Interesting questions, I believe it or not. “Believe it or not” - an intellectual game
I BELIEVE - I DON'T BELIEVE
(additional questions)
Do you believe that...
1. Only the development of automobile transport in the United States stabilized the population of house sparrows in cities.
Answer: Yes, because the main sources of food - feed warehouses and manure - have disappeared. Until this time, the number of sparrows could not be reduced by any force.
2. According to the German philosopher Schopenhauer, in order to halve your rights and double your responsibilities, you need to nominate yourself in elections.
Answer: No, you need to get married.
3. We know “The Story of Two Noble Lovers” by Luigi de Porto under the name “Anna Karenina”.
Answer: No, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare.
4. Not only Salieri, but also Casanova played a significant role in Mozart’s fate.
Answer: Yes, Mozart invited him for consultations during the creation of the opera “Don Giovanni”.
5. The average Polish resident spends more time shaving than brushing their teeth.
Answer: No, for brushing your teeth, because women and children usually don’t shave.
6. Doves are usually used as a doping agent in homing pigeon competitions.
Answer: Yes, they are shown to pigeons.
7. To become the godmother of a ship, a woman must give it a name.
Answer: No, break a bottle of champagne on its stem.
8. The name of the English Secretary of Colonies can be found on the map of Nepal.
Answer: No, Sydney is a city in Australia.
9. The Egyptians call every female relative they dislike a cousin.
Answer: No, mothers-in-law.
10. One of the arguments against the death penalty in the United States is its high cost.
Answer: Yes, two trials, not counting appeals, and other legal procedures - all this is estimated at no less than 3.2 million. dollars.
11. A company in Texas makes custom wall clocks with designs similar to the famous cuckoo clock. The only difference is that instead of a cuckoo, a hand with a revolver sticks out of the window and shoots according to the number of hours.
Answer: Is it true.
12. Until recently, in one of the cities in New Jersey, cats that were let out of the house by their owners were required to have a collar with three bells to warn the birds of their presence.
Answer: Is it true.
13. Galileo filled thermometers not with mercury or alcohol, but with wine. He sent one of these devices to his friend in England. Either the description of the device was lost, or a friend did not understand, but Galileo received the following message: “Thank God, your strange bottle arrived safely. The wine is truly wonderful. More to come."
Answer: Is it true.
14. Parisians at the beginning of the century observed a strange type who, at dusk... barked furiously near mansions and rich villas. However, if a real dog barked in response, the person recorded the house number in a notebook.
Answer: Is it true. It was a tax inspector checking the registration of dogs, because they had to pay tax on them, and some people forgot about it.
15. In the Middle Ages, the Pythagorean theorem was offered to everyone who took the exam for the title of master of mathematics.
Answer: Is it true.
16. One day, divers cleaning the bottom of the Chesterfield Canal in one of the counties of England came across a massive cast-iron chain, which they were able to pull out by attaching the end of the chain to a tugboat. At its other end there was a wooden cylinder of unknown purpose. Having pulled this strange structure ashore, the divers went to lunch. Imagine their surprise when, upon returning, they discovered that there was no water in the canal, and there was a gaping hole at the bottom.
Answer: Is it true. As it turned out later, the hole was designed for emergency drainage of water from the canal into a neighboring river by the famous architect James Bridley, who built the canal more than 200 years ago.
17. In the tundra, mushrooms are taller than trees.
Answer: Yes.
18. You can eat the fruits of the sausage tree
Answer: No.
19. Is bamboo the tallest grass in the world?
Answer: Yes.
20. A penguin can be attacked by a leopard.
Answer: Penguins are afraid of the leopard seal, which has fangs and is spotted like a leopard.
Unfortunately, today children are reading less and less. And know less. Only a few find something truly interesting and useful on the Internet... Therefore, I see my task as a class teacher not only to educate, but also to comprehensively develop my students.
