Oddities quiz
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Oddities 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?
More Oddities questions
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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 oldest known shoes in the world are over 5,000 years old and were found in an Armenian cave.
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True.
The so-called "Areni-1 shoe" made of soft leather was found in Armenia in 2008 and dated to around 5,500 years old.
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Spider silk is stronger than steel of the same weight.
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True.
Spider silk has a higher tensile strength per weight than steel and is also extremely stretchy.
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Botanically speaking, a tomato is a vegetable.
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False.
Botanically, a tomato is a fruit, more precisely a berry, even though it is cooked like a vegetable.
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