What is the most common
presidentÕs first name?
Answer: James. There are 6 presidents with that first name
True or false: When a
Boeing 747 gets a new coat of paint, the original paint is scraped off to avoid
extra weight.
True. The amount of paint needed to paint a Boeing 747 weighs about
550 pounds.
Is 10100
(googol) more or less than the amount of atoms in the universe?
A lot more. There are only about 1080 atoms in the
universe!
What is the state that
borders the most other states?
Tennessee.
Which is not a
renewable source of energy: Oil, solar energy, or hydrogen?
Oil.
If you chose a
random number from 0-9, what is the chance that all the numbers you picked were
the same if you picked a number six times.
The chances are very low. They are
1 to 100,000.
From the bottom to the tip of the torch, how tall is the statue of
liberty?
305 feet.
At a time at night were there were a lot of stars, how many can a
person see?
A person can see about 2,000 to 2,500.
In the first 50 digits of pi, what is the least abundant digit?
Zero (it only appears once).
In this diagram, a man
is exactly balanced
with a weight on a
pulley. If he
the rope,
will the weight
Yes. No matter how high anything is
It is impossible in reality, but if you took a piece of paper and
folded it 50 times, how thick would it be?
Almost 93 million miles, the distance
from the Earth to the sun.
In 1956, New Years Day was on a Sunday. What weekday was New Years
Day on in 1957?
Tuesday. 1956 was a leap year.
If you had three people in a line you could arrange them six ways.
But if you had 70 people in a line, how many different ways could arrange them?
More than a googol ways!
On a RubikÕs cube, how many different positions can be shown?
432,520,032,274,489,856,000
O. The letter o has been around since
3,000 B.C.
How many protons are in an atom of gold?
79
How long does it take for a million seconds to pass?
About 11.5 days
How long does it take for a billion seconds to pass?
Almost 31.6 years
If you were in a room with 100% methane gas, what would happen if
you lit a match?
Nothing. You need oxygen to make a fire.
Which state in the U.S. is the most eastern?
Alaska
What does 1+1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32É
equal?
The answer is 2. When you add one to one-half, you get one and a half. Then when you add one forth, you get one and three quarters. Then after you add one eighth you will have one and seven eighths. If this pattern continues forever, the numbers will get infinitey close to 2. Therefore, it equals 2.
Who was the first person to be on a U.S. bill?
Early versions of American currency only had designs or symbols. On March 10, 1862, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase had his
face on a $1 bill for the first time. The first prisdent to have his face on a bill was Abraham Lincoln who was on a $10 bill later the same
year.
What is the only word in the dictionary that has three sets of doubled letters in
a row?
Bookkeeper.
On the periodic table of elements, what are the only chemical symbols that
are made with only two
Gold and Europium (their chemical symbols are Au and Eu.)