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Game for students "Yes or no? Or I BELIEVE IT or I DO NOT BELIEVE IT"
- Woodpeckers die from concussions - yes
- In a tadpole, the front legs grow earlier than the hind legs - no
- In southern countries, cockroaches reach the size of a mouse - yes
- There are worms on earth that reach a length of 30 meters - yes
- The Egyptian Sphinx is one of the Wonders of the World - no
- There are butterflies on Earth whose wingspan is 25 cm - yes - in India
7 Some birds have teeth - no
8 Eucalyptus is the tallest and fastest growing tree in the world - yes, height up to 100m
9 The Great Wall of China is visible from space - yes, its length is 6000 km
10 In Australia there are 3 times more sheep than people
11 Asian elephants are smaller than African ones - yes
12 Some types of bamboo can grow 90 cm per day
13 Ancient Romans instead of dental. pastes used mouse brain powder - yes
14 Octopuses, squids and cuttlefish are mollusks - yes
15 Disneyland Park in Florida, USA is 111 sq. km = area of Manchester - yes
16 The energy inside the tornado is such that it could light all the light bulbs in America - yes
17 The huge pouch under the pelican’s beak holds more food than its stomach - yes
18 Hares living in the tundra are the smallest - no - they are the largest up to 6 kg
19 The Sahara is the largest and hottest desert in the world - yes
20 Snakes are deaf creatures, yes
21 A rhinoceros can turn over a car with its horn - yes
22 A centipede has 40 legs - no, different species have from 30 to 100 in different ways
23 The homeland of tulips is Holland - no, Türkiye in the 16th century, merchants brought them to The Hague
24 there was a time when you went to the opera with your own chair - yes
25 bulls are irritated by the color red - no, they do not distinguish colors, their p. Sudden movements
26 Polar bears sleep in winter - no, they behave the same in summer and winter
27 flowers stay fresh longer in water with ice cubes - yes
28 Egyptian pyramids were built by prisoners of war - no, Egyptian peasants = fellahs
29 yurt is the house of an Indian = no, among the Indians it is a wigwam, a yurt is among the Kyrgyz, Kalmyks and other nomadic peoples
30 The Statue of Liberty was designed by French engineer Alexander Gustav Eifeld
31 Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major = no, Ursa Minor
32 The word "alibi" is Greek and means "it was not me" = no, Latin "elsewhere"
33 In ancient Egypt they believed that the first man was created from clay by the god Hanum. What animal's head was he depicted with? - the head of a ram
34 which wild and domestic animals are not afraid of the bite of pig snakes
35 paws of which animals were decorated with gold crocodile bracelets in Ancient Egypt
36 what was the name of the first sound film - in 1926 in the USA Don Juan
37 when the first system for recording sound on film appeared - in 1912 in Great Britain
38 which doll is the national symbol of Russia - matryoshka
39 what are puppets on strings called all over the world?
40 which doll coped with the whole army of the Nutcracker Mouse King
41 name the most famous wooden doll in the world - Pinocchio or Pinocchio
42 what is the name of the doll that is burned at the end of winter - Maslenitsa
I bring to your attention the questions we talked about. Answers can be written on response cards, but children prefer to “vote with their feet” - move in one of the directions set by the presenter, deciding on the choice of answer. What helps you win in the game is not so much erudition as intuition.
Take your time to look at the answers - try to give your version and then compare it with the correct one.
1. The science of “cynology” studies cinema.
2. In the Middle Ages, an orchard in Rus' was called a vegetable garden.
3. The science of “Orientalism” studies the East.
4. Most of Iran's exports are oil.
5. Aloe even in African deserts grows up to 18 meters.
6. On Wrangel Island it is prohibited to drive dog sleds while intoxicated.
7. The term “Homo sapiens” was coined by Charles Darwin.
8. The Trojan Horse was made from Lebanese cedar.
9. Once upon a time in Rus' the saying “breaking a ruble” meant bankruptcy.
10. Prudent people starch their laundry in the water in which they boiled pasta.
11. The word “sconce” comes from the word “hand”.
12. Robinson Crusoe considered the most urgent matter for himself to be building a roof over his head.
13. Tight shoes can be stretched using cologne.
14. The words “It releases subtle aromas through mixing minerals” said by Lomonosov about chemistry.
15. If the screws are tight to fit into the wood, you need to lubricate them with soap.
16. Moths can be removed with orange peels
17. British astronomers discovered a huge cloud in the depths of the Universe, which consists almost entirely of ethyl alcohol, cooled to a temperature of - 148 ° C.
18. When Leigh Erickson landed in North America around the year 1000, he discovered so many grapes that he called the place “wine paradise.”
19. One chicken was always fed from a light saucer, and when once the food was put on a dark saucer, the poor chicken fainted.
