Fun Trivia

 Hello there my crafty friends!  I have a nice mix of general knowledge questions with all sorts of themes.  I hope you enjoy it!  Here are your twenty questions for Saturday:

1. What is the only muscle in the human body attached at just one end?

2. Which element is named after the Greek word meaning "green"?

3. What is measured with a pluviometer?

4. Which desert covers much of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa?

5. Which animal has rectangular pupils?

6. Which country grows the greatest quantity of cork?

7. What is a baby eel called?

8. What is the hardest substance produced by the human body?

9. Which musical instrument has exactly 47 strings in its concert version?

10. What is the technical name for a fingerprint?

11. In human anatomy, what is the name of the tough fibrous tissue that connects muscle to bone?

12. Which blood vessel is the largest artery in the human body?

13. Which country is the world's largest producer of maple syrup?

14. Which part of the body contains the malleus, incus and stapes?

15. Which European country has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites?

16. Who wrote the novel The War of the Worlds?

17. What is the world's tallest species of grass?

18. What was the first James Bond film to star Roger Moore as 007?

19. Who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes?

20. Which invention is generally credited to Johannes Gutenberg?

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Answers:

1. Tongue

2. Chlorine

3. Rain

4. The Kalahari Desert

5. Goat

6. Portugal

7. Elver

8. Tooth enamel

9. Concert Harp

10. Dactylograms

11. Tendons

12. Aorta

13. Canada

14. Ear

15. Italy

16. H.G. Wells

17. Bamboo

18. Live & Let Die

19. Marie Curie

20. The Moveable-type Printing Press

Are we smiling because we did so well today?  I hope so!  If not there is always tomorrow's trivia to redeem yourselves with, right?  Let me know how you did in the comments and add your own questions too if you like (I always love it!).  All for now Sue x