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Obscure Trivia #6

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1. Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by what in 1807?
The attack was described in the memoirs of General Paul-Charles-François-Adrien-Henri-Dieudonné Thiébault (1769-1846).
Bees
Rabbits
Angry townswomen
Crows
2. Someone does this every 12 seconds at a U.S. Holiday Inn.
Checks in or out
Loses their room key
Uses the ice machine
Steals a towel
3. If your waiter brings you a serving of lamb thymus glands, what did you probably order from the menu?
Yum!
Prairie oysters
A pupu platter
Sweetbreads
An organ casserole
4. If you INclude its overseas territories and departments, but EXclude its illegal claim in Antarctica, how many time zones does France use?
1
2
14
12
5. In Kentucky, you can be fined up to $100 for …
KY Rev Stat § 437.060 (2022)
Buying a hat without your husband’s permission
Using a reptile during a religious service
Walking down a highway in a bikini
Marrying the same man more than twice
6. 77% of the world’s maple syrup comes from …
New York
Quebec
Vermont
Maine
7. “Polska” is to “Poland” as “Sverige” is to …
Switzerland
Slovenia
Sweden
Slovakia
8. Which of these four dances is NOT included in the Smooth category in American School competitive ballroom dancing?
American Foxtrot
American Tango
American Viennese Waltz
American Quickstep
9. When you have finished adding up all the numbers on a standard roulette wheel, the sum will be …
666
911
1000
553
10. When Pepsi was first introduced in 1893, what was it called?
After inventor Caleb Bradham.
Lemuel’s Libation
Peppy Cola
Brad’s Drink
Patent Medicine #37
11. In what year was Christmas declared a federal holiday in the U.S.?
1918
1824
1777
1870
12. When living fruit flies encounter dead ones, …
Gendron CM, Chakraborty TS, Duran C, Dono T, Pletcher SD (2023) Ring neurons in the Drosophila central complex act as a rheostat for sensory modulation of aging. PLoS Biol 21(6): e3002149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002149
They attack another fruit fly
They age faster
They eat them
They cover them in a gooey shroud
13. In a Peruvian restaurant, you might order “cuy” from the menu if you have a taste for …
Guinea pig
Hamster
Nutria
Rat
14. What was the first fruit eaten on the moon?
Mandarin orange
Apple
Peach
Grape
15. What color is a polar bear’s skin?
Pinkish
Brown
Black
White
16. On average, it takes this animal 16 days to digest its food.
But digestion time can vary between 11 and 30 days, according to research done at Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica.
Koala
Sloth
Elephant
Lemur
17. Rhinoceros horns are composed of …
Ivory
Bone
Keratin
Tartar
18. What percentage of American adults pretend not to be home on Halloween?
According to a 2021 YouGov poll.
9
4
21
17
19. What name was used by Europeans to refer to the Hawaiian Islands from 1778 until the 1840s?
Captain James Cook of the Royal Navy visited the islands on January 18, 1778, and named them the "Sandwich Islands" in honor of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who as the First Lord of the Admiralty was one of his sponsors.
Pineapple Islands
Sandwich Islands
Easter Islands
Christmas Islands
20. Who is purported to have been the first author to use a typewriter to prepare a manuscript?
It was then called a typemachine. In his 1904 autobiography, Twain claimed to have typed the manuscript for “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” although a handwritten manuscript is extant. However, he did submit a typewritten manuscript for “Life on the Mississippi.”
Charles Dickens
Henry James
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
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3 Comments
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Level 81
Oct 22, 2023
I feel like we need more information on some of these, I can see I'm going to spend the rest of the day down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.
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Level 76
Oct 22, 2023
Hmmmm … seems only fair, since I spend the better part of a day down an Internet rabbit hole for each of the quizzes in this series.

Maybe we should ask JetPunk for a bibliography feature?

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Level 76
Oct 22, 2023
Try taking it again … more extensive sources.