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Obscure Trivia #3

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Last updated: April 19, 2024
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First submittedOctober 12, 2023
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1. How many time zones does Russia have?
9
15
13
11
2. The Rosetta Stone contains text written in each of these three scripts …
Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek
Egyptian demotic, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek
Hebrew, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek
Egyptian demotic, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Hebrew
3. The Spanish Steps are located in …
Prague
Madrid
Barcelona
Rome
4. In the late nineteenth century, Native Americans referred to which soldiers serving in the western U.S. as “buffalo soldiers?”
Infantrymen
African American cavalrymen
All cavalrymen
Native American cavalrymen
5. Jabal Ṭāriq is the Arabic name for …
Mount Ararat
The Sahara Desert
Gibraltar
Mount Everest
6. How many stomachs does a cow have?
2
3
4
1
A cow’s stomach has four distinct compartments, leading some to inaccurately assert that cows have four stomachs.
7. Who was the first U.S. President to visit all 50 states while in office?
Donald J. Trump
Richard M. Nixon
Bill Clinton
Abraham Lincoln
8. Americans eat 350-400 of these every second.
Cocktail peanuts
Candy bars
Slices of pizza
Potato chips
9. What is the name of the rooster whose image graces boxes of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes?
Randolph
Cornelius
Barnaby
Sanders
Nickname: Corny
10. What is the national animal of Scotland?
Unicorn
Phoenix
Highland cow
Golden eagle
11. “Flemish Giant” refers to a …
Skyscraper in Bruges
Type of dairy cow
Type of rabbit
Child-eating character in Belgian folk tales
Flemish Giants typically grow to between 2.5 - 4 feet long and weigh between 15 and 22 pounds.
12. The most stolen food in the world is …
Bread
Fruit
Candy
Cheese
13. Until 2022, the Blue House was the official residence of which country’s president?
Algeria
Czechia
Argentina
South Korea
14. Which is NOT the name of one of Gwen Stefani’s sons?
Falcon
Zuma
Kingston
Apollo
15. Peking is to Beijing as Constantinople is to …
Türkiye
Rome
Ankara
Istanbul
16. Who is the only singer to have sung the theme song for three different James Bond films?
Billie Eilish
Shirley Bassey
Sam Smith
Gladys Knight
Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Moonraker (1979).
17. The first all new hand-drawn animated feature film to be released was …
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Aristocats
Steamboat Willie
Fantasia
In 1937.
18. The first toy to be advertised on television was …
Silly Putty
Barbie
Slinky
Mr. Potato Head
In 1952.
19. Exit signs became a required building safety feature as a result of …
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 (New York City)
The Coconut Grove nightclub fire of 1942 (Boston)
The Consolidated School gas explosion of 1937 (New London, TX)
The Iroquois Theater fire of 1903 (Chicago)
20. The original name of the Google search engine was …
DeskTop
BackRub
HotSpot
JailBreak
Because it analyzed the web’s “back links” to understand how important a website was, and what other sites it related to.
2 Comments
+1
Level 79
Oct 12, 2023
There were some animated feature films before that one. Apparently that one was the first to be “cel animated”, whatever that means.
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Level 69
Oct 12, 2023
Yes, I suppose I have an aversion to calling cut-outs and silhouettes “animation,” although they technically are. I have updated the question accordingly.

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