Where is the world’s heaviest tree?

Questions:

What are the host countries of this year’s World Cup Soccer Tournament?

Where is the General Sherman tree?

What year was the last official French execution by guillotine?

What percent of all the artwork owned by the Louvre is on display?

What are the three largest metropolitan areas in Brazil?

Fun Facts:

A sunflower typically follows the sun for several weeks during its growth phase, then settles facing east for the rest of its life.

Elvis Presley has been dead for seven years longer than he was alive.

Eighty percent of Soviet men born in 1923 died during World War II.

The active ingredient in Botox is botulinum toxin, one of the most potent toxins known. It is produced by the same bacterium that causes botulism, the food poisoning our mothers warned us about when a can of food was bulging.

When we lose weight, most of the matter from fat leaves our bodies through our lungs as carbon dioxide.

Official crime statistics in New York City only include one murder on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks that day are not included in the city’s homicide totals.

The youngest player ever to score in a World Cup match was Pelé, who was just 17 years old in 1958.

Both Mars and blood are red because of iron. Mars gets its color from iron oxide (rust), while blood gets its color from iron-containing hemoglobin.

Since the first dinosaurs were scientifically described in 1824 and George Washington died in 1799, George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed.

The Humpty Dumpty rhyme never mentions that Humpty Dumpty was an egg.

If all 8 billion people on Earth had to live in Wyoming, every person could have about 333 square feet of land, a space roughly 18 feet by 18 feet. That’s surprisingly close to the average amount of land available per person in Hong Kong, and one reason the city has more than 600 buildings more than 500 feet tall.

Answers:

Canada (2 cities), Mexico (3 cities) and the United States (11 cities) are all hosting. The final will be played on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, just outside New York City.

Sequoia National Park in California. (It is the heaviest single tree in the world.)

1977 (the same summer Star Wars was released).

About 6 percent (35,000 works on display out of roughly 600,000 in the collection).

São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte. (Brasília is a close fourth.)