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Obscure Trivia #19
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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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.
This is a challenging quiz, but I can almost guarantee you will learn something from it.
Constructive criticism is welcome. Subscribe to get a notification when I release a new quiz.
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2. Who was the first former U.S. President to write a biography of another President?
Source: Library of Congress Blogs.
Herbert Hoover
Ulysses S. Grant
Bill Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
3. A composition in which the author deliberately avoids one or more letters of the alphabet is called …
Source: The Free Dictionary. Here is an example of a lipogram.
a semordnilap
a lipogram
an ambigram
a tautonym
5. Which is NOT a Month of Honor per Alaska statute?
Source: Alaska Statutes 44.12.30 et seq.
Avalanche Awareness Month
Sobriety Awareness Month
Family Preservation Month
Alaska Wild Salmon Month
6. The unincorporated community of Bacon Level is located in which U.S. state?
Source: Wikipedia.
Illinois
New Hampshire
Alabama
Montana
7. What are you afraid of if you suffer with nomophobia?
Source: National Library of Medicine.
Being without mobile phone connectivity
Someone not remembering your name
Forgetting someone’s name
Mispronouncing someone’s name
8. Century eggs, a Chinese dish, are preserved for several months in a mixture that includes …
Source: Wikipedia.
vinegar, cabbage and rice
ash, clay and quicklime
clay and onion
onion and brine
10. About how much does the moon drift away from Earth every year?
Source: The European Space Agency.
4 inches (0.10m)
4 miles
4 centimeters
4 feet (1.22m)
11. According to The World Factbook, which country has the highest life expectancy at birth (2024 est.)?
Source: The World Factbook.
United States
Singapore
Monaco
Liechtenstein
12. The longest snake in captivity was …
Source: Guinness World Records.
20 feet 8 inches long (6.3m)
25 feet 2 inches long (7.67m)
18 feet 6 inches long (5.64m)
28 feet 3 inches long (8.61m)
13. Which of these is not a true statement about the planet Mercury?
Source: Space Facts.
Its surface is wrinkled.
Its orbit is the most eccentric of all the planets.
It has roughly 50% the gravity of Earth.
It is the most cratered planet in the Solar System.
16. The English language demonym for somebody from the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts is …
Source: Wikipedia.
Saint Kittian
Saint Kittese
Kittian
Kittitian
18. The average adult human has 206 bones. How many does a newborn human have?
Source: Cleveland Clinic.
198 or 199
210
206
275 to 300
19. IBM shipped the first commercially available hard disk drive beginning in June 1956. What was its storage capacity?
Source: Computer History Museum.
1 megabyte
10.71 megabytes
3.75 megabytes
1 gigabyte
20. The Baby Ruth candy bar is named after which U.S. President’s daughter?
Source: Baby Ruth Fun Facts.
Chester A. Arthur
William McKinley
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
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