Amazing Facts
How many bones do babies have at birth?
A 100 B 156
C 206 D 300
300. This allows them to be more flexible when leaving the birth canal. They fuse together and finally have 206 bones like adults.
What is the capital city of Scotland?
Edinburgh
What word beginning with 'R' means the art of persuasion?
Rhetoric
In the future, the Sun will become so bright and hot that it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth. This will happen in:
A 1 million years B 100 million years
C 1.1 billion years D 2.3 billion years
D 2.3 billion years
What is the capital city of France?
Paris
What word beginning with E relates to gaining the trust of an audience?
Ethos
Oranges were not always orange in colour. What colour were they originally when they were first brought to Europe from Asia?
The first oranges ever imported from to the West were from Southeast Asia were green in color.
In fact, oranges grown in warmer parts of the world such as Vietnam and Thailand stay green throughout their lifetime.
Belfast is the capital city of which UK country?
Northern Ireland
What word beginning with L relates to a person using facts and numbers to persuade?
Logos
What country on Earth has more land area (6 million square miles) than Pluto?
Russia
Moscow is the capital city of the biggest country in the world. What is it?
Russia
What word beginning with P relates to a person who provokes emotion in an audience?
Pathos
The queen uses her famous handbags for a special purpose. What is it?
To communicate non-verbally with her guards.
It is used by her to relay secret and silent messages to her staff.
For example, if she is finished speaking to a guest she will move it from one arm to another and her aides will politely end the conversation, or if she wants to abruptly end a conversation she will put her bag on the ground.
The ancient capital of Cairo is in which African country?
What is the name of the philosopher (beginning with A) who we are told invented rhetoric?
Aristotle