QUESTIONS

1. Strictly Come Dancing first aired in the UK in 2001
2. The Capital of Libya is Benghazi
3. The Great Wall of China is visible from Space
4. An Ostrich has the largest eye in the World
5. The tallest living man is 251cm/8ft 3 inches
6. A group of swans is known as a Bevy
7. Cyclones spin a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere
8. Olivia Newton-John represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, the year Abba won with Waterloo
9. Danny Jones is a member of the band McFly
10. The average person will shed 10 pounds of skin during their lifetime
11. From the ground to the torch, the Statue of Liberty is 93m high
12. Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson were married to the same woman
13. ‘A’ is the most common letter used in the English language
14. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest Mountain in the World
15. The name of Batman’s butler is Albert
16. The Great Fire of London happened in 1466
17. Vietnamese is an official language in Canada
18. ‘What Do You Mean’ was Justin Bieber’s first UK Number One Single
19. The 5 rings on the Olympic Flag are interlinking
20. The can opener was not invented until 45 years after the tin can
21. In the game of Monopoly, there are 28 properties up for grabs
22. Scallops can’t swim
23. John Bishop wrote the Flanimals books
24. A Koala’s diet consists of only mice and insects
25. In music, there are eight semiquavers in a minim
26. The Brazilian Wandering Spider is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world
27. Zucchinis and Courgettes are the same things
28. The Richter Scale is used to measure temperature and humidity
29. The Hyena is also known as the Laughing Jackass
30. British TV Series ‘Call the Midwife’ is a true story based on the memoirs of Jennifer worth
31. Until 1972, only property-owners were eligible to sit on British juries
32. It was illegal for women to wear buttons in fifteenth century Florence
33. In the US, more women are the victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year
34. Winston Churchill was once prosecuted for burglary
35. In Louisiana, it is a criminal offence, punishable by 10 years in jail, to steal an alligator
36. A student at Durham University in 1971 went to bed in the dark so she didn’t disturb her roommate. She woke up to find her friend murdered and the words ‘Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light!’ written in blood on the wall
37. It is illegal in Mississippi to tell someone what polygamy is
38. Lee Harvey Oswald was the first person to be assassinated on live TV
39. Al Capone was the first American to make $100 million a year
40. In China, the crime of smuggling rare animals is punishable by death
41. Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows
42. Chronomentrophobia is the fear of clocks
43. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
44. Hypnophobia is a fear of sleep or falling asleep
45. Peladophobia is the fear of bald people
46. Panophobia is the fear of everything
47. Logizomechanophobia is the fear of computers
48. Musophobia is the fear of mice
49. Nyctophobia is the fear of dark
50. Brontophobia is the fear of thunder
51. Vanilla is the most expensive spice in the World
52. In 2007 McDonald’s officially changed its name in China to Golden Arches
53. Tahini is the primary ingredient of hummus
54. Alliumphobia is a fear of garlic
55. According to a 2017 poll by YouGov, the UK’s favourite pizza topping is pepperoni
56. Cochineal (red) food colouring is derived from bugs of the same name
57. A new World record for the tallest pancake stack was set at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest in 2016
58. An orange contains more Vitamin C than Kiwi Fruit
59. Mrs Beeton was in her seventies when she wrote ‘The Book of Household Management’
60. There are around 200 seeds on the outside of an average strawberry
61. Singer Susan Boyle is a cousin of comedian Frankie Boyle
62. Madonna was once sacked from a job at Dunkin’ Donuts
63. Miley Cyrus’s real name is Destiny Hope Cyrus
64. Rock star Sting used to be a Milkman
65. Murderer Charles Manson auditioned to be one of the Monkees on the 1960s TV series
66. Walt Disney banned his employess from growing moustaches
67. As a child, One Direction star Harry Styles once represented his Country at Chess
68. After his death, Elvis Presley’s head was removed and buried in a secret location so that it wouldn’t be a target for thieves
69. Princess Diana once participated in a TV phone-poll and voted to abolish the monarchy
70. Actor Mark Wahlberg was once charged with attempted murder
71. Pirates used to make their victims walk the plank
72. All laptop computers in the USA sold since 2005 are fitted with secret ‘key-loggers’ that record whatever is typed on the computer and sends it to the Department of Homeland Security without the owners knowledge
73. A mayoral election in Ecuador was once won by a foot powder
74. The Titanic was the first ship to use SOS as a distress call
