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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.
Gloria Swanson
Buster Keaton
Douglas Fairbanks
Norma Talmadge
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
Indonesia
South Korea
3. In the U.S., it is nearly always a federal crime to …
Rob a convenience store
Share your Netflix password
Lie about the results of an election
Try to log in to an online banking site during scheduled downtime
4. How many time zones does China have?
5
3
7
1
5. The U.S. government gave the University of Indiana $1 million to study …
Specifically, the genesis, spread, and decline of memes.
Internet addiction
Internet memes
Internet trolls
Internet disinformation
6. The first known evidence of human dentistry dates from around what year?
Indus Valley Civilization.
7000 BCE
425 BCE
650 BCE
1110 AD
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.
Make chocolate in a home kitchen
Possess marijuana
Own just one guinea pig
Own a nuclear shelter
8. Certain of these creatures can hibernate for up to three years.
Alaskan brown bears
Snails
Hummingbirds
Honeybees
9. The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth add “eye of newt” to their cauldron. What are they referring to?
Heather
A newt’s eye, silly
Mustard seed
Peppercorns
10. Which is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise?
Earth
Uranus
Venus
Mercury
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.
Isopropyl alcohol
A nice, chewy Chianti
Brandy
Goat’s milk
12. Which is NOT actually a berry, based on botanical classification?
But bananas ARE berries, botanically speaking. Who knew?
Strawberry
Blueberry
Redcurrant
Grape
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
Lighthouse
Convenience store
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.
Pound sign
Hash sign
Number 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
Vincent Gigante
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
John Gotti
16. Which creature has three hearts?
One heart pumps blood around the body. The other two pump it past the gills.
Octopus
Goldfinch
Whale
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.
nearly 2 hours
14 minutes
38 minutes
5 1/2 hours
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.
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
Betsy Ross
Woodrow Wilson
19. Cows belonging to the late Queen Elizabeth II …
It is believed that waterbeds ease pressure points and improve milk quality.
Had weekends off
Slept on waterbeds
Ate imported grasses
Were named after former Prime Ministers
20. How many U.S. states have one-syllable names?
Only Maine.
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