Do you know "stuff"? I'll give you 25K, 10K or 5K for it. (in Contests)

Okay simple contest, I am running a kind of weird trivia area on my site and I am building a growing collection of facts and things that can be turned into a competition.

Now this competiton :- To win you must;
1) Give a strange and / or interesting fact, in the form of a multiple choice question for example :

Heliopolis means the city of the?
A) Gods
B) Sun
C) Queen
D) Universe
E) Sea

2) Specify which is the answer (and a URL that backs it up).

3) There must be 5 answers as in the format above.

At the end of the competition (couple of days probably) I will pick the most interesting or just the "best" question, that will win 25K second gets 10K, 3rd 5K. No limit on the number of entries per person.

i give you better.... a site full of trivia all categorized

well that would be nice and thank you, but I am really looking for that sort of stuff that people hold on to.

1) Every year the moon's orbit carries it farther away from earth. What is the distance that it moves every year?

A) .0003 inches
B) 1.6 inches
C) 14 feet
D) 2 miles

Correct answer: B

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon_mechanics_0303018.html

2) How far is it to the center of the earth?

A) 1358 miles
B) 1578 miles
C) 3963 miles
D) 9530 miles

Correct answer: C

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/101_earth_facts_030722-2.html

3) The largest aboveground H-bomb test by the United States was like a firecracker compared to an asteroid impact. That "Bravo" explosion at Bikini Atoll in 1954 was equivalent to fifteen megatons (million tons) of TNT. What is the ratio of the energy output of the explosion at Bikini Atoll to the ratio of energy output of a 500-yard (diameter) asteroid moving at 50,000 mph?

A) 1/100
B) 1/1000
C) 1/10000
D) 1/100000

Correct answer: B

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/asteroid_paine_september.html

4) The sudden heat of a lightning bolt causes the air to expand faster than the speed of sound, thus creating thunder. What is the temperature that lightning is heated to?

A) 7000 degrees
B) 10800 degrees
C) 23500 degrees
D) 54000 degrees

Correct answer: D

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/lightning_backgrounder.html

5) What is the only moon in the solar system that is volcanically active?

A) Io
B) Europa
C) Ganymede
D) Callisto

Correct answer: A

http://www.space.com/opinionscolumns/gentrylee/gentrylee_column_000705.html

memnot...you need five answers (A,B,C,D,E)

Oh I know "Stuff" and to prove it I will record some true excerpts from my favorite magazine, coincidentally called "Stuff".
Useless facts

1. Taste buds are replaced every 10 days.
2. Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp,
3. Witches don't believe in Satan
4. At the beginning of the original story Pinocchio is a thug who murders Jiminy Cricket, the bug comes back as a ghost later in the story.
5. The world's shortest war between Britain and Zanzibar, lasted 45 minutes
6. The world population of termites outweighs humans by ten to one.
7. The first siamese cat to enter the U.S. was a gift from a U.S. consul in Siam to the first lady Lucy Hayes.
8. If you stay awake for 17 hours you will suffer a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.05.
9. The fastest wind speed ever recorded, 318 mph, occurred in the suburbs of Oklahoma City in 1999
10. Nabisco makes 14 different kind of Oreos.
11. All of Japans highways are toll roads. It would cost you $330 USD to travel the entire length of the country.
12. The University of Illinois claims that women are more likely than men to eat food that has fallen on the floor.
13. Starbucks offers more than 19,000 variations on a cup of coffee.
14. There is an asteroid named after Mister Rogers.
15. Every U.S. soldier on active duty costs taxpayers $99,000 per year.
16. Since 1990 70 movies have been rated NC-17.
17. From 1871 to July 2004, 16,002 men have played major-league baseball.
18. The longest worm known, Lineus, longissimus, has been reported to exceed 150 feet in length.
19. The first time she signed an autograph as Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn had to ask how to spell her first name.
20. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not down.

Well there you have it. I would have put them into contest format, but I do not have any URL's to verify this, just 2 1/2 years of the best magazine ever printed. Have fun :)

Oops. Well here are all the E's:

1) E) 10 miles

2) E) 13980 miles

3) E) 1/1000000

4) E) 98600 degrees

5) E) Deimos

First came the Telegraph. What came next?
a: telephone
b: mimeograph
c: television
d: fax
e: phonograph
Answer D (new window)

Butterflies can be one of Earth's most beautiful beings. Did you know that their taste buds are located in their....

a) Tounge
b) Wings
c) Feet
d) Antenna
e) Body


Answer is C and here's the URL Link

Butterflies are just moths with make-up

The armadillo is the only animal to routinely have how many identical offspring?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
E) 6

Answer C
www.flex.net/~lonestar/armadillo.htm

In March of 1849, this man became the President of The United States of America for one day. Who was he?

A.) Rutherford Hayes
B.) Andrew Jackson
C.) William Harrison
D.)David Atchison
E.) James Garfield

Answer is C.
http://www.senate.gov/art and history/history/minute/President_For_A_Day.htm
don't worry about the spaces between art and history, it says i have too many errors.

Jad, the man you're thinking of is D, David Atchison, and his claim isn't valid.

In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with: ? A) Sex B) Coffee C) Oranges D) Clothes E) Nuts Answer is B: Coffee http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/rules/001.html