Others Flashcards
How many Europeans were conceived on an IKEA bed?
10%
What percentage of the human race didn’t survive beyond their first birthday?
40%
How much blood does a heart pump in a life time?
Enough to fill three supertankers.
What is the most commonly used noun in the English language ?
Time.
What percentage of all the worlds photographs were taken in the last 12 months?
10%
How many words are written on twitter everyday ?
Enough to fill a 10 million page book.
How many times will a person walk around the world?
3 times.
What was wrong with the first book published in Oxford?
There was a wrong date on the first page.
How many Russians think the sun goes around the earth?
One third.
What percentage of Americans think the earth is less than 10,000 years old?
46%
What is an interesting fact about Argentina and 8?
It is the 8th largest country in the world and has the 8th largest Jewish population.
When did the USA have no national dept?
8th January 1835
What percentage does the mafia account of Italy’s GDP? How much does it make annually?
It makes $178 billion a year and makes 7% of the GDP.
What is similar about George W Bush and Saddam Hussein?
Their shoes were made by the same Italian cobbler.
What is similar about the bunkers of Saddam and Hitler?
Saddam’s bunker was designed by the grandson of the women who built Hitler’s bunker.
How long did Da Vinci spend on the Mona Lisa ?
15 years.
What is the average age of diamonds?
3 billion years.
What links Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh and King Charles I have in common?
They all had pierced ears.
How much ammunition does it take to kill an insurgent in Afghanistan and Iraq?
250,000 bullets (three tonnes)
How often does a language die?
Every 14 days.
What has killed the most Falklands Veterans?
More have committed suicide after than died in the war.
How much money do you have to earn a year to be in the top 4% of rich people on the planet?
£14,000
What is the relationship between atoms in a teaspoon of water and the Atlantic Ocean?
There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoon of water, than there are teaspoons full of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
How many Olympic swimming pools would it take to hold all the gold mined in human history ?
Three and a half.
In 2011 , how many peas did Birds Eye sell?
225 billion, or enough to fill 40 Olympic swimming pools.
Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?
Edmund Hillary.
What did Edmund Hillary do for a living?
He was a professional beekeeper. When filling forms, he always gave his occupation as apiarist.
How much do all the ants in the world weight?
The 10,000 trillion ants weigh as much as all the humans.
Biologically speaking, what is a bug?
An insect that sucks.
What can psychologists not agree on?
What personality means.
What can biologists not agree on?
The definitions of “species” , “organism” or “life”
How high would a tower made of all the Lego in the world, clipped together, one on top of the other?
It would go to the moon and back ten times.
How many guinea pigs do Peruvians eat a year?
60 million.
In Switzerland what can’t you do with a guinea pig?
It is illegal to keep only one.
What is 10% of US electricity made of?
Dismantled soviet atomic bombs.
Compare the amount of carpeted houses in the UK to Italy.
In the UK , 98% of houses have carpeted floors,, in Italy this value is 2%
How many calories are there in the glue on the back of a stamp?
5.9 calories.
How much energy could all the batteries in the world store?
Enough electricity to power the world for 10 minutes.
What is the dialling code for Russia?
007
How long have humans been playing world of war craft?
They have been playing collectively it longer than they have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees.
In 2010, how much did the BBC spend on tea and biscuits.
£230,000 on tea but only £2,000 on biscuits.
How is caffeine similar to cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin?
They are all made of carbon,hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
How much do world wide sales of cocaine make?
More than Microsoft, McDonalds and Kellogg’s combined.
What did Felix Hoffman do?
Invested heroin and aspirin in the same year.(1897)
What is the effect of doctors bad hand writing in America?
7000 die and 1,500,000 are injured.
How many blind or visually impaired people in the UK read Braille?
Less than 5%
In 2012 what did Apple have more of than the US govenment?
Money in the bank.
Compare the number of PR people in America to the number of journalists?
There are three times as many PR people than journalists.
During the Blitz, what did all but one of the ravens in the tower or London do?
Die of stress.
How much does the UK retail industry make a year by people not redeeming gift cards?
