Others Flashcards
0
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How many Europeans were conceived on an IKEA bed?
A
10%
1
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What percentage of the human race didn’t survive beyond their first birthday?
A
40%
2
Q
How much blood does a heart pump in a life time?
A
Enough to fill three supertankers.
3
Q
What is the most commonly used noun in the English language ?
A
Time.
4
Q
What percentage of all the worlds photographs were taken in the last 12 months?
A
10%
5
Q
How many words are written on twitter everyday ?
A
Enough to fill a 10 million page book.
6
Q
How many times will a person walk around the world?
A
3 times.
7
Q
What was wrong with the first book published in Oxford?
A
There was a wrong date on the first page.
8
Q
How many Russians think the sun goes around the earth?
A
One third.
9
Q
What percentage of Americans think the earth is less than 10,000 years old?
A
46%
10
Q
What is an interesting fact about Argentina and 8?
A
It is the 8th largest country in the world and has the 8th largest Jewish population.
11
Q
When did the USA have no national dept?
A
8th January 1835
12
Q
What percentage does the mafia account of Italy’s GDP? How much does it make annually?
A
It makes $178 billion a year and makes 7% of the GDP.
13
Q
What is similar about George W Bush and Saddam Hussein?
A
Their shoes were made by the same Italian cobbler.
14
Q
What is similar about the bunkers of Saddam and Hitler?
A
Saddam’s bunker was designed by the grandson of the women who built Hitler’s bunker.
15
Q
How long did Da Vinci spend on the Mona Lisa ?
A
15 years.
16
Q
What is the average age of diamonds?
A
3 billion years.
17
Q
What links Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh and King Charles I have in common?
A
They all had pierced ears.
18
Q
How much ammunition does it take to kill an insurgent in Afghanistan and Iraq?
A
250,000 bullets (three tonnes)
19
Q
How often does a language die?
A
Every 14 days.
20
Q
What has killed the most Falklands Veterans?
A
More have committed suicide after than died in the war.
21
Q
How much money do you have to earn a year to be in the top 4% of rich people on the planet?
A
£14,000
22
Q
What is the relationship between atoms in a teaspoon of water and the Atlantic Ocean?
A
There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoon of water, than there are teaspoons full of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
23
Q
How many Olympic swimming pools would it take to hold all the gold mined in human history ?
A
Three and a half.
24
In 2011 , how many peas did Birds Eye sell?
225 billion, or enough to fill 40 Olympic swimming pools.
25
Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?
Edmund Hillary.
26
What did Edmund Hillary do for a living?
He was a professional beekeeper. When filling forms, he always gave his occupation as apiarist.
27
How much do all the ants in the world weight?
The 10,000 trillion ants weigh as much as all the humans.
28
Biologically speaking, what is a bug?
An insect that sucks.
29
What can psychologists not agree on?
What personality means.
30
What can biologists not agree on?
The definitions of "species" , "organism" or "life"
31
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.
32
How many guinea pigs do Peruvians eat a year?
60 million.
33
In Switzerland what can't you do with a guinea pig?
It is illegal to keep only one.
34
What is 10% of US electricity made of?
Dismantled soviet atomic bombs.
35
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%
36
How many calories are there in the glue on the back of a stamp?
5.9 calories.
37
How much energy could all the batteries in the world store?
Enough electricity to power the world for 10 minutes.
38
What is the dialling code for Russia?
007
39
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.
40
In 2010, how much did the BBC spend on tea and biscuits.
£230,000 on tea but only £2,000 on biscuits.
41
How is caffeine similar to cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin?
They are all made of carbon,hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
42
How much do world wide sales of cocaine make?
More than Microsoft, McDonalds and Kellogg's combined.
43
What did Felix Hoffman do?
Invested heroin and aspirin in the same year.(1897)
44
What is the effect of doctors bad hand writing in America?
7000 die and 1,500,000 are injured.
45
How many blind or visually impaired people in the UK read Braille?
Less than 5%
46
In 2012 what did Apple have more of than the US govenment?
Money in the bank.
47
Compare the number of PR people in America to the number of journalists?
There are three times as many PR people than journalists.
