Challenging General Knowledge Mix Trivia

1. Can you match the correct two cities that are on the same river?

From Quiz Muddled Mixture: Part 1

Answer: Belgrade and Vienna

Belgrade (Serbia) and Vienna (Austria) both lie on the Danube River. Paris (France) lies on the River Seine and Lyon (France) lies on the junction of the Rhone and Saone Rivers. Budapest (Hungary) lies on the Danube River and Zagreb (Croatia) lies along the Sava River. Oxford and Cambridge (both England) lie on the River Thames and River Cam respectively.

From Quiz Out of the Mouths of Nitwits

Answer: Wicky Wackee

Raphael Wicky (b. 1977) was signed by the Chivas USA soccer team in January 2009. He retired just five weeks later citing 'personal reasons'. Wackee is a company that makes games like 'Wackee Six' (a card game) and 'Hokie Golf', the aforementioned indoor golf game.

From Quiz Odd or Even

Answer: odd & o

An odd number times and odd number is always odd. Also, an even number times an even number is even and an even number times an odd number is even.

From Quiz A Little Bit of Everything 1

Answer: Ayla Brown

Ayla Brown was the final girl to be voted off by America before the top twelve was formed. Ayla is from Wrentham, Massachusetts, and she auditioned in Boston. She also plays basketball for Boston College.

From Quiz Again, Meaningless Trivia!

Answer: The Grateful Dead

After Jerry Garcia's death on August 9th 1995, the rest of the band, who still perform gigs today, renamed themselves as "The Others" as they did not feel it right to keep their original name without their front-runner.

From Quiz Second Mixed Trivia

Answer: Hull

William Wilberforce was born in Hull. Wilberforce helped stop slavery, and because of his hard work, a statue of him was built in the city centre. The house where he grew up is also a popular tourist attraction.

From Quiz A Little Miscellany

Answer: USA

This attracted my attention as most people in the past went to the USA. Apparently, it was an emigrant from the United States who went to Upper Canada after 1789, when land was made available to settlers on very advantageous terms.

From Quiz Trivia Stew no. 2

Answer: Mississippi

Britney was born in the small Mississippi township of McComb in 1981, the second of three children. She first sang in public at her church's Christmas service when she was four. Her first album "Baby One More Time" was released in 1999.

From Quiz All Kinds of Everything

Answer: someone being hit in the face

The advertisement normally shows someone being hit in the face/mouth by an exploding orange.

From Quiz Miscellaneous Madness VIII

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was known as the "Cowboy President" because he was a rancher in North Dakota from 1884 - 1886. He always retained his interest in cowboys and their way of life until the end.

From Quiz Nothing is hard 27

Answer: Mars

Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in Mars. It has a length of about 4,500 km (2,800 miles) and a maximum depth of 7 km (4 miles).

From Quiz Nothing Is Hard 3

Answer: water

A ripe banana contains about 76% water, 22% carbohydrate, 1% protein and about 1% fat.

From Quiz Mixing It Up

Answer: Norton Simon Museum

The "Tournament of Roses" parade takes place every New Year's Day in Pasadena, California and the art museum pictured in the parade with the rose painted on it is none other than the Norton Simon Museum. The J. Paul Getty Museum is located in Los Angeles. The L.A.C.M.A is also located, where else, but Los Angeles. The L.A.C.M.A is located right next to The Page Museum a.k.a "The La Brea Tar Pits." The Huntington Library is located in the small town of San Marino, California, a spitting distance from Pasadena. I have been to the Getty Museum, the L.A.C.M.A, and the Huntington, but I haven't been to the Norton Simon Musuem (well, not yet anyway).

From Quiz Things I Learned at School 3

Answer: Oscar Wilde

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1980) is based on the Faustian motif - the willingness to sell one's soul to the Devil for earthly vanity.

From Quiz General Trivia

Answer: Clara Barton

Clara Barton was a nurse in the Civil War and went to Europe. She then met the founders of the International Red Cross, and she started the American Red Cross.

From Quiz Mixed Bag 40

Answer: 46

It is made in three basic shapes, arched harps, angular harps and frame harps. Early harps had from 30 to 50 strings.

From Quiz Acrostic General Knowledge Quiz 3

Answer: termagant

For example: Socrates' wife Xanthippe was said to have been something of a {termagant;} she nagged him constantly. Some loose synonyms are virago and harridan. The English language has quite a few negative words to describe women, doesn't it?

From Quiz Unbelievably Strange Junk

Answer: An early type of photograph

A daguerrotype was made through a certain photographic process involving an iodine-sensitized, silvered plate and mercury vapour. This process, also called daguerreotype, was invented by Louis Daguerre, a Frenchman.

From Quiz Mixed Bag 38

Answer: Eubie Blake

He wrote it in the ragtime era which also gave us such composers as Scott Joplin, Thomas Turpin and James Scott.

From Quiz Mixed Bag 23

Answer: 8

The B-52 is made by Boeing. It was named the Stratofortress and first flew October 3,1952. It has remained in service for more than 40 years.

From Quiz Mixed Bag 22

Answer: Stone

The start of the stone age varies. It is thought to have begun in Africa 2.5 million years ago, Asia 1.8 million years ago and Europe 1 million years ago.

From Quiz Mixed Bag 14

Answer: 11

He still found time to write the poem 'The Star Spangled Banner' during the War of 1812.

From Quiz Average Mixed Trivia

Answer: Atlantic

Nearer to Africa than Spain, but a Spanish territory.

From Quiz General Knowledge Questions

Answer: United Kingdom

The rock of Gibraltar was captured by the British and the Dutch in the War of the Spanish Succession in the name of an Austrian Archduke. In 1713 it was officially ceded to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht, and has been under British sovereignty ever since.

From Quiz Muddled Mixture: Part 1

Answer: John Tyler (1841-1845)

John Tyler did in fact serve his term as US President from 1841-1845. James Madison was US President from 1809-1817 and Andrew Jackson held the position from 1829-1837. Rutherford B. Hayes was US President from 1877-1881 and Grover Cleveland held the position from 1885-1889.

From Quiz Out of the Mouths of Nitwits

Answer: Slippy Dippy

Slippy Toad is a character from the Japanese video game 'Star Fox'. His Japanese name is Surippi Todu, and he is the best friend of Fox McCloud, the main character in the game. 'Dippy' refers to the Diplodocus dinosaur sculpture located on the campus of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute and Library Complex. 'Dippy' was created in 1999 to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of Diplodocus fossils in Colorado.

From Quiz Odd or Even

Answer: even & e

The sum of the numbers 1 thru n is equal to n(n+1)/2. So we have 127*128/2 or 127*64. An odd number times an even number is even.

From Quiz A Little Bit of Everything 1

Answer: lie down and sleep

There are so many weird laws all around the United States of America. Another weird one is that it is illegal for a man to kiss his wife on a Sunday in Hartford, Connecticut. If you like to see more weird laws please be free to visit http://www.2.gvsu.edu/~feenstrk/laws.html.

From Quiz Again, Meaningless Trivia!

Answer: South America

Located high in a remote area of Chile, it runs from the snow-capped Andes right across to the Pacific Ocean. The only precipitation comes in the form of fog and the barren, salted landscape supports almost no vegetation at all.

From Quiz A Little Miscellany

Answer: Salamander

I'm sure this was a very easy question for all US players. For the rest of us a hell-bender is a dark grey salamander which is native to rivers in eastern and central US.

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