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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.
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Jefferson
Bill Clinton
Herbert Hoover
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.
an ambigram
a tautonym
a lipogram
a semordnilap
5. Which is NOT a Month of Honor per Alaska statute?
Source: Alaska Statutes 44.12.30 et seq.
Avalanche Awareness Month
Family Preservation Month
Alaska Wild Salmon Month
Sobriety Awareness Month
6. The unincorporated community of Bacon Level is located in which U.S. state?
Source: Wikipedia.
Alabama
New Hampshire
Illinois
Montana
7. What are you afraid of if you suffer with nomophobia?
Source: National Library of Medicine.
Someone not remembering your name
Forgetting someone’s name
Mispronouncing someone’s name
Being without mobile phone connectivity
8. Century eggs, a Chinese dish, are preserved for several months in a mixture that includes …
Source: Wikipedia.
clay and onion
vinegar, cabbage and rice
onion and brine
ash, clay and quicklime
10. About how much does the moon drift away from Earth every year?
Source: The European Space Agency.
4 miles
4 centimeters
4 inches (0.10m)
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
Liechtenstein
Monaco
Singapore
12. The longest snake in captivity was …
Source: Guinness World Records.
20 feet 8 inches long (6.3m)
18 feet 6 inches long (5.64m)
25 feet 2 inches long (7.67m)
28 feet 3 inches long (8.61m)
13. Which of these is not a true statement about the planet Mercury?
Source: Space Facts.
It has roughly 50% the gravity of Earth.
Its surface is wrinkled.
Its orbit is the most eccentric of all the planets.
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.
Kittian
Kittitian
Saint Kittian
Saint Kittese
18. The average adult human has 206 bones. How many does a newborn human have?
Source: Cleveland Clinic.
206
275 to 300
210
198 or 199
19. IBM shipped the first commercially available hard disk drive beginning in June 1956. What was its storage capacity?
Source: Computer History Museum.
1 gigabyte
10.71 megabytes
1 megabyte
3.75 megabytes
20. The Baby Ruth candy bar is named after which U.S. President’s daughter?
Source: Baby Ruth Fun Facts.
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Chester A. Arthur
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