150 Questions

Strictly Come Dancing first aired in the UK in 2001	False (it was 2005)
The Capital of Libya is Benghazi	False (it is Tripoli)
The Great Wall of China is visible from Space	False
An Ostrich has the largest eye in the World	False (it is the Giant Squid)
The tallest living man is 251cm/8ft 3 inches	True
A group of swans is known as a Bevy	True
Cyclones spin a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere	True
Olivia Newton-John represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, the year Abba won with Waterloo	True
Danny Jones is a member of the band McFly	True
The average person will shed 10 pounds of skin during their lifetime	False (it is approx. 40 pounds)
From the ground to the torch, the Statue of Liberty is 93m high	True
Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson were married to the same woman	True
'A' is the most common letter used in the English language	False (it's E')
Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest Mountain in the World	False (it's Everest)
The name of Batman's butler is Albert	False (it's Alfred)
The Great Fire of London happened in 1466	False (it was 1666)
Vietnamese is an official language in Canada	False
'What Do You Mean' was Justin Bieber's first UK Number One Single	True
The 5 rings on the Olympic Flag are interlinking	True
The can opener was not invented until 45 years after the tin can	True
Alfred was the name of Batman's butler	True
A tine is the name for the end of a shoelace	False
If a Polish flag is displayed upside-down, it becomes the Thailand flag	True
The second most-commonly used letter in the English language is 'T'	True
The Lone Ranger's real name was John Reid	True
Slugs do not have noses	False
Tonto's horse was called Scout	True
It is estimated that 9% of the world's dog population has only 3 legs	False
Magellan was the first man to travel around the earth	False
Bilbao is Spain's largest port	True
Kansas is the flattest state in the USA?	False
The Battle of Hastings took place on 14 October 1066?	True
There are 1 million ants for every human in the World?	True
The Scientific name for tennis elbow is ‘Tinea Pedis’?	False
There are 10 players on a women’s lacrosse team?	False
Justin Timberlake was the youngest member of 1990’s boy band ‘N Sync.’?	True
The Nebula Awards celebrate work in the field of astronomy?	False
Vladimir Zhirinovsky is the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia?	True
Switzerland has four official national languages?	True
In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous Period followed the Triassic Period?	False
Britpop band Oasis were originally called The Rain	True
Christopher Lee, who played a James Bond villain, is Bond author Ian Flemings cousin	True
The longest river in the UK is the River Severn	True
Dalmatian dogs have pure white coats when they are born	True
Platform 9¾ is where Harry Potter boards the Hogwarts Express	True
In Disney's The Jungle Book, the snakes name is Shere Khan	False
George Harrison was the youngest member of The Beatles	True
Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in 39 of his 52 major films	True
A musical octave consists of eight notes	True
A ton of bricks weighs more than a ton of feathers	False
English computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the Word Wide Web	True
Rhinoceros horns are made from hair	True
A baby Whale is called a calf	True
Disney Princess Aurora is better known as the 'Beauty' in Beauty and the Beast	False
Spheksophobia is the fear of wasps	True
Frankenstein was the name of the monsters creator, not the monster itself	True
The dictator Idi Amin was also known as the 'Butcher of Uganda'	True
India is the largest producer of films in the world	True
Although never the same, snowflakes always have six sides	True
Debbie Reynolds, star of the 1952 musical Singin' In The Rain, is Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher's mother	True
Al Capone's first full name was Alphonso	True
Male mosquitoes don't bite people	True
Sharks have a sixth sense to detect electricity and vibration	True
A whale is a type of fish	False
John Wayne never won an Oscar	False
The bar in the TV Show Cheers was situated below a restaurant called Melville's Seafood	True
An 'Ortanique' is a fruit thats a cross between an orange and a grapefruit	False
Ziggy Stardust was Frank Zappa's alter ego	False
In Golf, the fringe of the green is called the 'apron'	True
Bumblebees live in nests with 50 to 400 bees	True
Margarine is better for you than butter	False
Women have thicker skin than men	False
25% of all your bones are in your feet	True
Robot brick layers can lay six times more bricks a day as humans	True
The new plastic bank notes are indestructible	False
