World General Knowledge and Inventions

The quote "you cannot make people sit on an explosion" referred to early motor cars, which were seen as dangerous due to the risk of boiler explosions in steam-powered vehicles. It reflected skepticism about automobile safety.

The black box flight recorder was invented in Australia by David Warren in the 1950s. He developed it after investigating a series of mysterious plane crashes, though his invention was initially rejected by authorities.

Jeans were invented by Levi Strauss, a German-American businessman, in the 1870s during the California Gold Rush. He created durable work pants for miners by reinforcing them with copper rivets.

Tigers in the wild typically live 8-10 years on average. While they can live up to 15-20 years in captivity, their wild lifespan is shorter due to habitat loss, poaching, competition, and the challenges of survival in their natural environment.

The question describes the defining characteristics of guided missiles - self-propelled unmanned vehicles with explosive warheads that can adjust their trajectory during flight. Option A correctly identifies this, despite the humorous addition about 'misguided men.' The other options are either incomplete or humorous distractors.

This is a wordplay riddle exploiting the double meaning of 'lie' - to tell an untruth versus to recline. Option B correctly identifies that the riddle plays on whether you're physically lying in bed while speaking, making the phrase literally true regardless of whether you're telling the truth verbally.

This is a joke riddle offering ironic interpretations of the proverb 'crime doesn't pay.' Option C provides the humorous reversal - if crime doesn't pay, then anything that DOES pay must be a crime, which is absurd and contradicts the proverb's actual meaning about crime being unprofitable in the long run.

'To draw a blank' is an idiom meaning to fail to remember or produce something. Option C humorously interprets it literally - drawing cows (who 'blank' or stare blankly, with 'blank' sounding like 'bleat') as the visual representation, making it a visual pun on the idiom.

This is a pun question. According to biblical accounts, Noah built an 'ark' (a large boat) to save animals, not an 'archive.' The joke plays on the similar sound of 'archive' and what could be called 'ark-hive' (ark + beehive), making the statement False.