How Pencils Are Made...
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| Total Attempts: 101
You use pencils nearly every day. . . But how much do we actually know about them? Take this quiz to test your pencil knowledge!
Questions and Answers
- 1.A pencil will write in :
- A.
Zero gravity
- B.
Underwater
- C.
Upside down
- D.
All of the above
- 2.A typical pencil can write a line :
- A.
35 miles long
- B.
3 miles long
- C.
500 feet long
- 3.At present date, if stabbed by a pencil the chance of getting lead poisening is :
- A.
85%
- B.
25%
- C.
0%
- 4.According to Discover magazine, Therry des Estwaux invented the first mechanical pencil sharpener. In what year was this invention made?
- A.
1942
- B.
1847
- C.
1897
- D.
1902
- 5.Before the eraser was invented, what did people use to erase their pencil markings?
- A.
Bread crumbs
- B.
Their fingers
- C.
They didn't
- D.
Hay
- 6.In 2004, pencil factors in China turned out :
- A.
1 billion pencils
- B.
100 million pencils
- C.
10 billion pencils
- D.
100 billion pencils
- 7.Pencil manufacturer's expect pencils shape and sales to remain relatively fixed through what year?
- A.
2010
- B.
2040
- C.
2050
- D.
2020
- 8.The author John Steinbeck (who wrote : "The Grapes of Wrath") used cedar pencils. Every day he used as many as :
- A.
60
- B.
13
- C.
6
- D.
34
- 9.About how old is a tree, when major pencil manufacturer's fell it and use it to make pencils?
- A.
8 years
- B.
20 years
- C.
17 years
- D.
14 years
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