General Knowledge Mix Trivia

1. Where would I be if I was at the place where Neil and Buzz, while inside "the Eagle", landed?

From Quiz Ten Easy Questions (Or Are They?)

Answer: The Moon

In 1969 the famous line "The Eagle has landed" was broadcast throughout the world. One of the most amazing facts about the Moon landing, is the computing power used by the Space Program was a lot less than the computing power available in the first laptop computers.

From Quiz I'm a Pushover for a Bulldozer

Answer: Bulldozer

Sharon was a feared commander in the Israeli Army. He was a part of his country's army when it first started, 1948, and participated in most of the major conflicts Israel became embroiled in. These included their War for Independence in 1948, the Qibya Massacre, the Suez War, the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. He once claimed that "even sheep are afraid of me", called his autobiography "The Warrior" and, in March 2001, became Israel's 11th Prime Minister. In March 2006 he suffered a massive stroke which left him in a persistent vegetative state.

From Quiz 20 Cat-egories of FunTrivia!

Answer: Felis Catus

Felis Catus is the scientific name for the domestic cat. Often seen sitting at the top of the bookcase, peering down at its owners, or bouncing around on the pillows at 5:00 am wanting its breakfast.

From Quiz General Quiz's Army

Answer: Gray wolf

The gray wolf is also known as the timberwolf. They appear mainly in the forested areas so your troops can be ready for such creatures. Safety precautions can easily be taken.

From Quiz It's Not What You Think

Answer: type of tree

The honey locust is a North American tree which belongs to the legume family. It has sweet smelling flowers and long seed pods.

From Quiz Yet More Bad Jokes

Answer: Wombledon

"The Wombles", who featured in a fondly remembered children's TV series, included "Tobermory", "Tomsk" and "Great Uncle Bulgaria". I suspect that if we British put one of them up to compete in the actual Wimbledon championship, we'd have a better chance of winning.

From Quiz Odd Classifieds

Answer: railroad construction

Gandy dancers were the unfortunate folks who lugged the steel rails into position for the steel drivin' men to do their job. Using tong-like tools, gandy dancers were known to lose a toe now and then but it was just part of the job.

From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 2

Answer: Mister (Mr.)

Mr. Hyde is the evil alter ego of Dr. Jekyll in "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Mr. Dithers (Julius C. Dithers) is the boss of Dagwood Bumstead in "Blondie," the comic strip. "Mister Ed" was a 1961-1966 television series about Mr. Ed, a talking horse owned by Wilbur Post (played by Alan Young).

Question by player lowtechmaster

From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 1

Answer: In a car

If you open the hood of your car you'll find a dipstick next to where you put oil in the car. it is a long thin metal strip sheathed like a sword in its holder; using a rag to wipe the oil off of the dipstick you then stick it back in the hole where you drew it out from. Pull it back out and take a look at where the oil now comes up to on the dipstick. This will indicate how much oil you might need to put in.

Question by player Billkozy

From Quiz Ten Easy Questions (Or Are They?)

Answer: Egypt

The study of The Rosetta Stone has allowed linguists to decipher Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs because the stone contained text written in three different languages, one of which was Ancient Greek. According to Wikipedia the process of decoding the text took around twenty years.

From Quiz 20 Cat-egories of FunTrivia!

Answer: panther

...would sPAN THE River... Panthers are a type of cat found in Africa, North America and Asia. Perhaps the most well-known panther in the entertainment industry is the lovable Bagheera, from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book".

From Quiz Luscious Leftovers

Answer: a urinal

Some tender leftover morsels! Cold pork chop: Duchamp signed the piece with the name and date "R. Mutt 1917", apparently a play on the company who manufactured the urinal. There are, however, other ideas as to what the name might mean such as the German word 'armut' which means 'poverty'. As Duchamp submitted the piece anonymously, and he was a board member of the Society of Independent Artists, he was irate when they decided not to show the piece even though the show was proclaimed to be showing all work submitted. He resigned from the board after the event. There have been several attempts by museum visitors to urinate on the reproduced copies of the urinals (the original was lost). The Tate Modern attempted to solve this problem by putting 'Fountain' in a display box.

From Quiz Complex Abecedarian

Answer: Russia

What one would normally ask: What is the largest country in the world? The stout infantfish was identified as the smallest fish in the world in 2004 (this record was previously claimed by the dwarf goby fish.) These fishes are native to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and they measure approximately 7mm long. Inevitably, Russia is the least similar to the stout infantfish because it holds the record as the largest country in the world.

From Quiz It's Not What You Think

Answer: punctuation

"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is a book on punctuation written by Lynne Truss, which quickly became a best-seller in Britain. Think of the two different scenes that are envisaged by "eats shoots and leaves" - a munching animal and "eats, shoots and leaves" - restaurant patron shoots someone on leaving. What a difference a comma can make! The complete title is "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation".

From Quiz Yet More Bad Jokes

Answer: i

A joke for mathematicians. In complex maths, the letter "i" represents the square root of -1, which does not in fact exist, and is therefore termed an imaginary number. Apparently what would seem to be a mind-bogglingly pointless area of study does have some practical uses, but if you know what they are, you're a better person than i. Boom boom.

From Quiz Odd Classifieds

Answer: beekeeper

Beekeeping has fallen on tough times in the 21st century as the honeybee continues to disappear.

