Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
JetPunk Shop
Dark Mode
Interesting Facts - Page 8
36
Viking warriors served as elite troops in the army of the Byzantine Empire.
37
Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house. That quote came from Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey.
38
The book Moby Dick starts with the famous opening line "Call me Ishmael".
39
Moore's Law states that number of transistors on a microchip doubles every 12-24 months. This law generally held true for fifty years, from 1965-2015, but many people think the rate of doubling is now slower.
40
In contrast to Moore's law, Eroom's law states that the cost of developing a new pharmaceutical drug doubles every 9 years.
PatoPotato
+10
Level 53
May 12, 2018
Interesting
HinesBrothers
+14
Level 75
Dec 29, 2019
Facts
morcaca
+9
Level 59
Oct 27, 2020
Page
q38
+8
Level 32
Dec 4, 2020
8
EytanMelech
+3
Level 67
Feb 4, 2021
Fact
turnbacktwo
+2
Level 42
Feb 17, 2021
36,
FaroPor
+2
Level 60
Mar 30, 2021
Byzantine
turnbacktwo
+2
Level 42
Apr 7, 2021
Empire
turnbacktwo
+2
Level 42
Apr 7, 2021
37
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 65
May 19, 2021
Tina
gewehr6628
+2
Level 46
May 20, 2021
Fey
turnbacktwo
+2
Level 42
May 24, 2021
Fact
bruhbruhbro
+2
Level 26
Jun 8, 2021
38
OnionBoy
+2
Level 68
Oct 8, 2021
Moby
HollowYT
+6
Level 48
Dec 3, 2021
Dick
TheNatureThread
+2
Level 65
Dec 22, 2021
Fact
MG17
+2
Level 43
Feb 1, 2022
39
Jato
+2
Level 71
Feb 1, 2022
Moore’s
TheNatureThread
+2
Level 65
Feb 2, 2022
Law
quizzer2
+2
Level 37
Feb 2, 2022
Fact
ElementalPixel
+2
Level 68
Feb 2, 2022
40
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 65
Feb 2, 2022
Eroom's
eppek
+2
Level 59
Jun 6, 2022
Law
sdsyay
+2
Level 48
Jan 31, 2023
Fact
dkjfhksjfh
+2
Level 26
Feb 16, 2023
41
Neodymium
+2
Level 59
Mar 20, 2023
microchip
stubart409
+2
Level 67
May 18, 2018
Moores Law is no longer true. But in the last 15 years there have been significant developments in faster memory and motherboards, so that computers are still increasing there computing power. Over the last few years we have also seen the introduction of Solid State Drives. All of these developments have removed serious bottle necks in computers. What was the point of overclocking your Pentium to run at 4GHz if your the main PCI Bus on your motherboard was still only running at 66mhz or your main memory only running at 200MHz?
ruudsje
+4
Level 69
Oct 14, 2018
the novel 'moby dick' starts with the famous line, the book doesn't though. it starts with 2 chapters called 'etymology' and 'extracts'. pls award 'nitpicker-of-the-day' trophy.
tschutzer
+35
Level 91
Jan 11, 2019
Actually, the book starts with the words "Moby Dick" on the cover. I'll take that trophy, tyvm.
AntiMatter8192
+5
Level 68
May 21, 2020
Some versions can have the author's, or even the publisher's name before the title.
Malbaby
+3
Level 71
Aug 31, 2020
'tschutzer' wins the Golden Nitpick Award for January 2019...... Congratulations:
stylus
+1
Level 76
Nov 6, 2018
#38 - try my quiz on First Lines Of Texts at https://www.jetpunk.com/user-preview/90110/1088946
johnnyph12
+3
Level 29
Aug 1, 2019
Palin said, "you can see Russia from Alaska." which is still the same level of stupid, so, there's that.
Quizmaster
+21
Level ∞
Aug 1, 2019
But you can see Russia from Alaska. Not that this qualified her in any way for the job, but it happens to be true.
bkemp2001
+2
Level 61
Dec 16, 2019
It's not that she said that, but what she meant by it. I can see Canada from my work. I have about as much foreign policy experience as Palin did when she said it.
YellowJacket
+1
Level 78
May 11, 2020
In fairness to Palin, if she said she could see Canada from her work, that may be true since Juneau is on the Canadian boarder (I'm not sure how close the Alaska State House is to the Juneau-Canada boarder).
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Sep 28, 2020
What made it stupid was that she was using this factoid as evidence that she had foreign policy experience. Tina just made it funnier.
leefee08
+2
Level 19
Sep 2, 2022
*sad diomede islands noises*
eppek
+2
Level 59
Sep 21, 2022
What does that sound like?
Scott15
+2
Level 66
Jan 14, 2021
I dont miss Palin at all but I do miss Tina Fey doing her Sarah character, she was incredible at it.
sumguy
+3
Level 84
Feb 20, 2022
If "Call me Ishmael" is a famous opening line, then why does it qualify as an interesting fact?
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Mar 30, 2022
That's an interesting question 'sumguy'.
goodquizzes
+2
Level 18
May 30, 2023
I was wondering about the Moby Dick fact too. It's a fact, but like the fact states, it's well known and not that interesting. It's something you would expect, unlike the other facts. It had no interest value.
partdavid
+1
Level 71
Mar 5, 2024
"Interesting" is subjective, but I don't think there's any definition of "Interesting fact" that requires a fact to be obscure. One reason a fact could be interesting is that it's unexpected, but it's not the only reason.
New and Popular
Save Your Progress
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site