Weird Facts Parenting Quiz
by fromthehearthq | on July 19, 2012
The following quiz was found at www.arcamax.com
Let’s have some fun and see how many you can guess correctly!
1) In 1939, Lina Medina became the youngest mother on record. How old was she?
- A) 5 years
- B) 7 years
- C) 9 years
- D) 10 years
2) Satyabhama Mahapatra, a retired schoolteacher in India, holds the record for becoming the world’s oldest mother. How old was she when her first child was born?
- A) 55 years
- B) 60 years
- C) 65 years
- D) 70 years
3) In 1997, Bobbie McCaughey set the record for the most surviving children from a single birth. Can you remember how many these famous siblings number?
- A) Seven
- B) Eight
- C) Nine
- D) Ten
4) Joseph and Annie Bleackley hold the record for shortest interval between their births. Just under how many months apart were Jayne Bleackley’s children born?
- A) Five
- B) Six
- C) Seven
- D) Eight
5) How many years apart were Elizabeth Ann Buttle’s two children born, setting the record for longest interval between the birth of two children?
- A) 33
- B) 41
- C) 49
- D) 52
6) Between 1725 and 1765, the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev bore how many children (of whom all but two survived infancy)?
- A) 45
- B) 57
- C) 69
- D) 73
7) What are the odds of a mother giving birth to twins?
- A) 1-in-20
- B) 1-in-30
- C) 1-in-33
- D) 1-in-42
8) What are the odds of having triplets or other multiple births?
- A) 1-in-372
- B) 1-in-412
- C) 1-in-496
- D) 1-in-539
9) What is the most popular day of the week to have a baby?
- A) Sunday
- B) Monday
- C) Tuesday
- D) Wednesday
10) What is the most popular month in which to have a baby?
- A) February
- B) April
- C) July
- D) August
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About The Author: fromthehearthq
Robbie Mendoza runs a blog called Speaking From The Heart HQ.com where he provides value through many aspects of life. Being in a position to inspire leadership in others and watch people rise to new levels in their life and achieve things they never thought possible is what pumps me full of adrenalin. At the end of the day it’s not about money or things, what really ignites the passion for life is making a profound difference in people’s lives. That’s what makes life worth living.