From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 2

Answer: Scotland

"Macbeth" is a play by Shakespeare about the attempt to usurp the Scottish throne, whilst the other three people mentioned are Scottish born. Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician who will be remembered as the author of the "Sherlock Holmes" series of books and short stories. Billy Connolly is a well known Scottish comedian, and Sean Connery is arguably the public favorite of the actors who portrayed "James Bond" on the silver screen.

Question by player merrijig

From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 1

Answer: Amelia

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was an aviator, author, teacher, public speaker and all-around feminist. She was pals with Eleanor Roosevelt. Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) was a writer and publisher (of a newspaper called "The Lilly") which supported temperance, suffrage and women's rights. While she did not invent "bloomers", her personal adoption of them and support for them lent to their being associated with her name. Amelia Bedelia books have been written since 1963 by the originator Peggy Parish and, after she died in 1988, by her nephew Herman Parish. Similarly, they have been illustrated by Wallace Tripp, Fritz Siebel, Lynn Sweat, Lynne Avril and Barbara Siebel Thomas.

Question by player FatherSteve

From Quiz Ten Easy Questions (Or Are They?)

Answer: Krill

Krill are small prawn-like or shrimp-like creatures that mostly feed on plankton. Blue Whales are one of the baleen whales and do not have teeth, instead they have baleen plates that are used to filter out small animals from the sea water. Baleen whales, penguins, squid and seals all feed on krill, making krill an essential part of the food chain in the oceans of the world.

From Quiz I'm a Pushover for a Bulldozer

Answer: Moody Blues

Moooooo-dy Blues ... get it ... sorry, but I should warn you that the jokes do not get any better. Seriously though, it's been proven that most cows will produce more milk if they listen to music. The Moody Blues formed in Birmingham, England in 1964 and found early success with their second single "Go Now". The song went to number one on the UK charts and reached the top ten in Billboard's Hot 100. However, it wasn't until 1967 when they released their album "Days of Future Passed" that they were able to make significant inroads into the US market. The album got to number three on the American album charts and spawned the hit singles "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon".

From Quiz 20 Cat-egories of FunTrivia!

Answer: Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam, better known by his former stage name, Cat Stevens, is a singer-songwriter from England. The song "Tea for the Tillerman" comes from the 1970 album of the same name, and was used as the theme tune to the UK comedy series, "Extras".

From Quiz Luscious Leftovers

Answer: aphid

Some tender leftover morsels! Smushed peas: These relationships, sometimes referred to as "farming", allow the ants to continually harvest the carbohydrate-rich honeydew. The ants tend the aphids, protecting them from predators, including the aphids' biggest hunter, the ladybug. The ants will often carry the aphids from plant to plant as the aphids' feeding methods tend to wilt or kill the plants they eat from. Sometimes the ants will even shuttle the aphids for safety at night, and bring them back during daylight to feed.

From Quiz An Easy Quizzle of Your General Knizzle

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's stone also includes that he was author of the Declaration of Independence, but it omits that he was minister to France during the American Revolution, along with all his other government positions. None of the other choices ever served as president.

From Quiz Complex Abecedarian

Answer: Water

What one would normally ask: What does the formula H2O represent? H2O is written with the number 2 as a subscript. This indicates that in one molecule of water, there are two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. If you pay close attention to the question, it asks you to determine the substance that two NEUTRAL atoms of hydrogen and one NEUTRAL atom of oxygen would combine to. Without the addition of the word "neutral", the atoms may be defined as cations, which has a positive charge due to a loss of electron(s), or anions, which has a negative charge due to a gain of electron(s). Ions have properties that are dissimilar to that of neutral atoms. Since I defined hydrogen as an atom with one electron, I must add the word "neutral" to show that it is indeed hydrogen, and not an ion of any other element. The same goes for the oxygen representation in the question.

From Quiz It's Not What You Think

Answer: horse

A Suffolk Punch is one of the smaller draft horses. It is chestnut coloured and at one time was often seen pulling milk delivery wagons.

From Quiz Yet More Bad Jokes

Answer: hungary

The twin towns of Buda and Pest together form the capital of the great country that is Hungary. One of my friends tells me that Buda is lovely, but not to bother with Pest.

From Quiz Odd Classifieds

Answer: the Ingalls

Laura Ingalls Wilder penned a series of books about her early days and, of course, "Little House on the Prairie" was a long-running TV series starring Michael Landon.

From Quiz The As You Like It Quiz

Answer: April

If anyone else is old enough to remember watching "The Love Boat", you'll remember that a frequent guest star was Charo, the sexy Latin entertainer. On the show, she played April, who charmed passengers and crew alike with her outfits and bubbly personality. "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land...." is the first verse of "The Waste Land", T.S. Eliot's famous poem. Most people would disagree with his characterization of April, which is generally regarded as the start of spring and new life. This is probably why April was chosen as the month for Earth Day. The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, and continues to be celebrated every year as a reminder to us that we belong to the earth, not the other way around.

From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 1

Answer: Faking your own death

Pseudocide is relatively rare and usually involves going into hiding, collecting on life insurance or avoiding debt.

Question by player deconstructor5

From Quiz Ten Easy Questions (Or Are They?)

Answer: Water

Many foods are dehydrated or dried to preserve them, because micro-organisms that spoil food need water to multiply. Removing water also makes for easier storage and transportation because such foods are lighter and more compact.

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