1. Oprah Winfrey
   David Letterman
2. Ellen Degeneres
   Jay Leno

Oprah is worth about $3 billion, making her one of the richest self-made women in the world. Leno and Letterman are retired from television, and their net worths don't come close that anyway. Ellen may be the highest-paid TV personality, making more than $70 million a year for her talk show.

1. 45 degrees
   40 degrees
2. 35 degrees
   32 degrees

In normal conditions, water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers have found that water doesn't absolutely have to freeze at this temperature. The lowest point water can go before it freezes is about -55 degrees Fahrenheit.

1. Blue Whale
   African Elephant
2. Black Bear
   Giraffe

The Blue Whale is the biggest animal on Earth and is likely the biggest animal of all time. It weighs close to 200 tons and is about 100 feet long. Its tongue can weigh as much as an elephant and it can eat half a million calories in a single bite.

1. Silent Generation
   Generation X
2. Generation Z
   Greatest Generation

Baby Boomers are commonly recognized as those born between 1946 and 1964. Millennials are commonly defined as those born between 1981 and 1995. Between those two generations—1965–1980—is Generation X, aka the Forgotten Generation, aka the MTV Generation.

1. Jupiter
   Saturn
2. Mars
   Neptune

The largest planet in our solar system is Jupiter, which is the fifth planet from the Sun and is more than 300 times the size of Earth. Although it is the biggest planet in our solar system, it has a fast rotation of just 10 hours compared to Earth's 24-hour rotation.

1. Leonardo da Vinci
   Raphael
2. Michelangelo
   Caravaggio

The Sistine Chapel is located in Vatican City and is the official residence of the Pope. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the ceiling between 1508 and 1512 and it is considered one of the greatest works of art known to man. He came back in 1535 and painted "The Last Judgement" on the wall above the altar.

1. Mars and Murrie
   Many and Many
2. Mary and Martha
   More and More

In the 1940s, Forrest Mars Sr. struck a deal with Bruce Murrie to create a hard-shelled chocolate candy that later came to be known as M&Ms. The Ms stand for the last names of the candy's two creators: Mars and Murrie.

1. David Bowie
   Stuart Sutcliffe
2. Keith Moon
   Sting

When The Beatles first began performing there were five members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Stuart Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe played bass, and when the band traveled from Hamburg to Liverpool, Sutcliffe stayed behind. He died shortly after and was never replaced, giving rise to the Fab Four.

1. X
   J
2. Z
   Q

Both Texas and New Mexico feature the letter "X." Arizona has a "Z." New Jersey is the only state that has a "J." There are no U.S. states that have a "Q" in the name, making it the only letter in the alphabet not to be featured in a U.S. state.

1. Monaco
   Singapore
2. Vatican City
   Tuvalu

Vatican City is one of the few places in the world that is a city and country and it is the least populous UN-recognized country in the world with a population of less than 500 residents. It is home to insanely popular tourist attractions like the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica, so it's population skyrockets each day. About 20,000 people visit the Sistine Chapel each day alone.

1. 1215
   1492
2. 1776
   1789

The Magna Carta is a charter of rights that was used to make peace between the unpopular King John of England and a group of rebels. It was written in 1215 and went on to inspire every charter of rights ever since, including the U.S. Constitution, which was written in 1787 and enacted in 1789.

1. Fear of dirt
   Fear of trees
2. Fear of heights
   Fear of happiness

Cherophobia is the fear of happiness. There is a phobia for everything and everybody has one and happiness is no exception. People with cherophobia may avoid experiences that invoke positive emotions or happiness.

1. The Great Pyramid of Giza
   Lighthouse of Alexandria
2. Niagara Falls
   Temple of Artemis

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are: The Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Niagara Falls is not one of the ancient world wonders.

1. They grow upwards towards the sun
   The peel of the fruit constricts them that way
2. They're picked before fully ripening
   They bump into branches that shape them that way

Bananas undergo a weird growth process in where instead of growing downwards, they defy gravity and curve up towards the sun. That's why they are curved. This unique growth process is called negative geotropism.

1. When birds fight while flying
   The exchange of insults in verse form
2. The experimental use of flying machines
   An old-fashioned drag race

Flyting is a contest where both parties hurl insults at each other in verse form. This poetic exchange of insults dates all the way back to the 5th century, which makes it the first known example of a rap battle.

1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
   Mansplaining
2. Antidisestablishmentarianism
   Xertz

Xertz is a perfect word to play in Scrabble if you need to get rid of your "X" and "Z" tiles, but you won't find it in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is a verb meaning to gulp down quickly or greedily.

1. 52
   50
2. 48
   46

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes. The first 22 pairs are identical in males and females. The last pair is the only thing that differentiates males and females. Females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and Y chromosome for the 23rd pair.

1. Disney
   Borders
2. Blockbuster
   HBO

In the year 2000, Netflix was considered a "niche" company that mailed DVDs to customers. It was nowhere close to the media behemoth it is today and its owner approached Blockbuster and offered the company for $50 million. Blockbuster declined. Today, Blockbuster is bankrupt and Netflix is worth billions.

1. Kansas
   Iowa
2. Utah
   Alaska

Alaska is the only U.S. state that can be typed on the same row of keys of a QWERTY keyboard. Iowa, Utah, Kansas and even Mississippi—which is 11 letters long but only uses four different letters—come close, but not close enough.

