GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ #3
QUESTIONS FOR QUIZ READER
1. Is the following statement True or False?
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space
2. Solve this celebrity anagram: ‘Lacking Tone’
3. Nuuk is the capital city of which country?
4. How many provinces are there in Canada?
5. In Greek mythology who was the god of wine, parties and festivals, madness,
chaos, drunkenness, drugs, and ecstasy.
6. K is the symbol for which element? (bonus point for identifying which fruit is has
high levels of K)
7. How many different types of good bacteria are living in our skin? Up to 100, up to
500 or up to 1,000?
8. Our bodies are made up of how many skin cells? 1.6 million, 1.6 billion or 1.6
trillion?
9. What is the only mammal that can fly?
10. What runs faster, an ostrich or a horse?
11. There are _____ ants for every human in the world. 1,000, 100,000 or 1 million?
12. What is the slowest fish?
13. Who sang the theme song to Dad’s Army?
14. How many months does it take the moon to revolve around the Earth?
15. What country did the Romans call Hibernia?
16. What German city is famous for a scent it produces?
17. What Hugh Lofting character lived in Puddleby-on-the-marsh? Hint: he had a pet
duck named Dab Dab.
18. What was the leaning tower of Pisa originally used for?
19. Which contains 593,493 words, the Old Testament or the New Testament?
20. What is the most used seasoning in the world?
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ #3
ANSWERS FOR QUIZ READER
1. False – There is in fact no distance from earth in which you can only see the
great wall. By the time you get a few thousand miles away, you can see
nothing manmade.
2. Nat King Cole
3. Greenland
4. Ten
5. Dionysus
6. Potassium
7. There are up to 1000 different types of good bacteria living in our skin. They
help with our skin cell turnover and immunity, and we leave remnants of
them wherever we go. No two people have the same combination, so
scientists are investigating using samples of bacteria from our palms to get a
reading that could one day replace or be used alongside DNA in criminal
profiling.
8. The body is made up of 1.6 trillion skin cells and we lose and replace between
30,000 and 40,000 an hour, with it fully regenerating every 30 days.
9. Bats
10. An ostrich can run faster than a horse and male ostriches can roar like a lion.
11. One million. These resilient creatures also never sleep and do not have lungs.
12. The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph.
13. Bud Flanagan
14. One month
15. Ireland
16. Cologne
17. Dr. Dolittle
18. A bell tower
19. The Old Testament
20. Salt
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