Extremely Difficult General Knowledge Trivia

1. What word does the U.S. state of Texas, Charles Lindburgh and Clayton Moore have in common in their associated names or nicknames?

From Quiz Trivia Hodgepodge

Answer: Lone

Texas' nickname is "The LONE Star State", Lindburgh's nickname was "The LONE Eagle" and Clayton Moore was best known for playing "The LONE Ranger" on television and also adopted that character's persona when making public appearances.

From Quiz Top of the List

Answer: Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr war born on July 7, 1940, making him the oldest Beatle. John Lennon is a close second, as he was born October 9, 1940. Next on the list is Paul McCartney, who was born on June 18, 1942. Finally, George Harrison was the youngest Beatle, because he was born on February 25, 1943. Therefore, the list from oldest to youngest is: Ringo Starr John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison

From Quiz Mixed Trivia Shuffle

Answer: Leopard

Katharine Hepburn's character Susan Vance unexpectedly finds herself tending to a small tamed leopard called Baby, shipped to her from Brazil thanks to her brother Mark. Susan uses the pet leopard to gain the attention of Cary Grant's character, Dr. David Huxley.

From Quiz Quite Interesting Facts and Misconceptions

Answer: Nitrogen

Nitrogen makes up 78 percent of air. The rest is oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide respectively.

From Quiz You Learn Something New Every Day! #1

Answer: Antonio Meucci

Antonio Meucci displayed a working 'Teletrofono' device and filed a caveat, or temporary patent, in 1871, a full five years before Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent. Unfortunately Meucci was not familiar with American law and did not realise that he had to renew the caveat. In 1876, Bell filed a patent for the telephone, Meucci attempted to sue Bell but all of his models and drawings had disappeared from the laboratory at Western Union where they had been sent in support of his caveat (strangely Bell was working in that particular office at the time the sketches disappeared). In 2004, the American House of Representatives passed a resolution that 'The life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognised and his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged'.

From Quiz How Good is your General Ignorance?

Answer: Tortoise

Timothy the tortoise was found on a Portuguese pirate ship by Captain Everard of the Royal Navy. After serving as a ship's mascot on HMS Queen at the first battle of Sevastopol in 1854, Timothy went on to fill this role on other ships. After retiring in 1892 it lived at Powderham Castle, home of the Earls of Devon. In 1926 the tortoise was found to be a female, although its name was not changed. It is one of the few tortoises to have its own biography, "Timothy the Tortoise: The Remarkable Story of the Nation's Oldest Pet", which was written by Rory Knight-Bruce and published in 2004.

From Quiz Random Information

Answer: syzygy

According to the Webster's New World Dictionary Third College Edition, syzygy is either of two opposing points in the orbit of a celestial body, specifically the moon, at which it is in conjunction with or in opposition to the sun. I just made up the other three words!

From Quiz Yet More Totally Random Useless Knowledge

Answer: Crushed to death by a giant umbrella

According to http://www.theapesheet.com/archivethree/newart.html: "On October 26, 1991, Lori Rae Keevil-Matthews was visiting Christo's umbrella project in Tejon Pass, California. The piece was an environmental project consisting of 1,760, 485-pound yellow umbrellas planted throughout the pass. As part of the project, Christo had also installed 1,340, 485-pound blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan. Keevil-Matthews was killed by the piece after a 40 M.P.H. wind pulled up an umbrella and smashed her against a boulder. "Out of respect to her memory" Christo had both pieces taken down. On October 31, during the de-installation of the project in Japan, Masaaki Nakamura was electrocuted to death when the crane he was operating, which was in the process of removing a sculpture, touched a 65,000 volt high-tension line".

From Quiz 100 Facts

Answer: ants

2. Ants have five noses, each designed to detect a different scent. 3. Some types of ants carry their dead to ant cemeteries. 4. The queen ant never leaves her nest unless there is an emergency, such as a disaster, or the colony wants to relocate to a better place. 5. Unlike adult ants, ant larvae can consume solids. 6. Some species of ants, like the leaf-cutter ants, use leaves to produce fungi in their nests for food. 7. A worker ant can carry up to 50 times its own weight. 8. All ants in a colony, except for the drones, are female. 9. As of 2002, there are 11,006 known species of ants! 10. Ants hibernate during cold seasons.

From Quiz Balderdash 2

Answer: They created that coil- like toy The Slinky in 1943. Actually he invented it and his wife Betty came up with what to name it.