1. Terrorism
   War
2. Suicide
   Homicide

According to Our World in Data, slightly more than 34,000 deaths each year are attributed to terrorism. Conflict claims 115,00 lives per year and homicide claims 390,000 lives each year. Suicide, on the other hand, claims more than 800,000 lives each year—more than terrorism, conflict, and homicide combined.

1. ?!
   ???
2. !!!
   -\_/-

The interrobang, aka interabang, was conceptualized in 1962 by a marketing exec who wanted to find a way for copywriters to express a rhetorical question in a single mark. It is inspired by the Latin word interrogatio, which means rhetorical. Today it is commonly expressed ?! or !?

1. 4
   8
2. 12
   16

Franklin D. Roosevelt, aka FDR, was the 32nd president of the U.S. from 1933 to 1945, for a total of 12 years. He was elected four times and would have served 16 years had he not died while in office. The Constitution didn't define presidential term limits until the 22nd amendment was ratified in 1951.

1. 10,000 years
   200,000 years
2. 1 million years
   5 million years

Homo Sapiens first appeared on Earth about 200,000 years ago. The first human ancestors (not Sapiens) appeared on Earth about 6 million years ago. We (Homo Sapiens) have been around for 200,000 years compared to Homo Erectus (now extinct, but the longest living humans) who lived for about 2 million years. We have a long way to go to beat that record.

1. Kim Kardashian
   Robert Cornelius
2. Mozart
   Abraham Lincoln

The French inventor Louis Daguerre invented daguerreotypy, which was the first type of photography, in 1839. That same year a silversmith named Robert Cornelius got his hands on one of the devices and decided to try it out. The first photograph Cornelius took was of himself, and the selfie was born.

1. Virginia
   Kentucky
2. California
   Texas

The United States Bullion Depository is next to the Fort Knox army post, which is located in Kentucky. It is estimated that the depository holds 2.3% of all gold in human history, a total of 8,965 metric tons with a value of more than $300 billion.

1. A truth
   A lie
2. A paradox
   A question

This is understood to be the one lie Pinocchio can say without forcing his nose to grow. It is a paradox known as Pinocchio's Paradox. If the statement is true, Pinocchio's nose can't grow because his nose only grows when he lies. If the statement is a lie, his nose can't grow because once it did, he would be telling the truth.

1. 1
   6
2. 12
   17

Believe it or not, landing on the moon, even in the year 2019, is kind of a big deal. Only three countries (U.S.A., U.S.S.R. (which no longer exists) and China) have ever landed on the moon, and the U.S.A. is the only country to send manned missions to the moon. Twelve astronauts from six Apollo missions (11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) have walked on the moon. Each mission planted its own flag, leaving six U.S. flags on the moon.

1. Blackbeard
   Cheng I Sao
2. Calico Jack
   Bartholomew Roberts

Cheng I Sao was a Chinese woman who lived from 1785 – 1844 and terrorized the oceans. She had control of more than 1,500 ships and 80,000 sailors, which is considered one of the biggest naval armies in the history of the world. Blackbeard (Edward Teach), for comparison, controlled four ships and 300 pirates at his height.

1. Manhattan Island
   The Louisiana Purchase
2. The Alaska Purchase
   The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building cost just under $41 million to build in 1931, which equates to $685 million today. The Louisiana Purchase, which added 13 states to the U.S., cost $15 million in 1803 and adjusts to more than $325 million today. Alaska was purchased for $7.2 million in 1867, which adjusts to more than $120 million today. Manhattan Island was purchased "for the value of 60 guilders" in 1626, which adjusts to a bit more than $1,000 today.

1. 30-inches wide
   24-inches wide
2. 15-inches wide
   10-inches wide

According to the Guinness World Records, the largest snowflake ever recorded fell in January 1887 at Fort Keogh in Montana. A rancher measured one of the flakes at 15-inches wide and said the flakes were larger than milk pans.

1. Egypt
   Mexico
2. Peru
   Iran

The Great Pyramid of Cholula, aka Tlachihualtepetl, located in Cholula, Mexico is the largest known pyramid in the world. It measures 1,480 by 1,480 ft. and 180-feet tall. It is believed to have been dedicated to the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl.

1. 307
   195
2. 152
   238

There are 193 countries that are members of the United Nations and two observer countries, for a total of 195 countries. The largest country in the world in terms of land size is Russia. The most-populous country in the world is China with 1.4 billion citizens and India is close behind with 1.3 billion citizens. The smallest and least populous country in the world is Vatican City.

1. What Color is This Dress?
   Common Sense by Thomas Paine
2. Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther
   How to Quit Your Job and Travel the World

Legend has it that Martin Luther nailed a copy of his "Ninety-five Theses" onto the door of a church in Germany in 1517 and all hell broke loose. The document was quickly reprinted and distributed throughout Europe and within months everybody knew Luther's name and his ideals. More than 500 years ago, this is one of the first pieces of content to have ever gone viral. Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" had a similar effect as both documents led to revolutions.

1. Julia Child
   Aubrey Hepburn
2. Clark Gable
   Roald Dahl

Julia Child worked as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the U.S. government’s precursor to the CIA. Audrey Hepburn worked as a spy with the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis. Roald Dahl spied on the U.S. on behalf of Britain. Clark Gable was never a spy as far as we know.

1. Maya Angelou
   Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
2. Stephen King
   Toni Morrison

Michael Jackson's autobiography "Moonwalk" was released in 1988 by publisher Doubleday, where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worked as an editor. Onassis first declined but then agreed to write the foreword for the book. She also edited the entire thing.