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I'm full of keys, but I can't open any locks. What am I? A piano.

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add The word is "short." When you add the letters
two letters to it? "er," it becomes "shorter."
I am an odd number. Take away one letter, and I The number seven (7). Remove the 's,' and it
become even. What am I? becomes "even."
Mr. Taylor has four daughters and each has a brother. Five children because all of his daughters
In total, how many children does Mr. Taylor have? have the same brother.
What jumps when walking and sits when standing? A kangaroo
I can shave every day but my beard never changes. A barber
What am I?
I am born tall and grow short with age. What could I A pencil.
be?
I eat to live and drink to die. What could I be? Fire.
I fly without wings and cry without eyes. Wherever I A cloud.
lead, darkness follows. What could I be?
What word looks the same upside down and Swims.
backward?
Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father The man is my son.
is my father's son.
Who is the man?
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, Nothing
the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it,
you'll die?
Who makes it, has no need of it. A coffin
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?
What can travel around the world while staying in a A stamp
corner?
What has to be broken before you use it? An egg
What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves? A fence
What tastes better than it smells? A tongue
What has a bottom at the top? Legs
If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four Nine
and five?
What goes through cities and fields, but never Road
moves?
You can drop me from the tallest building and I'll be Paper
fine, but if you drop me in water I die. What am I?
What has an eye but cannot see? Needle
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? Towel
There was a green house. Inside the green house Watermelon
there was a white house. Inside the white house
there was a red house. Inside the red house there
were lots of babies. What is it?
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? A palm
Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly? Incorrectly
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share Secret
me, you haven't got me. What am I?
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am Ton
I?
What can you catch but not throw? Cold
What is at the end of a rainbow? W
What is as light as a feather, but even the world's His breath
strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a
minute?
What occurs once in every minute, twice in every M
moment, yet never in a thousand years?
TRIVIAS
What does a manometer measure? The pressure of a closed system
What is the name of the layer of air closest to us in Troposphere
the atmosphere?
How many volts can an electric eel produce? Around 500 V
What is the word ‘radar’ an abbreviation for? Radio Detection and Ranging
What year was the sound barrier broken? 1947. The ‘sound barrier’ refers to the speed
of sound and breaking it means travelling
faster than sound itself. It was first broken in
1947.
What does the acronym ‘LASER’ stand for? Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of
Radiation
What rock floats in water? There is only one - PUMICE. However, once
water enters into the rock itself it will then
sink.
When the roads are wet, sometimes that water Aquaplaning
reduces friction between the tyres and the tarmac
and causes our cars to lose control. What is this
called?
Which muscle in the human body can produce the The masseter in your jaw.
most force for its size? Explaination: When an adult bites down hard,
they can exert a force of 90N on their back
teeth. That’s like sitting a 90kg weight on your
molars!
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment dealing Quantum Mechanics
with which type of mechanics?
Who are the two quantum physics who fathered Niels Bohr and Max Planck
Quantum physics?
What type of wave has particles that vibrate Transverse wave
perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation?
In 1967, what did the General Conference of Weights One Second
and Measures define as “9,192,631,770 periods of
the radiation corresponding to the transition between
the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the
cesium-133 atom”?
What type of arthropod has at least 25% fewer legs Millipede
than its name suggests?
What mathematical constant is roughly equal to e
2.71828?
What word—now more often heard as the name of a “Googol”
company, though spelled differently—was coined in
1940 by the nine-year-old nephew of a
mathematician?
In 1614, a Scottish mathematician, seeking to simplify Logarithm tables
the processes of multiplication and division, became
the first person to publish what?
Which number is spelt with letters in descending One
order?
Which number is a ‘magic number’? 9. Number ‘9’ is considered as a magic
number, as the sum of the digits of the
multiples of 9, is always 9. For example; (18) 8
+ 1 = 9, (54) 5 + 4 = 9, (81) 8 + 1 = 9.
The number hundred is derived from the ancient The word “hundred” comes from the old
word, “hundrath,” which actually means what? Norse term, “hundrath”, which actually
means 120.
Which number has the most synonyms? ‘Zero’, which can also be addressed as; nil,
nada, zilch, zip, nought, and many more.
What was the number 0 originally named? Cipher
In what country were negative numbers first used? China
Based on the legend of how his discovery of Eureka
submerged objects causing water displacement
helped him figure out how to measure the purity of
gold, Greek mathematician Archimedes is famously
known for shouting what word originating from a
Greek word meaning “I have found it!”?
Amethyst and citrine are extra-pretty varieties of Quartz
what common mineral that's great for Scrabble?
The name of a 17th-century French mathematician, Pedro Pascal
known for his namesake wager and triangle.
The "main-sequence" stage of what type of large, hot Stars
object comes from the balance of gravity and nuclear
reactions?
Titan is one of the few moons in the solar system Saturn
known to have an atmosphere of any substance.
Around which planet does Titan revolve?
Which organ in the human body is the only one that Lungs
can float in water?
What innovative radio company developed the Music Pandora
Genome Project to classify music by mirroring
mathematical techniques for gene sequencing within
human DNA?

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