£250 million.
Where is the Dyslexia Research Centre located?
Reading.
How big was the Danish army in the 12th century?
It consisted of 7 men.
How many patents does the technology behind a smart phone depend on?
250,000
How much does the water in a blue whales mouth weigh?
As much as the whole whale.
If a Victorian couldn’t afford a chimney sweep, what would they do?
Drop live geese down the chimney instead.
How are gerbils used by airport security?
They can smell adrenaline and are installed in airport security to detect terrorists.
What is the probability of dyeing in a plane crash in compassion of being eaten by a mountain lion.
The plane crash is three times more likely.
Where were the ashes of the person who designed the Pringles can put?
They were buried in one.
Which person alive today, is related to Vlad the Impaler.
The queen
On a clear moonless light, what can the human eye detect?
A match being struck 50 miles away.
What did customers not do when supermarkets first opened in the UK?
There didn’t pick things up as they feared being told off.
What could Harry Houdini do with this eye lashes and toes?
Pick up pins and thread needles respectively.
What has made aerosmith the most money?
Guitar hero has made them more money than any of their albums.
What was one of the effects of matt smith becoming the doctor?
UK bow tie sales doubled in a month.
How many atoms are there in the human body?
7 billion billion billion.
How often are the atoms in the body replaced?
98% of them are replaced every year.
How many people in Central Asia are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
One in ten.
How far would a piece of paper folded 51 times go?
It’s distance would exceed the distance from here to the sun.
What is Michael J Fox’s middle name?
Andrew.
How many people executed for murder in the US have the middle name Wayne?
1 in 50
Are you more likely to die on your birthday? by how much?
You are 14% more likely to die on your birth day than any other day.
Which part of a microwave uses the most electricity ?
The clock uses more than heating the food.
What part of cars kill the most people?
The emissions produced kill more than the accidents.
What is the only way of buying cannabis in the US legally ?
As bird seed.
How much food do Tour de France riders need to eat a day?
The equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.
How many pieces of toast could be cooked with a single bolt of lightning?
100,000
What did the first ever edition of the daily mirror come with?
A free mirror
What was the Bank of America originally called?
The bank of Italy.
What could you do with all the salt in the seas?
Evenly cover all land with 500 feet of salt.
How many different words are in the works of Shakespeare ? Compare it to the vocabulary of the average English speaker?
20,000 different words which is half the vocabulary.
Who is the patron saint of oversleeping?
St Vitus
What would happen if a marsh mellow travelled a Mach 1.6 at sea level?
This is 1,218 MPH. It would melt with air resistance from the air.
What is french for paper clip?
Trombone.
What was in income of the Catholic Church in 2010?
$97 billion.
What is odd about the written Arabic word?
Words are written right to left, numbers are written left to right. A person may have to read in both directions at once if a text has a lot of numbers in it.
How invented the thesaurus and the slide rule?
Peter mark Roget
What did Plato think the smallest particle was?
He thought there were tiny right angled triangles.
When did people think the earth was round ?
From 500 BC onwards.
What has inspired the most pop song lyrics?
The King James Bible.
How many Christian demonisation are there?
34,000
For how long where there tins but no tin openers ?
48 years.
When was the screwdriver invented in relation to the screw? What was it used for?
A hundred years before the screw. It was used to extract nails.
What are the main predators of flamingos ?
Zoo keepers.
How much information is in a sperm?
37.5 MB. There are 15,875 GB to an ejaculation.
What is special about the boa constrictor?
It is the only living animal whose animal whose common name is the same as the scientific one.
How did the people of Kuwait celebrate the end of the first gulf war?
They fired weapons in the air. This killed 20 people.
When WW2 broke out, what did the zoo keepers in London zoo do?
Kill all the poisons insects and snakes so they couldn’t escape if the zoo was bombed.
What does the wildlife and country side act explicitly say you can’t do to a hedgehog?
Kill it with a machine gun
In Ancient Greek, what does idiot mean?
Anyone who isn’t a politician.
What does Harvard University have the biggest collection of ?
Ants
How many different shades of colour can the human eye detect?