48
During the Blitz, what did all but one of the ravens in the tower or London do?
Die of stress.
49
How much does the UK retail industry make a year by people not redeeming gift cards?
£250 million.
50
Where is the Dyslexia Research Centre located?
Reading.
51
How big was the Danish army in the 12th century?
It consisted of 7 men.
52
How many patents does the technology behind a smart phone depend on?
250,000
53
How much does the water in a blue whales mouth weigh?
As much as the whole whale.
54
If a Victorian couldn't afford a chimney sweep, what would they do?
Drop live geese down the chimney instead.
55
How are gerbils used by airport security?
They can smell adrenaline and are installed in airport security to detect terrorists.
56
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.
57
Where were the ashes of the person who designed the Pringles can put?
They were buried in one.
58
Which person alive today, is related to Vlad the Impaler.
The queen
59
On a clear moonless light, what can the human eye detect?
A match being struck 50 miles away.
60
What did customers not do when supermarkets first opened in the UK?
There didn't pick things up as they feared being told off.
61
What could Harry Houdini do with this eye lashes and toes?
Pick up pins and thread needles respectively.
62
What has made aerosmith the most money?
Guitar hero has made them more money than any of their albums.
63
What was one of the effects of matt smith becoming the doctor?
UK bow tie sales doubled in a month.
64
How many atoms are there in the human body?
7 billion billion billion.
65
How often are the atoms in the body replaced?
98% of them are replaced every year.
66
How many people in Central Asia are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
One in ten.
67
How far would a piece of paper folded 51 times go?
It's distance would exceed the distance from here to the sun.
68
What is Michael J Fox's middle name?
Andrew.
69
How many people executed for murder in the US have the middle name Wayne?
1 in 50
70
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.
71
Which part of a microwave uses the most electricity ?
The clock uses more than heating the food.
72
What part of cars kill the most people?
The emissions produced kill more than the accidents.
73
What is the only way of buying cannabis in the US legally ?
As bird seed.
74
How much food do Tour de France riders need to eat a day?
The equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.
75
How many pieces of toast could be cooked with a single bolt of lightning?
100,000
76
What did the first ever edition of the daily mirror come with?
A free mirror
77
What was the Bank of America originally called?
The bank of Italy.
78
What could you do with all the salt in the seas?
Evenly cover all land with 500 feet of salt.
79
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.
80
Who is the patron saint of oversleeping?
St Vitus
81
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.
82
What is french for paper clip?
Trombone.
83
What was in income of the Catholic Church in 2010?
$97 billion.
84
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.
85
How invented the thesaurus and the slide rule?
Peter mark Roget
86
What did Plato think the smallest particle was?
He thought there were tiny right angled triangles.
87
When did people think the earth was round ?
From 500 BC onwards.
88
What has inspired the most pop song lyrics?
The King James Bible.
89
How many Christian demonisation are there?
34,000
90
For how long where there tins but no tin openers ?
48 years.
91
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.
92
What are the main predators of flamingos ?
Zoo keepers.
93
How much information is in a sperm?
37.5 MB. There are 15,875 GB to an ejaculation.
94
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.
95
How did the people of Kuwait celebrate the end of the first gulf war?
They fired weapons in the air. This killed 20 people.
96
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.
97
What does the wildlife and country side act explicitly say you can't do to a hedgehog?
Kill it with a machine gun
98
In Ancient Greek, what does idiot mean?
Anyone who isn't a politician.
99
What does Harvard University have the biggest collection of ?
Ants
100
How many different shades of colour can the human eye detect?
10 million.
101
Between 1960 and 1977, what was the secret number that allowed the US president to launch nuclear missiles?
00000000
102
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.
103
What is the strongest organism compared to its weight?
The gonorrhoea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own weight.
104
In 1997 how many people went to hospital with tea cosy related injuries?
39
105
Where is 95% of the worlds data stored?
On paper.
106
What do you know about the next person who will walk on the moon?
He will probably be Chinese.
107
How many babies born in China by Caesarean section?
Almost half
108
Per gram per second, which uses more energy? A sun flower or the sun?
The sun flower.
109
What uses a fifth of the electricity in Namibia?
