Odd facts quiz
The knowledge nobody needs and everybody passes on.
Oddities is an extra category. The questions on this page are free to play; inside a duel it belongs to the paid part — six other categories stay free forever.
What colour is a squid’s blood?
More Oddities questions
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Which German word is the longest entry in the Duden dictionary?
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- Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
- Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung
- Sauerstoffflaschenpfandgebühr
- Vermögenshaftpflichtversicherung
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Which cheese often matures for two years?
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- Parmesan
- Camembert
- Mozzarella
- Feta
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Where and when was the officially certified hottest air temperature on Earth recorded?
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- Death Valley, California, in 1913
- El Azizia, Libya, in 1922
- Dasht-e Lut, Iran, in 2005
- Kuwait City, Kuwait, in 2016
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How do most historians now believe the Library of Alexandria actually came to an end?
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- A slow decline over centuries
- Caesar burned it down in one night
- It was moved intact to Rome
- A flood from the Nile
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How many hairs does the average person lose from their scalp each day?
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- About 10 to 20
- About 50 to 100
- About 300 to 500
- About 1,000 to 2,000
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Compared with a volcanic island, what defines an atoll?
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- A ring of reefs enclosing a lagoon
- An active volcano covered in recent lava flows
- A coastal cliff carved out by the waves
- A sandbank joined to the mainland
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How high did the highest tsunami wave ever measured surge in Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958?
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- About 120 metres
- About 250 metres
- About 900 metres
- About 520 metres
True or false?
Same material, different game — in a duel this one runs without a clock, but with an explanation after every reveal.
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Snails have tiny teeth — some species even have several thousand.
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True.
Snails have a so-called radula, a rasping tongue with thousands of microscopic teeth. In some species there are more than 10,000 little teeth, which wear down while feeding and grow back.
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The carrot was originally not orange but purple.
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True.
The first cultivated carrots were purple or yellow; the orange carrot was only bred later.
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The word 'emoji' comes from the English word 'emotion'.
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False.
'Emoji' is Japanese, from 'e' (picture) and 'moji' (character); the similarity to 'emotion' is a coincidence.
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A single cloud can weigh several hundred tonnes.
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True.
Even an ordinary cumulus cloud contains several hundred tonnes of water. It floats because the water is spread out in tiny droplets.
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