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A multiple-choice quiz by moronski. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
moronski

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
125,678

Updated
Feb 18 23

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
9 / 15

Plays
3896

Last 3 plays: Guest 97 (10/15), Guest 50 (9/15), Guest 104 (0/15).

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Question 1 of 15

1. What is the highest point in North America? Hint

Mount Olympus

Mount Shasta

Mount Doom

Denali

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Question 2 of 15

2. What boxer is known as the Louisville Slugger? Hint

Muhammad Ali

George Foreman

Joe Frasier

Leon Spinks

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Question 3 of 15

3. In Centigrade what is the boiling point of water? Hint

212

100

250

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Question 4 of 15

4. Do humans and giraffes have an equal number of neck vertebrae?

Yes

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Question 5 of 15

5. Category Power Tools. Did a woman invent the circular power saw?

Yes

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who was the first American in space? Hint

John Glenn

Alan Shepard

Gus Griffin

George Jetson

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Question 7 of 15

7. Which president extended the New Deal into the Fair Deal? Hint

Teddy Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Herbert Hoover

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Question 8 of 15

8. Who, in 2012, broke Jessica Tandy's record as the oldest person to win an Academy Award? Hint

Wilford Brimley

Bette Davis

Jessica Tandy

Christopher Plummer

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Question 9 of 15

9. Which state contains the most square miles of inland water? Hint

California

Minnesota

Alaska

Utah

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Question 10 of 15

10. What was Elvis' profession before he became a rocker? Hint

Garbage man

Farm hand

Prison guard

Truck Driver

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Question 11 of 15

11. Which Axis power changed sides during WWII?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 12 of 15

12. Who pioneered the use of antiseptics in Great Britain? Hint

Ignaz Semmelweis

Mr. Clean

Joseph Lister

Ann Teseptic

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Question 13 of 15

13. What type of flowers produce vanilla pods? Hint

Orchids

Roses

Poppies

Daises

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Question 14 of 15

14. Who was Ford's vice president?

Answer: (Two words or surname - think money!)

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Question 15 of 15

15. What is the English translation of fondue? Hint

Cheese

Melted

Flame

Furnace

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the highest point in North America?

Answer: Denali

Located in Alaska and also known as Mt McKinley.

2. What boxer is known as the Louisville Slugger?

Answer: Muhammad Ali

Of course also known as Cassius Clay.

3. In Centigrade what is the boiling point of water?

Answer: 100

The freezing point is 0.

4. Do humans and giraffes have an equal number of neck vertebrae?

Answer: Yes

We each have seven.

5. Category Power Tools. Did a woman invent the circular power saw?

Answer: Yes

Shaker inventor, Sarah Babbit, of Massachusetts. Apparently in 1810 she made and attached a notched tin disk to the spindle of her spinning wheel and successfully cut a piece of shingle.

6. Who was the first American in space?

Answer: Alan Shepard

Shepard did this on 5 May 1961. John Glenn was the first to orbit the earth and is often confused with this answer.

7. Which president extended the New Deal into the Fair Deal?

Answer: Harry Truman

The New Deal was brought into effect by Franklin Roosevelt to help the U.S. during the depression of the early 1930s. The Fair Deal was the name given to the domestic programs of President Harry S. Truman. First used in 1949, the term generally refers to Truman's entire presidency (1945-53).

Included among the Fair Deal programs were a full employment law, a national health insurance plan, extended social security, aid to education, civil rights legislation, public housing, universal military training, an increase in the minimum wage, and a fair employment practices committee.

8. Who, in 2012, broke Jessica Tandy's record as the oldest person to win an Academy Award?

Answer: Christopher Plummer

Plummer won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2012 for his performance in "Beginners" at the age of 82. The record had previously been held by Jessica Tandy for her Best Actress win in 1989 for "Driving Miss Daisy" at the age of 81.

The record was broken again by Anthony Hopkins in 2021, at the age of 83.

9. Which state contains the most square miles of inland water?

Answer: Alaska

With over three million lakes totalling 20,171 square miles.

10. What was Elvis' profession before he became a rocker?

Answer: Truck Driver

Elvis's first recording, "That's All Right Mama", was at Sun Records in Memphis on July 5th, 1954.

11. Which Axis power changed sides during WWII?

Answer: Italy

They previously declared war on Germany in October 1943.

12. Who pioneered the use of antiseptics in Great Britain?

Answer: Joseph Lister

And we use Listerine.

13. What type of flowers produce vanilla pods?

Answer: Orchids

Vanilla is native to the tropical rainforest of south-eastern Mexico and Central America. When the Spanish conquistadors were in Mexico in 1520, they observed the emperor Montezuma drinking a beverage of cocoa beans, corn, vanilla pods and honey. They were so impressed that they took vanilla back to Spain and, by the end of the 16th century, factories were established to manufacture chocolate with vanilla flavouring.

14. Who was Ford's vice president?

Answer: Nelson Rockefeller

None of the teams knew this one. The second son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1908, in Bar Harbor, Me. He graduated from Darthmouth College in 1930. Early in his career he invested in a Standard Oil subsidiary in Venezuela and developed a lifelong interest in Latin America. Nelson Rockefeller, (1908-1979), American public official, who served one term as Vice-President of the U.S. and four terms as governor of New York.

15. What is the English translation of fondue?

Answer: Melted

From the French 'fondre'.

Source: Author moronski

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