Mixed 10 Question General Knowledge Trivia

31. What color is the bottom stripe of the American flag?

From Quiz How Observant Are You?

Answer: red

13 stripes and red on the top and bottom. Red stands for the blood shed by American soldiers. George Washington originally wanted 6-pointed stars. Betsy Ross said that 5-pointed stars would be much easier to make, and therefore make mass production more efficient. George was apparently won over and allowed the 5-pointed star.

From Quiz Too Weird for Words

Answer: Henry VI

That's right! Little Henry ascended the throne on the 31 August 1422, but was not actually crowned until he was eight years old.

From Quiz My Fourth Mixed Trivia Quiz

Answer: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde

The names they were commonly known by were actually their nicknames. Blinky, the red one, was Shadow. Pinky, the pink one, was Speedy. Inky, the blue one, was Bashful. And Clyde, the orange one, was Pokey.

From Quiz Useless But Fascinating Facts

Answer: 270,000

Yes, almost a quarter of a million died in Haiyuan, China in 1920.

From Quiz Generally Unloved

Answer: Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen is famous for his vivid characterisation of war and its associated suffering. In 'Dulce et Decorum Est' he borrows a Latin phrase from Horace, a translation of which is "it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country". Owen precedes this with an unequivocal fragment - "the old lie". Wilfred Owen died in 1918.

From Quiz Boyz Type Stuff

Answer: knife

Now THAT'S a knife.

From Quiz One for the Girls!

Answer: The ball is placed on the 1 yard line

It is often the strategy of the defensive back to get called on this, rather than give up the six points.

From Quiz What's Up in this Quiz? 7

Answer: Airplane accident

Sir Robert Charlton, known as Bobby Charlton (1937-2023) was an English professional footballer, who played almost all of his life for Manchester United. He was the captain of England´s team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup. On February 6, 1958, the "Munich air disaster" occurred, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed. There were 44 people on the plane, including the Manchester United football team. In the accident, 23 people died and 21 survived. Among the survivors was Bobby Charlton.

From Quiz Facts You'll Never Know

Answer: All are correct

A goose is a waterfowl from the Anatidae family of birds, and is related to other cute little waddlers such as swans and ducks. On the ground, a group of geese together is referred to as a gaggle, possibly because of the not-so-tuneful sounds they make when vocalising. In the air they can be called a skein, team or occasionally a wedge, and, somewhat comically, if flying very close together, they are referred to as a plump. Perhaps the person who came up with that collective term was feeling hungry. These statuesque birds mate for life, and should one die, its partner can be seen waddling around seeking it, and calling sorrowfully for it to return. It's a heartbreaking sight. Geese have been on the earth for ten million years. When in flight they honk to one another. It is believed that this is to encourage the team to maintain the v-shaped formation of their flight. It's a rather lovely sight watching them fly overhead. but, if you'll pardon the pun, should they be flying over your head - duck!

From Quiz What's up in this Quiz? 5

Answer: Got hit by a bus

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (1852 - 1926), knowns as Antoni Gaudí, was a Catalan architect famous for the sui generis style of his works. He studied architecture at the Llotja School and at the Barcelona Higher School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1878. Most of his works are in and around the city of Barcelona, Spain and his major sponsor was the Catalan industrialist Eusebi Güel. In 1883, he was put in charge of developing the design for the Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family; he altered the church's original design and inbreed it with his style. From 1915 until his death, he devoted himself almost exclusively to this project. This is his masterpiece and is still incomplete. On June 7, 1926, as Gaudí was heading to Saint Philip Neri Church for his daily confession, he was run down by a streetcar, lost consciousness, and was taken to a hospital as a pauper. It was not until the following day that he was recognized, but the measures taken failed to keep him alive. He died June 10. Gaudí is buried in the Sagrada Familia Cathedral.

From Quiz A Bunch of Junk

Answer: a design of sailing ship

In Volume 39 of the original Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, the brothers purchase a Chinese junk named the Hai Hau to use as a ferry boat. Unbeknownst to them, the junk was originally stolen in Hong Kong. A junk is a type of Chinese sailing vessel. Junks tend to have very high sterns (poops), multiple masts with square-rigged sails, and a hull divided into compartments by bulkheads.

From Quiz Quizzical Inclination [2]

Answer: Atlantic

Found in the South Atlantic due west of Angola, Saint Helena is a remote British Overseas Territory nearly two thousand kilometres away from any continental landmass. Though originally discovered by the Portuguese, the location would become a small port for the British East India Company. Napoleon Bonaparte would end up in Saint Helena in exile in 1815 following his surrender at the Battle of Waterloo. He would remain there for the final six years of his life, dying there in 1821. Though his body was buried there as well, it was claimed by France in 1841 and brought to Paris to rest in Les Invalides.