A single zinc mine.
110
How long does it take to hard boil an ostrich egg?
An hour and a half.
111
What did Andy Warhol always wear?
Green underpants
112
What Russians not have a word for?
Blue. They do have words for light or dark blue.
113
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.
114
What are established writers and artists 18 times more likely to do than the general population?
Kill themselves.
115
What is the E number of gold?
E175
116
How is trinity collage Cambridge better than Italy?
It has won more noble prizes than the whole of Italy.
117
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.
118
What so shark embryos do?
Attack and eat each other while in the womb when they develop teeth.
119
What is special about something found in saliva?
It contains the painkiller opiorphin which is six times more powerful than morphine.
120
How many hamburgers can you get from a cow?
4000
121
How many McDonalds hamburgers are eaten a minute?
4000
122
What is the value of the gold in all the oceans?
£283 trillion or about 30 times the US national debt.
123
How much more does a full kindle weigh compared to a new one?
A billionth of a billionth of a gram more.
124
How many frogs go ribbit?
Only one species of the 4,800 species.
125
What are Kanye North and Kanye south?
Parliamentary constituencies in Botswana.
126
What percentage of women describe themselves are beautiful?
2%
127
40%
What percentage of the human race didn't survive beyond their first birthday?
128
10%
How many Europeans were conceived on an IKEA bed?
129
Enough to fill three supertankers.
How much blood does a heart pump in a life time?
130
Time.
What is the most commonly used noun in the English language ?
131
10%
What percentage of all the worlds photographs were taken in the last 12 months?
132
Enough to fill a 10 million page book.
How many words are written on twitter everyday ?
133
3 times.
How many times will a person walk around the world?
134
There was a wrong date on the first page.
What was wrong with the first book published in Oxford?
135
One third.
How many Russians think the sun goes around the earth?
136
46%
What percentage of Americans think the earth is less than 10,000 years old?
137
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?
138
8th January 1835
When did the USA have no national dept?
139
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?
140
Their shoes were made by the same Italian cobbler.
What is similar about George W Bush and Saddam Hussein?
141
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?
142
15 years.
How long did Da Vinci spend on the Mona Lisa ?
143
3 billion years.
What is the average age of diamonds?
144
They all had pierced ears.
What links Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh and King Charles I have in common?
145
250,000 bullets (three tonnes)
How much ammunition does it take to kill an insurgent in Afghanistan and Iraq?
146
Every 14 days.
How often does a language die?
147
More have committed suicide after than died in the war.
What has killed the most Falklands Veterans?
148
£14,000
How much money do you have to earn a year to be in the top 4% of rich people on the planet?
149
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?
150
Three and a half.
How many Olympic swimming pools would it take to hold all the gold mined in human history ?
151
225 billion, or enough to fill 40 Olympic swimming pools.
In 2011 , how many peas did Birds Eye sell?
152
Edmund Hillary.
Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest?
153
He was a professional beekeeper. When filling forms, he always gave his occupation as apiarist.
What did Edmund Hillary do for a living?
154
The 10,000 trillion ants weigh as much as all the humans.
How much do all the ants in the world weight?
155
An insect that sucks.
Biologically speaking, what is a bug?
156
What personality means.
What can psychologists not agree on?
157
The definitions of "species" , "organism" or "life"
What can biologists not agree on?
158
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?
159
60 million.
How many guinea pigs do Peruvians eat a year?
160
It is illegal to keep only one.
In Switzerland what can't you do with a guinea pig?
161
Dismantled soviet atomic bombs.
What is 10% of US electricity made of?
162
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.
163
5.9 calories.
How many calories are there in the glue on the back of a stamp?
164
Enough electricity to power the world for 10 minutes.
How much energy could all the batteries in the world store?
165
007
What is the dialling code for Russia?
166
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?
167
£230,000 on tea but only £2,000 on biscuits.
In 2010, how much did the BBC spend on tea and biscuits.
168
They are all made of carbon,hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
How is caffeine similar to cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT and heroin?
169
More than Microsoft, McDonalds and Kellogg's combined.
How much do world wide sales of cocaine make?
170
Invested heroin and aspirin in the same year.(1897)
What did Felix Hoffman do?
