Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1. NNE stands for North-Northeast. SSW stands for South-Southwest. What does NSW stand for?

2. What holds the world record as the biggest of one thing AND the world record as the smallest of another thing?

3. What is ophidiophobia?

4. What is arachibutyrophobia?

5. What happened to The Guinness Book of World Records in its nineteenth year of publication?

Answers:

1. New South Wales, Australia
2. Australia - the world's biggest island and the world's smallest continent 
3. Fear of snakes - One third of all humans are ophidiophobic, making this the most common of all reported phobias. 
4. Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
5. It became the second best-selling book of all time, and thus appeared for the first time in itself - that is, in The Guinness Book of World Records. (The best-selling book of all time is The Bible.)

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