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Off the Wall - General Trivia Trivia Quiz

Unusual snippets from the odd side of life - how well do you know your weird trivia?

A multiple-choice quiz by SpudKiwi. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
SpudKiwi

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
221,631

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
1472

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who said 'I would have made a good Pope'?
Hint

Richard Nixon

Oliver Cromwell

Bill Clinton

Martin Luther King

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Question 2 of 10

2. What kind of unusual creature is a pitohui? Hint

A flying fish

A poisonous bird

A carnivorous deer

An Antarctic rodent

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Question 3 of 10

3. What was Typhoid Mary's occupation? Hint

Teacher

Cook

Nurse

Politician

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Question 4 of 10

4. Achromatopsia is a form of what condition?
Hint

Colour blindness

Asthma

Baldness

Cancer

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which famous 4ft 6 inch hunchback lived from 1688 to 1744?
Hint

Napoleon Bonaparte

Alexander Pope

Attila the Hun

Salvatore Quasimodo

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?' A quote by whom?
Hint

Samuel M. Goldwyn

Harry M. Warner

D.W. Griffiths

Clark Gable

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is ayahuasca? Hint

An Indonesian dance

An hallucinogenic plant

A marsupial mouse

A musical instrument

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Question 8 of 10

8. How did the eccentric San Franciscan celebrity Oofty Goofty make a living? Hint

He was a sword swallower

As a contortionist

He robbed banks

As a human punchbag

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was unusual about the Chinese mariner Zheng He? Hint

He was an albino

He was a European

He was a giant eunuch

He had twelve fingers

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Question 10 of 10

10. In which country would you use a Dong to buy goods?
Hint

Laos

Vietnam

Chile

Thailand

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who said 'I would have made a good Pope'?

Answer: Richard Nixon

Nixon was also responsible for 'When the president does it, that means it is not illegal'.

2. What kind of unusual creature is a pitohui?

Answer: A poisonous bird

Pitohuis were discovered in the 1990s in New Guinea and use a potent poison as self defence. The chemical agent, homobatrachotoxin, is an alkaloid also found in the skin of poisonous frogs.

3. What was Typhoid Mary's occupation?

Answer: Cook

Irish born Mary Mallon was a 'healthy' carrier of typhoid and was responsible for 47 illnesses and 3 deaths in the US at the turn of the 20th Century. As a result, she was permanently quarantined for the last 23 years of her life.

4. Achromatopsia is a form of what condition?

Answer: Colour blindness

This is the rare form of total colour blindness, where all hues are perceived as shades of grey.

5. Which famous 4ft 6 inch hunchback lived from 1688 to 1744?

Answer: Alexander Pope

Pope, a brilliant poet, gave us such famous lines as 'A little learning is a dangerous thing', and 'To err is human, to forgive divine'.

6. 'Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?' A quote by whom?

Answer: Harry M. Warner

Fortunately Mr Warner's opinion didn't stop Warner Brother's making the first talkie, 'The Jazz Singer'.

7. What is ayahuasca?

Answer: An hallucinogenic plant

This Amazonian plant is used as a religious sacrament in a herbal tea and produces an intense high, accompanied by 'la Purga' or vomiting. Past celebrity users include Sting and Paul Simon.

8. How did the eccentric San Franciscan celebrity Oofty Goofty make a living?

Answer: As a human punchbag

The former 'Wild man of Borneo' was evidently impervious to pain. He built a career as a 'hit man' - for 10 cents you could kick him, whilst for 50 cents you could hit him with the baseball bat that he carried around with him. This career lasted until slowed by a heavyweight boxing champ, John L. Sullivan, who hit Oofty Goofty with a billiard cue and injured his back.

9. What was unusual about the Chinese mariner Zheng He?

Answer: He was a giant eunuch

Zheng He was reputedly 7 foot tall and a eunuch of the court of the 3rd Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1403-1424). Chinese sources say Zheng He commanded a fleet of 30,000 men and 300 ships, and that his Treasure Ship was 400ft long - nearly four times the size of Columbus' ship Santa Maria.
His 'western ocean' voyages covered Sri Lanka, India, Persia, Egypt and possibly even Australia.

10. In which country would you use a Dong to buy goods?

Answer: Vietnam

The word Dong means copper, or bronze in Vietnamese.

Source: Author SpudKiwi

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