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Interesting Facts: Multiple Choice
How well have you been paying attention to the interesting facts? Can you correctly guess the details of fifteen of them?
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Last updated: October 2, 2025
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1. How many people were killed in the continental US as a direct result of enemy action during WW2?
#210: Six picnickers were killed by a Japanese incendiary balloon in Oregon in 1945.
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6
182
About 20000
2. What country introduced a beard tax in the late 17th century?
#3: The tax was meant to encourage men to shave and look more like other Europeans.
China
Ethiopia
Russia
Spain
3. Which law states that the number of transistors on a microchips doubles every year or two?
#39: The rate may be slowing down now, though.
Moore's Law
Murphy's Law
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Turing's Law
4. On which date did BBC play piano music instead of broadcasting news?
#472: Apparently, there was no news that day.
6 January 1922
18 April 1930
7 September 1947
20 July 1969
5. What was Jeeves' occupation?
#184: Yes, butlers and valets are different.
Butler
Chauffeur
Herald
Valet
6. Which word is not derived from a proto-Germanic word for "foreigner"?
#1067: Gaul, Wales, and Walnut all stem from the word Walhaz.
Gaul
Wales
Walnut
Whale
7. Which president's personal physician invented a sport to keep him in shape?
#897: The game, which involves tossing a medicine ball over a net, does actually have official and somewhat complex rules.
George Washington
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
8. Why is it ironic that New Hampshire's license plates include their motto "Live Free or Die?"
#568: Not much more to add here
They're produced by prisoners.
New Hampshire was the last state in New England to abolish slavery.
New Hampshire has the lowest life expectancy of any US state.
The motto originated when many of the horses of pioneers in the state ran off, leaving fewer to pull their heavy carriages, thus slowing them down and leading to the deaths of many of the horses that remained.
9. In Wisconsin, the governor has an odd veto power. Which of these has the governor used this veto power to do?
#1078: The governor is allowed to strike any text, including punctuation and numbers, from a piece of legislation.
Close the legislature
Extend a temporary spending increase by 400 years
Change the person to be portrayed by a commemorative statue
Veto legislation passed by the previous governor
10. What is the lowest-value Euro banknote?
#671: The interesting fact claims that these banknotes are printed by the ECB, but they actually aren't endorsed by them.
-€1
€0
€1
€5
11. When was the heaviest airplane ever built destroyed?
#1081: The plane in question was the Antonov An-225 Mriya.
1945, by retreating Luftwaffe soldiers
1971, when it was disassembled in an American scrapyard
2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
It's still operable today
12. Who was the first pope not to be made a saint?
#720: Liberius was the 36th pope. The first 35 were all canonized
Linus (c. 64–76 AD)
Anicetus (c. 155–166 AD)
Caius (283–296 AD)
Liberius (c. 352–366 AD)
13. How much does the paint on the outside of a Boeing 747 weigh?
#1031: Or almost 1000 lb
4.5 kg
45 kg
450 kg
4500 kg
14. What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
#264: Or 24 mi/hr, apparently
Swallows can't fly
11 m/s
65 km/hr
Equal to that of at least a hundred camels
15. Counting overseas territories, which country has the most timezones?
#265: France has 12. The US and Russia each have 11.
France
Russia
United Kingdom
United States
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