Two new "Fun Facts" are posted every month ... so please check back here often!
Here are the new questions for February 2012:
Q: What is the only month that ends and begins on the same day of the week?
Learn more here ...Q: What is International Mother Language Day?
Learn more here ...Questions for January 2012:
Q: What does the word braille mean?
Learn more here ...Q: What is Dia de los Reyes?
Learn more here ...Questions for December 2011:
Q: Does slavery still exist in the world?
Learn more here ...Q: Can you say peace in another language?
Learn more here ...Questions for November 2011:
Q: Who was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean on November 28, 1520? Hint: the straits he sailed through were named after him.
Learn more here ...Q: What is the International Day of Tolerance?
Learn more here ...Questions for October 2011:
Q: Who said "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better"?
- John James Audubon
- Smokey the Bear
- Albert Einstein
Q: October 15 is:
- World Handwashing Day
- The Great American Smokeout
- Election day in Kenya
Questions for September 2011:
Q: What is International Literacy Day?
Learn more here ...Q: True or False: Bullying is usually big kids picking on weaker little kids.
Learn more here ...Questions for August 2011:
Q: Flamenco is:
- A beautiful pink bird
- A kind of music
- A city in Florida.
Q: Where would you find Mali?
Learn more here ...Questions for July 2011:
Q: Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897. What did she do before she disappeared?
Learn more here ...Q: What are Bomba and Plena?
Learn more here ...Questions for June 2011:
Q: What can you do to make a greener world?
Learn more here ...Q: Mark Twain said, "The two most interesting characters of the 19th century are Napoleon and ???" -- who?
Learn more here ...Questions for May 2011:
Q: Who was Clarissa "Clara" Barton and what did she start in May, 1881?
Learn more here ...Q: What is the number one source of medical disability in the US and Canada for people 15-44 years old?
Learn more here ...Questions for April 2011:
Q: Who was Booker T. Washington?
Learn more here ...Q: What is an earthquake and what famous one happened in April, 1906?
Learn more here ...Questions for March 2011:
Q: If you were running the Iditarod this month, where would you be and who would be with you?
Learn more here ...Q: Who was Benito Juarez?
Learn more here ...Questions for February 2011:
Q: What is Random Acts of Kindness Day?
Q: What is Black History Month?
Learn more here ...Questions for January 2011:
Q: What happened 65 years ago this month that changed the way countries around the world cooperate?
Learn more here ...Q: What famous early American scientist, inventor and statesman was born on January 17 (305 years ago)?
Learn more here ...Questions for December 2010:
Q: Where is the arctic and what countries does it include?
Learn more here ...Q: What and when is Human Rights Day this year?
Learn more here ...Questions for November 2010:
Q: Where did Charles Darwin do his research on evolution?
Q: Where did the game "rock, paper, scissors" originate?
Learn more here ...Questions for October 2010:
Q: Who was South Africa's first black president after apartheid ended?
Learn more here ...Q: What is the local dance of Cuba?
Questions for September 2010:
Q: What civilization invented the zero?
Learn more here ...Q: Does the US government have the right to name one official religion?
Learn more here ...Questions for August 2010:
Q: What is the capital of Peru?
Learn more here ...Q: What is the largest city in China?
Learn more here ...Questions for July 2010:
Q: What is the native language of Eritrea?
Learn more here ...Q: What is the longest river in the world?
Learn more here ...Questions for June 2010:
Q: When is World Ocean Day?
Learn more here ...Q: Is Juneteenth a real date?
Learn more here ...Questions for May 2010:
Q: What is Greenery Day?
Learn more here ...Q: What is prejudice?
Learn more here ...Questions for April 2010:
Q: What is the newest desert in the world?
Q: What famous author was born on April 2?
Learn more here ...Questions for March 2010:
Q: True or False: Spring begins on March 20 in 2010.
Q: Is Greenland green and is Iceland icy?
Questions for February 2010:
Q: Why did Abraham Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
Q: True or False: When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it freed all the slaves south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Questions for January 2010:
Q: What does it mean to say this is 2010 AD?
Q: Whose birthday do we celebrate with a national holiday in the middle of January?
