Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
What is Mount Everest.
100
If something is just floating around, or not settled. Apparently, English speakers said just "in the air" until the 1800s or so.
What is "up in the air"
100
Surgeons who play these at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer mistakes.
What is video games
100
According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of this is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
What is orange juice
100
I seem to have lost my phone number. Can.....
What is I have yours?
200
When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1 as the correct answer?
What is When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock.
200
It's believed that pioneer ladies created their candles by dipping wax in their own individual cauldrons of pots. If you didn't pay attention you might get burned!
What is "Mind your own beeswax"
200
Daniel Kish, a blind American uses this to navigate. He produces a clicking sound with his tongue then listens for the sound to bounce back. Similar to how bats hunt.
What is echolocation
200
An average adult produces about half a liter of this every day. Resulting in about 14 releases a day.
What is flatulence/gas
200
I bet you play soccer. Because you're....
What is a keeper
300
What has a head, a tail, is brown, but has no legs?
What is a Penny
300
Legend for this one says that American fairgrounds and carnivals used to hand out cigars for prizes. If you almost won you were.......
What is "Close, but no cigar."
300
Approximately 1,000,000 of these animals in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills.
What are dogs
300
One in three male motorists dopes this while driving
What is pick their nose
300
Do you work at Starbucks? Because I like you.....
What is a latte
400
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
What are Footsteps
400
The origin behind this story is rather silly. Merchants used to sell piglets off to farms in bags. If a customer was getting swindled, he may not notice until this happened...
What is "Let the cat out of the bag"
400
Written down, this 6 letter word is the longest word to have all of it's letter in alphabetical order. It also can mean nearly, just about, or not quite.
What is Almost
400
Your office desk contains 400 times more of these than a toilet.
What is bacteria/germs
400
Are you from Tennessee? Because you're the only.....
What is ten I see!
500
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What is your breath
500
Here's a rather unpleasant visual: Someone falls forward in death, and their shocked open mouth hits the dirt - in Biblical times the phrase appears as "licking the dust"
What is bites the dust/bit the dust
500
This word is itself an oxymoron. It derives from Ancient Greece where the fist part of the word means "sharp" and the second word means "stupid.
What is oxymoron
500
Each year, there are more than 40,000 injuries related to this often porcelain item in the United States.