20. To teach a male pigeon to turn first to the left and then to the right, two females are needed.
21. Alexander Green, before becoming a writer, toured cities as a “sword eater.”
ANSWERS: |
1 - no, dogs. 2. Yes. 3. So. 4- no, carpets. 5. So. 6.- no, this rule applies to the island of Greenland. 7. No, Carl Linnaeus. 8 . No, made of fir. 9. Yes. 10 . Yes. (Cited in the book “Our House” as an example of too much savings). 11 . Yes, but in French, because it’s always at hand. 12 . No. (Hearth!). 13. Yes. (Moisten generously and put on). 14. Yes, about her, my beloved... 15. Yes, it really helps. 16. Yes. (Strange, but true!). 17 .So. 18. No, “grape land.” 19 . Yes, these are the experiments psychologists conduct. 20. No, just feeding is enough. 21 . Yes.
I am sure that this material will be useful for all organizers of children's games.
210 questions
Questions 1 to 50.
Quiz. Do you believe that?..
210 questions
Questions 1 to 50.
1. ... the cloud around the comet's nucleus, observed in 1811, had a diameter of two million kilometers? (Yes)
2. ... on Venus a day is shorter than a year? (Yes. A Venusian day is equal to 343.16 Earth days - during this time it rotates around its axis; and it rotates around the Sun in 224.7 Earth days)
3 ... is the interplanetary medium empty? (No. It contains gas molecules, rays, radio waves)
4. ... The moon is a dark luminary and has no light of its own? (Yes. It reflects the sun's rays)
5. ... did scientists discover iron, cobalt, sodium, calcium in the body of the comet? (Yes)
6. ... did the tail of the 1811 comet exceed the distance from the Earth to the Sun? (Yes)
7. ... Does Lee Redmond (resident of the USA), with nails with a total length of 7 meters 51 centimeters, dress herself? (Yes. Only she puts all her clothes on through her legs)
8. ... the tallest modern man is three meters tall? (No. The height of the tallest man - Radhun Harbib from Tunisia - is two meters thirty-five centimeters)
9. ... is the tallest modern woman taller than the tallest modern man? (No. Sandy Ellen from the USA is two meters thirty-one centimeters tall)
10. ... a Charing Cross (Great Britain) doctor in 1952 removed a stone weighing six kilograms, two hundred and ninety grams from the gall bladder of an eighty-year-old patient? (Yes)
11. ... Michel Lotito (France) has been eating glass and iron since 1959, and can digest nine hundred grams of metal daily? (Yes)
12. ... the heart of fisherman Jan Egil Refsdal (Norway), who fell overboard at sea, stopped for four hours, after which he survived? (Yes)
13. ... Roy Sullivan (USA) survived after being hit by twenty lightning strikes at different intervals? (No. But he survived seven lightning strikes and this despite the fact that the average power of a lightning strike is one hundred million volts)
14. ... did the oldest woman who lived on Earth live longer than the oldest man who lived on Earth? (Yes. Jeanne-Louise Calment from France lived one hundred and twenty-two years, and Shingisio Itsumi from Japan lived one hundred and twenty years two hundred and thirty-seven days)
15. ...in 1997, Justin Miller (USA), at the age of seven, published a cookbook, Cooking with Justin? (Yes)
16. ... Jackie Barbee (USA) held twenty rattlesnakes in his mouth for twelve and a half seconds? (No. There were “only” eight snakes)
17. ...donor Maurice Creswick (South Africa) donated 188.9 liters of blood over the course of fifty-nine years from the age of eighteen? (Yes)
18. ... Mary Mohan, at ninety-one years old, rappelled from a thirty-eight meter cliff? (Yes)
19.... Eduardo Armallo Lagaza (Spain), while lying down, supported concrete blocks weighing five tons? (No. The weight of the blocks was one ton, three hundred ninety-nine kilograms and eight hundred grams)
20. ... Prakash Singh (India) stood motionless, allowing himself only to blink, for three days? (No. He dedicated his record - twenty hours, ten minutes and six seconds - to the freedom fighters of India)
