Obscure Trivia #37

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.

This is a challenging quiz, but I can almost guarantee you will learn something from it.

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CDC
8.5%
12.5%
19.7%
17.3%
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Wikipedia
a chantelle
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Wikipedia
California
Alabama
Oklahoma
Montana
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RIAA
27%
4%
12%
9%
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Wikipedia
1936
1951
1939
1942
6. feline : cat : : potosine : ?
Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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Rabble
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Guinness World Records
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National Institutes of Health
irritable bowel syndrome
fear of public speaking
nausea in cancer patients
eating disorders
11. Between 2000 and 2021, world production of maize increased by how much?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
65%
78%
-2%
104%
12. Biotribology is the study of …
Wikipedia
friction, wear and lubrication of biological systems
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13. How many signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence were later elected president?
Library of Congress Blogs
2
1
3
4
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Wiktionary
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South China Morning Post
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16. Something described as being pampiniform resembles what?
Wiktionary
A beak
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A tendril
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17. The mean center of population in the U.S. in 1950 was …
U.S. Census Bureau
Clay County, Illinois
Pottawatomie County, Kansas
Wright County, Missouri
Preble County, Ohio
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Wiktionary
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Wiktionary
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play cards
shop
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Wikipedia
Valentina Tereshkova
Sally K. Ride
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Svetlana Savitskaya
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