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Obscure Trivia #3

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Quiz by arjaygee
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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?
15
9
11
13
2. The Rosetta Stone contains text written in each of these three scripts …
Egyptian demotic, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Hebrew
Hebrew, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek
Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek
Egyptian demotic, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek
3. The Spanish Steps are located in …
Madrid
Rome
Barcelona
Prague
4. In the late nineteenth century, Native Americans referred to which soldiers serving in the western U.S. as “buffalo soldiers?”
African American cavalrymen
Native American cavalrymen
Infantrymen
All cavalrymen
5. Jabal Ṭāriq is the Arabic name for …
Mount Ararat
Gibraltar
The Sahara Desert
Mount Everest
6. How many stomachs does a cow have?
2
1
4
3
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
Bill Clinton
Richard M. Nixon
Abraham Lincoln
8. Americans eat 350-400 of these every second.
Potato chips
Slices of pizza
Candy bars
Cocktail peanuts
9. What is the name of the rooster whose image graces boxes of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes?
Barnaby
Cornelius
Randolph
Sanders
Nickname: Corny
10. What is the national animal of Scotland?
Highland cow
Phoenix
Golden eagle
Unicorn
11. “Flemish Giant” refers to a …
Skyscraper in Bruges
Type of dairy cow
Child-eating character in Belgian folk tales
Type of rabbit
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
Cheese
Candy
13. Until 2022, the Blue House was the official residence of which country’s president?
South Korea
Argentina
Algeria
Czechia
14. Which is NOT the name of one of Gwen Stefani’s sons?
Kingston
Apollo
Zuma
Falcon
15. Peking is to Beijing as Constantinople is to …
Rome
Türkiye
Istanbul
Ankara
16. Who is the only singer to have sung the theme song for three different James Bond films?
Shirley Bassey
Sam Smith
Billie Eilish
Gladys Knight
Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Moonraker (1979).
17. The first all new hand-drawn animated feature film to be released was …
The Aristocats
Fantasia
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Steamboat Willie
In 1937.
18. The first toy to be advertised on television was …
Silly Putty
Barbie
Mr. Potato Head
Slinky
In 1952.
19. Exit signs became a required building safety feature as a result of …
The Iroquois Theater fire of 1903 (Chicago)
The Consolidated School gas explosion of 1937 (New London, TX)
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 (New York City)
The Coconut Grove nightclub fire of 1942 (Boston)
20. The original name of the Google search engine was …
HotSpot
BackRub
DeskTop
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
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Level 77
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 65
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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