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Obscure Trivia #19

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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Last updated: September 4, 2024
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1. Which card game uses a pack of 108 cards?
Source: Mattel.
Double Solitaire
Pinochle
Uno
Euchre
2. Who was the first former U.S. President to write a biography of another President?
Source: Library of Congress Blogs.
Herbert Hoover
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas Jefferson
Bill Clinton
3. A composition in which the author deliberately avoids one or more letters of the alphabet is called …
Source: The Free Dictionary. Here is an example of a lipogram.
an ambigram
a semordnilap
a tautonym
a lipogram
4. feline : cat :: hircine : ?
Source: Wiktionary.
deer
goat
hare
calf
5. Which is NOT a Month of Honor per Alaska statute?
Source: Alaska Statutes 44.12.30 et seq.
Sobriety Awareness Month
Alaska Wild Salmon Month
Family Preservation Month
Avalanche Awareness Month
6. The unincorporated community of Bacon Level is located in which U.S. state?
Source: Wikipedia.
New Hampshire
Montana
Alabama
Illinois
7. What are you afraid of if you suffer with nomophobia?
Source: National Library of Medicine.
Mispronouncing someone’s name
Forgetting someone’s name
Being without mobile phone connectivity
Someone not remembering your name
8. Century eggs, a Chinese dish, are preserved for several months in a mixture that includes …
Source: Wikipedia.
clay and onion
vinegar, cabbage and rice
ash, clay and quicklime
onion and brine
9. An orca is a type of …
Source: Guinness World Records.
whale
porpoise
shark
dolphin
10. About how much does the moon drift away from Earth every year?
Source: The European Space Agency.
4 miles
4 inches (0.10m)
4 feet (1.22m)
4 centimeters
11. According to The World Factbook, which country has the highest life expectancy at birth (2024 est.)?
Source: The World Factbook.
Monaco
Liechtenstein
United States
Singapore
12. The longest snake in captivity was …
Source: Guinness World Records.
25 feet 2 inches long (7.67m)
28 feet 3 inches long (8.61m)
18 feet 6 inches long (5.64m)
20 feet 8 inches long (6.3m)
13. Which of these is not a true statement about the planet Mercury?
Source: Space Facts.
It has roughly 50% the gravity of Earth.
It is the most cratered planet in the Solar System.
Its surface is wrinkled.
Its orbit is the most eccentric of all the planets.
14. United Kingdom : Anglo- :: Latvia : ?
Source: Wiktionary.
Letto-
Latvo-
Latto-
Latvian-
15. A group of swans is called …
Source: Wiktionary.
a sord
a richness
a pandemonium
a lamentation
16. The English language demonym for somebody from the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts is …
Source: Wikipedia.
Kittian
Kittitian
Saint Kittian
Saint Kittese
17. Which vegetable was the first grown in space?
Source: NOVA.
Potato
Lettuce
Carrot
Bell pepper
18. The average adult human has 206 bones. How many does a newborn human have?
Source: Cleveland Clinic.
198 or 199
275 to 300
206
210
19. IBM shipped the first commercially available hard disk drive beginning in June 1956. What was its storage capacity?
Source: Computer History Museum.
3.75 megabytes
10.71 megabytes
1 gigabyte
1 megabyte
20. The Baby Ruth candy bar is named after which U.S. President’s daughter?
Source: Baby Ruth Fun Facts.
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Chester A. Arthur
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