246. Alexander Graham Bell’s wife and mother were both deaf.
247. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
248. In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be
allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
249. Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo
VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope
Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US
Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who’s bassist, 1944-2002) all died while
having sex.
250. Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.
251. Pac-Man, Namco’s 1979 arcade game, was originally called “Puck Man”. The name was changed
when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter “P”.
252. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.
253. There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).
254. The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by
caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother’s Day), at the age of five years,
seven months and 21 days.
255. The “middle finger” gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play “The Clouds”.
1. Which metal is heavier, silver or gold?
2. How many legs do butterflies have?
3. Which is the country with the most people?
4. Which state is the biggest in the US?
5. Which country has the largest area of land?
6. Which is the country hosting the 2008 Olympic Games?
7. Which indoor sport is the most popular in the US?
8. Which golf player’s mother is from Thailand?
9. What is Aurora Borealis commonly known as?
10. Which is the non-contagious disease that is the most common in the world?
11. Which was the album the Beatles recorded the last time together?
12. Which instrument did Miles Davis, the jazz musician, play?
13. What is the sport in which you could get into a headlock?
14. In which country was golf first played?
15. Which is the sport where you could be out ‘leg before wicket’ or ‘hit a six’?
16. When did baseball originate in the US?
17. Which is the sport wherein you would use a ‘sand iron’?
18. What is the largest mammal in the world?
19. Which is the country where reggae music originated?
20. Who was the creator of Jeeves and Wooster?
21. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
22. Who was the writer of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
23. After which famous person was the teddy bear named?
24. Which is the smallest ocean in the world?
25. What is the rhino?s horn made of?