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Obscure Trivia #16

Select the correct answer from the choices provided … if you dare.

Some questions may be in this format:

A : B :: C : ?

This is known as an analogy. It is read as “A is to B as C is to what? So, the answer to the analogy “dog : canine :: cat : ?” is “feline.” Canine has the same relationship to dog as feline has to cat.

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1. In New Hampshire, it can be illegal to …
Source: RSA 207:48 (1973)
fail to wear hunter orange while hunting
paint your house a garish color
damage a historic barn
collect seaweed after dark
2. Five U.S. Presidents wore a beard. Whose is purported to have been the longest?
Source: Library of Congress Blogs
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
3. The potassium found in bananas makes them …
Sources: EPA, Medical News Today.
deadly if eaten in too great a quantity
delicious
radioactive
more nutritious than citrus fruits
4. A demonym for people from Burkina Faso is …
Source: Wikipedia.
Fasi
Burkinan
Burkinian
Burkinabè
5. A parliament is a group of …
Source: Wiktionary.
ravens
blackbirds
crows
rooks
6. In 1981, Village Lake in Richland County, South Carolina was called what in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Dams and Reservoirs List?
Source: Wikipedia
Lake Dependency
Treatment Center Lake
Addiction Lake
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake
7. What is the most trafficked wild mammal globally?
Source: World Wide Fund for Nature.
Pangolin
Elephant
Tiger
Panda
8. Before they settled for making ice cream, what did Ben & Jerry plan to make and sell?
Source: Ben & Jerry’s.
Deli salads
Hamburgers
Bagels
24/7 breakfasts
9. As of 2023, how heavy was the largest chocolate bar ever made?
Source: Guinness World Records.
About 3,010 pounds
About 24,000 pounds
About 12,500 pounds
About 6,250 pounds
10. United Kingdom : Anglo- :: Albania : ?
Source: Wikipedia.
Albo-
Albanio-
Albano-
Albanian-
11. Bird’s nest soup, a popular dish in Southeast Asia, is made from the nests of swiftlets. Swiftlets make their nests from …
Source: Hostelworld.
their saliva
aromatic leaves
twigs and roots
their excrement
12. Who kept the remains of what they believed to be their spouse’s heart in their desk?
Source: Museum of Idaho.
Mary Astor
Mary Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe
Bram Stoker
13. Which playing card suit is traditionally the only one whose king card is not pictured with a mustache?
Source: Facts.Net.
Hearts
Diamonds
Spades
Clubs
14. canine : dog :: aquiline : ?
Source: Wiktionary.
fish
eagle
porcupine
crab
15. If you have been diagnosed with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, what are you afraid of?
Source: Verywell Mind.
Horses
Large animals
Long words
Monster movies
16. Spacecraft have visited how many of the known planets in our solar system?
Source: Space Facts.
4
10
6
8
17. Babies can shed tears …
Source: National Geographic Kids.
one week after birth
24 hours after birth
at birth
one month after birth
18. In 2012, what did Boeing use instead of passengers to test its in-flight wi-fi?
Sources: BBC News, phys.org
Chimpanzees
Crash test dummies
Potatoes
Mannequins
19. Brown City, Flushing and Colon are cities in …
Source: Babbel.
New York
Michigan
Nevada
Arizona
20. If you have absquatulated, what have you done?
Source: Wiktionary.
Skedaddled
Something that would be inappropriate to mention in a JetPunk quiz
Stolen a large amount of money
Taken up residence on a property you don’t own or rent
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2 Comments
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Level 67
Aug 21, 2024
Can't believe we landed on Venus in 1972!! It's over 400 degrees Celsius on the surface.

Burkinabè is one of my fave denonyms.

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Level 77
Aug 22, 2024
Yet we don’t hear of people claiming the Venus landing was faked in a TV studio. Go figure …

I am partial to Seychellois, myself.