Odd Facts quiz
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Odd Facts is an extra category. The questions on this page are free to play; inside a duel it belongs to the paid part — six other categories stay free forever.
Which animal is the largest on Earth?
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Which animal has the largest eye relative to its body?
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- Giant squid
- Owl
- Tarsier
- Eagle
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How many legs does an insect have?
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- 6
- 8
- 4
- 2
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What is the fear of spiders called?
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- Arachnophobia
- Acrophobia
- Aviophobia
- Nyctophobia
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Which inventor is regarded as the father of printing?
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- Gutenberg
- Edison
- Bell
- Newton
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Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
- Botticelli
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On average, about how fast do fingernails grow each month?
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- About 3.5 mm
- About 0.5 mm
- About 10 mm
- About 15 mm
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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set its speed record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft in 1976 — about how many years has that record now stood?
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- About 50 years
- About 20 years
- About 80 years
- It was broken in 2019
True or false?
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A giraffe has exactly as many neck vertebrae as a human — namely seven.
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True.
Despite its extremely long neck, the giraffe, like almost all mammals, has seven neck vertebrae; the individual vertebrae are simply greatly elongated.
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The range of an average human sneeze is over 100 km/h.
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True.
When sneezing, droplets are expelled at up to 150 km/h — and aerosols spread correspondingly far across a room.
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The cheetah is the fastest animal in the water.
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False.
The cheetah is the fastest land animal; in the water, for example, fish are faster.
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The fax machine was only invented after the telephone.
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False.
The principle of the fax machine was patented as early as 1843, decades before the invention of the telephone in 1876.
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