75. Red cars receive more speeding tickets than any other colour
76. A lobsters blood is blue
77. Peanuts are a key ingredient of dynamite
78. Coca-Cola is used by police for cleaning up blood after a traffic accident
79. Chocolate causes acne
80. A wedding ring is traditionally worn on the third finger of the left hand because Ancient Egyptians believed a vein ran from this finger directly to the heart
81. You use 300 muscles when balancing
82. A pregnant goldfish is called a ‘twit’
83. The Vikings wore horned helmets
84. The plastic bits on the ends of your shoelaces are called aglets
85. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
86. There is enough carbon in a human body to make 900 pencils
87. The World’s shortest war was between England and Zanzibar, and lasted between 38-45 minutes
88. Hair and Fingernails grow after death
89. Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed back on Earth
90. Cataract surgery was practiced in India several centuries before Christ
91. Alfred was the name of Batman’s butler
92. A tine is the name for the end of a shoelace
93. If a Polish flag is displayed upside-down, it becomes the Thailand flag
94. The second most-commonly used letter in the English language is ‘T’
95. The Lone Ranger’s real name was John Reid
96. Slugs do not have noses
97. Tonto’s horse was called Scout
98. It is estimated that 9% of the world’s dog population has only 3 legs
99. Magellan was the first man to travel around the earth
100. Bilbao is Spain’s largest port
101. Kansas is the flattest state in the USA
102. The Battle of Hastings took place on 14 October 1066
103. There are 1 million ants for every human in the World
104. The Scientific name for tennis elbow is ‘Tinea Pedis’
105. There are 10 players on a women’s lacrosse team
106. Justin Timberlake was the youngest member of 1990’s boy band ‘N Sync.’
107. The Nebula Awards celebrate work in the field of astronomy
108. Vladimir Zhirinovsky is the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
109. Switzerland has four official national languages
110. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous Period followed the Triassic Period
111. Britpop band Oasis were originally called The Rain
112. Christopher Lee, who played a James Bond villain, is Bond author Ian Flemings cousin
113. The longest river in the UK is the River Severn
114. Dalmatian dogs have pure white coats when they are born
115. Platform 9¾ is where Harry Potter boards the Hogwarts Express
116. In Disney’s The Jungle Book, the snakes name is Shere Khan
117. George Harrison was the youngest member of The Beatles
118. Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in 39 of his 52 major films
119. A musical octave consists of eight notes
120. A ton of bricks weighs more than a ton of feathers
121. English computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the World Wide Web
122. Rhinoceros horns are made from hair
123. A baby Whale is called a calf
124. Disney Princess Aurora is better known as the ‘Beauty’ in Beauty and the Beast
125. Spheksophobia is the fear of wasps
126. Frankenstein was the name of the monsters creator, not the monster itself
127. The dictator Idi Amin was also known as the ‘Butcher of Uganda’
128. India is the largest producer of films in the world
129. Although never the same, snowflakes always have six sides
130. Debbie Reynolds, star of the 1952 musical Singin’ In The Rain, is Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher’s mother
131. Al Capone’s first full name was Alphonso
132. Male mosquitoes don’t bite people
133. Sharks have a sixth sense to detect electricity and vibration
134. A whale is a type of fish
135. John Wayne never won an Oscar
136. The bar in the TV Show Cheers was situated below a restaurant called Melville’s Seafood
137. An ‘Ortanique’ is a fruit thats a cross between an orange and a grapefruit
138. Ziggy Stardust was Frank Zappa’s alter ego
139. In Golf, the fringe of the green is called the ‘apron’
140. Bumblebees live in nests with 50 to 400 bees
141. Margarine is better for you than butter
142. Women have thicker skin than men
143. 25% of all your bones are in your feet
144. Robot brick layers can lay six times more bricks a day as humans
145. The new plastic bank notes are indestructible
146. Camels store water in their humps
147. Treadmills were used as torture devices for prisoners
148. Humans and Bananas share 50% of their DNA
149. You cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva
150. You can fit the entire population of the world on the Isle of Wight
151. Bulls are attracted to the colour red
152. Waking a sleepwalker can do irreparable harm
153. Bananas will be extinct in the next 10 years
154. Your heart stops when you sneeze
155. Toads can give you warts
156. Coca-Cola was originally green
157. The first word spoken on the moon was ‘okay’
158. The record for the most children born to 1 woman is 69
159. Canada means ‘big village’
160. Apart from humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes