Totally Useless and Obscure 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Czech

Robot came from Czech 'robota', which meant 'forced labor' or 'drudgery'.

Answer: All of these

Answer: Montreal Canadiens

Answer: Redwood

Answer: John

Back in the day, Giovanni, Italian for John, was used as a word for a man off the street, or a simpleton - much like today's "average Joe." Giovanni eventually became the English "zany."

Answer: 4

Extrasolar planets - that is, ones orbiting stars other than our own sun - are discovered by careful observation of these stars. Some stars appear to "wobble," indicating one or more large objects are orbiting around them. Upsilon Andromedae has a complex orbit that scientists believed that could best be explained with a three-planet model.

However, in 2010 a fourth planet was discovered in orbit around the star.

Answer: Olive

It was
red and yellow and green and brown and
scarlet and black and ochre and peach and
ruby and olive and violet and fawn and
lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and
cream and crimson and silver and rose and
azure and lemon and russet and grey and
purple and white and pink and orange and
blue.
If you wanted to know.

Answer: Douglas Adams

'Life, the Universe, and Everything' is the third of five books in the inaccurately named 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' trilogy.

Answer: Pendragon

Though Arthur was related to the Orkneys, Uther Pendragon, his father, passed on his last name to Arthur.

Answer: 42

The question was 'What is six times nine?' which is, of course, wrong. In the TV series, when Arthur Dent discovers with Ford Prefect the question (using homemade Scrabble pieces randomly picked out of a bag), he says "I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
The books offer a different reason for this discrepancy, which is that if the Question and Answer are both known for the same universe, it is immediately destroyed and replaced by something even more inexplicable.

Answer: Mr. President or Madam President

Your Honour is used for judges, your Grace for dukes and duchesses, and Sir for knights.

Answer: M=e divided by c squared

C represents the speed of light, or about 300 000 000 meters per second. Unfortunately, since this is so huge, it takes an enormous amount of energy to make a very small amount of matter. Conversely, it only takes the annihilation of an incredibly small amount of matter to create a catastrophic amount of energy.

This is the principle behind both nuclear weapons and the process through which the sun produces energy.

Answer: Schism

The most important schism of the Christian church was, of course, the Reformation, which broke it into the Catholic and Protestant sects.

Answer: Christopher Columbus

When Columbus landed in America, he thought he had gone all around the world and gotten to where he wanted -- India! Interestingly, though, this may not be what you think; at the time, India was the name given to all of Southeast Asia, and the land of India was called Hindustan.

Answer: Lake Okanagan

Other Canadian monsters of legend include Cadborosaurus, from Cadboro Bay in Victoria and Sasquatch - aka Bigfoot - of the Rocky Mountains.