You are really clever if you can answer these 20 general knowledge questions

Weekly challenge

Questions

1 How many litres in a decilitre?

2 Which country has the most pyramids?

3 What is the only bird known to fly backwards?

4 Which country has no rivers?

5 What animal cannot jump?

6 Which continent is the flattest?

7 What is the largest organ inside the human body?

8 In which country is the world’s longest place name located?

9 Which chess piece was once called the ‘elephant’?

10 If you have Spectrophobia, what are you afraid of?

11 How many months have 28 days?

12 What is the tallest grass in the world?

13 What does the word “karate” mean in Japanese?

14 What is the world’s oldest written recipe for?

15 Which colour absorbs the most heat?

16 What is the dot above the letters ‘i’ and ‘j’ called?

17 What is the term for a baby puffin?

18 What’s the only planet not named after a god?

19 What language has the most words?

20 What is the the world’s biggest living bird.

Answers:

1 10 litres. 2 Sudan. 3 The hummingbird. 4 Saudi Arabia. 5 Elephant. 6 Australia. 7 The liver. 8 New Zealand (Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu). 9 The bishop. 10 Mirrors. 11 All 12. 12 Bamboo. 13 Empty hand. 14 Beer. 15 Black. 16 A tittle. 17 A puffling. 18 Earth. 19 English (The total number of words, including archaic and less common terms, is estimated to be over 1 million, with roughly 171 500 words in current use. 20 Ostrich (flightless, it stands 9ft tall and weighs 150kg. Don’t try and outrun it: At 72k/ph, they are almost twice as fast as the quickest human runners).