Friday, March 31, 2023

FACTUAL RIDDLES XXXII

1. How many yards are on a football field?

2. What three historical figures are carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia?

3. What's the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?

4. What's the difference between a first cousin once-removed and a second cousin?

5. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which is the only one still in existence?

6. What element has only three letters?

7. What is the only U.S. state whose name ends in the letter H?

8. What is the only country in the world whose name ends in the letter H?

9. In the game of chess, what is the only piece that can leap over other pieces?

10. Who is the only U.S. President to have never married?

Answers:

1. 120 (counting the end zones)

2. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis

3. A graveyard is a small burial ground associated with a church, located close to the church, and containing the graves of church members. A cemetery is much larger, open to the public, and can be located anywhere.  

4. The child of your first cousin is your first cousin once-removed (one generation). Your child and your first cousin's child are second cousins (same generation)

5. The Great Pyramid of Giza in northern Egypt

6. Tin

7. Utah

8. Bangladesh

9.  Knight (horse)

10. James Buchanan


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