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Interesting Facts Quiz #8

Have you been paying attention to JetPunk's interesting facts? Prove your knowledge by filling in the blanks.
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Answer
___ _____ was born closer to Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1864
than to his own inauguration in 2021
Joe Biden
______ can grow more than 1 meter in height in less than 24 hours
Bamboo
In India, there is a 1 in 270 chance that a person will die by being bitten by a _____
Snake
The shotgun that ______ ________ used to kill himself was purchased from
Abercrombie and Fitch
Ernest Hemingway
Before _______ was discovered in 1846, its existence was inferred from
perturbations in the orbit of Uranus
Neptune
As a child, ___ ____-__ was taken to visit Tokyo Disneyland using a
fake Brazilian passport
Kim Jong-un
Dinner used to be a mid-day meal, with ______ eaten in the evening
Supper
When the ______ was brought from America to Europe, it was initially thought
to be poisonous
Tomato
The S in _____ _. ______'s name is not an abbreviation. His middle name was S.
Harry S. Truman
According to one estimate, 27% of the adult male population of China
was addicted to _____ at the turn of the 20th century
Opium
______ live in Lake Nicaragua, a freshwater lake
Sharks
Some populations of African elephants are evolving to not have _____
due to widespread poaching
Tusks
A man's ____ is about 20-25% thicker than a woman's
Skin
_______ is the only country without mosquitos
Iceland
A 9.0 __________ releases 1,000 times as much energy as a 7.0 __________
Earthquake
_________ didn't have to fight for independence. It was involuntarily expelled
from Malaysia in 1965.
Singapore
"The Matrix" was originally supposed to star ____ _____ as Neo,
but he turned it down to star in "Wild Wild West"
Will Smith
About 11% of adults in the U.S. have type 2 ________
Diabetes
In Japan, it is traditional to consume Kentucky Fried Chicken on ________
Christmas
The immortal _________ can theoretically live forever
Jellyfish
30 Comments
+1
Level 65
Dec 28, 2023
Im rubbish at these kinds of questions. Nice Quiz!
+10
Level 85
Dec 28, 2023
Not the Immortal Penguin then.
+16
Level 84
Dec 28, 2023
Surely, anything in the blank would be valid. An immortal anything can live forever!
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Level 76
Dec 28, 2023
Wasn't the "S" in Ulysses Grant's just an initial without a name?
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Level 89
Dec 28, 2023
Yep
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Level 83
Dec 29, 2023
But it was an initial added later in life, unlike Truman for whom it was his actual middle name (Grant's middle name being Ulysses).
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Level 78
Apr 12, 2024
It actually stood for both his grandfathers' names.
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Level 93
Dec 29, 2023
"A man's skin is 20-25% thicker than a woman's" I don't know, I've seen a lot of men who can't take a joke.
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Level 85
Jan 24, 2024
What's that supposed to mean?!
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Level 58
May 25, 2024
This is offensive.
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Level 64
Dec 29, 2023
In many parts of the UK, the midday meal is still called dinner. The evening meal is tea, and supper is a wee bedtime snack. Have a look at the OED entry for dinner, updated a couple of years3ago.
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Level 83
Dec 31, 2023
Yes, especially if the midday meal is cooked. My family (in northern England) tend to use 'lunch' and 'tea' for a sandwich spread, and dinner for a cooked meal wherever it falls in the day, but I don't know how usual that is.
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Level 96
Feb 8, 2024
Technically it should be Harry S Truman, with no period after the S, as it's not an abbreviation.
+1
Level ∞
Feb 8, 2024
Common misconception.
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Level 46
May 25, 2024
According to the Chicago Manual of Style, all initials, regardless of whether or not they stand for anything, should be followed by a period/full stop
+4
Level 62
Feb 12, 2024
the immortal anything can live forever. The clue is in the name.
+1
Level 67
Feb 19, 2024
This is probably the first series of quizzes where I've gotten 5/5 points on most of them in the first run.... thank you autism
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Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
Wayyyy too short imo, I didn't even have time to read all of the questions properly. Granted, trying to figure out how to spell ulysseus (ulysses) took some of my time. In most quizzes I don't struggle for time. I can atleast read all of them, some might be a bit short if you don't know the answer right away however, but well, like I said struggled heavily on time with this one
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Level 66
May 25, 2024
"Trying to spell Ulysses took most of my time"

but Ulysses is not in this quiz....

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Level 58
May 25, 2024
It’s not, but it could kind of work for the Truman question. It technically doesn’t but I tried it too
+1
Level 71
May 25, 2024
Wasn’t Lincoln’s second inauguration in 1865?
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Level 49
May 25, 2024
Yes, he was elected in 1864.
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Level 45
May 25, 2024
Epidermis IS skin - allow that as an answer
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Level 68
May 25, 2024
So you guessed that first?
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Level 67
May 25, 2024
easy 5 points, also suggested the 8th fact
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Level 78
May 25, 2024
What about transgender men's and women's skin, eh? Eh?!
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Level 44
May 27, 2024
It depends on whether they're on hormones. Or were you saying that as an unfunny joke?
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Level 58
May 25, 2024
"A man's ____ is about 20-25% thicker than a woman's"

So I haven't matured since 8th grade it seems

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Level 82
Jul 9, 2024
I spent a lot of time writing and re-writing and checking for errors in Ulysses S Grant and Hunter S Thompson.

D'oh !

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Level 85
Sep 13, 2024
The penultimate question is a bit tricky for Brits to guess, as we never say ‘on Christmas’ but always ‘at Christmas’. I was trying days of the week.