CAUTION!
FOR
MEMBERS OF THE INTELLIGENSIA ONLY
Those
who are educated beyond their capacity...
those who think they know everything.
These
Quizes Are For Very Bright People Only ... No Exceptions
A
dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A
cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A
sign posted at the entrances of 19th century clubhouses read,
'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden,' from which came the word
GOLF.
A
crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A
dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A
goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A
"jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a
second.
A
shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A
snail can sleep for three years.
Al
Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All
50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds
are a member of the peach family.
An
ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies
are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies
taste with their feet.
Cats
have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt"
is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February,
1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
In
the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If
the population of China walked past you, in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If
you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend
an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's
impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo
Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine
is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No
word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
or purple.
On
a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
Peanuts
are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber
bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses"
is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop",
with your right.
The
average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The
cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel fuel that it burns.
The
microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The
sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"
uses every letter of the alphabet.
The
winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.
The
words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they
are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There
are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There
are more chickens than people in the world.
There
are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There
are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's
no Betty Rubble in the Flintstone's Chewable Vitamins.
Tigers
have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER
is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
Winston
Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women
blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your
stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
Clans
of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence
the expression "to get fired."
The
highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point
in Colorado.
The
name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G. P.
The
airplane Buddy Holly died in was the 'American
Pie'. (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each
king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts
- Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. See David
Copperfield's Magic.
Average
life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Only
one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Snails
can sleep for 3 years without eating.
111,111,111
x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
If
you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to the top and sinking to the bottom. (Let's try this soon!)
Hershey's
Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Months
that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
The
Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every
five be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips
in times of war or other emergencies.
There
are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
All
of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck
on 4:20.
The
fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable
from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused
at a crime scene.
The
reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were
stabled on the ground floor and they figured out how to walk
up straight staircases.
The
sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"
uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union
to Test telex-two communications.)
Ten
percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale
of vodka.
Debra
Winger was the voice of E. T.
It
takes 3,000 cows to
supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
1.
Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named
April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's
name?
2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten
inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain
in the world?
4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by
three feet by four feet?
5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?
6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always
in the summer. How is this possible?
7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a
wooden leg. Why not?
8. What was the President's Name in 1975?
9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in
second place, what place would you be in now?
10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white"
or "The yolk of the egg is white"?
11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks
in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined
them all in another field?
ANSWERS
1.
Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named
April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's
name?
Answer: Johnny, of course!
2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten
inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat.
3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain
in the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet. (You're
not very good at this are you?)
4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by
three feet by four feet?
Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.
5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always
in the summer. How is this possible?
Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a
wooden leg. Why not?
Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need
a camera (or a cell phone) to take pictures.
8. What was the President's Name in 1975?
Answer: Same as is it now - Barack Obama.
9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in
second place, what place would you be in now?
Answer: You would be in second. Well, you passed the person
in second place, not first.
10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white?"
Or, "The yolk of the egg is white?"
Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow.
11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks
in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined
them all in another field?
Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become
one big stack. --
Now,
you really do know everything!
Butt
... wait!
"This
can't be 'the end'," you say?
