How many of these questions can you answer?

Friday Challenge

Questions

1 What is omnicide?

2 What is the most biodiverse country?

3 Which royal ruled for the longest?

4 Who was the to win two Nobel prizes?

5 Which famous Mongol emperor is the ancestor of 0.5% (40.5) of the world’s population?

6 Which countries had the first parliament?

7 How many zeros are there in a billion?

8 What is the fastest thing know to man?

9 Who leads the EFF?

10 Durban’s Bluff has how many suburbs?

11 Who is Pietermartizburg named after?

12 How many planets go around our sun?

13 How many months have 31 days?

14 What do we call creatures of the night?

15 What is the only mammal that can fly?

16 How letters are there in the alphabet?

17 What country is landlocked in SA?

18 What amazing natural phenomenon happens once a year along the KZN coast?

19 Who led a 1906 rebellion against colonial rule and the much-hated poll tax?

20 Is a cucumber a fruit or vegetable?

Answers

1 The destruction of all life. 2 Brazil. 3 King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (82 years). 4 Marie Curie – one for physics in 1903, the other for chemistry in 1911 for her work on radioactivity. 5 Genghis Khan. 6 Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the Isle of Man claim to having the oldest parliament in history (9th and 10th centuries). 7 Nine (1 000 000 000). 8 Light is the ultimate speed limit (300 000 kilometres per second). 9 Julius Malema. 10 Eight – Austerville, Brighton Beach, Fynnland, Grosvenor, King’s Rest, Ocean View, Treasure Beach, and Wentworth. 11 Boer leaders Gerrit Martiz and Piet Retief. 12 Eight (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is not classified as a planet). 13 Seven (January, March, May, July, August, October, and December). 14 Nocturnal. 15 The bat. 16 26. 17 Lesotho. 18 The sardine run. 19 Bhambatha (1906). 20 Fruit.

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