Friday, March 25, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #99

Fun Miscellaneous Trivia Quiz Questions - Scroll down for answers.

  1. How many U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico?
     
  2. What's the ballet term for a 360-degree turn on one foot?
     
  3. What did blind bank robber David Worrell use as a weapon when
    trying to rob a London bank?
     
  4. What Great Lake state has more shoreline than the entire U.S.
    Atlantic seaboard?
     
  5. What model appeared topless on the self-penned 1993 novel Pirate?

     
  6. Which country has more tractors per capita, Canada, Iceland or
    Japan?
     
  7. Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
     
  8. What Elton John album became the first album to enter the charts at
    Number One, in 1975?
     
  9. What laundry detergent got lots of mileage out of the ad line,
    "ring around the collar"?
     
  10. Who, after anchoring off Hawaii in 1779, was mistaken for the god
    Lono?
     
  11. What continent is cut into two fairly equal halves by the Tropic of
    Capricorn?
     
  12. What explorer introduced pigs to North America?
     
  13. What magazine boasts the slogan: "Test, Inform, Protect"?
     
  14. Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo
    Bill's Wild West Show?
     
  15. What railway linked Moscow and Irkutsk in 1900?
     
  16. What is the minimum  number of musicians a band must have to
    be considered a "big band"?
     
  17. What's a water moccasin often called, due to the white inside its
    mouth?
     
  18. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in
    1962?
     
  19. What continent has the fewest flowering plants?
     
  20. What element begins with the letter "K"?
     
  21. What country saw a world record 315 million voters turn out for
    elections on May 20, 1991?
     
  22. What Lewis Carroll book was banned in China afer censors decided:
    "Animals should not use human language"?
     
  23. What is the least popular month for U.S. weddings?
     
  24. What spot once registered 134 degrees, the highest temperature ever
    in the U.S.?
     
  25. What was the first organ successfully transplanted from a cadaver
    to a live person?
     
  26. What surname means "son of Nick"?
     
  27. What duo survived a 1909 shootout with Bolivia's cavalry, according
    to historians?
     
  28. What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in
    which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei"?
     
  29. What's the largest and densest of the four rocky planets?
     
  30. What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria,
    causing the sour taste?
     
  31. Who offered insurance against an accidental death caused by a
    falling Sputnik?
     
  32. How many months per year do residents of Tromoso, Norway go without
    seeing a sunset?
     
  33. What Beatrix Potter tale is the top-selling children's book of all
    time?
     
  34. What national holiday in Mexico has picnickers munching chocolate
    coffins and sugar skulls?
     
  35. What nation's military attached dynamite packs to Dobermans before
    sending them into Palestinian guerilla hideouts?
     
  36. What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in
    1781?
     
  37. How many days does a cat usually stay in heat?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 99 - Miscellaneous Topics

  1. Five.
  2. Pirouette.
  3. His cane.
  4. Michigan.
  5. Fabio.  
  6. Iceland.
  7. Thomas Edison.
  8. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
  9. Wisk.
  10. Captain James Cook.
  11. Australia.
  12. Christopher Columbus.
  13. Consumer Reports.
  14. Sitting Bull.
  15. The Trans-Siberian Railway.
  16. Ten.
  17. cottonmouth.
  18. Cuba.
  19. Antarctica.
  20. Krypton.
  21. India.
  22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  23. January.
  24. Death Valley.
  25. A kidney.
  26. Nixon.
  27. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
  28. Fusion.
  29. Earth.
  30. Lactose.
  31. Lloyds of London.
  32. Three.
  33. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
  34. The Day of the Dead.
  35. Israel.
  36. Uranus.
  37. Five.