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Obscure Trivia #1
Select the correct answer from the choices provided … if you dare.
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1. The inspiration for having celebrities leave handprints and footprints in the sidewalk outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood was an accident that befell this celebrity.
When getting out of her car for a tour of the theatre, Ms. Talmadge placed her foot in wet cement. Her “official” prints were immortalized some time later, on 18 May 1927.
Norma Talmadge
Buster Keaton
Gloria Swanson
Douglas Fairbanks
2. In this country, women give chocolate to men on Valentine’s Day, but men do not typically give gifts.
But men give non-chocolate candy to women on White Day (14 March).
Sweden
Taiwan
South Korea
Indonesia
3. In the U.S., it is nearly always a federal crime to …
Lie about the results of an election
Share your Netflix password
Try to log in to an online banking site during scheduled downtime
Rob a convenience store
4. How many time zones does China have?
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5. The U.S. government gave the University of Indiana $1 million to study …
Specifically, the genesis, spread, and decline of memes.
Internet trolls
Internet memes
Internet disinformation
Internet addiction
6. The first known evidence of human dentistry dates from around what year?
Indus Valley Civilization.
650 BCE
7000 BCE
1110 AD
425 BCE
7. In Switzerland, it is illegal to …
Guinea pigs (and certain other pets) are social creatures. It is considered cruel to deprive them of interaction with their own species.
Own just one guinea pig
Own a nuclear shelter
Possess marijuana
Make chocolate in a home kitchen
8. Certain of these creatures can hibernate for up to three years.
Honeybees
Alaskan brown bears
Snails
Hummingbirds
9. The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth add “eye of newt” to their cauldron. What are they referring to?
Peppercorns
A newt’s eye, silly
Heather
Mustard seed
10. Which is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise?
Mercury
Uranus
Earth
Venus
11. The mercury-in-glass thermometer was invented in 1714. What was used to fill thermometers before that?
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in Amsterdam.
A nice, chewy Chianti
Isopropyl alcohol
Goat’s milk
Brandy
12. Which is NOT actually a berry, based on botanical classification?
But bananas ARE berries, botanically speaking. Who knew?
Blueberry
Strawberry
Grape
Redcurrant
13. The Statue of Liberty once functioned as a …
The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901.
World War II decryption center
Convenience store
Lighthouse
Processing center for immigrants
14. What was this symbol (#) called at Bell Labs in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
“Octo” refers to the eight points created by the ends of the four lines. Nobody seems to have a clue where “thorpe” comes from, at least in the context of this word.
Number sign
Pound sign
Hash sign
Octothorpe
15. This crime family boss, nicknamed “The Oddfather” by the press, feigned insanity by walking around in public in his bathrobe and muttering to himself.
He might very well have convinced me. Gigante was the head of New York City’s Genovese crime family between 1981 and 2005.
Al Capone
John Gotti
Vincent Gigante
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
16. Which creature has three hearts?
One heart pumps blood around the body. The other two pump it past the gills.
Goldfinch
Whale
Octopus
Cow
17. The Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) is the shortest in history. How long did it last?
All because Sultan Khalid bin Barghash took over without British permission after the previous sultan died. The British won, after bombarding the sultan’s palace.
14 minutes
nearly 2 hours
5 1/2 hours
38 minutes
18. For a brief period in 1934 and 1935, the U.S. printed $100,000 bills. Whose portrait appeared on the front of the bills?
The bills were issued solely to Federal Reserve Banks. Many Americans at the time were lucky to have two dimes to rub together.
Woodrow Wilson
James Madison
Betsy Ross
William Henry Harrison
19. Cows belonging to the late Queen Elizabeth II …
It is believed that waterbeds ease pressure points and improve milk quality.
Had weekends off
Ate imported grasses
Were named after former Prime Ministers
Slept on waterbeds
20. How many U.S. states have one-syllable names?
Only Maine.
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