🌐 GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE
What is the only continent without snakes?
Antarctica
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
What English word contains all five vowels in order?
Facetious
What part of the eye controls how much light enters?
Iris
What animal has the longest lifespan?
Greenland shark
What ocean is the deepest on Earth?
Pacific Ocean
You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
The letter “E”
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
Short
What is the fastest thing in the universe?
Light
What is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name?
Q
What city has the most skyscrapers over 150m in the world?
Hong Kong
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
A river
What word is spelled the same forwards and backwards AND means a type of exam?
Exam answer: racecar (but trick: “racecar” doesn’t mean exam — question trap; actual intended answer: “no such standard word” → logic check)
What element makes up most of the Sun?
Hydrogen
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
What is the only sea without any coastline on land?
Sargasso Sea
A man is looking at a picture. Someone asks who it is. He says: “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the picture?
His son
What 8-letter word has one letter removed and still sounds identical?
Queue → cue
What is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone?
Hyoid bone
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?
9
What country uses the most official languages (11)?
South Africa
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Nine
What punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses without a conjunction?
Semicolon (;)
What is the name of the principle that describes how an object will continue moving in a straight line unless acted on by an external force?
Newton’s First Law of Motion (Law of Inertia)
What is the only known natural object in the solar system that has geysers made of liquid nitrogen instead of water?
Triton (Neptune’s largest moon)