Useless Information Trivia Quiz

Answer: recycled plastic bottles

The original diatomaceous earth as the absorbent was replaced by cheaper, more available materials. Plastic does not absorb anything, therefore unusable.

Answer: 12 pounds/5.4 kilograms

Elephants are born with four sets of seven successively larger teeth. Four are used at a time. When they wear out, others move up to take their place. The last set can last 20 years and when they fall out, the elephant can no longer eat and starves to death.

Answer: 32

Cats can be facing one way and turn their ears to listen two other directions. Independent hearing control, much like teenagers.

Answer: Gnurr

gnurr - "The substance that collects over time in the bottoms of pockets or cuffs of trousers". Actual dictionary definition - The Free Dictionary by Fairlex.

Answer: Striped, just like the fur

This is not due to skin pigmentation, but to the hair follicles beneath the skin.

Answer: Skein

Do not walk where a gaggle of geese have been. When flying, they can also be called a team or a wedge. If flying close together, they are called a plump. Geese honk while in flight to get other members of the skein to stay in line, much like drivers in NYC.

Answer: Unknown

Despite nine days of investigation and questioning 50 people, the Chicago Board of Police and Fire Commissioners found no evidence to lay blame on anyone. A major heatwave and drought made the area ripe for burning, and 2000 acres did. The whole tale of Mrs O'Leary's cow was invented, by local kids or a reporter trying to sell papers. Mrs. Catherine O'Leary was hated by the locals for being an Irish Immigrant whom they felt wanted to make Chicago pay for making her life so hard.

In 1997, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution exonerating Catherine - and her cow - from all blame.

Answer: Polar bears

Polar bears can swim underwater for up to three minutes so as to attack seal prey on ice floes or shore.

Answer: 13

Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself when he was three. He worked hard to become as educated as he could, but found the learning materials for the blind lacking. Charles Barbier of the French Army had invented a form of reading by feel which he called Night Writing, as you needed no light to read it.

It was too complex for what Braille wanted. He published his work at age 15. He died at age 43, from tuberculosis, two years before his system was fully recognized and accepted. It is now used worldwide.

Answer: Bulls attack the threat perceived by the cape's movements

Bulls are not enraged by the colour red used in capes by professional matadors. Cattle are dichromats (colour blind), so red does not stand out as a bright colour. Rather, the matador's manipulation of the cape is a perceived threat that incites a bull to charge. Red is used to hide any blood that may be spilled by the bull hitting parts of the matador.

The matador is doing his best performance if he has a bruised leg caused by the bull rushing closely past him, that is, close enough to bruise him.