Including the white ball, there are seven color varieties are used in a game of snooker?
True False
False: There are eight white, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, red, black A full snooker set includes eight colours in total - the white cue ball plus red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. Each coloured ball is worth a different number of points, with black being the highest at seven.
The Empire State Building is located on Fifth Avenue?
True False
True: The Empire State Building's address is 350 Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Art Deco skyscraper stands at the corner of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Completed in 1931, it was the world's tallest building for nearly forty years.
The first animal that appears in the English dictionary is the albatross?
True False
False: The aardvark is traditionally the first animal listed in an English dictionary. The aardvark - a nocturnal, ant-eating mammal from Africa - sits near the very top of most dictionaries thanks to the 'aa' start of its name, well before any entries beginning with 'al'.
Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympics?
True False
True: Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Tokyo was chosen at the 2013 IOC session in Buenos Aires to host the 2020 Games. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the event was postponed by a year to July 2021, though it kept the 'Tokyo 2020' branding.
An orca is commonly known as a killer whale?
True False
True: The orca (Orcinus orca) is widely known as the killer whale. Despite the fearsome name, orcas are actually the largest member of the dolphin family. The 'killer' tag comes from old sailors who saw them hunting larger whales and called them 'whale killers'.
There are 365 days are there in a leap year?
True False
False: A leap year has 366 days, not 365. An extra day - 29th February - is added every four years to keep the calendar aligned with Earth's orbit around the Sun. The extra day exists because a solar year is actually about 365.25 days long.
The three primary colors are red, blue and green?
True False
False: In traditional art and colour theory, the three primary colours are red, blue and yellow. Red, blue and yellow are the classic primary colours taught in schools and used in pigment-based mixing. Red, green and blue (RGB) are the primary colours of light, used by televisions and computer screens.
One of the American state ends with three vowels?
True False
True: Hawaii ends with three vowels - 'a', 'i' and 'i'. Hawaii is unique among US states in having a name that ends with three vowels in a row. It is also the only US state located outside of North America.
In Great Britain the fall is known as the autumn season?
True False
True: In British English the season is called autumn, while 'fall' is the American term. Both words were used in England centuries ago - 'fall' comes from 'fall of the leaf'. The British kept 'autumn', derived from the Latin 'autumnus', while American English retained 'fall'.
In the fairytale, Cinderella left a glass slipper behind as she was leaving the ball?
True False
True: She left a glass slipper As Cinderella fled the ball at midnight, one of her glass slippers was left behind on the staircase. The Prince later used it to identify her as the girl he had danced with.
A group of ravens is known as a Constable?
True False
False: A group of ravens is known as an 'unkindness' or a 'conspiracy'. English has some wonderfully strange collective nouns for birds - 'an unkindness of ravens', 'a murder of crows', 'a parliament of owls' and 'a charm of goldfinches' to name a few.
Percy Shaw obtained a patent in 1934 for inventing the cats eyes?
True False
True: He invented the cats eyes Percy Shaw, a road contractor from Halifax in West Yorkshire, was granted his patent in 1934. The reflective studs are said to have been inspired by the eyes of a cat caught in his headlights on a foggy night.
As of 2013, six books completed the Harry Potter series?
True False
False: The Harry Potter series is made up of seven books, not six. The seventh and final novel, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', was published in July 2007, so by 2013 the complete seven-book series had been available for six years.
Pablo Picasso cut off his own ear?
True False
False: Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear The Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh famously severed part of his own left ear in December 1888, in Arles, France. Picasso, a Spanish artist, lived about fifty years later and kept both his ears intact.
The two main species of elephant are the Asian and African?
True False
True: The two traditionally recognised species are the African elephant and the Asian elephant. African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, generally bigger than their Asian cousins and with noticeably larger ears shaped like the continent of Africa. Some scientists now treat the African forest elephant as a separate third species.
The longest side, opposite the right angle of a right angled triangle, is called the hypotenuse?
True False
True: The longest side, opposite the right angle is the hypotenuse Pythagoras's theorem uses the hypotenuse: a squared plus b squared equals c squared, where c is the hypotenuse and a and b are the other two sides.
Kinetic energy cannot be passed from one object to another?
True False
False: It can pass from one object to another Kinetic energy - the energy of movement - transfers between objects all the time. A classic example is a Newton's cradle, where the energy of one swinging ball is passed through the stationary balls to lift the one at the other end.
Sweden borders Norway and Finland?
True False
True: Sweden borders both countries Sweden shares its long western border with Norway and its shorter north-eastern border with Finland. It is also connected to Denmark via the Øresund Bridge in the south.
The capital of the United Arab Emirates is Abu Dhabi?
True False
True: Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi is also the largest of the seven emirates by area. Dubai, though often mistaken for the capital due to its fame, is actually the UAE's most populous city but not its capital.
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jane Mortenson?
True False
False: She was Norma Jeane Mortenson Born in Los Angeles in June 1926, the future Hollywood star was registered as Norma Jeane Mortenson - with the distinctive 'Jeane' spelling. She was later baptised as Norma Jeane Baker.
