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Do you like random facts? Or are you probably preparing for a Q&A quiz with your friends? Either way, we're here to help you hone your skills and raise your knowledge in everything from entertainment and movies to history, geography, sports and science. In this article, we've compiled a list of easy and difficult queries, and miscellaneous information perfect for friends, family, children, adults, and almost anyone else with a passion for general knowledge. Whether you plan on winning the contest or not, we hope you can get enough pop culture after reading this article, so put on your thinking hat and let's get started.
Questions and answers:
What occasion corresponds to the longest day of the year? Answer: summer solstice.
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What is the distance from Earth to Sun? Answer: 150 million kilometers.
Which country is the largest in the world? Answer: Russia.
According to Guinness World Records, what is the best-selling book of all time? Answer: The Bible.
What is the only food that can never spoil? Answer: honey.
What was the first animal ever cloned? Answer: Dolly the sheep.
What is the name of the pet dinosaur in the cartoon TV series "Flintstone"? Answer: Dino.
What is the identity document required to travel to different countries around the world? Answer: Passport.
Who is considered the "father of relativity"? Answer: Albert Einstein.
Almost all fossils are preserved in what kind of rock? Answer: Sedimentation.
Who is the guitarist who performed on Michael Jackson's song "Beat It"? Answer: Eddie Van Halen.
What is the August baby stone? Answer: Aquamarine.
What is Prince Harry's official first name? Answer: Henry.
What is the fifth sign of the zodiac? Answer: Assad.
When was Earth Day first celebrated? Answer: 1970.
Who is Barbie's little sister? Answer: Skipper.
In the UK, what is the day after Christmas? Answer: Boxing Day.
Anna, Elsa Kristoff and Olaf are all characters in which animated film? Answer: Frozen.
What animal breathes from its backside? Answer: Turtle.
Where was the first Olympics held? Answer: Panathenik Stadium, Greece.
Who is the highest paid athlete in 2022? Answer: Lionel Messi.
What is the most film-producing country in the world? Answer: India, followed by Nigeria with about 50 films per week.
Where were the 2000 Summer Olympics held? Answer: Sydney, Australia.
How did the German camera company Leica get its name? Answer: Founder Ernst Litz used the first three letters of his last name with the first two letters of the word "camera."
What is the average basketball collar diameter? Answer: 45 centimeters.
Which country has the most islands? Answer: Sweden has 221,800 islands.
What is the 1997 film showing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as secret agents watching aliens? Answer: "Men in Black.
What is the famous name of singer and actress Stephanie Germanotta? Answer: Lady Gaga.
What film was produced in 1927 that ended the era of silent cinema by presenting simultaneous talk and singing? Answer: "The Jazz Singer".
What is the name of Elvis Presley's house in Memphis? Answer: Graceland.
Who is the eminent astronomer who wrote the bestseller "The Universe" in 1980? Answer: Carl Sagan.
What is Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson as assassins? Answer: "Pulp Fiction".
What soft drink previously contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients? Answer: Coca-Cola.
What breed of cats does not have fur? Answer: Sphinx.
What year did the comedy TV show Saturday Night Live premiere? Answer: 1975
Rhinos is the national animal of any country? Answer: Scotland.
What fish are capable of generating an electric discharge of up to 600 volts? Answer: Electric eel.
Which country uses nearly six billion kilometers of toilet paper every year? Answer: China.
How many noses are slugs? Answer: Four.
What is a popular flavoring that was sold as a medical treatment for diarrhea? Answer: ketchup.
What is the coldest place on earth? Answer: Eastern Antarctic Plateau.
Which Italian city was the scene of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Answer: Verona.
What is America's first national park? Answer: Yellowstone National Park.
What is the northernmost point in the United States? Answer: Point Barrow in Alaska.
How many floors is the Eiffel Tower? Answer: three.
What is the currency of Poland? Answer: Zloty.
Which country produces the most tea in the world? Answer: China.
Which country is the largest consumer of tea in the world? Answer: Turkish.
What country did the US buy Florida from? Answer: Spanish.
Which country gives its students the longest summer vacation? Answer: Italian.
What produces the majority of the air that can be breathed on Earth? Answer: Oceans.
Which moves faster: sound or light? Answer: Light.
What substance can you add to water to make things float easily? Answer: salt.
How fast does the Earth rotate around the Sun? Answer: 30 km per second.
What do a snail, spider and octopus have in common? Answer: Blood blue.
How many elements are there currently on the periodic table? Answer: 118.
Which blood type is considered a universal donor? Answer: O negative.
How many moons is Neptune? Answer: 14.
What is the dreaded disease globally declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980? Answer: smallpox.
