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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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1. How many U.S. state names have five syllables?
Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina. (Source: WYTV)
1
5
7
3
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
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Maldives
3. Pee Pee Township, home to 7,392 people in 2020, is located in which U.S. state?
(Source: Wikipedia)
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
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)
Jackie Kennedy
Bess Truman
Mamie Eisenhower
Lady Bird Johnson
5. What can be used (in an absolute emergency) in place of blood plasma?
Kids, don’t try this at home. (Source: ABC Science)
Distilled water
Saltwater
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 nightmare
A vlad
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)
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
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/#)
Between your eyebrows
At the base of your skull
Behind your eyeball
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)
$450/lb.
$600/lb.
$900/lb.
$1200/lb.
11. A fear of getting angry is called …
(Source: verywellmind.com)
Orgiphobia
Angrophobia
Thymophobia
Iraphobia
12. Burma : Myanmar :: Swaziland : ?
Swaziland changed its name in 2018. (Source: Timeline of country name changes in HMG use: 1919 to present)
Rwanda
Lesotho
Eswatini
Burundi
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)
Paneer (India)
Casu Marzu (Sardinia)
Labneh (The Levant)
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)
Hillshire Farms kielbasa
Oscar Mayer weiners
Hormel chili
SPAM
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)
1
10 million
100 billion
100 million
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)
Massachusetts
Wyoming
California
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)
1968
1983
1938
1870
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)
10
8
6
4
19. What do Electric, Dooley, and Copperopolis (all in Montana) have in common?
(Source: Wikipedia)
They are ghost towns
They are located in the same county
Their first mayors were women
They have the same latitude
20. Which U.S. state had the cleanest water in 2021?
(Source: SanAir Technology Laboratory)
Montana
Vermont
Colorado
Rhode Island
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4 Comments
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Level 81
Jun 18, 2024
Why can't we get jalapeno SPAM in the UK, or teriyaki for that matter!
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Level 77
Jun 18, 2024
Perhaps for the same reason that SPAM fritters are not available in the U.S.?
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Level 67
Aug 16, 2024
Was this a USA special or something? ;)

I got 60% on the non-USA questions then fluked one of the 10 USA questions correctly. (No idea how much 1lb of coffee is either!)

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Level 77
Aug 16, 2024
I have been reprimanded at least once before on the U.S.-centric nature of the questions in this series.

I have tried to improve as I move forward, but I will probably not go back and redesign previous quizzes.