Ancient Stuff
It's a custom that began in ancient times as a test of physical strength.
What is blowing out the candles?
Female preying mantises eat this while mating.
What is their mate?
Some of our body parts may become "extinct." This tooth may be next to go extinct.
What is a wisdom tooth? (they serve no real purpose today)
You should always remove these before entering a Japanese home.
What are your shoes? (so they don't damage the straw mats on the floor)
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, invented these.
What are suspenders?
The color of beans the ancient Romans refused to eat.
What is black? (They believed black bean contained people's souls, and they were afraid they might eat their own.)
This is the only animal whose testimony is allowed in a courtroom.
What is a bloodhound?
If you saved all the saliva you make in a day, you would need a container of this size.
What is a quart jar?
This language has the most words.
What is English? (It has about 800,000 words, although few people use more than 60,000 in a lifetime.)
The Wright Brothers' first successful airplane flight lasted this long.
What is 12 seconds?
In ancient Egypt, you could be executed for harming this royal animal.
What is a cat?
Camels store this in their humps.
What is fat? (a camel's water supply is distributed throughout its body)
This is the heaviest organ inside of your body.
What is your liver? (weighs about 3 1/2 pounds)
Tibetan children do this to greet others.
What is sticking out their tongue?
Americans spend more money on this, than they do on baby food.
What is dog food?
The palace garden of the Inca emperor was filled with plant and animal statues made of this.
What is gold? (the sacred metal of the Inca sun god)
These two barnyard animals can produce an offspring called a "geep".
What is a goat and a sheep?
When you sneeze, the spray shoots out of your nose at this speed.
What is 100 mph? (hurricane force!)
In Hong Kong, you send yellow flowers for this reason.
What is to end a friendship?
George Washington's table silver was used to make these.
What are coins? (the first coins were minted in 1792 in Philadelphia)
Ancient Greek women counted their age from the date of this.
What is their wedding?
The whistling swan has 25,000 feathers, more than any other bird. This bird has the fewest feathers.
What is a hummingbird?
These are the 2 main ingredients in ear wax.
What is oil and sweat?
In Brazil, it is unlucky to hand a fellow diner this object.
What is a salt shaker?
This is the biggest object ever to disappear completely in quicksand.
What is a train? (in Colorado in 1875)