21. ... two-year-old Michelle Frank (USA) survived after sixty-six minutes of being submerged in a stream? (Yes)
22. ... On April 3-4, 1974, in just one day, one hundred and forty-eight tornadoes swept across the southern and midwestern United States? (Yes)
23. ... Was Mary Magdalene included by the Church among the saints equal to the apostles? (Yes)
24. ... the combined population of India and China exceeds a third of the population of our planet? (Yes)
25. ... Shieto Izumi (Japan) worked for ninety-eight years. (Yes. In 1872 he began working as a draft cattle driver at a sugar mill. He retired in 1970 at the age of one hundred and five)
26. ... the most visited amusement park is Disneyland in Paris? (No. This is Tokyo Disneyland)
27. ... is the largest Imperial Palace in Japan? (No. In China. It covers an area of seventy-two hectares)
28. ... the largest pyramid is the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt? (Yes. Its height is one hundred and forty-six meters and sixty centimeters)
29. ... the highest clock above the ground is on the tower of Westmina Abbey in London? (No. They are installed on the Morton International building in Chicago (USA), located at an altitude of one hundred and seventy-seven meters above the ground)
30. ... the tallest buildings in the modern world were the twin towers of the shopping complex in Manhattan in New York, destroyed on September 11, 2001? (No. The tallest building is the Taipei One Hundred and One building (Taiwan). Its height is five hundred eight meters. And the tallest of the twin towers, the North Tower, was four hundred seventeen meters)
31. ...most Internet users are in Japan? (No. In the USA)
32. ... have twelve people been on the moon? (Yes)
33. ... the largest number of space flights (seven) were made by two Russian cosmonauts? (No, these are American astronauts Jerry Ross and Franklin Chang-Diaz)
34. ... did Svetlana Savitskaya stay in space the longest among women? (No. This is an American Shannon Lucid. She spent one hundred and eighty-eight days in space)
35. ... American astronaut John Glenn Jr. went into space at the age of seventy-seven? (Yes. In 1998, he went into space as part of the Discovery crew.)
36. ... the fastest humanoid robot created in the USA? (No. In Japan. It was created in 2003 by Sony)
37. ...the first computer virus was demonstrated by Bill Gates? (No. This was done by MIT student Fred Cohen in 1983)
38. ... the largest animal armor was made for knightly horses? (No. For Indian elephants)
39. ... Katie Jung (USA), with a height of one hundred and seventy-two centimeters, has a waist measuring thirty-eight centimeters and one millimeter? (Yes)
40. ... the height of British stuntman Kiran Shah is one meter twenty-six centimeters and four millimeters? (Yes)
41. ... Greg M. Cox (USA) can write and read sixty-four languages? (Yes)
42. ...will the plane take off faster if it accelerates with the wind? (No. It will take off faster by accelerating against the wind)
43. ... do chickens swallow pebbles because that's how they get minerals? (No. Pebbles serve as a kind of millstone, helping to grind food in the stomach)
44. ... do ultraviolet rays pass through window glass well? (No. Window glass does not transmit ultraviolet rays. Such rays pass through quartz glass)
45. ... by sticking a sewing needle, can you develop a pressure of one thousand atmospheres? (Yes)
46. ... does every oscillating body sound? (No. Body vibrations may not reach the frequency of sound vibrations)
47. ... in birds of prey, females are larger and stronger than males? (Yes)
48. ... do woodpeckers die from concussions? (Yes)
49. ...are there birds that collect supplies for the winter? (Yes. Owls collect killed mice in their hollows, and jays collect acorns and nuts)
50. ... do tadpoles' front legs grow earlier than their hind legs? (No. On the contrary)
Quiz "Do you believe that.." Questions 51 to 100.
