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Obscure Trivia #10
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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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. Please rate this quiz. Subscribe to get a notification when I release a new quiz.
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| First submitted | November 2, 2023 |
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1. How many U.S. state names have five syllables?
Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina. (Source: WYTV)
1
7
3
5
2. Yekaterinburg Time (UTC +5) is used all year in parts of Russia. Which country does NOT use a time zone with the +5 offset?
(Source: timeanddate.com)
Uzbekistan
Maldives
Pakistan
Afghanistan
3. Pee Pee Township, home to 7,392 people in 2020, is located in which U.S. state?
(Source: Wikipedia)
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Indiana
Ohio
4. Who was the first First Lady to decorate the White House for Halloween?
On October 30, 1958, when she hosted a luncheon for the wives of staff members in the State Dining Room. (Source: The White House Historical Association)
Bess Truman
Lady Bird Johnson
Mamie Eisenhower
Jackie Kennedy
5. What can be used (in an absolute emergency) in place of blood plasma?
Kids, don’t try this at home. (Source: ABC Science)
Saltwater
Distilled water
Coconut water
Sparkling water
6. Where do sea otters store extra food for later?
Under each forearm are baggy pockets of loose skin. The sea otter uses these pockets to store food it has gathered. It also stores favorite rocks that it uses for cracking open mollusks and clams. (Source: NOAA Ocean Today)
In a kelp forest
In an extra stomach chamber
Under their forearms
In their cheeks
7. A group of bats is sometimes called …
A group of roosting or hibernating bats is called a colony, and a large group of swarming bats is called a cloud.
A cauldron
A vlad
A nightmare
A castle
8. Which U.S. President, according to his wishes, was buried wrapped in the American flag, and with his head resting on a copy of the Constitution?
(Source: Library of Congress Blogs)
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
9. Where would a surgeon find your glabella?
(Source: Walker HM, Chauhan PR. Anatomy, Head and Neck: Glabella. [Updated 2023 Jul 24]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2023 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555993/#)
At the base of your skull
Behind your eyeball
Between your eyebrows
Under your arm
10. Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected. How much does a pound of this coffee cost if it is made with wild-collected beans?
(Sources: Sentient Media, Wikipedia)
$900/lb.
$1200/lb.
$600/lb.
$450/lb.
11. A fear of getting angry is called …
(Source: verywellmind.com)
Thymophobia
Orgiphobia
Iraphobia
Angrophobia
12. Burma : Myanmar :: Swaziland : ?
Swaziland changed its name in 2018. (Source: Timeline of country name changes in HMG use: 1919 to present)
Lesotho
Rwanda
Burundi
Eswatini
13. Which cheese is banned for commercial sale in the EU and the U.S. because of the maggots it contains?
(Source: euronews)
Manchego (Spain)
Labneh (The Levant)
Casu Marzu (Sardinia)
Paneer (India)
14. Jalapeño, Maple, Teriyaki, and Pumpkin Spice are all varieties of what food product?
This was a trick question: Pumpkin Spice was a limited edition flavor. (Sources: spam.com, tastingtable.com)
Oscar Mayer weiners
SPAM
Hormel chili
Hillshire Farms kielbasa
15. Approximately how many stars can be found in our solar system?
There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, but the sun is the only star in our solar system. (Source: NASA)
10 million
100 billion
100 million
1
16. In which U.S. state must a child’s bedroom be no more than 200 feet from a bathtub or shower and a toilet?
(Source: 55 Pa. Code § 3800.257)
California
Wyoming
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
17. On 17 June, 2021, Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since …
The Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. was signed into law as a federal holiday on 2 November 1983. (Source: Wikipedia)
1983
1870
1938
1968
18. How many countries are considered to be located in the Alpine region?
Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland, per the Alpine Convention of 1991. (Source: Wikipedia)
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10
8
6
19. What do Electric, Dooley, and Copperopolis (all in Montana) have in common?
(Source: Wikipedia)
Their first mayors were women
They have the same latitude
They are ghost towns
They are located in the same county
20. Which U.S. state had the cleanest water in 2021?
(Source: SanAir Technology Laboratory)
Vermont
Montana
Colorado
Rhode Island
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