10 million.
Between 1960 and 1977, what was the secret number that allowed the US president to launch nuclear missiles?
00000000
Which puts out more radiation into the air? A nuclear or coal power station?
The coal one puts out 100 times more radiation when producing the same amount of energy.
What is the strongest organism compared to its weight?
The gonorrhoea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own weight.
In 1997 how many people went to hospital with tea cosy related injuries?
39
Where is 95% of the worlds data stored?
On paper.
What do you know about the next person who will walk on the moon?
He will probably be Chinese.
How many babies born in China by Caesarean section?
Almost half
Per gram per second, which uses more energy? A sun flower or the sun?
The sun flower.
What uses a fifth of the electricity in Namibia?
A single zinc mine.
How long does it take to hard boil an ostrich egg?
An hour and a half.
What did Andy Warhol always wear?
Green underpants
What Russians not have a word for?
Blue. They do have words for light or dark blue.
How long has Wikipedia taken to write?
100 million man hours which is the same amount of time Americans spend watching TV ads in a single weekend.
What are established writers and artists 18 times more likely to do than the general population?
Kill themselves.
What is the E number of gold?
E175
How is trinity collage Cambridge better than Italy?
It has won more noble prizes than the whole of Italy.
How many neutrinos does the sun emit in 3 seconds?
More neutrinos than the number of atoms in all the humans than have ever lived.
What so shark embryos do?
Attack and eat each other while in the womb when they develop teeth.
What is special about something found in saliva?
It contains the painkiller opiorphin which is six times more powerful than morphine.
How many hamburgers can you get from a cow?
4000
How many McDonalds hamburgers are eaten a minute?
4000
What is the value of the gold in all the oceans?
£283 trillion or about 30 times the US national debt.
How much more does a full kindle weigh compared to a new one?
A billionth of a billionth of a gram more.
How many frogs go ribbit?
Only one species of the 4,800 species.
What are Kanye North and Kanye south?
Parliamentary constituencies in Botswana.
What percentage of women describe themselves are beautiful?
2%
40%
What percentage of the human race didn’t survive beyond their first birthday?
10%
How many Europeans were conceived on an IKEA bed?
Enough to fill three supertankers.
How much blood does a heart pump in a life time?
Time.
What is the most commonly used noun in the English language ?
10%
What percentage of all the worlds photographs were taken in the last 12 months?
Enough to fill a 10 million page book.
How many words are written on twitter everyday ?
3 times.
How many times will a person walk around the world?
There was a wrong date on the first page.
What was wrong with the first book published in Oxford?
One third.
How many Russians think the sun goes around the earth?
46%
What percentage of Americans think the earth is less than 10,000 years old?
It is the 8th largest country in the world and has the 8th largest Jewish population.
What is an interesting fact about Argentina and 8?
8th January 1835
When did the USA have no national dept?
It makes $178 billion a year and makes 7% of the GDP.
What percentage does the mafia account of Italy’s GDP? How much does it make annually?
Their shoes were made by the same Italian cobbler.
What is similar about George W Bush and Saddam Hussein?
Saddam’s bunker was designed by the grandson of the women who built Hitler’s bunker.
What is similar about the bunkers of Saddam and Hitler?
15 years.
How long did Da Vinci spend on the Mona Lisa ?
3 billion years.
What is the average age of diamonds?
They all had pierced ears.
What links Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh and King Charles I have in common?
250,000 bullets (three tonnes)
How much ammunition does it take to kill an insurgent in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Every 14 days.
How often does a language die?
More have committed suicide after than died in the war.
What has killed the most Falklands Veterans?
£14,000
How much money do you have to earn a year to be in the top 4% of rich people on the planet?
There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoon of water, than there are teaspoons full of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the relationship between atoms in a teaspoon of water and the Atlantic Ocean?
Three and a half.
How many Olympic swimming pools would it take to hold all the gold mined in human history ?
225 billion, or enough to fill 40 Olympic swimming pools.
In 2011 , how many peas did Birds Eye sell?
Edmund Hillary.
Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?