51. ... do heavier drops fall from the samovar tap when the water is hot? (No. The size of the drop, and therefore its weight, depends on the force of surface tension. Hot water has less surface tension than cold water)
52. ... the speed and acceleration of a vertically thrown ball at its highest point of rise are equal to zero? (No. The speed is zero and the acceleration is 9.8 meters per second)
53. ... does an elephant's pregnancy last almost a year? (No. Twenty to twenty-two months)
54. ... in southern countries do cockroaches reach the size of a mouse? (Yes)
55. ...are there butterflies with a wingspan of fifty centimeters on Earth? (No. The largest Atlas butterfly, living in India, has a wingspan of twenty-five centimeters, almost like a blackbird)
56. ... are there worms on Earth that reach a length of thirty meters? (Yes)
57. ... in equestrian dressage competitions, do men and women compete on equal terms? (Yes)
58. ... the height of the Eiffel Tower is more than three hundred and fifty meters? (No)
59. ... the Egyptian Sphinx - one of the Wonders of the World? (No)
60. ... the birthplace of the secretary bird is Australia? (No. Africa)
61. ... Are the Pleiades and Stozhary the same astronomical object? (Yes)
62. ...are there poisonous boas? (No)
63. ...doha has fur inside and outside? (Yes)
64. ... the highest recorded wave - a tsunami - was more than five hundred meters high? (Yes)
65. ...do some birds have teeth? (No)
66. ... is “angina pectoris” the same disease as asthma? (No. Angina pectoris is angina)
67. ... was the Spanish artist El Greco really Greek? (Yes)
68. ...are the eggs that iguanas lay edible? (Yes)
69. ... some types of bamboo can grow ninety centimeters a day? (Yes)
70. ... did the ancient Romans use mouse brain powder instead of toothpaste? (Yes)
71. ... in the Tower of London prison, did prisoners have to pay for food, accommodation and shackles? (Yes)
72. ... in 1970, a hailstone the size of a watermelon fell on Kansas? (Yes)
73. ... in Waterloo, Nebraska, barbers are prohibited from eating onions while working? (Yes)
74. ... were potato chips invented by American President George Washington? (No. They were invented by an Indian named George Crum)
75. ... is a termite mound made of soil, saliva and dung? (Yes)
76. ... is eucalyptus the tallest and fastest growing tree in the world? (Yes. The tree reaches a height of up to one hundred meters)
77. ... kangaroos at the moment of danger develop a speed of sixty-five kilometers per hour? (Yes)
78. ... koalas eat nothing but eucalyptus leaves. Does their name mean "without water" in the indigenous language of Australia? (Yes)
79. ...there are three times more sheep than people in Australia? (Yes)
80. ... the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, worked as a gardener at the end of his life and died alone in 1967? (Yes)
81. ... was silk so highly valued in China that it was used instead of money? (Yes)
82. ... each silkworm cocoon consists of a silk thread one kilometer long? (Yes)
83. ... the Chinese believe that dragons bring rain. They even place dragon statues on the roofs of their houses to protect them from fire? (Yes)
84. ... Is the Great Wall of China visible from space? (Yes. Its length is six thousand kilometers. It was built by the first Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang two thousand years ago)
85. ... the clay army of Emperor Qin numbers seven thousand warriors, six hundred horses, one hundred and twenty-five chariots. They all have different facial features, no one smiles. Does every warrior have a real weapon? (Yes)
86. ...are more films shot in the cities of Madras and Bombay (India) than in Hollywood? (Yes)
87. ...after lunch, to freshen their breath, do Indians chew spices? (Yes)
88. ... do female elephants stay in herds with their calves, do male elephants stay apart? (Yes)
89. ...African elephants are smaller than their Asian counterparts? (No. On the contrary)
90. ... elephants can take about seven liters of water into their trunk? (Yes)
91. ... do baby elephants grow milk tusks first, and then in a year real ones grow instead? (Yes)
92. ... despite the fact that an elephant’s skin is two centimeters thick, they can feel the bite of even the smallest insect? (Yes)
93. ... Hanuman - Indian monkey god? (Yes)
94. ... is the black rhinoceros listed in the Red Book as the rarest animal on Earth? (Yes)
95. ... does a female seahorse lay her eggs in a pocket on the belly of the male, who then raises the babies until they grow up? (Yes)
96. ... are octopuses, squids and cuttlefish classified as mollusks? (Yes)
97. ... when an octopus bites, it paralyzes its victim with poisonous saliva, which is almost harmless to humans? (Yes)
