Interesting Facts Quiz 2


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  1. In New York State if a dog bites someone, usually the owner can not be sued if it is the first time that the dog has bitten anyone.
a. true
b. false

  1. The average height of people is about the same in all the countries of the world.
a. true
b. false

  1. The population of China is...
a. about the same as the population of the United States
b. about twice the population of the United States
c. about four times the population of the United States

  1. The percent of the world's surface covered with water is...
a. 20%
b. 50%
c. 70%
d. 80%


  1. The only large country in asia where christianity is the religion of the majority of the people...
a. Thailand
b. Indonesia
c. Philippines
d. South Korea


  1. Adolescents in the United States spend an average of how much time alone with their fathers each day?
a. three minutes
b. thirty minutes
c. one hour
d. two hours

  1. What is the cause of the sound made when you "crack a whip"?
a. The air cannot move quickly enough to prevent a vaccuum from forming behind the moving end of the wipe. Air pressure causes air to move rapidly into that vaccuum. The rapid movement of air causes the sound.
b. The entire length of the wipe suddenly is stretched tight. That causes the whole length of wipe to move as a unit and at a very fast speed. That moves a large quantity of air quickly. That movement of air is the noise that is heard when the wipe cracks.
c. As the wipe is straightened and then relaxed, the sudden change of tension on the wipe causes the diameter of the wipe to first thin and then get larger. As it expands very rapidly air is pushed out suddenly in all directions causing the loud crack.
d. The crack of the whip is caused by an extreme compression of the air in front of the whip which results because the end of the whip is traveling faster than the speed of sound and so air is not pushed out of the way in a normal manner.
e. a and d

  1. The amount of leisure time that people have has in the last twenty years...
a. gone up
b. staid the same
c. gone down

  1. The low pitched sounds of the blue whale can travel under water for distances up to...
a. 1 mile
b. 10 miles
c. 100 miles
d. 1000 miles


  1. What increases by an average of one third of an inch overnight, and then decreases during the following morning?
a. the height of trees
b. a person's height
c. the height of the lawn grass
d. both b and c



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