Camels store water in their humps	False
Treadmills were used as torture devices for prisoners	True
Humans and Bananas share 50% of their DNA	True
You cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva	True
You can fit the entire population of the world on the Isle of Wight	False
Bulls are attracted to the colour red	False
Waking a sleepwalker can do irreparable harm	False
Bananas will be extinct in the next 10 years	False
Your heart stops when you sneeze	True
Toads can give you warts	False
Coca-Cola was originally green	False
The first word spoken on the moon was 'okay’	True
The record for the most children born to 1 woman is 69	True
Canada means 'big village’	True
Apart from humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes	True
You use 300 muscles when balancing	True
A pregnant goldfish is called a 'twit’	False
The Vikings wore horned helmets	False
The plastic bits on the ends of your shoelaces are called aglets	True
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows	True
There is enough carbon in a human body to make 900 pencils	True
The World's shortest war was between England and Zanzibar, and lasted between 38-45 minutes	True
Hair and Fingernails grow after death	False
Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed back on Earth	True
Cataract surgery was practiced in India several centuries before Christ	True
Pirates used to make their victims walk the plank	False
All laptop computers in the USA sold since 2005 are fitted with secret 'keyloggers' that record whatever is typed on the computer and sends it to the Department of Homeland Security without the owners knowledge	False
`A mayoral election in Ecuador was once won by a foot powder	True
The Titanic was the first ship to use SOS as a distress call	False
Red cars receive more speeding tickets than any other colour	False
A lobsters blood is blue	True
Peanuts are a key ingredient of dynamite	True
Coca-Cola is used by police for cleaning up blood after a traffic accident	False
Chocolate causes acne	False
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	True
In the game of Monopoly, there are 28 properties up for grabs	True
Scallops can’t swim	False
John Bishop wrote the Flanimals books	False
A Koala’s diet consists of only mice and insects	False
In music, there are eight semiquavers in a minim	True
The Brazilian Wandering Spider is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world	True
Zucchinis and Courgettes are the same things	True
The Richter Scale is used to measure temperature and humidity	False
The Hyena is also known as the Laughing Jackass	False
British TV Series ‘Call the Midwife’ is a true story based on the memoirs of Jennifer worth	True
Vanilla is the most expensive spice in the World	False
In 2007 McDonald's officially changed its name in China to Golden Arches	True
Tahini is the primary ingredient of hummus	False
Alliumphobia is a fear of garlic	True
According to a 2017 poll by YouGov, the UK's favourite pizza topping is pepperoni	False
Cochineal (red) food colouring is derived from bugs of the same name	True
A new World record for the tallest pancake stack was set at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest in 2016	True
An orange contains more Vitamin C than Kiwi Fruit	False
Mrs Beeton was in her seventies when she wrote 'The Book of Household Management’	False
There are around 200 seeds on the outside of an average strawberry	True
Until 1972, only property-owners were eligible to sit on British juries	True
It was illegal for women to wear buttons in fifteenth century Florence	True
In the US, more women are the victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year	False
Winston Churchill was once prosecuted for burglary	False
In Louisiana, it is a criminal offence, punishable by 10 years in jail, to steal an alligator	True
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	False
It is illegal in Mississippi to tell someone what polygamy is	True
Lee Harvey Oswald was the first person to be assassinated on live TV	True
Al Capone was the first American to make $100 million a year	False
In China, the crime of smuggling rare animals is punishable by death	False
Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows	True
Chronomentrophobia is the fear of clocks	True
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words	True
Hypnophobia is a fear of sleep or falling asleep	True
Peladophobia is the fear of bald people	True
Panophobia is the fear of everything	True
Logizomechanophobia is the fear of computers	True
Musophobia is the fear of mice	True
Nyctophobia is the fear of dark	True
Brontophobia is the fear of thunder	True

 

 

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