He was a professional beekeeper. When filling forms, he always gave his occupation as apiarist.
What did Edmund Hillary do for a living?
The 10,000 trillion ants weigh as much as all the humans.
How much do all the ants in the world weight?
An insect that sucks.
Biologically speaking, what is a bug?
What personality means.
What can psychologists not agree on?
The definitions of “species” , “organism” or “life”
What can biologists not agree on?
It would go to the moon and back ten times.
How high would a tower made of all the Lego in the world, clipped together, one on top of the other?
60 million.
How many guinea pigs do Peruvians eat a year?
It is illegal to keep only one.
In Switzerland what can’t you do with a guinea pig?
Dismantled soviet atomic bombs.
What is 10% of US electricity made of?
In the UK , 98% of houses have carpeted floors,, in Italy this value is 2%
Compare the amount of carpeted houses in the UK to Italy.
5.9 calories.
How many calories are there in the glue on the back of a stamp?
Enough electricity to power the world for 10 minutes.
How much energy could all the batteries in the world store?
007
What is the dialling code for Russia?
They have been playing collectively it longer than they have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees.
How long have humans been playing world of war craft?
£230,000 on tea but only £2,000 on biscuits.
In 2010, how much did the BBC spend on tea and biscuits.
They are all made of carbon,hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
How is caffeine similar to cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin?
More than Microsoft, McDonalds and Kellogg’s combined.
How much do world wide sales of cocaine make?
Invested heroin and aspirin in the same year.(1897)
What did Felix Hoffman do?
7000 die and 1,500,000 are injured.
What is the effect of doctors bad hand writing in America?
Less than 5%
How many blind or visually impaired people in the UK read Braille?
Money in the bank.
In 2012 what did Apple have more of than the US govenment?
There are three times as many PR people than journalists.
Compare the number of PR people in America to the number of journalists?
Die of stress.
During the Blitz, what did all but one of the ravens in the tower or London do?
£250 million.
How much does the UK retail industry make a year by people not redeeming gift cards?
Reading.
Where is the Dyslexia Research Centre located?
It consisted of 7 men.
How big was the Danish army in the 12th century?
250,000
How many patents does the technology behind a smart phone depend on?
As much as the whole whale.
How much does the water in a blue whales mouth weigh?
Drop live geese down the chimney instead.
If a Victorian couldn’t afford a chimney sweep, what would they do?
They can smell adrenaline and are installed in airport security to detect terrorists.
How are gerbils used by airport security?
The plane crash is three times more likely.
What is the probability of dyeing in a plane crash in compassion of being eaten by a mountain lion.
They were buried in one.
Where were the ashes of the person who designed the Pringles can put?
The queen
Which person alive today, is related to Vlad the Impaler.
A match being struck 50 miles away.
On a clear moonless light, what can the human eye detect?
There didn’t pick things up as they feared being told off.
What did customers not do when supermarkets first opened in the UK?
Pick up pins and thread needles respectively.
What could Harry Houdini do with this eye lashes and toes?
Guitar hero has made them more money than any of their albums.
What has made aerosmith the most money?
UK bow tie sales doubled in a month.
What was one of the effects of matt smith becoming the doctor?
7 billion billion billion.
How many atoms are there in the human body?
98% of them are replaced every year.
How often are the atoms in the body replaced?
One in ten.
How many people in Central Asia are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
It’s distance would exceed the distance from here to the sun.
How far would a piece of paper folded 51 times go?
Andrew.
What is Michael J Fox’s middle name?
1 in 50
How many people executed for murder in the US have the middle name Wayne?
You are 14% more likely to die on your birth day than any other day.
Are you more likely to die on your birthday? by how much?
The clock uses more than heating the food.
Which part of a microwave uses the most electricity ?
The emissions produced kill more than the accidents.
What part of cars kill the most people?
As bird seed.
What is the only way of buying cannabis in the US legally ?
The equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.
How much food do Tour de France riders need to eat a day?
100,000
How many pieces of toast could be cooked with a single bolt of lightning?
A free mirror
What did the first ever edition of the daily mirror come with?
