Geography & Places
What is the oldest city in the world?
Damascus
What flies forever, rests never?
The wind.
What important breakfast-making device was originally patented in Minnesota in 1919?
Answer: Pop-up toaster
Camels store water in their humps
Answer: False – camel humps store fat, not water.
What was the popular dance in the 1960s that involved twisting the feet?
The Twist
What is the smallest country in the world?
The Vatican City
What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?
A piano.
What did Thomas Edison recite into the very first gramophone?
Answer: Mary Had a Little Lamb
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Answer: True – dolphins keep one half of their brain awake for breathing and to watch for predators.
Who was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969?
Neil Armstrong
Mecca is in which country?
Saudi Arabia
What do you lose the moment you share it?
A secret.
In what year was the first electric refrigerator for home use invented?
A) 1832 B) 1913 C) 1932
In 1913, Fred W. Wolf invented the first electric refrigerator for home use, which was a refrigeration unit on top of an icebox.
All spiders spin webs
Answer: False – not all spider species spin webs.
Which muscle cars, introduced in the late 1960s, featured a horse logo?
Ford Mustang
How tall is the Pyramid of Giza?
450 ft.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
What famous inventor is known for the electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera?
Thomas Edison
Penguins are only found in Antarctica
Answer: False – while many live in Antarctica, some species are found in warmer climates.
What countercultural event took place in San Francisco during the summer of 1967?
Summer of Love
In which country is the Taj Mahal?
India
The more there is the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
What did the Wright brothers invent?
A: The airplane.
The human body is comprised of over 60% water
Answer: True – about 60% of the adult human body is water.
Which fictional secret agent made his film debut in the 1962 movie ‘Dr. No’?
James Bond