Obscure Trivia #14

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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1. The unincorporated community of Ketchuptown is located in which U.S. state?
Source.
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
New Hampshire
Alabama
2. Where did Chester A. Arthur take the presidential Oath of Office?
Source.
His own home
The West Wing
The hotel where he was staying
His mistress’s boudoir
3. Österreich : Austria :: Shqipëria : ?
Source.
Albania
Qatar
Sri Lanka
Seychelles
4. Most supermarket “wasabi” in the U.S. is really what?
Source.
Horseradish
Chemical additives
A type of mustard
Carolina Reaper pepper
5. Which is the only U.S. state that has all the major natural resources needed to make steel?
Source.
Illinois
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Indiana
6. A cat cannot …
Source.
Be bothered
Detect air currents with its whiskers
Move its collarbone
Move its jaw sideways
7. About what percentage of your body weight is your blood?
Source
5 1/2
3
10
8
8. How many galaxies are there estimated to be in the observable universe?
Source.
One quadrillion
7,000
2 trillion
50
9. Pediophobia is a fear of what?
Source
Babies
Children
Dolls
Pedophiles
10. Although it is rumored to have changed recently due to shrinkflation, the traditional cookie-to-creme ratio in an Oreo cookie is what?
Source 1. Source 2.
71:29
50:50
75:25
6623:3313
11. A Swedish appeals court recently ruled that a landowner could keep …
Source.
mining rights to a mine located under his property, but with an entrance on another property
his head
a plot of neighboring farmland he had planted and tended for decades that wasn’t really his
a meteorite that landed on his property
12. A group of foxes is called …
Source.
a skulk
a pack
a bevy
a scurry
13. The largely obsolete English word “nudiustertian” means …
Source.
of or relating to the day before yesterday
unable to hear
assertive
of or relating to a naturist resort
14. The French term for “cotton candy” literally translates to what in English?
Source
fairy floss
dream cloud
bushy tail
daddy’s beard
15. The longest chess game ever recorded lasted …
Source.
8 hours and 34 minutes
48 hours and 4 minutes
6 hours
20 hours and 15 minutes
16. Shi Yang (1775-1844), wife of Zheng Yi, was one of the most successful individuals ever to engage in her profession. What was her profession?
Source.
A pirate
A warrior
A prostitute
A merchant
17. Which former U.S. President’s pet parrot reportedly had to be removed from the presidential funeral for loud and persistent profanity?
Source 1. Source 2.
James Madison
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
William McKinley
18. The Mexican delicacy escamol is made from …
Source.
axolotl meat
ant larvae and pupae
iguana meat
agouti meat
19. Humans have 7 cervical vertebrae (neck bones). What number must you multiply 7 by to arrive at the number of cervical vertebrae in a giraffe?
Source.
1
20
10
4
20. In 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, removed the head of what he planned to have for dinner … a Wyandotte chicken named Mike. How long did Mike live after his decapitation?
Source.
6 months
18 months
2 years
4 hours
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