Randomish
What is the capital of Kuwait?
Kuwait City
How many degrees does the earth rotate each hour?
Fifteen.
360 degrees / 24 hours
Which is the only bird that is recognised to be able to fly backwards?
Hummingbird.
They also have the ability to fly upside down.
Which country is said to have invented yoga, shampoo and buttons?
India
Where in the body would you find the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones?
Ear
They are bones in the middle ear and also known as malleus (hammer), incus (anvil) and stapes (stirrup).
6÷2(1+2) = ?
9
According to the modern usage of order of operations.
Historical Usage (1917), which is not used anymore, the answer would have been 1
What actor said he feels the need, the need for speed?
Tom Cruise (in Top Gun)
What is Batman’s city?
Gotham City.
Batman is the name of a city in Turkey!
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
Sweden
over 220,000
Who famously, while drunk, once said: “My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly.”
Winston Churchill.
He also said: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life.
Which planet has a year that is longer than its day?
Venus
It takes 243 Earth days to rotate once – the longest rotation of any planet in the Solar System – and only 224.7 Earth days to complete an orbit of the Sun.
In minutes and seconds, how long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?
Accept an answer between 8 minutes and 9 minutes.
The short answer is that it takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth. And 1.3 seconds from the Moon.
Which American actor and filmmaker was born Mark Sinclair?
Vin Diesel
What do you call a group of bears?
A sloth (or sleuth)
What is the largest desert in the world?
Antarctica.
It is almost twice the size of the Sahara Desert, which comes in third place, after the Arctic. Most experts agree that a desert is an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters of precipitation a year.
Planet Earth is Mostly Iron 32%, Oxygen 30%, Magnesium 14% and ............... 15%
Silicon
What was the country known as Eswatini since 2018 formerly called?
Swaziland
In 2018, King Mswati III announced the Kingdom of Swaziland had renamed itself the Kingdom of Eswatini, to mark the 50th anniversary of Swazi independence. The new name, Eswatini, means "land of the Swazis" and was partially intended to prevent confusion with the similarly named Switzerland.
65 million years ago the dinosaurs died out in a period of time called what?
At the end of the Cretaceous Period
From the earliest (furthest back in time), the order in the Mesozoic period went Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.
What is the name of the nearest star to our sun?
Proxima Centauri (do not accept Alpha Centuari)
The closest star to Earth are three stars in the Alpha Centauri system. The two main stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which form a binary pair. They are an average of 4.3 light-years from Earth. The third star is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.22 light-years from Earth and is the closest star other than the sun.