Instructive Trivia


This year
All years
1. What film ends "It was beauty that killed the beast"?

2. What percent of people are cremated in Japan?

3. What is the most common dream?

4. How many patents did Thomas Edison have?

5. What singer's name was originally Robert Zimmerman?

6. How many hours of TV do you watch in a lifetime?

7. How old was Bill Gates when he co-founded Microsoft?

8. How many gallons of water do you use each day?

9. How many TV commercials do you watch each week?

10. How long did it take Noah Webster to write the first dictionary?

11. Do Japanese or Americans have bigger houses?

12. What percent of people crack their knuckels?

13. Who are the 4 Presidents on Mt. Rushmore?

14. What are you doing if you're osculating?

15. What explosive chemical is Trinitrotoluene?

16. What snack was inspired by children folding their arms in prayer?

17. Where was chop suey invented?

18. How strong was the strongest American earthquake?

19. How long does the average honeymoon last?

20. What letter begins the fewest number of words?

21. What state has the longest coastline?

22. Name the only bird that can fly backwards?

23. True or False: A grasshopper can leap 10 times it's height?

24. Where's the sunniest spot on Earth?

25. What country offered Albert Einstein its Presidency position?

26. What is a group of monkeys called?

27. What percent of people lie on their resumes?

28. What part of a firefly lights up?

29. Who is singer Anna Mae Bullock?

30. What percent of Americans can't snap their fingers?

31. British petrol is American what?


*//^~ANSWERS~^\\*
1. King Kong
2. 93%
3. falling
4. 1093
5. Bob Dylan
6. 12 years (what a waste)
7. 19 years old
8. 168
9. 350
10. 25 years
11. Americans - twice as big
12. 40%
13. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Theodore Roosevelt
14. kissing
15. TNT
16. pretzel
17. United States
18. 8.4 on the Richter Scale
19. 8 days
20. X
21. Alaska
22. hummingbird
23. False - 500 times it's height
24. Sahara
25. Israel
26. troop
27. 30%
28. stomach
29. Tina Turner
30. 32%
31. gas