Q 01/05
A) It never strikes the same place twice
B) "Heat lightning" is a separate phenomenon
C) It strikes tall buildings again and again
D) It only strikes metal objects
Answer · why
It strikes tall buildings again and again: the Empire State Building takes about two dozen hits a year. Lone trees get the same treatment, because a b...
Q 02/05
A) Apollo crews saw it from the Moon
B) Nothing else man-made shows from orbit
C) It is one single unbroken wall
D) A 1932 cartoon called it visible from the Moon
Answer · why
A 1932 cartoon called it visible from the Moon: Ripley's named the wall the only human work to be seen from there, decades before anyone could check. ...
Q 03/05
A) He was unusually short for his time
B) He was born in Paris
C) He died on the island of Elba
D) He was about average height for his era
Answer · why
He was about average height for his era: his recorded 5 ft 2 was in French units, about 5 ft 6 in British ones. The tiny, raging 'Little Boney' was th...
Q 04/05
A) Their humps are full of water
B) Their humps are stores of fat
C) They never need to drink at all
D) They have no sweat glands
Answer · why
Their humps are stores of fat, a food reserve that shrinks and flops to one side as it is used up. Water is another matter: a thirsty camel can gulp d...
Q 05/05
A) They wore horned helmets into battle
B) Wagner's operas made their horned helmets famous
C) They drank from the skulls of enemies
D) They never reached North America
Answer · why
Wagner's operas made their horned helmets famous: the costume designer for his 1876 Ring cycle put horns on the Norse characters, and the look stuck. ...
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