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Test Your Knowledge on Weird Facts!!!

Here's a buncha unusual questions that you probably haven't been asked before. Try to answer all of them correctly; they go in order from easiest to hardest. The answers are listed at the bottom of the page.

1. What color stripe is on the American flag more?
a. red
b. white
c. the same amount of both

2. How many planets have rings?¿?
a. two
b. three
c. four

3. President Ulysses S. Grant changed his name because he was embarrassed by his initials, H.U.G. What was his original first name?
a. Henry
b. Hudson
c. Hiram

4. R.S.V.P. is French for...
a. Call me up.
b. Please respond.
c. Tell me if you're going.

5. A large grouping of geese is called a...?
a. nest
b. gaggle
c. company

6. 100 in Roman Numerals is...
a. D
b. C
c. XL

7. The largest natural lake in the world is which of the following?
a. Lake Superior
b. Lake Huron
c. Caspian Sea

8. Is this sentence states correctly? "The data are stacked neatly."
a. yes
b. no
c. I dunno

9. Utah's nickname is...
a. Beehive State
b. Cornhusker State
c. Pelican State

10. Which of the following is a palindrome?
a. bombs
b. cookie
c. radar

11. Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes?
a. white with black stripes
b. black with white stripes
c. neither
CORRECT ANSWERS


1. a. There are thirteen stripes on the flag. Six of them are white; seven of them are red.

2. c. Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune all have rings.

3. c. His name was "Hiram Ulysses Grant" before he changed it.

4. b. R.S.V.P. in French is respondez s'il vous plait, which basically means "please respond."

5. b. Yes, a group of geese is a gaggle of geese.

6. b. C is the correct Roman Numeral for 100. D means 500. Can you guess what the other one, XL, means?

7. c. Believe it or not, Caspian Sea is actually a lake. Lake Superior and Lake Huron are both in the top five biggest lakes in the world, though.

8. a. "Datum" is singular for "data." You can't say "The data is stacked neatly" because you can't put an 'is' next to a plural word. That'd be like saying "The footballs is put away" as apposed to "The footballs are put away".

9. a. Cornhusker State is Nebraska's nickname (So is Beef State.) The nickname Pelican State belongs to Louisiana.

10. c. A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same backwards as it is forward. For example, Hannah, Mom, and Dad are all palindromes.

11. b. Studies were made on a zebra embro that was black. That means that the white stripes came later.