98. ... do cheetah cubs have a fluffy white mane until they are ten weeks old and then lose it? (Yes)
99. ... can a sixty-kilogram leopard drag a ninety-kilogram young giraffe up a tree? (Yes)
100. ...do male giraffes use their cute, furry horns to fight their rivals? (Yes)
Quiz "Do you believe that?.." Questions 101 to 150
101.... can a giraffe extend its tongue up to forty-five centimeters to pick young succulent leaves from a tree? (Yes)
102. ... can a giraffe's neck reach two meters in length? (Yes)
103. ... the length of the spiral horns of male kudu antelopes can reach one meter? (Yes)
104. ...can an adult python swallow a medium-sized deer? (Yes)
105. ... is the black mamba the fastest land-dwelling snake in the world? (Yes. She can crawl at a speed of sixteen to nineteen kilometers per hour)
106. ... there are more recreational and entertainment parks in Florida (USA) than in any other part of the globe? (Yes)
107. ... at the Gatorama alligator farm, there is a small gift shop where they will sell you packages of these animals' droppings for ninety-nine cents? (Yes)
108. ... in Florida (USA) every year there are international competitions to lure worms out of the ground? (Yes. Each participant drives a stake into the ground and makes it vibrate, which causes the worms to crawl to the surface)
109. ...the Disneyland amusement park in Florida covers an area of ten square kilometers? (No. Its area is one hundred and eleven square kilometers. It is equal in size to the English city of Manchester)
110. ... in the very center of the Magic Kingdom of Disneyland Park is Uncle Scrooge's castle? (No. Cinderella's Castle. It reaches a height of fifty-five meters)
111. ... Typhoon Andrew, which swept over Florida in August 1992, reached a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour? (No. This typhoon set a record for speed. It passed two hundred thirty-five kilometers per hour)
112. ... the energy inside the tornado is such that it could light all the light bulbs in America? (Yes)
113. ...manatees feed their young underwater, carefully holding them on their flippers, like mothers hold their children? (Yes. Very often sailors mistook them for mermaids)
114. ... sea turtles have absolutely no teeth, and therefore they have to tear food apart with their jaws? (Yes)
115.... manatees are called "sea cows". However, their closest relatives today are elephants? (Yes. Manatees lived on Earth sixteen million years ago)
116. ... does the huge sac under the pelican’s beak hold more food than its stomach? (Yes)
117. ... do unhatched baby alligators “talk” to each other by tapping the shell inside the egg? (Yes)
118. ... raccoons belong to the panda family? (Yes)
119. ... does the panther have many other names: leopard, leopard, puma and cougar? (Yes)
120. ...can the age of a bear be determined by the growth rings on its teeth? (Yes)
121. ...can a brown bear run at a speed of forty kilometers per hour? (Yes)
122. ... the air in the Arctic is so cold and dry that you can hear someone talking even five kilometers away? (Yes)
123. ... there are no fleas in the Arctic, but in the summer there are more mosquitoes there than anywhere else? (Yes)
124. ... if the ice of Greenland melted one day, would the level of the Atlantic rise by seven meters? (Yes)
125. ... the word “tundra” in Russian means “lifeless”? (No. This word translates as “treeless plain”)
126. ... blubber is a thick layer of fat under the skin of whales, seals, walruses and polar bears that protects them from the cold? (Yes)
127. ... the inhabitants of the Arctic are called Eskimos, which in their own language means “a person who eats raw meat”? (Yes)
128. ... today the Eskimos are also called “Inueti”, what does it mean “resident of the north”? (No. This word translates as “real men”)
129. ... in 1972, two graves were discovered in Greenland where eight Eskimo mummies were buried? (Yes. People's bodies were turned into mummies by the dry, freezing wind of the Arctic)
130. ... the porridge that Eskimos usually cook for breakfast is called “snow flakes”? (No. Such a mess does not happen)
131. ...for centuries, Eskimos traveled on sleighs harnessed to shepherd dogs? (No. Laek. Nowadays these dogs are better known as huskies)
132. ...is the Eskimo hunting boat called a kayak? (Yes. It only fits one person)
133. ... On April 6, 1909, the expedition of the American Robert Peary was the first to reach the North Pole? (Yes)
134. ... do polar bears dive from icebergs from a height that sometimes reaches fifteen meters? (Yes)
135. ...do icebergs sometimes explode? (Yes. Water seeps into the cracks in the ice, freezes and expands, splitting the iceberg with a deafening crash.)
