Language Trivia
These are the two most widely spoken languages in South America.
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
This is a Duck noise or a bad doctor.
What is a quack?
One is an animal and the other uncovered.
What is Bear/Bare?
This is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its name.
What is Four?
The Blue Whale is the largest animal that ever lived.
True - and that includes dinosaurs!
The blue whale is the largest known animal to have ever lived. An adult blue whale can grow to a massive 30m long and weigh more than 180,000kg - that's about the same as 40 elephants, 30 Tyrannosaurus Rex or 2,670 average-sized men.
The origins are debated, but the most likely source of "serial killer" comes from Ernst Gennat's usage of "serienmorder" -- a term from this language.
What is German?
This is a card game or a stick to prod a fire.
What is a Poker?
One is to not hesitate and the other is a fragment with size greater than 25.6 centimeters (10.1 in) in diameter
What is bold/boulder?
This is the only number that does not have it's own Roman Numeral.
What is Zero?
Pigs roll in the mud because they don't like to be clean.
False - pigs have few sweat glands and their muddy baths help keep them cool
This Latin phrase literally means "something for something".
What is quid pro quo?
This is a tall tale or material for knitting.
What is yarn?
One is an accepted principle or rule, while the other is a big gun.
What is Canon/Cannon?
This letter represents 1,000 in Roman Numerals.
What is M?
An ant can lift 1,000 times its body weight.
False - ants can lift 5,000 times their body weight!
Somnambulating is a fancy term for this nighttime activity.
Sleepwalking
This is a celestial body or a celebrity
What is a star?
In most cases, one refers to a location, one refers to vision, and the third is something you put in a report.
What is site/sight/cite?
This is what the bottom part of a fraction is called.
What is denominator?
When exiting a cave, bats always go in the direction of the wind.
False
It is a common myth on the internet that bats turn left when leaving a cave. It has been observed that they have no preference and will turn right or fly directly ahead as often as they turn left.
This word evolved from a Middle English term describing the venom of a snake which came from a Latin word meaning "slimy liquid or poison?"
What is Virus?
This can be timber or to move clumsily.
What is lumber?
One is a noise, while the other is a small stream of water.
What is Creak/Creek?
This is the branch of mathematics that calculates the likeliness of something will occur.
What is probability?
An octopus has seven hearts.
False -
It has three hearts and they do a lot of work. One heart circulates blood around the body and the other two pump blood past the gills and pick up oxygen.
The nursery rhyme titled Brother John is more often known by what French-language name?
Frère Jacques
It's either a weighing device or to climb to the top of something.
What is scale?
One means to rile up, while the other refers to the ability to see the inner nature of someone or something.
What is Incite/Insight?
This is the only temperature that is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit?
What is -40?
A monkey was the first non-human to go into space.
False
While many flights into space may have accidentally carried bacteria and other forms of life on board, the first living creatures intentionally sent into space were fruit flies. These were transported aboard a V2 rocket on 20 February 1947.
English is the most-spoken language in Canada. French is second. This language is third.
Chinese (Mandarin)
It's to enter an airplane or a plank of wood.
What is board?
One is water that falls from the sky, one is a period of time, and the third is a leather strap.
What is rain/reign/rein?
This is the name of the symbol for division.
What is Obelus?
Alaska has the most active volcanoes of any state in the United States.
True
Alaska's Aleutian Arc volcanoes have formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the North American Plate at the Aleutian Trench. In total, the state has over 130 volcanoes (more than any other state) with fifty-four considered to be historically active (active within the last ~300 years).
This is the second of 2 official languages in Morocco. Tamazight is the first.
What is Arabic?
This is a source of water or oil or to be in good health.
What is well?
One is small drops of water and the other means it's time to pay or someone is expected somewhere.
What is dew/due?
This is the country where Arabic numerals were invented.
What is India?
Hindu-Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0—that represent numbers in the decimal number system. They originated in India in the 6th or 7th century and were introduced to Europe through the writings of Middle Eastern mathematicians, especially al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi, about the 12th century.
China has the longest coastline in the world.
False
Canada's coastline is the world's longest, measuring 243,042 km (includes the mainland coast and the coasts of offshore islands). This compares with Indonesia (54,716 km), Russia (37,653 km), the United States (19,924 km) and China (14,500 km).