I just loved my Slinky when little. I'll confess that I still dust it off occasionally all these years later. Mr. and Mrs. James developed it in 1948. He was a successful mechanical engineer and discovered the toy completely by accident. Betty got the job of naming it, doing that after a word of Swedish origin meaning 'stealthy, sleek and sinuous'. It has become multiply-used as it went. The simple little Slinky has been used in pecan picking devices in Texas and Alabama, on lighting fixtures in Harrah's Casino in Las Vegas (because of the unusual shadows it casts), as drapery holders, bird repellers, therapeutic devices, gutter protectors, even makeshift radio antennae in the Vietnam war! The other three answers are completely fictional.

From Quiz What Were They Thinking?

Answer: Florida

Unless you really know what to look for, it is easy to confuse an alligator with a crocodile. And that's exactly what the public relations firm that Florida hired to do their football guide did. They slapped a croc on the cover, instead of the mascot gator. No word on whether SEC rivals like the Georgia Bulldogs and South Carolina Gamecocks were similarly affected.

From Quiz Not So Fast!

Answer: The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John.

Also called Mary Salome, she asks Christ (in Matt. 20:20) to have her sons sit in glory at his right and left hand in his kingdom. According to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, she was present at the Crucifixion (Matthew's gospel refers to her as "the mother of Zebedee's children"); Mark also lists her among the women who come to the tomb on Easter morning and find the body of Christ gone. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic church; her feast day is October 22. The gospels also mention the daughter of Herodias, who dances for the head of John the Baptist, but she is not referred to by name in the Scriptures. According to the historian Josephus, her name was, indeed, Salome, which was a common name among the Herod family. "Salome", by the way, is the feminine version of the name "Solomon".

From Quiz Random Trivial Facts

Answer: Jack Graney

Jack Graney was also one of the first Canadian born players in baseball. He was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and played his entire 13 year career for the Cleveland Indians (1910-1922).

From Quiz 10 Original Questions

Answer: Abaddon

The word 'abaddon comes from the Hebrew 'abad', and means 'ruin' or 'death'. This term can be found in the New Testament book called Revelations, chapter nine, and several times in the Old Testament. An example of its appearance in Western literature would be in Milton's 'Paradise Regained', 'In all her gates Abaddon rues thy bold attempt.' In this case it is used as a synonym for 'abyss', but abaddon has also been likened to the evil demon Asmodeus as well.

From Quiz Completely Useless Trivia

Answer: St. Louis

The mansion is said to be haunted by various members of the Lemp family, who had been prominent in the brewing industry, and several of whom died in tragic circumstances. It is considered to be one of the most haunted places in the USA.

From Quiz Are You a Genius? III

Answer: Partisans

They are the partisans of Ali, fourth caliph of Islam. The Shi'ite Muslims, who primarily reside in Iran, believe that Ali was the true successor to Muhammad and that a special place should be held for Ali by Muhammad's side. The Sunni Muslims believe that Ali is simply the fourth in a long line of Muslim Caliphs.

From Quiz World's Most Dangerous Quiz IV

Answer: Microscope

The brothers Janssen, Dutch glassworkers, created the very first microscope of the compound variety in about 1590. Kepler followed their invention up with a modernized version in 1610. Ernst Ruska, a German engineer, was involved in the development of the electron microscope.

From Quiz World's Most Dangerous Quiz 1

Answer: Calabria

Calabria is a relatively wooded region of southern Italy with lovely weather. It's known for its olive groves and winemaking, and the city of Reggio, which overlooks Sicily, is Italy's most southerly town.

From Quiz Off the Wall General Trivia

Answer: 7

Data provided by Rawlings, the maker of Major League Baseballs.

From Quiz General ToughTrivia

Answer: Bohrium

Discovered in 1981, it has a half life of only 15 seconds. It also is an artifical element, as are all with numbers above 100.

From Quiz Random Samplers 2

Answer: Georgi Malenkov

Bulganin replaced Malenkov as Premier in 1955...completing Malenkov's fall. Don't worry, Bulganin did not last long either, he was removed as Premier by Khrushchev in 1958!

From Quiz Weird Trivia 1

Answer: a fine silica dust

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiousis is the longest English word. It is a disease caused by a fine silica dust.

From Quiz General Mix66

Answer: Theseus

From Quiz General Mix65

Answer: Shihuangdi

From Quiz Some Useless Trivia

Answer: 1929

From Quiz Extravagances and Oddities

Answer: Diogenes

Diogenes was a cynic who supposedly carried a lantern around, searching for an honest man. I don't think he ever found one...oops, now I'm a cynic!

From Quiz A Challenge for Geniuses

Answer: Italian dessert

This dish includes egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine, all whipped together. It in no way resembles a Zamboni machine!

From Quiz I Didn't Know That

Answer: 8

From Quiz A Third Panoply of Trivia

Answer: Methacrylate resin

To increase the mobility and appearance of the eye, a compound known as Bioeye (hydroxyapatite, or sea coral) is occasionally used since it very strongly resembles human bone.

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