From Quiz Trivia Trap Seven

Answer: Katharine Hepburn

The short film was a send-up of several Mother Goose stories, using caricatures of many of the leading stars of the day. The Marx Brothers, Oliver and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Greta Garbo, Charles Laughton, Spencer Tracy were all portrayed as cartoon characters. The film was part of the 'Silly Symphony' series produced by the Walt Disney Productions.

From Quiz Unrelated General Knowledge Trivia

Answer: Rats

"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" is a legend that dates back to the Middle Ages and has been retold many times since. It tells the story of a piper who is hired by the town of Hamelin to rid them of their rat infestation, but when the town refuses to pay him, he lures away their children with his magical pipe. There are many theories about the true events that may have inspired the legend, including theories about a plague, a children's crusade, and even a mass emigration.

From Quiz What's up in this Quiz? 3

Answer: Sun

The largest and the only one star in the solar system is the Sun. The Sun is the star around which the Earth and other planets in the solar system revolve; it is the source of energy, light and heat. The diameter of the Sun is 109 times bigger the Earth's diameter. The Sun is the largest object in the solar system and consists mainly of Hydrogen and Helium. While looking from the Earth, the brightest planet in the solar system is Venus. Sirius, also known as Alpha Canis Majoris or Dog Star, is the brightest star in the night sky, but it is not in the Solar System.

From Quiz Encyclopedic Knowledge

Answer: A vulcanologist

A caldera is a cauldron-like crater that can form following a volcanic eruption. If a large volume of magma is expelled the emptied chamber can no longer bear the weight of the rock above it. The rock then collapses into the magma chamber, leaving a large depression. Caldera formation is relatively rare, but was associated with the eruptions of Mount Tambora in 1816, Karakatoa in 1883 and Pinatubo in 1991.

From Quiz General Useless Trivia

Answer: 20.5 Knots

At 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with the iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. 20.5 knots is over 23 miles an hour, and was just under the ship's top speed of 23 knots. This was the Titanic's lone voyage, and estimates say it contained over 2200 passengers, with over 1500 lives lost during the tragedy.

From Quiz What's up with this Quiz? 6

Answer: Stars and Stripes

"Easy Rider", 1969, was an American film, directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson. The film was a touchstone for a generation as it explores American society, the tensions, and problems of American teenagers in the 1960s, the hippie movement, drug use, and community lifestyle. In the film, two bikers, after having received a lot of money from the sale of cocaine, head from Los Angeles to New Orleans to enjoy the Mardi Gras festival. The money from the drug sale was stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars and Stripes-painted fuel tank of a California-style chopper belonging to Peter Fonda's character, Wyatt. On his helmet, there were the same stars and stripes as on the fuel tank.

From Quiz Mixed 10 Q. Updated

Answer: Orangutan

It is thought the word orangutan comes from the Malay words "orang hutan", meaning "human of the forest". Orangutans live on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and in both the Malaysian and Indonesian portions of the island of Borneo and are semi-solitary in the wild. Unfortunately, they are on the endangered list due to loss of habitat.

From Quiz A Panoply of Trivia 6

Answer: Great Britain

Steve Redgrave comes from the town of Marlow on the River Thames, a center for rowing. He first competed in the 1984 Los Angeles games and won gold in the men's coxed fours. In 1988, the Seoul Olympics, Redgrave won a gold medal for the coxless pairs and a bronze medal in the coxed pairs. Four years later, the Barcelona games, he again won gold in the coxless pairs, as he did in Atlanta 1996. Finally, in the 2000 Sydney games, he won a fifth gold medal for the coxless fours. When he retired from the sport, Steve Redgrave became Great Britain's most decorated rower and fourth-most decorated athlete. In 1987 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), and then in 1997 he was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Since 2001 he has been allowed to use the honorific title "Sir".

From Quiz Rejuvenation Treatment

Answer: Russia

Finland has borders with three countries; Sweden to the west; Norway to the north, and Russia to the east. The border with Russia is the longest, 1,340 kilometers. Finland has two tripoints, one to the west, where Sweden, Norway and Finland meet, and another one to the east, where Finland, Norway and Russia meet. The western tripoint is marked by a three-country-cairn, called Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki in Finnish, Treriksrøysa in Norwegian, Treriksröset in Swedish and Golmma riikka urna in Sami. The eastern tripoint is marked by another cairn on the Muotkavaara Hill and it is only accessible from the Norwegian side since both the Finnish and the Russian borders are no man's land for the public.

