Show:
NERDOUT
BRAIN PUZZLES
SCIENCE
HISTORY
RANDOM
100
What does USB stand for?
Universal Serial Bus
100
You meet a random person on the street and strike a conversation with him. He tells you that he has 2 children and that one of them is a boy. What is the probability that the other child is a boy?
1/3
100
In our solar system, name one of the two planets that are known as the ice giants.
Uranus or Neptune
100
What three countries were part of the Axis powers in World War II?
German, Italy, and Japan
100
In Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, who is Princess Aurora is betrothed to?
Prince Phillip
200
How many kilobytes are there in a terabyte?
1,000,000,000 or 1 billion
200
A is looking and B, but B is looking at C. A is married, but C is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
Yes. Consider the two cases: 1. B is married 2. B is unmarried Either way, there is a married person looking at an unmarried person.
200
Which two primary elements make up the alloy Bronze?
Copper and Tin
200
Who were there first two astronauts that landed on the moon in 1969?
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
200
Nintendo is a consumer electronics and video game company founded in what country?
Japan
300
What does CD-ROM stand for?
Compact Disc Read Only Memory
300
How many times does the minute hand cross the hour hand in a day?
22
300
SpaceX was founded by what South African-born inventor?
Elon Musk
300
The period of European history that lasted from the 14th to the the 17th century is known as what?
The Renaissance
300
Cynophobia is the fear of what kind of animal?
Dogs
400
In 1975, an engineer developed the first electronic camera while working for which company?
Kodak
400
You meet a man on the street and he says, “I have two children and one is a son born on a Tuesday.” What is the probability that the other child is also a son?
2/27
400
In humans, what is the only internal organ capable of regenerating lost tissue?
The Liver
400
Which American inventor is generally given credit for the invention of the lightning rod?
Benjamin Franklin
400
The first McDonald's restaurant openend in which U.S. state?
California
500
In database programming, what does SQL stand for?
Structured Query Language
500
If Teresa's daughter is my daughter's mother, who is Teresa to me?
Mother-in-law
500
The reaction where two atoms of hydrogen combine to form an atom of helium is called what?
Fusion
500
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president born in a what?
Hospital
500
Ruling for 64 years, which Queen was the longest-reigning British monarch before Queen Elizabeth II?
Queen Victoria