171
7000 die and 1,500,000 are injured.
What is the effect of doctors bad hand writing in America?
172
Less than 5%
How many blind or visually impaired people in the UK read Braille?
173
Money in the bank.
In 2012 what did Apple have more of than the US govenment?
174
There are three times as many PR people than journalists.
Compare the number of PR people in America to the number of journalists?
175
Die of stress.
During the Blitz, what did all but one of the ravens in the tower or London do?
176
£250 million.
How much does the UK retail industry make a year by people not redeeming gift cards?
177
Reading.
Where is the Dyslexia Research Centre located?
178
It consisted of 7 men.
How big was the Danish army in the 12th century?
179
250,000
How many patents does the technology behind a smart phone depend on?
180
As much as the whole whale.
How much does the water in a blue whales mouth weigh?
181
Drop live geese down the chimney instead.
If a Victorian couldn't afford a chimney sweep, what would they do?
182
They can smell adrenaline and are installed in airport security to detect terrorists.
How are gerbils used by airport security?
183
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.
184
They were buried in one.
Where were the ashes of the person who designed the Pringles can put?
185
The queen
Which person alive today, is related to Vlad the Impaler.
186
A match being struck 50 miles away.
On a clear moonless light, what can the human eye detect?
187
There didn't pick things up as they feared being told off.
What did customers not do when supermarkets first opened in the UK?
188
Pick up pins and thread needles respectively.
What could Harry Houdini do with this eye lashes and toes?
189
Guitar hero has made them more money than any of their albums.
What has made aerosmith the most money?
190
UK bow tie sales doubled in a month.
What was one of the effects of matt smith becoming the doctor?
191
7 billion billion billion.
How many atoms are there in the human body?
192
98% of them are replaced every year.
How often are the atoms in the body replaced?
193
One in ten.
How many people in Central Asia are direct descendants of Genghis Khan?
194
It's distance would exceed the distance from here to the sun.
How far would a piece of paper folded 51 times go?
195
Andrew.
What is Michael J Fox's middle name?
196
1 in 50
How many people executed for murder in the US have the middle name Wayne?
197
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?
198
The clock uses more than heating the food.
Which part of a microwave uses the most electricity ?
199
The emissions produced kill more than the accidents.
What part of cars kill the most people?
200
As bird seed.
What is the only way of buying cannabis in the US legally ?
201
The equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.
How much food do Tour de France riders need to eat a day?
202
100,000
How many pieces of toast could be cooked with a single bolt of lightning?
203
A free mirror
What did the first ever edition of the daily mirror come with?
204
The bank of Italy.
What was the Bank of America originally called?
205
Evenly cover all land with 500 feet of salt.
What could you do with all the salt in the seas?
206
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?
207
St Vitus
Who is the patron saint of oversleeping?
208
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?
209
Trombone.
What is french for paper clip?
210
$97 billion.
What was in income of the Catholic Church in 2010?
211
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?
212
Peter mark Roget
How invented the thesaurus and the slide rule?
213
He thought there were tiny right angled triangles.
What did Plato think the smallest particle was?
214
From 500 BC onwards.
When did people think the earth was round ?
215
The King James Bible.
What has inspired the most pop song lyrics?
216
34,000
How many Christian demonisation are there?
217
48 years.
For how long where there tins but no tin openers ?
218
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?
219
Zoo keepers.
What are the main predators of flamingos ?
220
37.5 MB. There are 15,875 GB to an ejaculation.
How much information is in a sperm?
221
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?
222
They fired weapons in the air. This killed 20 people.
How did the people of Kuwait celebrate the end of the first gulf war?
223
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?
224
Kill it with a machine gun
What does the wildlife and country side act explicitly say you can't do to a hedgehog?
225
Anyone who isn't a politician.
In Ancient Greek, what does idiot mean?
226
Ants
What does Harvard University have the biggest collection of ?
227
10 million.
How many different shades of colour can the human eye detect?
228
00000000
Between 1960 and 1977, what was the secret number that allowed the US president to launch nuclear missiles?
229
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?
230
The gonorrhoea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own weight.
