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Fun World Trivia Questions and Facts - What do you know! I've included a answer page after every 5 questions-if your memory is failing! HaHa. If you have someone enjoying the Trivia with you the final answers to all questions are at the bottom of the page. These questions are not for the timid.
1. What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by 1994?
2. What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
3. What is the capital of Kuwait?
4. "What town name did residents of a Florida retirement community switch to because they found Sunset Depressing?
5. What's the second most populous continent?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 1 - 5.
6. What finally went out of fashion in
ancient Rome, prompting people to begin wearing short pants called feminalia?
7. What southwestern U.S. state has the
highest percentage of non-English speakers?
8. What M-word did Texas citizens choose as
a town name that would "attract" folks?
9. What state leads the U.S. with 15 tons
of solid waste per citizen each year?
10. Which is further from the equator,
Tasmania, Tanzania, or Transylvania?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 6 - 10.
11. What eastern town is home for a service
academy and the U.S. Sliver Depository?
12. What's the University of Paris more
commonly called?
13. What two French cities are connected by
the planet's fastest passenger train?
14. What religion has the most adherent,
Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?
15. What U.S. state boasts a town called
Captain Cook?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 11 - 15.
16. What's the Greek name for hell?
17. What European country does Aruba
maintain the strongest ties to?
18. What do the Chinese call kwai-tsze, or
"quick little fellows"?
19. What European country uses its Latin
name, Helvetia, on its stamps?
20. What British university boasts and
endowment called the Jackie Mason Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 16 - 20.
21. What country did Greek historian
Herodotus dub "the gift of the Nile"?
22. What country is only bordered by Spain?
23. What's the flattest U.S. state?
24. What U.S. state, after much debate,
made the bizcochito the official state cookie?
25. What Australian city boasts the largest
Greek population in the world outside of Greece?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 21 - 25.
26. What U.S. state boasts the towns of
Gulf Stream, Lakebreeze and Frostproof?
27. What country has bee the planet's
largest aid donor since 1991?
28. What island nation is a must for anyone
wishing to see 40 species of lemours?
29. What country is almost twice as large
as either the U.S. or China?
30. What South Asian city is the planet's
biggest feature film producer?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 26 - 30.
31. How many Great Lakes do not border
Michigan?
32. What cowboy tune is the official song
of Kansas?
33. What continent boasts the most
telephone lines?
34. What do Texas beef partisans call "wool
on a stick"?
35. What South American country was home to
the early human 'Patagnian giants"?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 31 - 35.
36. What Western Hemisphere people spoke
Nahuatl?
37. What New Orleans soup has a name
derived from the Bantu word for okra?
38. What Pacific atoll got its name from
its location between the Americas and Asia?
39. What state volunteered to drop the
moniker Hog and Hominy State?
40. What regional accent did Americans deem
sexiest, most liked and most recognizable?
Answers - This answer section covers Question 36 - 40.
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