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Obscure Trivia #22

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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1. Massage parlors in Mesquite, Texas …
must not be segregated by sex
must close by midnight
must accept massage therapist licenses from elsewhere in Texas
must not open until 8 A.M.
2. canine : dog :: pavonine : ?
peafowl
platypus
panther
penguin
Source: Wiktionary
3. United Kingdom : Anglo- :: Libya : ?
Libya-
Libyco-
Libyan-
Libyo-
Source: Wiktionary
4. Which is NOT the name of a discontinued Post cereal?
Sour Patch Kids
Crispy Critters
Beep Beep
Fruit & Wheat
Source: Wikipedia
5. The traditional recipe for loco moco (supposedly invented in Hilo, Hawaii in 1949) calls for what over a bed of rice?
Chili, clams and pineapple chunks
Pineapple slices, poi and ube
A hamburger, a fried egg and brown gravy
Frankfurter slices, Fritos and sauerkraut
Source: Love Food
6. A person from the island of Zanzibar is called a …
Zanzibarese
Zanzibarian
Zanzibari
Zanzibaran
Source: Wikipedia
7. The most expensive Pokémon trading card ever sold at a private sale (Pikachu Illustrator from 1998) was sold to influencer Logan Paul for how much?
$2,825,000
$5,275,000
$770,000
$3,650,000
8. Which order of insects contains the most species?
Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps)
Diptera (flies)
Blattodea (cockroaches)
Coleoptera (beetles)
Source: Live Science
9. Scopophobia is a fear of or extreme aversion to …
diagnostic instruments, including medical ones
being watched or stared at
seeing something traumatic
limiting the scope of a project or other undertaking
Source: PsychCentral
10. The best-selling compilation album of all time is …
Gold: Greatest Hits (ABBA)
Greatest Hits (Queen)
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) (Eagles)
1 (The Beatles)
Source: Wikipedia
11. Which statement about the planet Jupiter is false?
It takes sunlight 43 minutes to travel to Jupiter.
There are several likely spots on Jupiter to land a spacecraft.
Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth.
Galileo was the first to observe the four largest moons of Jupiter.
Source: NASA
12. About how fast does a sneeze travel?
100 mph (160.94 km/h)
300 mph (482.80 km/h)
250 mph (402.34 km/h)
50 mph (80.48 km/h)
13. The word “mortgage” is a mash-up of two Old French words that mean …
dead pledge
death measurement
life pledge
house poor
14. Kit Kat candy bars were originally called …
Chocolate Crisp
Kit Cat
Chocolate Wafer
Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp
Source: Wikipedia
15. What percentage of Canada’s population lives within 150 miles of the U.S. border?
67%
nearly 75%
more than 90%
about 50%
16. All objects in our Milky Way Galaxy revolve around the galactic center. About how long does one of these revolutions take?
125 million years
250 million years
1 million years
250 years
Source: NASA
17. The census designated place Cal-Nev-Ari is located in which U.S. state?
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
California
Source: Wikipedia
18. Who was the first U.S. President to put up a Christmas tree in the White House?
Chester A. Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Grover Cleveland
19. A group of giraffes is called …
a tallness
a stretch
a tower
a necklace
Source: Wiktionary
20. Something that is icterogenic causes …
jaundice
a sore throat
a fishy smell
skin blemishes
Source: Wiktionary
2 Comments
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2024
Really surprised by the Eagles! Goes to show the size of the American market. I was sure Eagles would be the biggest seller in the USA but thought the global reach of ABBA and Beatles would put the Eagles in third.

Also need to consider the generational impact cos Eagles are a bit of a joke compared to the untouchable legacies of the Beatles, ABBA, and Queen.

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Level 68
Sep 18, 2024
I was a bit surprised by that, too.

There are anomalies with how some national certification authorities calculate sales, regarding multi-disc sets and streaming equivalents that give more weight to the U.S. market. The second paragraph in my Wikipedia source explains.