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INSECT AND ANIMAL
Q. Name the only Sea animal with a prehensile tail
A.
The sea horse
Q. What is the only mammal that can not jump?
A.
The elephant
Q. What is the only bird to "drop" its upper eyelid to wink?
A.
The owl. All other birds raise their lower
eyelid.
Q. How many rows of whiskers does a cat have?
A.
Four
Q. Name the only mammal with four knees
A.
The elephant
Q. What is the only North American rodent that barks like a
dog?
A.
The prairie dog
Q. What is the practice of training hawks called?
A. Falconry
Q. Name the only bird that can fly backwards
A.
The hummingbird
Q. What is the only continent without reptiles?
A.
Antarctica
Q. Name the only animal (excluding humans) whose evidence is
ruled admissible in a court of law.
A.
The bloodhound
Q. What do peacocks mate with?
A. Peahens
Q. What was the only live animal permitted in ancient Roman
temples?
A.
The cat
Q. What is the only wild man-eating animal native to
Australia?
A.
The dingo, a wild dog
Q. Name the only winged mammal that can fly
A.
The bat
Q. What is the member of the cat family that does not have
retractable claws?
A.
The cheetah
Q. What part of the human body is most commonly bitten by
insects?
A. The
foot
Q. Name the only poisonous snake native to Great Britain.
A.
The adder
Q. What is the only female animal with antlers?
A.
The reindeer or caribou
Q. Name the only two dogs with a black tongue
A.
The chow chow and Chinese
Sharpei Click HERE
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Q. What is the only bird whose skin can be used to make
leather?
A.
The ostrich
Q. Name the only creature in the sea with no natural enemies
A.
The white shark
Q. What is the only insect that can turn its head without
moving its body?
A.
The praying mantis
Q. Name the only purple animal.
A.
The blesbok, a small antelope exclusive to
South Africa BET YOU DID NOT GET THAT ONE !!!
Q. What is the only animal with nostrils on top of its head?
A.
The whale
Q. Name the only creature with retractable antennae
A.
The snail
POLITICS AND HISTORY
Q. Who was the only American president to remain a bachelor?
A.
James Buchanan, 15th president, his fiancée
took her life after a lover's quarrel
Q. Name the only president to also serve on the Supreme Court
A.
William Howard Taft
Q. Who was the only vice president to succeed to the
presidency without ever going through the election process for
either office?
A.
Gerald Ford - Agnew resigned after tax
scandal, Nixon appointed Ford vice president, Nixon resigned
after Watergate scandal, making Ford president
Q. Name the only vice president to kill a person in a duel
A.
Aaron Burr, VP under Jefferson. Burr
mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel after Hamilton
refused to endorse him for president.
Q. What is the street address of the White House?
A. 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue
Q. Who was the only president to have been an Eagle Scout?
A.
Gerald Ford
Q. Name the only president to serve two nonconsecutive
terms
A.
Grover Cleveland
Q. Name the TWO pairs of brothers to serve as state governors
of different states at the same time
A.
Jeb Bush (Florida 1998-2000) and George W.
Bush (Texas 1998-2000) ; and Levi Lincoln (Massachusetts
1827-1829) and Enoch Lincoln (Maine 1827-1829)
Q. Who was the only president elected to the office four
times?
A.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Q. Who was the only person to actually sign The Declaration of
Independence on the fourth of July?
A.
John Hancock
Q. What was the first flavor of life saver?
A. Peppermint
Q. Name the only president to be born on the fourth of July
A.
Calvin Coolidge born July 4th 1872
Q. Which side did Great Britain support during the American
Civil War?
A.
The Confederacy (south)
Q. Who was the only president not to deliver his Farewell
Address?
A.
George Washington, after declining to run a
third time, he had his address published in the newspaper
Q. What two presidents died on the same day of the same year?
A.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second
and third presidents both died July 4th,1826
Q. Name the only president to kill someone in a duel?
A.
Andrew Jackson, he killed Charles Dickerson
after Charles insulted Jackson's wife
Q. Who was the first president born in the 20th century
A.
John F. Kennedy
Q.
Who was the only
president to once have a career as a professional model?
A.
Gerald Ford
Q. Name the only person in American history to have had
appointments with three presidents on the day that they were
assassinated.
