FACTUAL RIDDLES LVII

1. What are the two most commonly stolen library books?

2.Where will you find the letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T, and Z, and no others?

3. Why did Orville, and not Wilbur, make that first flight at Kitty Hawk?

4. In cost per acre, which was a better bargain - Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase?

5. You're on the beach. You pick up a seashell and hold it to your ear. You think you hear the ocean, but what do you really hear?


Answers:

1. The record (ironically) for the most frequently stolen library book goes to The Guinness Book of World Records. Also ironically, the second most often stolen book is The Bible.

2. On a standard Snellen eye chart

3. The choice was decided by a coin toss. History does not record who won the toss.

4. Alaska, at 2 cents per acre. Louisiana was 3 cents per acre

5. The echo of blood pulsing in your ear

Source:
Big Book of Games
GAMES Magazine
Henry Hook