Mixed 15 Q. Very Difficult Trivia

1. What is something a gynecoid Homing Pigeon would do?

From Quiz A Word and a Fact

Answer: Incubate the eggs during the nighttime

"Gynecoid" means "typical for a female", so in the sentence it is referring to an average female pigeon. The other three are things a male pigeon would normally do.

From Quiz Spectacular General Knowledge about everything

Answer: Myanmar

The fourth person was U Thant from Myanmar. He was known as an excellent politician and peacemaker. He helped to maintain peace in Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt and the United States. He also criticized the Americans of their conduct in the Vietnam War. The New York Times regarded him as "the wise counsel of this dedicated man of peace will still be needed after his retirement". He died of lung cancer in New York and his grave was buried by students. There are many things that acknowledge him such as the "U Thant Peace Award" and the Jalan U Thant road in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

From Quiz An Eclectic Collection of Trivia

Answer: Broadcaster

In 1951, Leo Fender designed the first solid body single pick-up electric guitar and called it the "Esquire". When he created the two pick-up version, he called it the "Broadcaster", but changed the name because there was already a Gretsch drum set named the "Broadkaster".

From Quiz A General Quizzle to Test Your General Knizzle

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

The smart money would have been on Jefferson, a legendary polymath (translation: all-around achiever) who did have many inventions to his credit, but no patents. The more studious may have suspected Hoover (a trained scientist with a geology degree from Stanford) or Carter (who holds an engineering degree from Annapolis). It is Lincoln, however, who received a patent in the 1840s for devising an innovation in ship design that would free a boat run aground. What a guy!

From Quiz More Useless Trivia

Answer: Cary Grant

Leach was born in Bristol, England in 1904. By 1931, Archie had crossed the Atlantic to star on Broadway, playing the character Cary Lockwood in 'Nikki'. When he came to Hollywood, he was told that his name was not the kind of name a movie star should have. He chose Cary from his first American role, and later picked Grant from a list of one syllable names a secretary gave him.

From Quiz Quizzically Catchy Phrases

Answer: Good-bye!

"Good-bye" usually translates to "au revoir" or "adieu". The other catchy phrases translate to "bonjour", "bon appetit", and "bon voyage". I realize these aren't the most flippant or funny phrases in the English language, but they're still catchy even though you use them all the time.

From Quiz Fun and Useless Facts

Answer: Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon, born in New York City on July 4, 1927, is regarded as one of the all-time most popular playwrights, and the most popular in the history of American theatre. He began writing scripts for radio shows in 1948, and was turned to plays in 1961. Among his achievements are four Tony Awards, two Emmys, a Screen Writers Guild Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. His hit plays include "Barefoot in the Park" (1963), "The Odd Couple" (1965), "Plaza Suite" (1968), and "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983). In 1971 he was named "Entertainer of the Year" by "Cue" magazine and made a Kennedy Center honoree in 1995.

From Quiz Estranged Facts

Answer: koala

Barnums Animal Crackers added the koala in 2002.

From Quiz Useless Trivia of No Theme

Answer: 32

Professor Yasumasa Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record at the end of 2002 by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places. Nearly one in ten of those digits is a zero! Kanada and his team at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University figured out the value for pi using a Hitachi supercomputer for 400 hours, and spent five years designing the program used in the September experiment.

From Quiz General Knowledge III

Answer: angstrom

The angstrom is equal to 0.1 nanometer (10^{-10}, or one one-billionth of a meter). Visible light falls into the range from approximately 4000 to 7000 angstroms.

From Quiz Totally Miscellaneous Trivia III

Answer: 1

Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the only other father-son presidential pair. President Theodore Roosevelt and President Franklin Roosevelt were fifth cousins, the two Presidents Harrison were grandfather and grandson and President James Madison and President Zachary Taylor were second cousins.

From Quiz Three Streets 5

Answer: New Haven, Conn

Installed in an office building in June 1880. Customers paid an attendant to use the phone. Coin-operated phones first appeared in 1899.

From Quiz Three Streets 4

Answer: Black pepper

To get rid of any fusel oil, a poisonous by-product of poorly made vodka. Ref "Moonraker"

From Quiz Not Too Tough Mixed Questions

Answer: Robin Hobb

Her real name is Megan Lindholm and she published a number of books under that name as well. Most well-known ones are 'The Windsingers' and 'The Reindeer People'.

From Quiz Really Useless Trivia

Answer: Mary Had A Little Lamb

It was recorded in 1877.

From Quiz Potpourri of Potentially Useful Trivia

Answer: busybody

An old English word, not used quite so much anymore. :)

From Quiz Mish Mash Trivia 2

Answer: They are all towns in New York State.

From Quiz What I Learned In High School

Answer: Robert Frost

Frost wrote a great deal about nature in his poetry. 'After Apple-Picking' tells the story of a tired farmer awaiting his death, but surrounded by the memories of picking apples.

From Quiz So You Think You're Smart?

Answer: F

From Quiz Cool Facts

Answer: Seagulls

From Quiz Trivial Test

Answer: Funnel-web

This is thought to be the most aggressive species of spider!

From Quiz TriviaTrapFour

Answer: 21

From Quiz A Basketful of Trivia

Answer: Saddam Hussein

From Quiz The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Answer: Sorbs

Many people do not know that the Sorbs even existed.

From Quiz A Word and a Fact

Answer: Genghis Khan

"Kosmokrator" means "a theoretical ruler of the entire Earth". The person who got closest to this (i.e., the person who conquered the most land) was Genghis Khan. He conquered approximately 26.5% of Earth's land. A similar version of the word is "cosmocrat".

From Quiz Spectacular General Knowledge about everything

Answer: 1590

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington. His family was rich; his father was a lawyer and his mother was one of the Board of Directors in a bank. He excelled in mathematics and sciences. He later enrolled in Lakeside school, Seattle's best preparatory school. At age 14, Bill Gates formed a venture with his friend Allen, called Traf-O-Data, which dealt with counter based on the Intel processor. He then scored 1590 in the SAT test and enrolled in Harvard University. Later, he go out of Harvard University and started Microsoft. Today, he is one of the wealthiest men in the world.

From Quiz An Eclectic Collection of Trivia

Answer: shepherd's crook

This is one popular theory on the etymology of the word hockey. Another opinion is that it comes from the Dutch word "hokkie" which means literally means doghouse, but means goal in popular slang.

From Quiz A General Quizzle to Test Your General Knizzle

Answer: Orthodox Christianity

There are vampire stories all over the world (including Catholic Bohemia and Silesia), but the best known vampire traditions are in Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia, and even Transylvania (along with the rest of Romania)--all of which are traditionally Orthodox.

From Quiz More Useless Trivia

Answer: Chocolate syrup

Though the scene took 7 days to shoot, it only aired for 45 seconds in the film. An irate father wrote a letter to Alfred Hitchcock complaining that his daughter would no longer take a shower because of the scene. Hitchcock cheekily replied: "Send her to the dry cleaners."

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