Food
Which country is the biggest exporter of coffee beans worldwide?
Brazil
True or False: The brain is the fattiest organ in the body?
True. It is made up of 60% fat.
What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
What was the Underground Railroad used for?
What is the most common letter in the English language?
E.
What is the national dish of the United States?
Hamburger
How many lobes are in the cerebral cortex?
4 (Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital)
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario
True or false: From 1927 to 1951, the Indian Act made it illegal for First Nations people to raise money amongst themselves to hire a lawyer or pursue a legal claim.
True
What’s the name for the small dot on the letter “i”?
A “tittle”.
What is the most commonly ordered seafood item in American restaurants?
Shrimp
About how many neurons does the human brain contain?
A) 1 billion
B) 7 billion
C) 86 billion
D) 250 billion
C) 86 billion
Where is Angel Falls, the world’s largest waterfall, located?
Venezuela
What did inventor Alexander Graham Bell propose as the standard telephone greeting?
Ahoy!
The greeting “Hello” was Thomas Edison’s idea.
What’s the name for the symbol “&”?
Ampersand.
What is gelatin made from?
Boiling the skin, bones, and cartilage of animals such as pigs, cows, and chickens.
Which part of the brain controls rational and logical decision-making?
Prefrontal Cortex
What is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
Africa
Which Canadian province or territory has the longest coastline?
Nunavut, whose extensive mainland and more than 36,000 islands give it 144,689 kilometres of coastline.
What’s a pangram sentence?
A sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet.
Although most of the world’s supply are grown in Hawaii as a result of its volcanic soil, the Macadamia tree is actually native to which other country?
Australia.
What part of the brain is responsible for memory and learning?
Hippocampus.
In what city would you find the Forbidden City?
Beijing
The 11-point maple leaf on today’s Canadian flag is based on an earlier design with how many points on the maple leaf?
13. That shape proved too hard to discern from afar or in the wind, so the number of points was reduced.
The longest word published in a popular English dictionary has how many letters?
45
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