136. ... the size of the largest iceberg known to scientists reaches thirty-one thousand square kilometers, that is, the same area as Belgium? (Yes)
137. ... are polar bears the largest bears in the world? (Yes. Their length can reach three and a half meters, and their weight can be a thousand kilograms. They are twice as tall as a person and fifteen times heavier)
138. ... by being careful, a seal can live to be forty-three years old? (Yes)
139. ... can a polar bear smell a seal sixty-four kilometers away? (Yes)
140....walrus tusks can reach a length of up to three meters? (No. Up to one meter)
141. ...hares living in the tundra are the smallest in the world? (No. These are the largest hares in the world. Their weight can reach six and a half kilograms)
142. ... can a polar hare reach a speed of seventy kilometers per hour? (Yes)
143. ... in the nineteenth century, the bandages in which mummies were wrapped were used to make parchment? (Yes)
144. ...was a mummy recently found wrapped in five kilometers of bandages? (Yes)
145. ... the tallest and most famous pyramids are located in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor? (No. In Giza near Cairo)
146. ... the sphinx guarding the pyramids of Giza reaches a height of fifty meters? (No. Its height is twenty meters. That's about the same as if eleven people stood on each other's heads)
147. ... the Sahara Desert increases annually by six thousand seventy square kilometers? (Yes)
148. ... did the ancient Egyptians train monkeys by teaching them to pick dates from palm trees? (Yes)
149. ... the largest pyramid in Egypt is the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun? (No. This is the Pyramid of Cheops. Its height is one hundred and forty-seven meters. It was built four and a half thousand years ago)
150. ... the word "mummy" comes from the Arabic term for "bitumen", a special type of resin? (Yes)
Quiz "Do you believe that?.." Questions 151 to 200
151. ... in 1922, two English archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon began excavations in an unexplored area in the Valley of the Kings (Luxor) and found the almost unlooted tomb of Tutankhamun? (Yes)
152. ... The Sahara is not only the largest desert in the world, but also the hottest place on earth? (Yes. When the hottest day was recorded in the Sahara, the thermometer showed plus fifty-eight degrees Celsius in the shade)
153. ... when the wind blows, sand in the Sahara can move, forming dunes up to one and a half kilometers high? (No. The height of the dunes can reach one hundred and fifty meters)
154. ... do Egyptian dromedary camels have two humps? (No. One. Two humps in Asian camels - Bactrians)
155. ... do camels store water in their humps? (No, they have fat reserves in their humps)
156. ... camels can live without drinking for about eight weeks, but when they get to the oasis, they drink more than a hundred liters of water at a time? (Yes)
157. ... the Egyptians fought sitting on the backs of camels. Did the animals smell so bad that enemy horses often fled for their lives? (Yes)
158. ... do Nile crocodiles attack people and small boats? (Yes)
159. ...can the jaw of a two-meter crocodile be kept closed with a simple rubber band? (Yes. Crocodiles slam their jaws shut with great force, however, the muscles that open them are quite weak)
160. ...snakes are deaf creatures? (Yes)
161. ... in the normal state, the cobra’s teeth are “laid” along the upper jaw, but when it attacks its victim, its teeth pop out and are filled with poison? (Yes)
162. ...is it very hot at night in the Sahara? (No)
163. ... are beetles the most numerous among insects? (Yes. Now there are two hundred eighty thousand species of beetles. For comparison: all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined - forty-four thousand species)
164. ... is the sting of a scorpion fatal to humans? (No. Painful, but not fatal)
165. ... the eyes of a horsefly consist of thousands of tiny individual ocelli? (Yes)
166. ... do insects sleep with their eyes open? (Yes. They can't close their eyes - they don't have eyelids)
167. ... insects have a wide variety of voices? (No. Not a single insect has a voice. They make sounds with their wings or by rubbing one part of the body against another)
168. ... only adult male crickets, grasshoppers and cicadas “sing” loud songs, do juveniles and females remain silent? (Yes. This was noted about two thousand four hundred years ago by the ancient Greek playwright Xenarchus, who wrote: “Happy are the cicadas, they have dumb wives and children”)
169. ... in some species of bees the “queen” can grow up to five centimeters? (Yes)
170. ...does an owl have one ear larger than the other? (Yes)
171. ...can you drown not only in water, but also on land? (Yes. This happens when not merciless waves, but rough quicksand close overhead)
172. ... half a million years ago, was Europe similar to Antarctica? (Yes)
173. ... the fin of a male killer whale can reach three meters? (No. It reaches one meter and eighty centimeters)
174. ... Did Ivan the Terrible compose poems and texts of chants, music for them, and did he himself sing in the choir during church services? (Yes)
175. ... can a rhinoceros turn over a car with its horn? (Yes)