What is the fear of flowers called? Answer: Anthophobia.
How many legs does lobster have? Answer: 10.
What color is the giraffe's tongue? Answer: Purple.
What proportion of wildlife on land is in the ocean? Answer: 94%.
What animal has the largest eyes? Answer: giant squid.
How many ringtones does Santa have? Answer: Eight.
What is the best-selling musical instrument in the world? Answer: Harmonica.
Miscellaneous facts for adults:
Australia is more expansive than the moon.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Allodoxaphobia is a fear of the opinions of others.
Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal itself by itself.
Toenails grow faster than toenails. And the dominant fingernails grow faster. The fastest growing nails are the index fingernail and the slower are the pinky fingernails.
Art was an Olympic sport.
There are about 3,000 species of snakes in the world. 600 of them are poisonous, and 200 species are capable of killing a human with poison.
The Eiffel Tower was originally made for Barcelona.
In Japan, women can hire a man's service to dry their tears.
It will take 19 minutes to fall to the center of the Earth.
The real name of the hashtag signal is Octothorpe.
Neil Armstrong's hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000.
Babies begin to recognize themselves in the mirror by the age of 15-18 months.
The small pocket in jeans is designed to store pocket watches.
People once ate arsenic to improve their skin.
The script "The Terminator" was sold for one dollar.
Penicillin was initially called "mold juice".
Fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
The shortest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland.
The first commercial passenger flight took only 23 minutes.
Somalia has about 6.2 million domesticated camels, but the country with the largest wild camel population is Australian (about one million camels).
In English there is no number before 1000 that contains the letter A.
There were active volcanoes on the moon when the dinosaurs were alive.
Sudan has more pyramids than any other country in the world.
The length of the human circulator is more than 90.000 kilometers.
The Pope may not be an organ donor.
Sharks kill 10 people a year each year, while coconut falls kill about 150 people every year.
The length of the Earth day increases by 1.7 milliseconds every century due to the tidal influence of the Moon.
The longest concert in the world lasted 453 hours.
Humans did not domesticate cats, they domesticated themselves and decided to live near humans because humans began to attract different rodents because of their agricultural activities about 10,000 years ago.
It is impossible to hum while pressing on your nose.
The duck sleeps with one eye open, and its head between its wings.
Snakes have eyelids and therefore sleep with both eyes open.
Africa is the only continent in the four quadrants of the globe (northern and southern, eastern and western hemispheres).
There are more than 150 varieties of flowers. All of them are edible as they contain antioxidants and a large amount of vitamin C, and vitamin A.
All mammals get chills.
In Japan there is one vending machine for every 40 people.
Energy drinks accelerate hair loss in men by 42%.
March 14 is the day of the number because .
In Japan and South Korea, women give their men gifts on Valentine's Day, and on March 14 (exactly a month later) men give their women gifts. This day is called "White Day"
Finland has more saunas than cars.
The longest time someone has held their breath underwater is 24 minutes and 37 seconds.
About 70% of people experience so-called "ghostly vibration syndrome" where they think their phones are vibrating in their pockets.
Miscellaneous facts for children:
Bats are the only mammals that fly.
Tomatoes are fruit, not vegetables.
Chihuahuas are the smallest dog breeds.
Snakes smell with their tongue.
A hen lived without a head for 18 months.
Ketchup was previously sold as a medicine.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.
Tomatoes are fruit, not vegetables.
Chihuahuas are the smallest dog breeds.
Snakes smell with their tongue.
A hen lived without a head for 18 months.
Ketchup was previously sold as a medicine.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.
The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury.
Platypus sweats milk.
Massachusetts is the home of basketball and volleyball.
Bananas glow blue under black lights.
A woman in the UK called the police because there were not enough garnish sprinkled on the ice cream she bought.
Russia has 11 time zones.
Japan produced Kit Kat inspired by sushi.
Comets smell like rotten eggs.
The Vatican State is the smallest in the world.
Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.
US President Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena.
The Hollywood sign used to say "Hollywoodland," meaning the land of Hollywood.
The blue whale's tongue can weigh up to that of an elephant.
The skin is the largest organ in the body.
The giraffe's tongue can reach 50 centimeters in length.
Shrimp hearts fall into their heads.
Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the world.
The largest continent in the world is Asia.
The fastest animal is the cheetah.
Ants do not have lungs.
There is a planet made almost entirely of diamonds.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States.
Australia is home to the Great Barrier Reef.
The largest animal in the world is the blue whale.
Sea otters sleep holding hands.
The number of permanent teeth in the majority of adults is 32.
The largest bone in the human body is the femur.
The number of planets that make up the solar system is eight.
The number of colors in the rainbow is seven.
