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Obscure Trivia #10

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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1. How many U.S. state names have five syllables?
3 ✓
7 ✓
5 ✓
1 ✓
Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina. (Source: WYTV)
2. Yekaterinburg Time (UTC +5) is used all year in parts of Russia. Which country does NOT use a time zone with the +5 offset?
Uzbekistan ✓
Afghanistan ✓
Maldives ✓
Pakistan ✓
(Source: timeanddate.com)
3. Pee Pee Township, home to 7,392 people in 2020, is located in which U.S. state?
Indiana ✓
Ohio ✓
West Virginia ✓
Pennsylvania ✓
(Source: Wikipedia)
4. Who was the first First Lady to decorate the White House for Halloween?
Bess Truman ✓
Jackie Kennedy ✓
Mamie Eisenhower ✓
Lady Bird Johnson ✓
On October 30, 1958, when she hosted a luncheon for the wives of staff members in the State Dining Room. (Source: The White House Historical Association)
5. What can be used (in an absolute emergency) in place of blood plasma?
Sparkling water ✓
Coconut water ✓
Distilled water ✓
Saltwater ✓
Kids, don’t try this at home. (Source: ABC Science)
6. Where do sea otters store extra food for later?
In their cheeks ✓
In a kelp forest ✓
Under their forearms ✓
In an extra stomach chamber ✓
Under each forearm are baggy pockets of loose skin. The sea otter uses these pockets to store food it has gathered. It also stores favorite rocks that it uses for cracking open mollusks and clams. (Source: NOAA Ocean Today)
7. A group of bats is sometimes called …
A cauldron ✓
A castle ✓
A nightmare ✓
A vlad ✓
A group of roosting or hibernating bats is called a colony, and a large group of swarming bats is called a cloud.
8. Which U.S. President, according to his wishes, was buried wrapped in the American flag, and with his head resting on a copy of the Constitution?
Millard Fillmore ✓
Franklin Pierce ✓
Andrew Johnson ✓
James Buchanan ✓
(Source: Library of Congress Blogs)
9. Where would a surgeon find your glabella?
Behind your eyeball ✓
Under your arm ✓
At the base of your skull ✓
Between your eyebrows ✓
(Source: Walker HM, Chauhan PR. Anatomy, Head and Neck: Glabella. [Updated 2023 Jul 24]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2023 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555993/#)
10. Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected. How much does a pound of this coffee cost if it is made with wild-collected beans?
$900/lb. ✓
$450/lb. ✓
$600/lb. ✓
$1200/lb. ✓
(Sources: Sentient Media, Wikipedia)
11. A fear of getting angry is called …
Thymophobia ✓
Angrophobia ✓
Orgiphobia ✓
Iraphobia ✓
(Source: verywellmind.com)
12. Burma : Myanmar :: Swaziland : ?
Eswatini ✓
Burundi ✓
Rwanda ✓
Lesotho ✓
Swaziland changed its name in 2018. (Source: Timeline of country name changes in HMG use: 1919 to present)
13. Which cheese is banned for commercial sale in the EU and the U.S. because of the maggots it contains?
Manchego (Spain) ✓
Labneh (The Levant) ✓
Paneer (India) ✓
Casu Marzu (Sardinia) ✓
(Source: euronews)
14. Jalapeño, Maple, Teriyaki, and Pumpkin Spice are all varieties of what food product?
Hormel chili ✓
Hillshire Farms kielbasa ✓
Oscar Mayer weiners ✓
SPAM ✓
This was a trick question: Pumpkin Spice was a limited edition flavor. (Sources: spam.com, tastingtable.com)
15. Approximately how many stars can be found in our solar system?
100 million ✓
1 ✓
10 million ✓
100 billion ✓
There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, but the sun is the only star in our solar system. (Source: NASA)
16. In which U.S. state must a child’s bedroom be no more than 200 feet from a bathtub or shower and a toilet?
Pennsylvania ✓
California ✓
Massachusetts ✓
Wyoming ✓
(Source: 55 Pa. Code § 3800.257)
17. On 17 June, 2021, Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since …
1983 ✓
1938 ✓
1968 ✓
1870 ✓
The Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. was signed into law as a federal holiday on 2 November 1983. (Source: Wikipedia)
18. How many countries are considered to be located in the Alpine region?
10 ✓
8 ✓
4 ✓
6 ✓
Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland, per the Alpine Convention of 1991. (Source: Wikipedia)
19. What do Electric, Dooley, and Copperopolis (all in Montana) have in common?
They are located in the same county ✓
They have the same latitude ✓
Their first mayors were women ✓
They are ghost towns ✓
(Source: Wikipedia)
20. Which U.S. state had the cleanest water in 2021?
Montana ✓
Vermont ✓
Rhode Island ✓
Colorado ✓
(Source: SanAir Technology Laboratory)
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