176. ... the birthplace of the baobab tree is Australia? (Yes. How and when the plant got into the African savannahs and spread there more abundantly than on its native continent is unknown)
177. ...is it colder on the planet Mercury than on the planet Pluto? (Yes. On the cold side of Mercury the temperature is minus two hundred seventy-three degrees Celsius, and on Pluto it is minus two hundred thirty degrees)
178. ...near platinum deposits, the density of plants on the soil is significantly higher than usual? (No. They do not occur near platinum deposits - salts of this element are destructive to flora)
179. ... does a centipede have forty legs? (No. In nature, there are eleven thousand species of these terrestrial arthropods. And the number of their legs ranges from thirty to more than a hundred. It would be more correct to call them “centipedes”)
180. ... the birthplace of the tulip is Holland? (No. Türkiye. Only in the sixteenth century did Dutch merchants bring tulips to The Hague)
181. ... is the current Patriarch of All Rus' - Alexy II - the thirteenth in the history of Russian Orthodoxy? (No. Fourteenth)
182. ...only bees give honey? (No. Bumblebees, wasps, and hornets have honey. But bees have the most delicious honey)
183. ... the eyes of a frog can serve as a periscope? (Yes. They move out with the help of powerful muscles. The frog itself is under water, but sees what is happening on the surface)
184. ... does a cat need much less light to see than other animals? (Yes)
185. ... is the sail of a sailfish a device for braking? (Yes. This predator reaches speeds of up to ninety kilometers per hour, trying to grab prey. With such acceleration, it is difficult to maneuver - that’s why the fish spreads its fin when it is necessary to brake sharply)
186. ... Pushkin’s “Song of the Prophetic Oleg” is not based on real facts and was completely invented by the poet? (No. The poet strictly followed the historical fact recorded in the chronicles)
187. ... is the minor planet Hector shaped like a dumbbell? (Yes)
188. ... absolutely pure water does not conduct electricity? (Yes. Current in water is carried out by mineral salts and various impurities)
189. ... was there a time when you went to the opera with your own chair? (Yes)
190. ...are chickens endowed with color vision? (Yes)
191. ...smokers in an average European country, along with cigarette smoke, absorb one hundred tons of tar per year? (Yes)
192. ... every smoker burns a three-hundred-page book every year? (Yes)
193. ... for every person there are three hundred million of the most diverse insects? (Yes)
194....do bulls get irritated by the color red? (No. Bulls do not distinguish colors at all. It is not the color that causes the animal’s rage, but the sudden movements that a person makes in front of his nose)
195. ... do polar bears sleep in winter? (No. Unlike the brown bear, the white bear leads the same lifestyle in winter and summer)
197. ... do flowers stay fresh longer in water with ice cubes? (Yes)
198. ... the oldest trees on our planet, whose age is over two hundred million years, stretched out in the center of the city of Karl-Marx-Stadt (Germany)? (Yes. These are several dozen fossilized trunks of various heights and colors. They were found in coal seams near this city in such excellent condition that they decided to put them in the city in front of the Natural History Museum)
199. ...can diamonds be burned? (Yes. At eight to one hundred and fifty degrees Celsius they burn without releasing carbon dioxide)
200. ... Is the Most Holy Gate the papal residence in the Vatican? (No. The Papal residence is called the Holy Throne. The Holy Gate is the Turkish seat of the Sultanate. Until the end of the First World War and the liquidation of the institution of the Sultanate)
Quiz "Do you believe that?.." Questions 201 to 210
201. ... Is the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) located in Geneva (Switzerland)? (No. It is located in New York, USA)
202. ...the Egyptian pyramids were built by prisoners of war? (No. They were built by fellahs - Egyptian peasants)
203. ...can a pear tree bear apples? (Yes. If you graft him with an apple tree branch)
204. ...is claustrophobia a fear of exams? (No. It's a fear of enclosed spaces)
205. ... is a yurt an Indian’s house? (No. An Indian’s house is called a wigwam. A yurt is the dwelling of the Kyrgyz, Kalmyks and other nomadic Central Asian peoples)
206. ... the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major is the North Star? (No. The North Star is in the constellation Ursa Minor)
207. ... French engineer Alexander Gustave Eiffel designed the American Statue of Liberty? (Yes)
Are 208 Austrian police officers called gendarmes? (Yes. This word is French and means “armed”)
209. ... is karate an old Japanese wrestling? (No. This type of wrestling originated on the island of Okinawa, which only became Japanese in the nineteenth century. The indigenous population of the island of Okinawa fought against the Japanese invaders for centuries. Due to the lack of weapons, they fought mainly hand-to-hand, using karate. Later, the winners The Japanese adopted this type of wrestling)
210. ... the word “alibi” is Greek and means “it wasn’t me”? (No. It's a Latin word. It means "elsewhere.")
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