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A there, try this! Trivia Quiz

The only vowel you need in these answers is the letter A. Should be enough clues that you can find the answers even if you don't know the words. If you like this, see the rest of my alphabet quizzes.

A multiple-choice quiz by sharkbytes. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
sharkbytes

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
87,298

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
2840

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Question 1 of 15

1. Remember, the only vowel you need throughout this quiz is A! (Y is not a vowel) ... The symbol for the chemical element Sodium.

Answer: (2 letters)

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Question 2 of 15

2. Tweety Bird is this color and species.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 3 of 15

3. A hat, canal, country, isthmus.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 4 of 15

4. When little boys start to fight the grownups try to keep them _______.

Answer: (5 letters)

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Question 5 of 15

5. A Palestinian city on the West Bank much in the news, 10 miles north of Jerusalem.

Answer: (8 letters)

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Question 6 of 15

6. The country with the largest area in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 7 of 15

7. This animal is first on the list.

Answer: (8 letters)

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Question 8 of 15

8. The animal from question 7 lives in forests and plains just south of this African desert.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 9 of 15

9. Mom said, "Go to the basement and get one of jelly, but don't leave the door in this condition."

Answer: (4 letters, one or two words)

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Question 10 of 15

10. This "road" of a Kipling poem is actually the Irrawaddy River of Burma.

Answer: (8 letters)

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Question 11 of 15

11. A tree with compound leaves whose pliable but strong wood makes good canoe paddles, or basket splints. If you burn it up you will still have it.

Answer: (3 letters)

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Question 12 of 15

12. The magician said, "_________________."

Answer: (11 letters)

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Question 13 of 15

13. When your nose runs this is the name of the not so runny discharge.

Answer: (7 letters)

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Question 14 of 15

14. The Mountain where Noah's Ark rested according to Genesis 8:4.

Answer: (6 letters)

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Question 15 of 15

15. Since you've got your Bible out, hop over to Numbers 22 and see who owned the talking donkey.

Answer: (6 letters.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Remember, the only vowel you need throughout this quiz is A! (Y is not a vowel) ... The symbol for the chemical element Sodium.

Answer: Na

Did you remember table salt, NaCl? It's sodium chloride.

2. Tweety Bird is this color and species.

Answer: Canary

The pet canary bird does indeed come from the Canary Islands, so named by the Romans for fierce dogs bred there. Hence, "canis" (dog... canine) led to canary. So your pet canary is really a dog bird, or something like that.

3. A hat, canal, country, isthmus.

Answer: Panama

The Panama Isthmus is the narrow strip of land connecting South and Central America, through which the canal was built. A Panama Hat is a lightweight hat woven of natural narrow strips of the jipijapa plant. (What a fun word that is!)

4. When little boys start to fight the grownups try to keep them _______.

Answer: apart

Apart comes from Latin parere, to "bring forth or produce," as a birth. Hence the word parent also comes from this root.

5. A Palestinian city on the West Bank much in the news, 10 miles north of Jerusalem.

Answer: Ramallah

Ramallah is 900 feet above Sea Level, high on the mountain ridge west of the Jordan River. Once a pleasant summer resort town, it is now war torn.

6. The country with the largest area in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer: Canada

Canada has 3.9 million square miles, the United States 3.6 million.

7. This animal is first on the list.

Answer: aardvark

The aardvark is alphabetically first of all animals. The name is an Afrikaans term meaning "earth pig." It lives south of the Sahara and is a burrowing, ant-eating mammal.

8. The animal from question 7 lives in forests and plains just south of this African desert.

Answer: Sahara

The Sahara is the world's largest desert, almost as large as the entire United States, covering 3.5 million square miles.

9. Mom said, "Go to the basement and get one of jelly, but don't leave the door in this condition."

Answer: a jar

A pun... a jar of jelly, or a door ajar is partly opened.

10. This "road" of a Kipling poem is actually the Irrawaddy River of Burma.

Answer: Mandalay

Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady means "Elephant River." It is the "Road to Mandalay" of the Kipling poem. The river begins in the Himalayas and flows to the Indian Ocean.

11. A tree with compound leaves whose pliable but strong wood makes good canoe paddles, or basket splints. If you burn it up you will still have it.

Answer: ash

Ash trees are in the Fraxinus family. Common names include green, white, black and blue ash. They all look green to me! If you burn it all you will have left is ashes.

12. The magician said, "_________________."

Answer: abracadabra

Abracadabra is from late Latin, a word used in magic, the letters of which were arranged in an inverted pyramid and worn as an amulet around the neck to protect the wearer against disease or trouble. Fewer letters appeared in each line of the pyramid, until only "a" remained to form the vertex of the triangle. As the letters disappeared, so supposedly did disease or trouble.

13. When your nose runs this is the name of the not so runny discharge.

Answer: catarrh

Sounds so much more sophisticated than snot.

14. The Mountain where Noah's Ark rested according to Genesis 8:4.

Answer: Ararat

Mt. Ararat is in present day Turkey. There have been numerous sightings of an ark-like structure high in the mountains, and several claims of recovering pieces of the wood. The site is now buried under snow and ice.

15. Since you've got your Bible out, hop over to Numbers 22 and see who owned the talking donkey.

Answer: Balaam

The donkey saved Balaam from an angry angel. It's not everyone who is dumber than a donkey, or are we?

Source: Author sharkbytes

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