The bank of Italy.
What was the Bank of America originally called?
Evenly cover all land with 500 feet of salt.
What could you do with all the salt in the seas?
20,000 different words which is half the vocabulary.
How many different words are in the works of Shakespeare ? Compare it to the vocabulary of the average English speaker?
St Vitus
Who is the patron saint of oversleeping?
This is 1,218 MPH. It would melt with air resistance from the air.
What would happen if a marsh mellow travelled a Mach 1.6 at sea level?
Trombone.
What is french for paper clip?
$97 billion.
What was in income of the Catholic Church in 2010?
Words are written right to left, numbers are written left to right. A person may have to read in both directions at once if a text has a lot of numbers in it.
What is odd about the written Arabic word?
Peter mark Roget
How invented the thesaurus and the slide rule?
He thought there were tiny right angled triangles.
What did Plato think the smallest particle was?
From 500 BC onwards.
When did people think the earth was round ?
The King James Bible.
What has inspired the most pop song lyrics?
34,000
How many Christian demonisation are there?
48 years.
For how long where there tins but no tin openers ?
A hundred years before the screw. It was used to extract nails.
When was the screwdriver invented in relation to the screw? What was it used for?
Zoo keepers.
What are the main predators of flamingos ?
37.5 MB. There are 15,875 GB to an ejaculation.
How much information is in a sperm?
It is the only living animal whose animal whose common name is the same as the scientific one.
What is special about the boa constrictor?
They fired weapons in the air. This killed 20 people.
How did the people of Kuwait celebrate the end of the first gulf war?
Kill all the poisons insects and snakes so they couldn’t escape if the zoo was bombed.
When WW2 broke out, what did the zoo keepers in London zoo do?
Kill it with a machine gun
What does the wildlife and country side act explicitly say you can’t do to a hedgehog?
Anyone who isn’t a politician.
In Ancient Greek, what does idiot mean?
Ants
What does Harvard University have the biggest collection of ?
10 million.
How many different shades of colour can the human eye detect?
00000000
Between 1960 and 1977, what was the secret number that allowed the US president to launch nuclear missiles?
The coal one puts out 100 times more radiation when producing the same amount of energy.
Which puts out more radiation into the air? A nuclear or coal power station?
The gonorrhoea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own weight.
What is the strongest organism compared to its weight?
39
In 1997 how many people went to hospital with tea cosy related injuries?
On paper.
Where is 95% of the worlds data stored?
He will probably be Chinese.
What do you know about the next person who will walk on the moon?
Almost half
How many babies born in China by Caesarean section?
The sun flower.
Per gram per second, which uses more energy? A sun flower or the sun?
A single zinc mine.
What uses a fifth of the electricity in Namibia?
An hour and a half.
How long does it take to hard boil an ostrich egg?
Green underpants
What did Andy Warhol always wear?
Blue. They do have words for light or dark blue.
What Russians not have a word for?
100 million man hours which is the same amount of time Americans spend watching TV ads in a single weekend.
How long has Wikipedia taken to write?
Kill themselves.
What are established writers and artists 18 times more likely to do than the general population?
E175
What is the E number of gold?
It has won more noble prizes than the whole of Italy.
How is trinity collage Cambridge better than Italy?
More neutrinos than the number of atoms in all the humans than have ever lived.
How many neutrinos does the sun emit in 3 seconds?
Attack and eat each other while in the womb when they develop teeth.
What so shark embryos do?
It contains the painkiller opiorphin which is six times more powerful than morphine.
What is special about something found in saliva?
4000
How many hamburgers can you get from a cow?
4000
How many McDonalds hamburgers are eaten a minute?
£283 trillion or about 30 times the US national debt.
What is the value of the gold in all the oceans?
A billionth of a billionth of a gram more.
How much more does a full kindle weigh compared to a new one?
Only one species of the 4,800 species.
How many frogs go ribbit?
Parliamentary constituencies in Botswana.
What are Kanye North and Kanye south?
