FUN TRIVIA

1- What two animals are pictured on the Australian Coat of Arms?

2- What kind of bird can fly higher than any other, up to 7 miles in the air?
3- What company is the largest producer of computer software for the personal computer?
4- In human reproduction, the X-and Y-chromosomes determine gender. Is the X-chromosome
associated with male or female characteristics?
5- What was the only part of the current United States invaded by the Japanese during WWII?
6- Which planet has the largest moon: Earth, Jupiter, or Saturn?
7- What is the name for the science or study of plants?
8- True or false: White wine is made from white grapes, while red wine is made from red grapes.
9- Silver is the traditional gift for what numbered wedding anniversary?
10- How many red stripes are on the U.S. flag?
11- Coca Cola was first bottled in what year ending with
12- Which beverage was named after its resemblance to the dark brown clothing warn by 16th century
Italian monks?
13- During a soccer football game at an English school in 1864, a player picked up the ball and began to
run with it. What sport, named for the school where it happened, was thus born?
14- Roquefort cheese is a pungent French cheese made from the milk of what animal?
15- What Catholic church official ranks just below Pope?
16- When transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated in 1927, a 3-minute call between New York
and London cost how much: $15, $35, or $75?
17- Can you find three 6-letter words that can be formed with the letters AEMRST?

18- What is the highest mountain in Africa and in what country is it located?
19- Which two countries are the largest producers of coffee?
20- What is the capital of the country of Nepal (Asia)?
21- In which country would you find the Bay of Pigs?
22- If a rubber band weighs 40 milligrams, how many of them will weigh one kilogram?
23- A town in India has 20,000 inhabitants. 5% of the inhabitants are one-legged, and half the others go
barefoot. How many sandals are worn in this town?
24- What five letter (plural) word is related to the following: Weddings, Olympics, Saturn?
25- What is the three-word motto of the Olympic Games?
26- Lets now exercise our occipital Lobes (visual interpretation and rotation). Please pick the piece
thats missing from the diagram on the left.

27- Is the inner shape a real circle?

29- What do you see?

28- How do you cut a cake into eight equal pieces with only three cuts?
30-Are those 2 rows perfectly parallel?
traveling?

32- In which direction is the bus below

Left or right?

31-Of the 100 people at a recent party, 90 spoke Spanish, 80 spoke Italian, and 75 spoke Mandarin. At
least how many spoke all three languages?
33-The Empty Triangle: Which figure should be placed in the empty triangle?

1-Kangaroo and Emu, a large, flightless bird resembling the ostrich

2-(Griffon) Vulture
3-Microsoft
4-FEMALE
5-Alaska
6-JUPITER, and it's called Ganymede, 3.5 times the volume of Earth's moon
7-BOTANY
8-FALSE: Red wine is made by including the skin of the red grapes. White wine can come from grapes of
any color
9-25th
10-Seven
11-1899
12-CAPPUCCINO cappucine monks
13-Rugby
14-SHEEP
15-Cardinal
16-$75
17-Master, Stream, Tamers, Maters ... others?
18-Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
19-COLOMBIA / BRAZIL
20-Kathmandu
21-CUBA
22-25,000
23-20,000 all one-legged wear one sandal, and the others wear one sandal each, on average.
24-Rings
25-FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER / CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS
26-Answer: C
27-Both shapes are perfect circles.
28-Use two cuts to cut the cake into four equal pieces. Use your third cut to cut the four pieces in half horizontally (perpendicular to the first two cuts).
29-An Indian Chief or an Eskimo
30-those two rows are indeed perfectly parallel.
31- 45 Explanation:
10 could not speak Spanish, 20 could not speak Italian, and 25 could not speak Mandarin. So there could
have been 10 people who spoke none of those languages.
However, that would maximize the number of people who could speak all three, and the problem asks at
least how many speak all three. Therefore, we must assume that these 10, 20, and 25 people are all separate
people. Having identified 55 each of whom is missing one language, the remaining 45 speak all three.
32-When pre-school children were shown this picture and question, they all answered left. When asked
why, they answered Because you cant see the door.

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