Stupid Test, The Book of General Ignorance Edition

Stupid Test, The Book of General Ignorance Edition

Prepare yourself for ultimate self-humiliation.  If you have a poor self-image, or are otherwise mentally unprepared, stop now and don't take this test!

Questions:

1.  What do we use to write on a blackboard?

2.  What Edison invention do English speakers use every day?

3.  What is the most likely survivor of a nuclear war?

4.  Where do tulips come from?

5.  How many nostrils have you got?

6.  What kind of music charms snakes most?

7.  Where do gorillas sleep?

8.  What's the most common bird in the world?

9.  What animal are the Canary Islands named after?

10.  How high is cloud nine?

Answers:

1.  Not chalk, gypsum

2.  Hello

3.  The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans

4.  Holland was a good guess... but originally tulips are native to Istanbul, Turkey.

5.  Four, two of which are inside your head as remnants of the human evolution from fish.

6.  They don't care, it's the site of the flute, not the music played.

7.  In nests that they build on the ground or in the lower boughs of trees.

8.  The chicken.

9.  Dogs, Canary birds are named after the island, not the other way around.

10.  According to the Internatonal Cloud Atlas, cloud zero is the highest type of cloud, cloud nine is as low as a few hundred feet to the very edge of the stratosphere.

Ouch.  I only got #6.

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