Random Math
From 0 to 1000, the only number that has the letter “a” in it is?
“one thousand”.
Butterflies taste with this part of their body.
what are feet?
Butterflies do taste their food, but not through their mouthparts. Instead, they do it through their feet ! Having an animal’s feet serve as taste organs sounds preposterous, which is probably why researchers never even considered the possibility.
There are the only 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons.
What are Mercury and Venus?
In total, there are 176 confirmed moons that orbit the other planets in our solar system, with some of them being bigger than Mercury itself!
This is the decade of the innovation of many things we still use today, such as credit cards, diet soda, TV dinners and velcro and more.
What is the 1950's
This frozen treat was invented and patented by an 11 year old in 1905.
What is the Popsicle?
Frank Epperson left soda powder and water out with its wooden stirrer in the cup. The mixture froze in the chilly night and so the Epsicle was born. He sold them in town and a nearby amusement park. Years later, he changed the name to Popsicle when his kids called him Pops.
Every odd number has what letter?
e
Along with gorillas and chimpanzees, this animal has finger prints similar to humans.
What is the koala bear? one other animal from an entirely different infraclass of mammals has fingerprints almost indistinguishable from humans. The tree-hugging cutie of Australia, the koala bear, has fingerprints that are similar to humans in pattern, shape and size of the ridges. Police have feared that koalas can taint a crime scene.
The distance covered by light in a single year.
What is a light year?
Light moves at the velocity of about 186,411 miles (300,000 km) a second. So one light-year equates to roughly 5,903,026,326,255 miles!
The Milky Way galaxy is 105,700 light-years wide.
In 1960 John F Kennedy defeated this incumbent Vice President.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This was the first election in which all fifty states participated, and the last in which the District of Columbia did not. Kennedy 35thPOTUS and Johnson 37th VP/36th POTUS after assassination. Nixon later became the 37th POTUS.
This still common candy bar used to come in three-packs In the 1930s, with a different nougat flavor in each.
What is 3 Musketeers bars?
vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. World War II rations made that triple threat expensive, so the company cut down to one.
What is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself?
Four
An animal that is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur).
What is the Platypus?
Due to the lack of ______ footprints left on the moon will not disappear.
What is wind?
But wait a minute… if there’s no wind to blow them away then why is the flag blowing? Well, it actually wasn’t blowing. That rippling you see is because of a stubborn telescopic horizontal rod that the astronauts were struggling to remove from the flag’s upper hem.
This European country granted women the right to vote in 1971
What is Switzerland?
a referendum on women's suffrage in 1959 was rejected by (67%) of Switzerland's men. But, some French-speaking cantons women obtained right to vote in local referendums. first Swiss woman to hold political office, Trudy Späth-Schweizer, was elected to the municipal government of Riehen in 1958.
This famous statue was once a working "lighthouse"
What is The Statue of Liberty?
About a month after the statue’s 1886 dedication, it became a working lighthouse for 16 years, with its torch visible from 24 miles away.
What number is not represented in Roman numerals?
Zero
Cats and horses may die from this spiders venom but dogs are resistant to it and sheep and rabbits are immune.
What is the Black Widow Spider.
There are 79 known moons orbiting this planet.
What is Jupiter?
Jupiter is the planet in our solar system with the most moons, and it also has the largest moon in our solar system.
In what year or decade was The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
What is the 1920's?
1925 to be exact. Though it sold poorly at first—readers bought only 20,000 copies in 1925—the publisher Modern Library has called it the best American novel of the 20th century
This former POTUS is on the $100,000 dollar bill.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Between December 18, 1934, and January 9, 1935, the notes with Woodrow Wilson’s face were issued to Federal Reserve Banks but never went out to the general public—which is probably for the best. Can you imagine losing that bill?
It takes this many different letters (numerals) to form the entire Roman number system.
What is 7?
Roman numerals only have seven different letters which form the entire number system: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
This 2cm long animal is reported to be the loudest in the world.
(creature in the animal kingdom)
What is a Pistol Shrimp?
capable of snapping it’s claw shut so rapidly, that it creates a bubble which collapses to produce a sonic blast, louder than a Corncode’s sonic boom. The shock wave can reach 230 decibels, louder than the sound of a gunshot.
Earth is the only planet not named after one of these.
What are Gods?
Nobody knows how the Earth got its name; all we know is that it is derived from an amalgamation of both the Old English and Old Germanic words for “ground”.
This Space Shuttle took the first woman into space in 1983.
What is the Space Shuttle Challenger?
Dr. Sally Ride(Stanford University) beat out 1,000 other applicants for a spot in NASA's astronaut program. After rigorous training, Ride joined the Challenger shuttle mission on June 18, 1983, and became the first American woman in space.
A flock of ravens...
What is an unkindness?
They’re also known as a “conspiracy,” which is equally creepy.
crows can be called a murder, horde, mob, muster, or parcel.