Interesting/Technical Facts

Question 1

What bird is the only bird that blinks with it’s upper eyelid instead of it’s lower?

Answer 1

The owl

Question 2

When you blush, what else turnes red besides your cheeks?

Answer 2

The lining of your stomach.

Question 3

When was the first traffic light set up?

Answer 3

In Cleveland Ohio, in 1914

Question 4

How can chewing relate to if your left or right handed?

Answer 4

Right handed people tend to chew on their right side. Same with left.

Question 5

What vegetable is grown in the largest quantities?

Answer 5

Potato and Tomato

Question 6

What vegetable is most widely used?

Answer 6

The Onion

Question 7

What does the eye do when it looks at something pleasing?

Answer 7

It expands as much as 45 percent

Question 8

What is the plastic at the end of shoelaces called?

Answer 8

anglers

Question 9

What does CIA stand for

Answer 9

Central Intelligence Agency (created in 1947)

Question 10

What does FBI stand for

Answer 10

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Question 11

What does WMD stand for

Answer 11

Weapons of Mass Distruction

Question 12

What day does the hedgehog come out to see it’s shadow?

Answer 12

Feburary 2

Question 13

How far can Kangaroos jump?

Answer 13

up to 30ft

Question 14

What was the first ship to use SOS?

Answer 14

The titanic

Question 15

What is different between your left and right lung?

Answer 15

The left lung is smaller to make room for the heart.

Question 16

What are the only two animals that can see behind them without turning their head?

Answer 16

The Rabbit and parrot

Question 17

What does ICBM mean?

Answer 17

Intercontinental ballistic Missile

Question 18

How far can a ICBM travel?

Answer 18

Up to 3,100mi

Question 19

What does MIRVs stand for and what are they?

Answer 19

Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicles.

Can carry several warheads each designed to hit defferent targets like cities.

Question 20

What are AGM-129As?

Answer 20

Air to ground cruise missiles.

Can travel up to 500mph

Question 21

What are in AGM-129As?

Answer 21

They carry w-80 warheads which are sub based ballistic nuclear missiles

Question 22

What does ALCM stand for?

Answer 22

Air launched cruise missiles. Started in 1990

Question 23

How distructive are ALCM?

Answer 23

150 kilotons (100mil lb of dynamite!)

Question 24

Who printed the first book?

Answer 24

Johann Gutenberg (German) printed the bible in 1455

Question 25

How many coppies did Johann print

Answer 25

200 but only 21 complete copies exist today

Question 26

What happens every time you sneeze?

Answer 26

Some of your brain cells die.

Question 27

What happens when a hippo gets mad?

Answer 27

It's sweat turns red!

Question 28

How far do most soccer players run in a single game?

Answer 28

Up to 7 mi

Question 29

What makes the roar in a sea shell?

Answer 29

The blood surging throughthe veings in your ear.

Question 30

Where do people never eat oats?

Answer 30

Hungry

Question 31

When would your thirst mechanism shut off?

Answer 31

When you are dehydrated. Keep drinking water.

Question 32

What do inelligent people have more of?

Answer 32

Zinc and Copper in their hair.

Question 33

What month is the amethyst the birthstone of?

Answer 33

February

Question 34

What continues to grow even after you die?

Answer 34

Human hair and fingernails

Question 35

How many babies are born a day?

Answer 35

400,000

Question 36

How many people die daily?

Answer 36

140,000

Question 37

What day is National Pie Day?

Answer 37

January 23rd

Question 38

How many mi around the world?

Answer 38

24,906 mi

Question 39

How much presure does the heart create while pumping?

Answer 39

Enough to squirt blood 30ft

Question 40

What is the birthstone for February?

Answer 40

The Amethyst

Question 41

Which contries drives the most cars?

Answer 41

Americans

Question 42

How many cars are daily on the road?

Answer 42

110 million (1 for every 2 people)

Question 43

How many Americans have driving licenses?

Answer 43

140 million

Question 44

What breed of dog bites humans the most often?

Answer 44

German Shepherds

Question 45

What is the birthstone for January?

Answer 45

Garnet

Question 46

What about the motion of the whip creates the cracking sound?

Answer 46

The tip is going faster than sound.

Question 47

What is the cracking sound in your knuckles?

Answer 47

Nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Question 48

Which gender blinks more often?

Answer 48

Woman blink twice as much as men.

Question 49

What's the difference between mens and ladies shirts?

Answer 49

Woman's shirts have buttons on the left, men's shirts have buttons on the right.

Question 50

How often does an average person laugh daily?

Answer 50

From 10 - 13 times

Question 51

How long does it take for blood to cycle through your whole body?

Answer 51

20 sec

Question 52

What do bats always do when leaving a cave?

Answer 52

Turn left.

Question 53

When was the first Harley Davidson build?

Answer 53

1903

Question 54

When did the USA ratify the Lousioans purchase?

Answer 54

Oct 20,1803

Question 55

How many steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower?

Answer 55

1,792

Question 56

What gender of masquitoes bite?

Answer 56

Only the Female

Question 57

When was the first transfusion on blood given?

Answer 57

1667

Question 58

Birthstone of March

Answer 58

Bloodstone, Aquamarine

Question 59

Birthstone of April

Answer 59

Diamond

Question 60

Birthstone of May

Answer 60

Emerald