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Obscure Trivia #8

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. What unusual trio of misfortunes is associated with Violet Jessop (1887-1971)?
She injured herself competing in tennis in three successive Olympic Games (1900, 1904, 1908). ✓
She survived disasters on three sister ships: RMS Olympic (1911), RMS Titanic (1912), and HMHS Britannic (1916). ✓
All three of her husbands had another wife when they married her. ✓
She was struck by lightning on her birthday in 1907, 1917, and 1927. ✓
The Olympic collided with the British warship HMS Hawke, but with no fatalities. The Brittanic sank in the Aegean after an unexplained explosion. Thirty of the 1,066 on board were killed. You’ve probably already heard of the Titanic. Jessop worked as a stewardess for the White Star Line on the Olympic and Titanic, and as a stewardess for the British Red Cross aboard the Britannic.
2. If you believe everything you read on the Internet (and who doesn’t?), it is illegal in Oklahoma to …
Share one ice cream soda with two straws ✓
Take a bite of someone else’s hamburger ✓
Wear two-toned shoes on Sunday ✓
Display the welt (top) of your hosiery while dancing ✓
The author of this quiz was unable to locate a citation for such a law by doing an online search of Oklahoma statutes, so it may just be an Internet legend. Nevertheless, numerous websites assert the law’s existence.
3. How many U.S. states have two syllables in their name?
4 ✓
6 ✓
8 ✓
2 ✓
Georgia, Kansas, New York, Texas, Utah, Vermont.
4. How many countries (in whole or in part) use West Africa Time (UTC +1) all year long?
11 ✓
9 ✓
13 ✓
7 ✓
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, D.R. Congo (part), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria.
5. The optimistically named (or pessimistically, depending on your perspective) populated place called Last Chance is located in which U.S. state?
Nevada ✓
Iowa ✓
Idaho ✓
Oklahoma ✓
6. How many toes does a normal guinea pig have?
20 ✓
10 ✓
8 ✓
14 ✓
Four each on their front feet; three each on their back feet.
7. A group of baboons is called a …
Platoon ✓
Troop ✓
Regiment ✓
Company ✓
8. The custom of jack-o’-lanterns is believed to have begun in the British Isles, with grotesque faces being carved into …
Root vegetables ✓
Squash ✓
Cow dung ✓
Melons ✓
Turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, and mangel wurzels (a large beet) were apparently popular.
9. Which U.S. President was the first to be sworn in by his nickname?
Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower ✓
William (Bill) Clinton ✓
Richard (Dick) Nixon ✓
James (Jimmy) Carter ✓
10. What is your pinna?
The thin tissue that connects the bottom of your tongue to the floor of your mouth ✓
The external part of your ear ✓
A flexure separating the ascending and transverse colons ✓
A tiny bone in your hand ✓
11. Maguro No Medama Yaki is the name of a Japanese delicacy. What is it?
Grilled tuna eyeballs ✓
Jellied macaque brains ✓
Roasted sika deer meat ✓
Stewed snapper ✓
Each eyeball is about the size of a tennis ball.
12. Amaxophobia is a fear of …
Exceeding a credit limit ✓
Overdrawing a bank account ✓
Succeeding ✓
Being in a vehicle ✓
13. Londinium : London :: Eboracorum : ?
York ✓
Lyon ✓
Zaragoza ✓
Dover ✓
14. This foodstuff was invented by a Connecticut preacher (c. 1829) who believed a bland vegetarian diet would cure people of the sexual urges, including “self-abuse,” that were making them physically ill and leading to depravity.
Cream of wheat ✓
Saltines ✓
Melba toast ✓
Graham crackers ✓
Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) invented them.
15. Which planet spins on an almost horizontal access, unlike the others, which spin on almost vertical ones?
Neptune ✓
Mercury ✓
Uranus ✓
Saturn ✓
16. In 1887, soldiers serving at Fort Keogh in the Montana Territory reported seeing snowflakes that were …
3” wide ✓
Yellow ✓
15” wide ✓
Pink ✓
17. Tobacco smoke enemas were once used to treat …
Gut pain ✓
Persistent headache ✓
Victims of near drowning ✓
Constipation ✓
18. How many colored street properties are on a Monopoly board?
24 ✓
40 ✓
22 ✓
44 ✓
19. The shortest commercial flight available takes about …
30 min. ✓
10 min. ✓
7 min. ✓
2 min. ✓
From Westray in the Orkney Islands to Papa Westray in northern Scotland.
20. Which country has someone tried to sell on the Internet … twice?
New Zealand ✓
Andorra ✓
Kiribati ✓
France ✓
After eBay shut down comedian Isaac Butterfield’s auction, he tried again on GoFundMe.
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