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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?
