket. How?

The last kid gets the basket with the mango in it.

300

A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

The river was frozen.

400

What type of creature was Baloo in The Jungle Book?

Bear

400

How much does the brain weigh?

3 pounds

400

You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

Your breath.

400

Why is it against the law for a person living in New York to be buried in California?

He is alive.

400

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?

Heroine.

500

Which species of creature includes the most poisonous animal in the world?

Frog

500

How much fat is in the human brain?

60 percent.

500

Before Mt. Everest was discovered, which was the highest mountain in the world?

Mt. Everest. It just wasn't discovered yet.

500

How many seconds are there in a year?

Twelve. The second of Jan, Feb, March... December.

500

I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

The letter S

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