Quiz Summary:
Score: 3 of 10 = 30.0%
Total times taken: 18559
Average user score: 31.7%
Top Score: 10 of 10 = 100.0%
Answers correct: 3
In 1939, Lina Medina became the youngest mother on record. How old was she?
- ☐ A) 5 years (13.4% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☑ B) 7 years (20.4% of respondents)
- ☐ C) 9 years (40.5% of respondents)
- ☐ D) 10 years (19.4% of respondents)
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 (7.9% of respondents)
- ☐ B) 60 years (15.8% of respondents)
- ☑ C) 65 years (48.3% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☐ D) 70 years (20.2% of respondents)
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 (38.2% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☐ B) Eight (32.4% of respondents)
- ☐ C) Nine (15.1% of respondents)
- ☐ D) Ten (6.0% of respondents)
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 (13.0% of respondents)
- ☐ B) Six (23.4% of respondents)
- ☑ C) Seven (34.7% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☐ D) Eight (20.3% of respondents)
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 (25.6% of respondents)
- ☐ B) 41 (35.4% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☑ C) 49 (22.2% of respondents)
- ☐ D) 52 (7.8% of respondents)
Between 1725 and 1765, the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev bore how many children (of whom all but two survived infancy)?
- ☑ A) 45 (49.1% of respondents)
- ☐ B) 57 (25.3% of respondents)
- ☐ C) 69 (13.8% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☐ D) 73 (2.4% of respondents)
What are the odds of a mother giving birth to twins?
- ☑ A) 1-in-20 (16.5% of respondents)
- ☐ B) 1-in-30 (19.0% of respondents)
- ☐ C) 1-in-33 (29.6% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☐ D) 1-in-42 (26.0% of respondents)
What are the odds of having triplets or other multiple births?
- ☐ A) 1-in-372 (10.4% of respondents)
- ☐ B) 1-in-412 (18.5% of respondents)
- ☑ C) 1-in-496 (33.7% of respondents)
- ☐ D) 1-in-539 (28.1% of respondents) (the correct answer)
What is the most popular day of the week to have a baby?
- ☐ A) Sunday (21.5% of respondents)
- ☐ B) Monday (24.7% of respondents)
- ☐ C) Tuesday (24.2% of respondents) (the correct answer)
- ☑ D) Wednesday (21.1% of respondents)
What is the most popular month in which to have a baby?
- ☐ A) February (10.1% of respondents)
- ☐ B) April (21.0% of respondents)
- ☑ C) July (21.1% of respondents)
- ☐ D) August (40.3% of respondents) (the correct answer)
