Interesting facts quiz
Twenty interesting facts – can you correctly complete them with the missing words?
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1. Earth has nearly 10 times the mass of ___
2. Parliament spent 700 hours debating whether to ban fox hunting, but only 7 hours debating whether to invade ____
3. Mongolia has more ______ than people
4. The Lake of Menteith is the only "lake" in Scotland. All the other lakes in Scotland are generally referred to as "____".
5. The world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall is _____ Falls in Venezuela
6. Nowhere in the nursery rhyme does it ever say that Humpty Dumpty was an ___
7. The name _____ saw a huge surge in popularity starting the in mid-1920s when
actor Frank Cooper changed his screen name to _____ Cooper in honour of his agent's home town of _____, Indiana
8. ______ is an archaic word that means guilty, the opposite of innocent
9. The world's oldest, tallest, and heaviest trees can all be found in the U.S. state of _________
10. In 1929, 78% of the world's _________ were located in the United States
11. The President of ________ of America is named Doug Bowser
12. Of all the legal tender coins made by the U.S. mint, every one is made mostly of ______ except the penny which is 97.5% zinc
13. The word _____ was invented in England as a shortening of "association football"
14. The tiny suburb of Medina, Washington has a population of 2,969 but was once home to the two richest people in the world: Jeff Bezos and ____ ____
15. In 1932, the government of _________ fought a war against emus but lost
16. In 2019, a Japanese restaurateur paid $3.1 million dollars for a single Pacific
______ _____, more than $5000 a pound
17. Ebola, SARS, Marburg virus, and possibly Covid-19 are all thought to have originally come from ______.
18. In 1969, the height of the "hippie" movement, only 4% of Americans had ever tried ________
19. An adult human's _____ accounts for 2% of body weight, but uses 20% of the
body's caloric budget
20. Moose are excellent swimmers who will sometimes dive to eat tasty vegetation under the surface of the water. Occasionally, they are eaten by ______ _______
21. The first ______ restaurant in the UK was opened 50 years before the first fish and chip shop.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5AM tomorrow morning. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. Earth has nearly 10 times the mass of ___
2. Parliament spent 700 hours debating whether to ban fox hunting, but only 7 hours debating whether to invade ____
3. Mongolia has more ______ than people
4. The Lake of Menteith is the only "lake" in Scotland. All the other lakes in Scotland are generally referred to as "____".
5. The world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall is _____ Falls in Venezuela
6. Nowhere in the nursery rhyme does it ever say that Humpty Dumpty was an ___
7. The name _____ saw a huge surge in popularity starting the in mid-1920s when
actor Frank Cooper changed his screen name to _____ Cooper in honour of his agent's home town of _____, Indiana
8. ______ is an archaic word that means guilty, the opposite of innocent
9. The world's oldest, tallest, and heaviest trees can all be found in the U.S. state of _________
10. In 1929, 78% of the world's _________ were located in the United States
11. The President of ________ of America is named Doug Bowser
12. Of all the legal tender coins made by the U.S. mint, every one is made mostly of ______ except the penny which is 97.5% zinc
13. The word _____ was invented in England as a shortening of "association football"
14. The tiny suburb of Medina, Washington has a population of 2,969 but was once home to the two richest people in the world: Jeff Bezos and ____ ____
15. In 1932, the government of _________ fought a war against emus but lost
16. In 2019, a Japanese restaurateur paid $3.1 million dollars for a single Pacific
______ _____, more than $5000 a pound
17. Ebola, SARS, Marburg virus, and possibly Covid-19 are all thought to have originally come from ______.
18. In 1969, the height of the "hippie" movement, only 4% of Americans had ever tried ________
19. An adult human's _____ accounts for 2% of body weight, but uses 20% of the
body's caloric budget
20. Moose are excellent swimmers who will sometimes dive to eat tasty vegetation under the surface of the water. Occasionally, they are eaten by ______ _______
21. The first ______ restaurant in the UK was opened 50 years before the first fish and chip shop.
