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Obscure Trivia #20

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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Quiz by arjaygee
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Last updated: September 17, 2024
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1. Which country has the highest intentional homicide rate, at 53.3 per 100,000 inhabitants?
Source: Wikipedia
United States
Honduras
Venezuela
Jamaica
2. George Frandsen quit his corporate job to open a museum dedicated to …
Source: Guinness World Records
vibrators
fossilized feces
medical oddities
neon signs
3. Which statement about the planet Venus is true?
Source: Space Facts
Like Earth, Venus has a single moon.
Venus is slightly less than three quarters the diameter of Earth.
Venus’ average surface temperature is subject to extreme seasonal variation.
Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other planets.
4. About how many times per minute does a ruby-throated hummingbird breathe while at rest?
Source: Operation RubyThroat
250
50
400
100
5. A group of wombats is sometimes called …
Source: Wiktionary
a wishfulness
a wisdom
a warning
a warren
6. If you have an intense or irrational fear of this, you may suffer from haphephobia.
Source: Cleveland Clinic
Being a victim of chance
Being touched
Doing sloppy work
Seeing someone naked
7. The longest recorded human pregnancy lasted …
Source: BelTA News Agency
over 17 months
24 months
9 months and 16 days
10 and a half months
8. Depending on the species and method of preparation, this critter might taste like green apples, hot cinnamon candy, or iodine.
Sources: Hostel World, Ehrlich Pest Control
Aphid
Spider
Stink bug / shield bug
Centipede
9. How many different flavors of Froot Loops cereal are in a standard box in the U.S.?
Source: Wikipedia
3
7
6
1
10. The first known board game to be published in the U.S. was called …
Source: Board Game Geek
Travellers’ Tour Through the United States
The Royal and Entertaining Game of Goose
The Mansion of Happiness
The New Game of Human Life
11. In Blythe, California, it is illegal to …
Source: Blythe, California Code of Ordinances 18.01.050 (B) (4)
label edible cannabis products as “medication”
travel to or from work during curfew if you are a minor
use a recreational vehicle as a primary residence
sell adhesive stickers to a minor
12. canine : dog :: batrachian : ?
Source: Wiktionary
camel
toad
bison
vulture
13. If you have successfully delignated something, what have you done to it in plain language?
Source: Wiktionary
Stripped it of wood
Mined coal from it
Established a border around it
Put it out of alignment
14. The English language demonym for someone from Mali is …
Source: Wikipedia
Malian
Malese
Malinese
Malois
15. United Kingdom : Anglo- :: Guinea : ?
Source: Wiktionary
Guinea-
Guino-
Guinean-
Guineo-
16. The town of Eclectic is located in which U.S. state?
Source: Wikipedia
New Mexico
Iowa
Alabama
New York
17. The first Siamese cat in the U.S. was a gift sent by the American consul in Bangkok to which U.S. President and his wife?
Source: Library of Congress Blogs
Chester A. Arthur
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
18. In 1936, the Soviet Union built a computer powered by …
Source: Bluescope Technologies
water
gas
coal
electricity
19. If you could drive a car to the nearest star, how long would it take you to reach it at 70 mph (113 kmh)?
Source: Astronomy Magazine
6 weeks
2.5 years
356 billion years
nearly 3 million years
20. Bonomo Turkish Taffy isn’t really from Turkey. It isn’t really a taffy, either. What is it?
Source: Wikipedia
A turrón
A nougat
Halva
A toffee
5 Comments
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Level 67
Sep 16, 2024
I love the perspective of the massiveness of the universe that the driving question provides. Surprised that humans have multiple methods of preparation for eating shield bugs!
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Level 70
Sep 16, 2024
You just made me realize that my source isn’t clear on what they mean by “nearest star.” The sun, or the nearest star outside our solar system? I suspect the latter, or they would have just said “the sun” instead of “the nearest star.”

Ugh! Shield bugs? Another variation between American and Commonwealth English I didn’t anticipate! ;-(

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Level 67
Sep 17, 2024
Ah I hadn't even realised that it could possibly be the Sun.

Thanks for the changes - I wasn't criticising with shield bug, using the word "stink" just feels weird for my mouth, and they look like shields - I genuinely had never considered that people would eat those things!

As far as I'm away, a mobile home includes RVs too right? People in the UK would generally understand cos a caravan is always towed behind a car.

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Level 70
Sep 17, 2024
Well, if they’re not known as stink bugs elsewhere in the English-speaking world, I should use both names … regardless of your intent. ;-)

I suspect the bugs are most often eaten raw, although I have been unable to confirm.

I updated the other question again … I got my own terminology wrong. RVs include both gigantic self-propelled vehicles with attached living space; and enclosed living spaces that must be hauled by another vehicle. Mobile homes (contrary to their name) actually remain stationary once they are transported to their destination. It is possible to move them, but it is very expensive and cumbersome to do so.

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Level 70
Sep 16, 2024
Also changed “mobile home” to “mobile home (U.K.: caravan).”