2%
What percentage of women describe themselves are beautiful?
what is similar about french, hungarian, spanish, irish, Italin, Portuguease, latvian, serbian, craotioan, Bosnian, Montenegrin and tagalog?
the words for time and weather are the same
How many earthquakes are there a year in britain?
How mnay people have ever died from one?
300 and 11
where does 95%of the lead in bullets used in the british army come from?
recylced materials
How mnay tweets does teh CIA read a day?
5 million.
What is similar about sending a man to the moon and finding Osama Bin Laden?
They both cost the US govenment $100 billion and took 10 years.
how much does the ISS cost in comparison to gold?
it costs more than 30 times its weight in gold
What does cocaine do to your chances of having a heart attack?
Increases it by 2400% in the next hour.
What is funny about the welsh language?
it has no single word for yes or no
what is the wordl’s leader exporter of raspberries?
Serbia
what does esposas mean in spanish?
it means wives and hadcuffs
Boghandler
Danish for bookseller
How far can the average pencil write?
45,000 words or a line 35 miles long
What is the companies act?
it is the longest act in history. It is so complex that most british companies break it 6 times a day without knowing
where do 90% of all british blackcurrents go?
Into making Ribena
Why is nutmeg illegal in saudi Arabia?
it is hallucinogenic if eaten in large quantities.
What do Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo all mean in there respecitive languages?
capital
What does skoda mean in czech?
damage
what is odd about at least 109 journeys on the london undergroud?
there are quicker to walk
How many slaves are there in the world today?
27 million which is more than were ever seized from africa in the 400 years of the slave trade.
what does milk chocolate have one and a half times more of than coca-coca?
caffine
How many bars of cadbury’s dairy milk chocolate are needed to kill a man?
40
How much does it cost to keep a person in prison for a year in the Uk?
£45,000 or one and a half times as much as sending them to Eton.
Where does nearly all the Botox in the world come from?
a single factory in Ireland
How much botulinum toxin would it take to kill everyone on the planet?
227 grams
Batology
study of blackberries
before the renaissance, how many books in the world were chinese?
75%
What is odd about the Icelandic language?
Icelandic contains two Cs but the language has none.
What is specile about the muscles in the crocodile’s jaws?
The ones that close the jaw exert a force equivalent to a truck falling off a cliff but the ones that open it are so weak they can be kept shut by a rubber band
What does Royal mail spend £1 million on every year?
buying a billion red rubber bands
What has been left on the moon by the Apollo missions?
6 vehicles and 50 tonnes of litter
How large would a lump of all the asteroids in the solar system be?
smaller than the moon
How many people have an allegie in the UK and how many think they do?
2% and 20%
the words for time and weather are the same
what is similar about french, hungarian, spanish, irish, Italin, Portuguease, latvian, serbian, craotioan, Bosnian, Montenegrin and tagalog?
300 and 11
How many earthquakes are there a year in britain?
How mnay people have ever died from one?
recylced materials
where does 95%of the lead in bullets used in the british army come from?
5 million.
How mnay tweets does teh CIA read a day?
They both cost the US govenment $100 billion and took 10 years.
What is similar about sending a man to the moon and finding Osama Bin Laden?
it costs more than 30 times its weight in gold
how much does the ISS cost in comparison to gold?
Increases it by 2400% in the next hour.
What does cocaine do to your chances of having a heart attack?
it has no single word for yes or no
What is funny about the welsh language?
Serbia
what is the wordl’s leader exporter of raspberries?
it means wives and hadcuffs
what does esposas mean in spanish?
Danish for bookseller
Boghandler
45,000 words or a line 35 miles long
How far can the average pencil write?
it is the longest act in history. It is so complex that most british companies break it 6 times a day without knowing
What is the companies act?
Into making Ribena
where do 90% of all british blackcurrents go?
it is hallucinogenic if eaten in large quantities.
Why is nutmeg illegal in saudi Arabia?
capital
What do Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo all mean in there respecitive languages?
damage
What does skoda mean in czech?
there are quicker to walk
what is odd about at least 109 journeys on the london undergroud?
27 million which is more than were ever seized from africa in the 400 years of the slave trade.