A.
Robert Todd Lincoln, April 14, 1865 he was
to meet Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, July 2, 1881 while
serving as secretary of war, President Garfield requested a
meeting with him, and on September 6, 1901, Lincoln was a special
guest of president McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition, where
McKinley was shot.
Q. What is the most common Christian name for U.S. presidents?
A. James
Q. Who was the only President voted to office unanimously?
A. George
Washington...DUH!!!
Q. Who was the first incumbent U.S. president to survive being
shot?
A.
Ronald Reagan
Q. Who was the only president to wear a size 14 shoe?
A. another
tough one-Abraham Lincoln no doubt
Q. Name the only direct descendants of two US presidents to
marry each other
A.
David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon
Q. Name the president whose wife and mother died on the same
day
A.
Theodore Roosevelt, mother Martha and wife
Alice both died on February 14th, 1884
Q. Name the European country in which every able-bodied male
must serve in the military
A.
Switzerland
Q. What country requires all able-bodied women to serve in the
military?
A.
Israel
Q. Which president was chastised for picking up his pet
beagles by the ears
A.LBJ
Lyndon Baines Johnson
GEOGRAPHY
Q. What is the only state with JUST one school district?
A.
No it's not Rhode Island... it's HAWAII
Q. Name the only Great lake located ENTIRELY in the United
States
A.
Lake Michigan
Q. What is the only city located on two continents
A.
Istanbul, it straddles Asia and Europe
Q. What is the only state never to have had a foreign flag fly
over it?
A.
Idaho
Q. What is the only continent not to have active volcanoes
A.
Australia
Q. Name the only US state to grow coffee
A.
Hawaii
Q. What is the only continent without deserts?
A.
Europe
Q. What is the only city in the world to have two countries
within its boundaries?
A.
Rome, Italy The Vatican City is a has been
a self governing independent country since 1929, and SMOM or the
Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, which relocated to Rome in
1834
Q. What is the most common color of house in North America?
A. White
Q. What is the most rural state in the U.S.?
A. North
Dakota
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Q. Name the only planet NOT named for a Greek or Roman god
A.
Earth
Q. Name the only planet in our solar system that rotates
clockwise
A.
Venus
Q. What is the only substance on Earth that is naturally
present in three forms
A.
Water - liquid, solid, and gas
Q. What percentage of Earth's water is drinkable?
A.
One percent
Q. How many times did John Glenn orbit the earth?
A.
Three
Q. What is the fastest growing thing in the plant and animal
kingdom?
A.
The whale
Q. What's another name for Aurora Australis?
A. Southern
Lights
Q. Who was the first man to return to space?
A. Virgil
"Gus" Grissom
Q. What is a prestidigitator?
A.
A magician
SPORTS
Q. Who is the sultan of swat?
A.
Babe Ruth
Q. Whose record did Babe Ruth break in 1927 when he hit 60
home runs?
A.
Babe Ruth's THAT WAS A TRICK QUESTION
Q. What pro sport did Wilt Chamberlain play after basketball?
A. Volleyball
Q.
A. Mickey
Mantle
Q. What sports broadcaster graduated Phi Beta Kappa from law
school?
A.
Howard Cosell
Q. What was the first major league sport to feature "Wild
Card" play offs?
A.
The National Football League
TELEVISION, BOOKS and MOVIES
Q. Who played Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist
A. Linda
Blair
Q. Who narrates the Sherlock Holmes stories?
A.
Dr. Watson
Q. What was the name of Scarlet O'Hara's mansion?
A. Tara
Q. What actor and World War II airman had a $5,000 bounty put
on his head by Hermann Goering?
A. Clark
Gable
Q. What is the name of Quint's boat in JAWS
A. The
Orca
Q. What British TV series featured Emma Peel?
A.
The Avengers
Q. Where does the name Emma Peel come from?
A.
An expression of the times - M Appeal or
MALE APPEAL meaning sexy
Q. What prime time soap finished 39th in the 1979 ratings and
31st in the 1989?
A. Dallas
Q. How long was the TV mission of the Enterprise?
A.
FIVE years
Q. What is the last name of Linus and Lucy?
A. Van
Pelt
Q. Who portrayed Carl Bernstein in All the President's
Men?
A. Dustin
Hoffman
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