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1) What is the population of Zimbabwe?
12,671,860 About Zimbabwe - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
2) How many plane crashes have there been in China since 2000?
3) What is the width of a human hair?
90 µm
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/BrianLey.shtml4) What is the average weight of an adult African elephant?
1,500 kg to 3,200 kg (3,300 to 7,000 lb)
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001609.html5) How old is the world's oldest tree?
4,767 years
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html6) What is the distance from the Sun to the nearest star?
93 million miles
http://www.hypertextbook.com/facts/KathrynTam.shtml7) Where is the deepest part of the Ocean? How deep is it?
Challenger Deep Touch bottom at 35,838 ft/10,923m.
http://www.extremescience.com/DeepestOcean.htm8) What was the population of the Earth in 1950? In 2000?
2.5 billion in 1950
http://www.krellinst.org/UCES/Demo/ScientificComputing/uces-1/uce over 6 billion
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/unpopulation.html 9) What is the longest distance a chicken has ever flown?
301.5 feet
http://www.open2.net/everwonderedfood/chickensecrets.html10) What is the tallest mountain in Germany?
Zugspitze
http://www.metva.com/users/enno/zugspitz.html 11) How many people have walked on the moon? What are their names?
Twelve astronauts
http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/5-3-01askeds.html That is, the names of all twelve people who have walked on the moon. They are all white, American males. Just like Jesus. Here they are in order: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Conrad Jr., Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar D. Mitchell, David R. Scott, James B. “Jimmy” Irwin, John Young, Charles M. Duke Jr., Eugene A. Cernan, and Harrison H. Schmitt.
http://www.kcomposite.com/history/irwin3.html12) How many countries are represented in the United Nations?
192
http://www.un.org/Overview/unmember.html 13) The United States House of Representatives has how many members?
435 bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/government/nationa
l/house.html
14) How many voyages did the Titanic make across the Atlantic Ocean?
1 but sink
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/titnch18.htm15) Which country has the longest coastline?
Canada
http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/9-19-99askeds.html16) Which baseball team won the 2006 National League Championship?
The Harriton High School baseball team
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1676&dept_id=43829&newsid=1180387...
17) The first PC sold by IBM had how many kilobytes of RAM?
128 kilobytes news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-6831982-0.h
tml
18) In which year did World War I begin? In which year did it end?
1854---1919 pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline9.html
19) Which body of water has the highest salt content?
Dead Sea hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/SanjeevMeno
n.shtml
20) What is the longest river in North America?
the Mackenzie, in Canada
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ge...
21) Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/microbes/penicil
l.htm
22) How long was the "Hundred Years War"?
116 years, from 1337 to 1453
http://www.didyouknow.org/huh.htm23) Who was the first woman in space?
Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963
24) The ancient city of Babylon was located in which modern country?
Gardens
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/worldhistory/wh2001/chapter3/we... www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/worldh
istory/wh2001/chapter3/webact.html
25) Which was the first city in the world to have a population of one million people?
Rome
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?284926) Who invented the airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright explanation-guide.info/meaning/Orville-a.
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nd-Wilbur-Wright.html
27) Which nation has the lowest population density?
Alaska
http://www.50states.com/facts/alaska.htm28) In 1871, a "great fire" occurred in which American city?
Chicago
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/maps/chicago_fire_text.html29) Which city hosted the 1904 Olympic games?
St. Louis
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0786405503 30) In which year was the transistor invented?
1947
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1947/december_23_1947_108746.html31) Who was the first American president to visit China? In which year was his visit?
Richard Nixon in 1972
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june98/china_6-23a.html32) Which six elements are known as the "noble gasses"?
helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon.
http://www.maxmon.com/en.htm33) Who was the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean?
Beryl Markham
http://www.karenblixen.com/gale.html34) Who discovered the Mississippi River?
Richard, Hernando DeSoto
http://www.inkwells.net/HelpBBS/_helpdisc/00000071.htm35) How tall is the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, USA?
630 feet tall
http://www.ogip.org/US/missouri/saint-louis-mo-hotels.html