Misc Trivia
A ‘black box’ records the performance and condition of an aircraft in flight. What is the color of the black box?
Orange
What animal is constitutionally protected in Florida?
Pigs
One ostrich egg is equal in volume to roughly how many chicken eggs?
2 dozen chicken eggs
What is the name of the French author who wrote the book Around the World in Eighty Days?
Jules Verne
What color are the sunsets on mars?
Blue
What state banned Margarine for 72 years to protect their dairy farmers?
Wisconsin
What animal was successfully trained to tell the difference between Monet and Picasso3?
Pigeon
Which fast-food company piloted a chicken-flavored nail polish?
KFC
Name the two Renaissance artists commissioned to paint rivaling frescoes at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
Leonardo and Michelangelo
According to the National Science Foundation, what percentage of our thoughts are negative?
80%
How many instruments could Prince play?
At least 27
Cows produce 3% less milk when listening to what kind of music?
Country
What is the most stolen food in the world?
Cheese
Why was George Orwell’s 1984 banned in the US?
Obscenity and pro-communist passages.
What does a “Geiger Counter” measure?
Radiation
Who was the first Disney princess?
Snow White
Cartoonist Gary Larson illustrated a satirical comic about a made-up phobia called anatidaephobia. What is anatidaephobia?
Fear that a duck may be watching you.
Bananas are really an herb distantly related to what other food item?
Ginger
Before Michelangelo sculpted his monumental 17-foot-high David, this artist created a smaller sculpture of David at the start of the Renaissance.
Donatello
94% of British people talk about what topic the most?
The weather
What is considered by musicians to be the hardest instrument to play?
The french horn
What is known as a now-extinct flightless bird and last seen on an island off the coast of Iceland?
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis)
What is the main ingredient in white chocolate?
Cocoa butter
What surrealist artist famously recreated Jean-François Millet’s painting, The Angelus?
Salvador Dali
When oxygen is in liquid or solid form, what color is it?
Blue