How many slaves are there in the world today?
caffine
what does milk chocolate have one and a half times more of than coca-coca?
40
How many bars of cadbury’s dairy milk chocolate are needed to kill a man?
£45,000 or one and a half times as much as sending them to Eton.
How much does it cost to keep a person in prison for a year in the Uk?
a single factory in Ireland
Where does nearly all the Botox in the world come from?
227 grams
How much botulinum toxin would it take to kill everyone on the planet?
study of blackberries
Batology
75%
before the renaissance, how many books in the world were chinese?
Icelandic contains two Cs but the language has none.
What is odd about the Icelandic language?
The ones that close the jaw exert a force equivalent to a truck falling off a cliff but the ones that open it are so weak they can be kept shut by a rubber band
What is specile about the muscles in the crocodile’s jaws?
buying a billion red rubber bands
What does Royal mail spend £1 million on every year?
6 vehicles and 50 tonnes of litter
What has been left on the moon by the Apollo missions?
smaller than the moon
How large would a lump of all the asteroids in the solar system be?
2% and 20%
How many people have an allegie in the UK and how many think they do?
Who invented the origianl best before dates?
Al Capone. They were on milk first
What do snakes eat?
Nothing apart from other animals
What percentage of the followers of a persons tweets are real people?
35%
What does influenza mean in italian?
Influnce. heavenly bodies were once throught to affect our own
What can ostriches be trained to do?
heard sheep
What does sitting on the lavatory for 8 hours do?
burn the equivent amount of energy as an hours jogging
What does Sudan have more of than eygpt?
pyramids
burn the equivent amount of energy as an hours jogging
What does sitting on the lavatory for 8 hours do?
what is the only number in english that has all of its letters in alphabetical order?
Forty
pyramids
What does Sudan have more of than eygpt?
How many one pound coins in circulation today are forgeries?
43 million
What happended on the day the Titanic sank?
The founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung was born
What does Korea mean in finnish?
Gorgeous
In the past 60 years how many people have defected from north to south Korea? How many have gone in the opposite direction?
23,000 and 2
Between 1917 and 1940, what was the cure for people with syphilis?
they were given maleria
23,000 and 2
In the past 60 years how many people have defected from north to south Korea? How many have gone in the opposite direction?
they were given maleria
Between 1917 and 1940, what was the cure for people with syphilis?
What does gatwick mean?
the farm where goats are kept
Which has more crime in it? the real world or TV?
TV has at least 10 times as much
How many different drinks combernations does Starbucks offer?
87,000
Which nation eats 97% of the world’s baked beans?
Great Brition
How many britons die every year because only 7% of them know how to give first aid?
150,000
How much does the air breathed over an 80 year life time weigh?
More than a fully laded Boeing 747
Great Brition
Which nation eats 97% of the world’s baked beans?
150,000
How many britons die every year because only 7% of them know how to give first aid?
What has made the london underground the most money?
its map
More than a fully laded Boeing 747
How much does the air breathed over an 80 year life time weigh?
How many of all the people who have lived to be 65 are alive today?
two thirds
What is the malay word for water?
air
What is specila about the world’s largest cattle station?
it is larger than the state of israel
What happens when a snake is given alka-seltzer?
It will react with the powerful acid in the stomach and the snake will explode.
What did Zeus do to his third wife?
he ate her
what did a dutch mob do in 1672?
kill and eat the prime minister
What was Salvador Dali scared of?
Grasshoppers. When he was a school boy, he threw such fits of hysteria that the teacher forbade them to be mentioned.
kill and eat the prime minister
what did a dutch mob do in 1672?
What is kali the hindu godess of?
death, violence, sexuality and motherly love.
what does venezuela mean in spanish?
little venice
death, violence, sexuality and motherly love.
What is kali the hindu godess of?
What did the aztecs do to 1% of the population every year?
sacrifice them. this was 250,000 a year.
How long can a crocodile hold its breath?
a hour
What are lithuanian men 200 times more likley to do than jamaican men?