What is the strongest organism compared to its weight?
231
39
In 1997 how many people went to hospital with tea cosy related injuries?
232
On paper.
Where is 95% of the worlds data stored?
233
He will probably be Chinese.
What do you know about the next person who will walk on the moon?
234
Almost half
How many babies born in China by Caesarean section?
235
The sun flower.
Per gram per second, which uses more energy? A sun flower or the sun?
236
A single zinc mine.
What uses a fifth of the electricity in Namibia?
237
An hour and a half.
How long does it take to hard boil an ostrich egg?
238
Green underpants
What did Andy Warhol always wear?
239
Blue. They do have words for light or dark blue.
What Russians not have a word for?
240
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?
241
Kill themselves.
What are established writers and artists 18 times more likely to do than the general population?
242
E175
What is the E number of gold?
243
It has won more noble prizes than the whole of Italy.
How is trinity collage Cambridge better than Italy?
244
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?
245
Attack and eat each other while in the womb when they develop teeth.
What so shark embryos do?
246
It contains the painkiller opiorphin which is six times more powerful than morphine.
What is special about something found in saliva?
247
4000
How many hamburgers can you get from a cow?
248
4000
How many McDonalds hamburgers are eaten a minute?
249
£283 trillion or about 30 times the US national debt.
What is the value of the gold in all the oceans?
250
A billionth of a billionth of a gram more.
How much more does a full kindle weigh compared to a new one?
251
Only one species of the 4,800 species.
How many frogs go ribbit?
252
Parliamentary constituencies in Botswana.
What are Kanye North and Kanye south?
253
2%
What percentage of women describe themselves are beautiful?
254
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
255
How many earthquakes are there a year in britain?
How mnay people have ever died from one?
300 and 11
256
where does 95%of the lead in bullets used in the british army come from?
recylced materials
257
How mnay tweets does teh CIA read a day?
5 million.
258
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.
259
how much does the ISS cost in comparison to gold?
it costs more than 30 times its weight in gold
260
What does cocaine do to your chances of having a heart attack?
Increases it by 2400% in the next hour.
261
What is funny about the welsh language?
it has no single word for yes or no
262
what is the wordl's leader exporter of raspberries?
Serbia
263
what does esposas mean in spanish?
it means wives and hadcuffs
264
Boghandler
Danish for bookseller
265
How far can the average pencil write?
45,000 words or a line 35 miles long
266
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
267
where do 90% of all british blackcurrents go?
Into making Ribena
268
Why is nutmeg illegal in saudi Arabia?
it is hallucinogenic if eaten in large quantities.
269
What do Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo all mean in there respecitive languages?
capital
270
What does skoda mean in czech?
damage
271
what is odd about at least 109 journeys on the london undergroud?
there are quicker to walk
272
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.
273
what does milk chocolate have one and a half times more of than coca-coca?
caffine
274
How many bars of cadbury's dairy milk chocolate are needed to kill a man?
40
275
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.
276
Where does nearly all the Botox in the world come from?
a single factory in Ireland
277
How much botulinum toxin would it take to kill everyone on the planet?
227 grams
278
Batology
study of blackberries
279
before the renaissance, how many books in the world were chinese?
75%
280
What is odd about the Icelandic language?
Icelandic contains two Cs but the language has none.
281
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
282
What does Royal mail spend £1 million on every year?
buying a billion red rubber bands
283
What has been left on the moon by the Apollo missions?
6 vehicles and 50 tonnes of litter
284
How large would a lump of all the asteroids in the solar system be?
smaller than the moon
285
How many people have an allegie in the UK and how many think they do?
2% and 20%
286
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?
287
300 and 11
How many earthquakes are there a year in britain?
How mnay people have ever died from one?
288
recylced materials
where does 95%of the lead in bullets used in the british army come from?
289
5 million.
How mnay tweets does teh CIA read a day?
290
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?
291
it costs more than 30 times its weight in gold
how much does the ISS cost in comparison to gold?
292
Increases it by 2400% in the next hour.
What does cocaine do to your chances of having a heart attack?
293
it has no single word for yes or no
What is funny about the welsh language?
294
Serbia
what is the wordl's leader exporter of raspberries?
