General Ignorance Quiz Questions And Answers

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It's not George Washington (1st President of the United States). Peyton Randolph is actually the 1st president as during the time of the American Revolution, the national government was presided by the Continential Congress before the decline of the American Revolutionary War. However, the offices of both this and the US Presidency are just as similar.

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Antonio is actually the inventor of the telephone. He first put a patent what was known at that time as a voice communication apparatus back in 1871. However when his patent expired in 1874, he went to go renew it. Except he fell ill on the ferry on the way and his invention was no longer protected by fraudulent claims. So Alexander Graham Bell, who was working at the patent office where Meucci paid his patents paid them off in his name and therefore became the inventor of the telephone. Meucci took Bell to trial but to no avail. The case was eventually dropped upon Meucci's death.

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Quite right!! Good job!

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Surprised? Of course you know about touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. But there is also equilibrioception (the sense that allows an organism to sense body movement, direction, and acceleration to attain and maintain postural equilibrium and balance). Thermoception (sense of heat and absence of heat by the skin), Proprioception (the parietal cortex of the brain that has information on the relative positions of the parts of the body), Nociception (physiological pain that signals nerve-damage or damage to tissue) and Chronoception (refers to how the passage of time is perceived and experienced.

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There are technically 46 states in America. Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts are not states. They are commonwealths. If you were to go to either one of them or got a piece of mail from their government, it wouldn't say "State of (insert name here)", It would say "Commonwealth of (insert any of the 4 names here)".

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There are 2.3 million people in jail. That is 1 in every 99 people. That's than twice as many as South Africans, 3x as the Iranians and 6x as the Chinese. It's based on the baseball strike out rules. If you're first 2 strikes are not as serious, you get a slap on the wrist. But if you get a 3rd strike, no matter how trivial, you'd get a 25 to Life sentence.

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His full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolffgangus Theophilus Mozart. Try saying that 3 times fast. Don't actually do it!!!

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There are of course liquid, solid, gas, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensates and Fermionic condensate.

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This is an actual trick question. Although dialogue has come to mean two people, a conversation between two is in actuality a duologue. A dialogue does not have any limits as to how many people can take part.

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Thomas Midgeley discovered that Iodine added to Kerosene reduced knocking in cars. However, in order to completely rid of the knocking in cars, he used lead and as a result all cars put lead in their cars, harming millions of people and the environment. He also discovered dichlorofluoromethane, the first of the freons used in refrigeration units. What he didn't know is that it was destroying the O-Zone layer. Then he was struck with polio at age 51 in which he invented a harness to get himself out of bed. One morning, it swung around and in the struggle, he strangled himself to death.

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A nicotine stain is colorless, odorless invisible and untraceable. Although it is possible for it to make your teeth yellow.

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The macaroni mentioned in Yankee Doodle was another name for a dandy (a man who places particular importance upon his physical appearance). The song was actually written by a British person, who claimed that the Yanks were dumb and showed that if you take someone that is supposed to be an insult, you throw it back in the oppressor's face.

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Although it was later discovered that Hitler did have one ball, the first one to have been confirmed was Mao.