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Quiz: How much do you know about short things?
Hopefully you won’t come up short!
LAST TUESDAY WAS the second shortest day in world history.
Earth completed a full rotation in 1.34 milliseconds less than the usual 24 hours, making 22 July slightly shorter than usual.
The phenomenon occurred due to tidal friction with the moon.
The only day shorter than last Tuesday was 5 July 2024, when Earth completed its rotation 1.66 milliseconds faster than usual.
In honour of this bizarre and completely unnoticeable change, we have made a quiz on the shortest things in the world!
Which river is the shortest in Ireland?
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The River Corrib
The River Barrow
The River Nore
The River Dodder
Who was the shortest NBA player ever?
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Wat Misaka, who played with the New York Knicks
Red Klotz, who played with several teams, including the Baltimore Bullets
Earl Boykins, who played with several teams, including the New Jersey Nets
Muggsy Bogues, who played with several teams, including the Charlotte Hornets
Where is the shortest bone in the body located?
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Toe
Nose
Finger
Ear
Who famously gave the shortest ever acceptance speech for an honorary Oscar, at just five words?
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Adrien Brody
Alfred Hitchcock
Patty Duke
William Holden
How long was the shortest war in history?
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14 minutes (Indo-Pakistani, 1971)
Six days (Six day war, which involved the UK and several Punti clans of the New Territories in Hong Kong, 1896)
15 days (Serbo-Bulgarian, 1885)
38 minutes (Anglo-Zanzibar War, 1896)
Which county that touches the sea has Ireland's shortest coastline?
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Meath
Leitrim
Sligo
Wicklow
Which of these Taoiseachs served the shortest number of days in office?
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John Bruton
Micheál Martin
Bertie Ahern
Leo Varadkar
What height was Thumbelina, the shortest horse in the world?
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31cm
56.7cm
44.5cm
1m 5cm
How long is the shortest commercial flight you can take? It's between Westray and Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
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Five minutes
90 seconds
40 seconds
Two minutes
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You scored out of !
You've fallen short.
You scored out of !
Not too shabby!
You scored out of !
To cut a long story short, you've done great!
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You scored out of !
Wow! That's impressive.
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