295
it means wives and hadcuffs
what does esposas mean in spanish?
296
Danish for bookseller
Boghandler
297
45,000 words or a line 35 miles long
How far can the average pencil write?
298
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?
299
Into making Ribena
where do 90% of all british blackcurrents go?
300
it is hallucinogenic if eaten in large quantities.
Why is nutmeg illegal in saudi Arabia?
301
capital
What do Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo all mean in there respecitive languages?
302
damage
What does skoda mean in czech?
303
there are quicker to walk
what is odd about at least 109 journeys on the london undergroud?
304
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?
305
caffine
what does milk chocolate have one and a half times more of than coca-coca?
306
40
How many bars of cadbury's dairy milk chocolate are needed to kill a man?
307
£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?
308
a single factory in Ireland
Where does nearly all the Botox in the world come from?
309
227 grams
How much botulinum toxin would it take to kill everyone on the planet?
310
study of blackberries
Batology
311
75%
before the renaissance, how many books in the world were chinese?
312
Icelandic contains two Cs but the language has none.
What is odd about the Icelandic language?
313
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?
314
buying a billion red rubber bands
What does Royal mail spend £1 million on every year?
315
6 vehicles and 50 tonnes of litter
What has been left on the moon by the Apollo missions?
316
smaller than the moon
How large would a lump of all the asteroids in the solar system be?
317
2% and 20%
How many people have an allegie in the UK and how many think they do?
318
Who invented the origianl best before dates?
Al Capone. They were on milk first
319
What do snakes eat?
Nothing apart from other animals
320
What percentage of the followers of a persons tweets are real people?
35%
321
What does influenza mean in italian?
Influnce. heavenly bodies were once throught to affect our own
322
What can ostriches be trained to do?
heard sheep
323
What does sitting on the lavatory for 8 hours do?
burn the equivent amount of energy as an hours jogging
324
What does Sudan have more of than eygpt?
pyramids
325
burn the equivent amount of energy as an hours jogging
What does sitting on the lavatory for 8 hours do?
326
what is the only number in english that has all of its letters in alphabetical order?
Forty
327
pyramids
What does Sudan have more of than eygpt?
328
How many one pound coins in circulation today are forgeries?
43 million
329
What happended on the day the Titanic sank?
The founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung was born
330
What does Korea mean in finnish?
Gorgeous
331
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
332
Between 1917 and 1940, what was the cure for people with syphilis?
they were given maleria
333
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?
334
they were given maleria
Between 1917 and 1940, what was the cure for people with syphilis?
335
What does gatwick mean?
the farm where goats are kept
336
Which has more crime in it? the real world or TV?
TV has at least 10 times as much
337
How many different drinks combernations does Starbucks offer?
87,000
338
Which nation eats 97% of the world's baked beans?
Great Brition
339
How many britons die every year because only 7% of them know how to give first aid?
150,000
340
How much does the air breathed over an 80 year life time weigh?
More than a fully laded Boeing 747
341
Great Brition
Which nation eats 97% of the world's baked beans?
342
150,000
How many britons die every year because only 7% of them know how to give first aid?
343
What has made the london underground the most money?
its map
344
More than a fully laded Boeing 747
How much does the air breathed over an 80 year life time weigh?
345
How many of all the people who have lived to be 65 are alive today?
two thirds
346
What is the malay word for water?
air
347
What is specila about the world's largest cattle station?
it is larger than the state of israel
348
What happens when a snake is given alka-seltzer?
It will react with the powerful acid in the stomach and the snake will explode.
349
What did Zeus do to his third wife?
he ate her
350
what did a dutch mob do in 1672?
kill and eat the prime minister
351
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.
352
kill and eat the prime minister
what did a dutch mob do in 1672?
353
What is kali the hindu godess of?
death, violence, sexuality and motherly love.
354
what does venezuela mean in spanish?
little venice
355
death, violence, sexuality and motherly love.
What is kali the hindu godess of?
356
What did the aztecs do to 1% of the population every year?
sacrifice them. this was 250,000 a year.
357
How long can a crocodile hold its breath?
a hour
358
What are lithuanian men 200 times more likley to do than jamaican men?
