TRIVIAL AND CONFUSING QUESTIONS

1. What is the name for ornamental horticulture?

2. Why is a bit called a bit in computer jargon?

3. What country was the first to allow women to vote?

4. Who was the most famous student of Socrates?

5. What do you call the lengthwise and width-wise yarns on a loom?

6. What river carries the greatest volume of water - by far - of any river in the world?

7. What were the names of the warring families in Romeo and Juliet?

8. Is the boiling point of water higher or lower at higher elevations?

9. On a ship, what do you call right and left as you face the bow?

10. Which of the Thirteen Colonies became the first state?

11. Which state was admitted to the Union first, Alaska or Hawaii?

12. What's the difference between stalagtites and stalagmites?

13. What's the difference between bronze and brass?
14. Which is the high point of an orbit and which is the lowest?

Answers:

1. Topiary

2. Binary digit

3. New Zealand

4. Plato

5. Lengthwise: warp - width-wise: weft or woof

6. Amazon

7. Montagues (Romeo) and Capulets (Juliet)

8. Lower

9. Right is starboard, left is port as you face the bow (front)

10. Delaware

11. Alaska

12. Stalagtites grow down from the roof; stalagmites grow up from the floor

13. Both are alloys. Copper and tin make bronze. Copper and zinc make brass.
14. Apogee - highest, perigee -lowest