From Quiz Everyday Knowledge - Fixed Up

Answer: a book

The original book series of the same name was written by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. The high rating children's television program ran from 1994 to 1997. It combined entertainment with education in a new way, using celebrities to voice characters. Miss Fizzle, the teacher who takes her class on the bus adventures, was voiced by the wonderful Lily Tomlin.

From Quiz Mixed General Knowledge

Answer: IBM

The HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) 9000 computer is an artificial intelligence and the onboard computer on the spaceship Discovery One in the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". If you change each of the letters in HAL by increasing one letter up in the alphabet you get IBM. Both Arthur C. Clarke (writer of the book) and Stanley Kubrick (director of the movie) deny any of this, although IBM did consult during the making of the movie.

From Quiz Tough Trivia Questions from the Earliest Days

Answer: Twenty-four

You may wonder why the question asked for the modern version, because the Greek alphabet is exactly the same today as it was over two thousand years ago - but before its standardization as the Euclidean alphabet adopted around the year 400 BCE, there were many variants. The E and O sounds in particular were fixed in the Euclidean version to be represented by two letters each, distinguishing the short and long sound: epsilon and eta for E, and omicron and omega for O. The other three vowels, however, did not receive this distinction. Had Eucleides opted not to add the omega, we'd probably be talking about "alpha and psi" today for the famous quote, which just doesn't have the same ring to it. Adopter's note - this quiz originally predated the multiple choice format, so all answers were fill the blank type. This question was a good example of one that worked in the format - it accepted both the numeric and textual input. All I had to do here was to add some extra information (that feature was also not required early on and most really old quizzes don't have any).

From Quiz A Trivia Challenge for Quick Minds & Fast Fingers

Answer: lycanthropy

Also known as zoanthropy, clinical lycanthropy is actually a rare psychiatric disorder, and the patient may imagine that he transforms into any sort of animal, not necessarily a wolf. In Japan, for example, foxes and dogs are a more common delusion than wolves. The patient may believe he has been an animal in the past (and may become again), or the patient may behave in the presence of observers like an animal, by growla ing, crawling, howling, etc. In the journal 'Psychopoathology', a clinician described the 1989 case study of person who reported to change from human to canine, to a horse, and then finally to cat, before changing back into a human. Treatment of clinical lycanthropy includes using antipsychotic medication and mood-stabilizing medication, preferably integrated with approaches that address social and cultural factors that obviously affect the content of the delusion. A 2021 article in the journal "Frontiers in Psychiatry" suggested a possible connection between the delusion and immersion into digital media (social networks, video games, TV series) among adolescent patients.

From Quiz Mixture of General Questions

Answer: Paradise Lost

John Milton was born 9 Dec, 1608 in London, England. He served as a civil servant under the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State. Milton's alma mater is Christ's College in Cambridge, England. "Paradise Lost" was published in 1667.

From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 17

Answer: He opened the first modern restaurant

Although there'd been inns and taverns where you could get something to eat for centuries in Europe, Antoine decided to open an establishment on a whole different level. Called 'La Grande Taverne de Londres'. It offered patrons beautiful surroundings, a choice of inventive and expensive dishes, a wine list and uniformed waiters. There were a lot of out-of-work former private chefs in France after the revolution, but he was the first to recreate an aristocratic dining experience for anybody who had the money. He called it a 'restaurant' after a small establishment opened a few years previously that sold restorative bouillon. Beauvillier wrote what was to become a standard in French cuisine 'L'Art du cuisinier' ('The Art of the Cook'). His idea took off; by 1814 there were almost 500 similar establishments in Paris and the idea had spread all over Europe.

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From Quiz FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 16

Answer: Time Zones

GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, the time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. BST is British Summer Time, which is one hour ahead of GMT, and the time used in the UK between the end of March and the end of October each year. EDT is Eastern Daylight Time, which is five hours behind GMT, and is used in Eastern Canada, Eastern USA, and parts of Central and South America, during the months in which Daylight Savings Time is in effect.

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From Quiz Anything Goes Number Eleven

Answer: Human habitation

Lava tubes were formed on sloped areas of the moon after initial lava flows from volcanic activity had subsided and cooled into long hollowed out features of various length (up to 2 kilometres) and width (up to 350 metres). They were detected by lunar exploration when assorted circular areas on their external surfaces collapsed over time, leaving what is described as lunar skylights. The most amazing thing about them, however, is that they have the potential, some time in the future, to be used for human habitation if and when humans begin to live on the moon. Because they are so solid, they also have the potential to protect humans from the extremes of temperature on the moon, and as a barrier against solar and cosmic radiation and impacts from meteorites and so forth.

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