Kill them selves
359
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
360
What is the longest sentance in les miserables?
it is 823 words long and is seperated by 93 commas and 51 semicolones
361
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.
362
What does barbara mean in Latin?
strange women
363
90% of all things written in the english language use how many words?
1000
364
What percentage of coca-cola in america is drunk at breakfast?
12%
365
1000 words
90% of all things written in the english language use how many words?
366
What do eskimo's use fridges for?
to stop their food from freezing
367
What is the most commonly shop lifted book in the USA?
the bible
368
What have britsh geologists done?
Found more oil than all the other geologist put together
369
How much gold is there in the sun?
one quadrillion, two hundred trillion tonnes.
370
How many more accidents do trousers cause in the Uk than chainsaws?
twice as many
371
If all the time spent blinking is added up, how long of your waking life is spent with your eyes closed?
1.2 years.
372
What do woodpeckers feel when they peck a tree?
1000 G
373
What percentage of belarus is a swamp?
13%
374
What happens to crime,diesae and walking speed as a city doubles in size?
They increase by 15%
375
What is the slavonic name for God?
Bog
376
Who did Bram stoker marry?
Oscar Wilde's first girl friend
377
They increase by 15%
What happens to crime,diesae and walking speed as a city doubles in size?
378
In 1568 that did the RCC do?
sentance the entire population of the neatherlands to death for herasy
379
At what times is it most and least likely to be raining?
7 am and 3 am
380
sentance the entire population of the neatherlands to death for herasy
In 1568 that did the RCC do?
381
What is the swahili word for coconut?
nazi
382
What did Stalin and Hans Christian Anderson have in common?
They where the sons of cobblers and washer women.
383
What is bugs bunny?
A hare
384
When can to happen to a sloth in the rainy season?
it can die on a full stomach
385
What percentage of all bran is bran?
87%
386
What happened to the person who Tourette's is named after?
He was shot in the head by one of his patients
387
How large is the area convered by all the worlds golf courses?
it exceeds that of the bahamas
388
What is odd about Tibet and malta?
Tibet has a smaller GDP but is 4000 times bigger
389
What percentage gold are the gold medals awarded at the 2012 olympics?
1.34%
390
How much do the raw materals needed to make a desktop computer weigh?
two tonnes
391
Where is red bull illegal?
Norway, Denmark,Iceland and Uruguay
392
in 2011, what was the most stolen food in the world?
cheese
393
What was the madien name of the mother of Buzz Aldrin?
Moon
394
How many sharks do humans kill an hour?
11,000
395
What has two thirds of the the population of the world never seen?
Snow
396
What was a conscientious objector originally?
A person who didn't want to have there children inoculated.
397
What were the last words of henrey Royce?
I wish I'd spent more time at the office
398
What does broadcasting originally come from?
What farmers did to seeds in the field.
399
What links Micheal Caine to John Cleese?
They both bought rolls royces before they could drive
400
How fast would you have to travel to avoide being caught by a speed camera?
28,000
401
How many skins does a person go through in a lifetime?
900
402
How much would a bronze medal from london 2012 be worth if it was melted down for scape?
less than £3
403
Name the first 4 largest emplyers of people in the world.
The US defence departement, the chinese red army, walmart and the NHS
404
How many lives a year could be saved if people washed their hands?
a million
405
If you use online dating services, what people are you most likely to find?
Teachers or lecturers.
406
Where can and can't you listen to the radio?
The moon and in a submarine.
407
What percenatge of the life of the average british car is spent parked?
96%
408
How many kill themselves on the tube and how mnay have been born on it?
50-100 a year and only three
409
How often is a skyscaper built in china?
once every four days
410
What do ants do to each other as they pass?
nod
411
What does brenda mean in Albania?
Inside
412
How long did the hundred year war last?
116 years
413
define ultracrepidarian
Someone who doesn't know what they are talking about
414
What is the unlucky number in Italy?
17
415
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
416
What did Alan Turing do?
He once changed his mug to a radiator to stop other people from using it.
417
How many beret factories are there in France?
2
418
How many americans think the world will end in there life time?
More than one in five
