Fun Facts and trivia Flashcards
Much less known facts
What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth?
Astatine
The ‘D’ in D-Day stands for what?
Day
Which planet has the shortest day in the Solar System?
Jupiter
What is the only country to have won the FIFA World Cup on four different continents?
Brazil
The word ‘alphabet’ comes from which two Greek letters?
Alpha and Beta
What is the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth?
The Krakatoa eruption in 1883
The only mammal capable of true flight is what?
Bat
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?
France
The HeLa cells used in medical research came from which woman?
Henrietta Lacks
What is the name of the fictional detective created by Agatha Christie?
Hercule Poirot
What is the most widely spoken constructed language?
Esperanto
The Guinness World Records book was originally created for what purpose?
Settling bar arguments
What is the deepest part of the world’s oceans?
Mariana Trench
The Nobel Prize was established by which inventor?
Alfred Nobel
What is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table?
J
The Great Fire of London in 1666 started in what type of shop?
A bakery
What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
The first synthetic element to be discovered was what?
Technetium
What is the highest-grossing movie of all time (adjusted for inflation)?
Gone with the Wind
What is the only wordless national anthem?
Spain’s national anthem (Marcha Real)
Which U.S. state has the most active volcanoes?
Alaska
The ‘M’ in ‘M&M’s’ candy stands for what?
Mars and Murrie
What is the only country that has a non-quadrilateral national flag?
Nepal
What is the coldest place in the known universe?
Boomerang Nebula
