All about ME Trivia Quiz

Answer: Maine

The beautiful state of Maine is in the far northeastern corner of the US. It's known for its lobster, lighthouses, and Acadia National Park.

Answer: a monk

Mekhitarists are members of the Congregation of Benedictine Armenian Antonine Monks, a group of Roman Catholic Armenian monks founded in Constantinople, Turkey. Their constitution is based on the order of St. Benedict, and they're recognized for their contribution to the publication of old Armenian-Christian manuscripts.

Answer: Medusa

Most people are familiar with the image of Medusa, she of the perpetual bad hair day, with snakes flying around her head. In Greek myth she was one of three Gorgons, beheaded by the heroic Perseus. Seems a fitting name for a roller coaster... there are a couple of Six Flags roller coasters named Medusa in existence.

The Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey is the world's first floorless coaster. In zoology, the word Medusa refers to one of two principal body types of jellyfish.

Answer: meander

To "meander" (from Latin "maeander"- circuitous windings) is to follow a winding and turning course, or to move about aimlessly or idly.

Answer: in a synagogue

A mechitza is the partition located in the seating section of an Orthodox synagogue to separate men and women.

Answer: Mercury

Mercury was the Roman messenger god; both the silver-white poisonous metallic element and the planet closest to the sun were named for him.

Answer: a part of the atmosphere

Fooled you, huh? Who would have thought that the mesopause is an atmospheric area about 80 kilometers (50 miles) above the earth's surface, forming the upper boundary of the mesosphere.

Answer: mescaline

Peyote, or mescaline, is a hallucinatory drug found in the flower of the peyote cactus. Native Americans have been familiar with its properties for centuries. Although it occurs in nature, it can also be synthesized.

Answer: Pleiads

The Pleiads in Greek mythology were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Merope was the one who hid her face in shame after marrying a mortal; all of her sisters mated with immortals. Merope is also one of the six stars in the Pleiads cluster, faintly visible to the naked eye. If you answered "Furies", you may have been thinking of Megaera, who was one of the Furies.

Answer: wear it

I guess you could sit on it if you wanted to, but a merrywidow is meant to be worn; it's a woman's undergarment, a short strapless corset with a half-cups bra and long garters.

Answer: Minnesota, US

While it sounds like some exotic place in Africa, the Mesabi Range is actually in the cold northern US state of Minnesota. The area is a series of low hills in which extensive iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887.

Answer: in a pet store

A medaka is a small Japanese fish (Oryzias latipes) commonly found in rice fields. It's often used in biological research and is often found in aquariums.

Answer: megahertz

A megahertz, abbreviated MHz, is a measurement of one million cycles per second. Also known as a megacycle, it's mainly used to refer to radio frequency.

Answer: a sloth

If you happened to live during the Miocene epoch through the Pleistocene epoch, you may have seen one of these large members of the Megatheriidae family lumbering around.

Answer: Tasmania

Melanesia is a division of Oceania in the southwest Pacific Ocean consisting of the islands northeast of Australia and south of the Equator. Included are the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Bismarck Archipelago, some other island groups, and sometimes New Guinea.