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Miscellaneous
100
True or False
Newborn babies have no tears.
True
Newborn babies are unable to produce tears until around three weeks of age – this is because their tear ducts are not fully developed at birth.
100
True or False
Grasses make up about 50% of the plant life on earth.
False.
26%
100
True or False
Only male turkeys gobble.
True
Turkeys make a variety of different sounds such as “purrs,” “yelps,” and “kee-kees,” but the famous “gobble” call is only done by males during mating season.
100
True or False
Every 'c' in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
True
200
About ____% of babies are born with some sort of birth mark.
A. 35%
B. 50%
C. 80%
C. 80%
Most birth marks are caused by tiny blood vessels under the skin becoming dilated during labour and usually disappear after a few years.
200
A healthy lawn can increase a home's value by up to ___%.
A. 10%
B. 20%
C. 40%
B. 20%
200
Where do wild turkeys sleep?
A. behind trees
B. up in trees
B. up in trees
Turkeys spend most of their time on the ground, but when it’s time to sleep, they fly up into trees. This is because turkeys can’t see well at night, and to protect themselves from predators, they roost at dusk and fly down at dawn.
200
The longest bicycle in the world is over ___ feet long.
A. 40
B. 135
C. 220
B. 135
300
A baby has ____ times the amount of taste buds us adults have.
A. two
B. three
C. Four
B. Three
To be exact they have around 10,000! Babies start to develop taste buds all around the mouth during the last trimester of pregnancy.
300
True or False
St. Augustine and Zoysia are BOTH a type of grass.
True
300
A turkey's eyesight covers ____ degrees.
A. 100
B. 120
C. 180
D. 270
D. 270
300
Cucamelons (or "mouse melons") look like grape-sized watermelons but have a ______ flavor.
A. citrus
B. bitter
C. sweet
D. spicy
A. citrus
400
How many bones are newborns born with?
A. 50
B. 175
C. 300
D. 415
C. 300
Babies are born with almost 50% more bones than that of adults. The reason? A number of these bones fuse together during the first several years, bringing the total bones down to 206.
400
About 1,400 species of grasses exist in the United States.
A. 260
B. 770
C. 1,400
D. 3,000
C. 1,400
400
About how many turkeys are killed a year for Thanksgiving?
A. 23 million
B. 46 million
C. 68 million
D. 105 million
B. 46 million
That’s about one turkey for every person in Spain. To add, each turkey weighs about 30 pounds on average, which means Americans will consume 1.4 billion pounds of turkey.
400
What color was the incredible hulk originally supposed to be?
Gray
"Originally, [comic book writer] Stan Lee and [comic book artist] Jack Kirby intended the Hulk to be gray," according to Gizmodo, who explain that the color was "very much a riff on Mr. Hyde." But things didn't go as planned when "the printing press kept having trouble with the Hulk's color and he kept coming out green."