In 1908, a funny event happened in New York: a pedestrian was hit by a car, and the driver got out of the car to help the victim. It turned out that the pedestrian was ...... himself, known as the creator of the car. Name this person.
Henry Ford.
This is the only number in mathematics that cannot be written in Roman numerals. Name it.
0 (Zero)
What part of a dog can tell you about its mood?
Tail
Name the largest library in the world.
Library of Congress located in Washington.
The library's stock consists of more than 38 million books in 470 languages, and the total length of bookshelves reaches almost 1200 km. About 10,000 volumes are added to the collection every day.
In the Middle Ages in Europe, it was widely believed that these animals were a link between the devil and man. Because of this, many people began to kill them, and this led to the spread of diseases that were transmitted through rats. Name this animal.
Cats
Among all the shapes/figures with the same perimeter, this geometric shape will have the largest area. Name this geometric figure.
Circular Disk/Circle
When Europeans first saw this animal, they called it a “camelpard,” thinking that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard. What animal are we talking about?
Giraffe
Name the most popular book.
Bible.
More than 2.5 billion copies were sold between 1815 and 1975. Those numbers appear to have doubled since then.
Until the 17th century, thermometers were filled with this liquid. Name this liquid.
Cognac
This number is the only number other than zero whose sum of digits is half its size. Name this number.
18
Name an animal that received a medal during the First World War and was even awarded the military rank of corporal.
Monkey. Corporal Jackie from South Africa
How do we call a person who spends all his free time reading books?
A bookworm.
US law allowed them to be sent by mail until 1913. Who are we talking about?
Children
The sum of all the numbers on the roulette wheel in the casino is ....... And in the European Parliament there is a chair with this number, but it is always empty. According to the old tradition, no one occupies it. name this number.
666
Why does the Tokyo Zoo close for 2 months every year?
So that the animals can take a break from visitors.
Where did the first books appear?
In ancient Egypt in the form of papyrus scrolls, around 3000 BC.
How long did the shortest war in history last?
The shortest war in history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which was fought between Great Britain and the Zanzibar Sultanate from 9:02 am on 27 August 1896 to 9:40 am on 27 August 1896. This war lasted only 38 minutes.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is a little-known British mathematician who devoted a fair portion of his life to the study of logic. However, he became famous under a different name. Name this person.
Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland.
The Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: ........
"We do not understand!"
Name the longest novel ever written by a person.
The novel “In Search of Lost Time” (“À la recherche du temps perdu”, French) was written by the French writer Marcel Proust and published in seven volumes, published between 1913 and 1927.
The seven volumes of this novel contain 1,267,069 words, and the estimated number of characters used is 9,609,000 (including spaces). By the way, this is twice the number of words in War and Peace.