Quick Thinking

The English alphabet has 26 letters, from A to Z.

Water boils at 212°F (100°C) at sea level. This is one of the most fundamental measurements in cooking and science.

Paris is the capital and largest city of France, with a population of over 2 million in the city proper and over 12 million in the metropolitan area.

A triangle has 3 sides. The word 'triangle' comes from the Latin 'triangulum,' meaning 'three-cornered.'

Mixing red and blue creates purple (or violet). These are primary colors, and purple is a secondary color.

There are 60 minutes in one hour. This system dates back to ancient Babylon, which used a base-60 (sexagesimal) number system.

Asia is the largest continent, covering about 17.2 million square miles — roughly 30% of Earth's total land area.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, orbiting at an average distance of about 36 million miles. Despite this, it is not the hottest planet — Venus is, due to its thick atmosphere.

Water freezes at 0°C (32°F) at standard atmospheric pressure. Anders Celsius designed his temperature scale with this as a reference point.

A typical adult has 32 teeth, including 8 incisors, 4 canines, 8 premolars, and 12 molars (including 4 wisdom teeth).

2 is the smallest prime number and the only even prime number. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.

The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is the world's largest coral reef system, stretching over 1,400 miles.

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. This event symbolized the end of the Cold War and led to German reunification in 1990.

A newborn baby has approximately 270 bones. Many of these fuse together during growth, resulting in the 206 bones found in an adult skeleton.

Bats are the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight. Flying squirrels and sugar gliders can only glide, not truly fly.