Kill them selves
What are the three nations that have failed to rtify the UN convention on the rights of the child?
south sudan, somalia and the USA
What is the longest sentance in les miserables?
it is 823 words long and is seperated by 93 commas and 51 semicolones
What was the shortest war ever?
It was fought between GB and zanzibar. it was on the 27th of August 1896 and lasted 38 minutes.
What does barbara mean in Latin?
strange women
90% of all things written in the english language use how many words?
1000
What percentage of coca-cola in america is drunk at breakfast?
12%
1000 words
90% of all things written in the english language use how many words?
What do eskimo’s use fridges for?
to stop their food from freezing
What is the most commonly shop lifted book in the USA?
the bible
What have britsh geologists done?
Found more oil than all the other geologist put together
How much gold is there in the sun?
one quadrillion, two hundred trillion tonnes.
How many more accidents do trousers cause in the Uk than chainsaws?
twice as many
If all the time spent blinking is added up, how long of your waking life is spent with your eyes closed?
1.2 years.
What do woodpeckers feel when they peck a tree?
1000 G
What percentage of belarus is a swamp?
13%
What happens to crime,diesae and walking speed as a city doubles in size?
They increase by 15%
What is the slavonic name for God?
Bog
Who did Bram stoker marry?
Oscar Wilde’s first girl friend
They increase by 15%
What happens to crime,diesae and walking speed as a city doubles in size?
In 1568 that did the RCC do?
sentance the entire population of the neatherlands to death for herasy
At what times is it most and least likely to be raining?
7 am and 3 am
sentance the entire population of the neatherlands to death for herasy
In 1568 that did the RCC do?
What is the swahili word for coconut?
nazi
What did Stalin and Hans Christian Anderson have in common?
They where the sons of cobblers and washer women.
What is bugs bunny?
A hare
When can to happen to a sloth in the rainy season?
it can die on a full stomach
What percentage of all bran is bran?
87%
What happened to the person who Tourette’s is named after?
He was shot in the head by one of his patients
How large is the area convered by all the worlds golf courses?
it exceeds that of the bahamas
What is odd about Tibet and malta?
Tibet has a smaller GDP but is 4000 times bigger
What percentage gold are the gold medals awarded at the 2012 olympics?
1.34%
How much do the raw materals needed to make a desktop computer weigh?
two tonnes
Where is red bull illegal?
Norway, Denmark,Iceland and Uruguay
in 2011, what was the most stolen food in the world?
cheese
What was the madien name of the mother of Buzz Aldrin?
Moon
How many sharks do humans kill an hour?
11,000
What has two thirds of the the population of the world never seen?
Snow
What was a conscientious objector originally?
A person who didn’t want to have there children inoculated.
What were the last words of henrey Royce?
I wish I’d spent more time at the office
What does broadcasting originally come from?
What farmers did to seeds in the field.
What links Micheal Caine to John Cleese?
They both bought rolls royces before they could drive
How fast would you have to travel to avoide being caught by a speed camera?
28,000
How many skins does a person go through in a lifetime?
900
How much would a bronze medal from london 2012 be worth if it was melted down for scape?
less than £3
Name the first 4 largest emplyers of people in the world.
The US defence departement, the chinese red army, walmart and the NHS
How many lives a year could be saved if people washed their hands?
a million
If you use online dating services, what people are you most likely to find?
Teachers or lecturers.
Where can and can’t you listen to the radio?
The moon and in a submarine.
What percenatge of the life of the average british car is spent parked?
96%
How many kill themselves on the tube and how mnay have been born on it?
50-100 a year and only three
How often is a skyscaper built in china?
once every four days
What do ants do to each other as they pass?
nod
What does brenda mean in Albania?
Inside
How long did the hundred year war last?
116 years
define ultracrepidarian
Someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about
What is the unlucky number in Italy?
17
How much energy is there in a kg of sugar?
enougth to drive a car 100,000 miles if all of it could be converted
What did Alan Turing do?
He once changed his mug to a radiator to stop other people from using it.
How many beret factories are there in France?
2
How many americans think the world will end in there life time?
More than one in five
