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Useless Trivia of No Theme Trivia Quiz

This quiz has no theme whatsoever, and contains nothing but useless trivia drawn from my own interests only. It is exceptionally tough, because you'll have had to have lived my life to get these. Heck, even I flunked this trivia test!

A multiple-choice quiz by crusher28. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
crusher28

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
106,126

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
6 / 15

Plays
1457

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Question 1 of 15

1. Not including the 3 to the left of the decimal point, how many digits to the right of the decimal point does the digit 0 - zero - first appear in the decimal expansion of pi? Hint

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Question 2 of 15

2. Which of these British Columbia towns is farthest west? Hint

Keremeos

Dawson Creek

Penticton

Golden

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Question 3 of 15

3. What is the common name of the British military academy in England? Hint

Gretna Green

Greenwich

Findhorn

Sandhurst

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Question 4 of 15

4. How many people were riding in the presidential Lincoln as it passed under the Triple Underpass in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963? Hint

Six

Seven

Five

Four

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Question 5 of 15

5. Which Canadian Prime Minister was also a Nobel Prize winner? Hint

Brian Mulroney

Pierre Trudeau

Lester Pearson

Mackenzie King

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Question 6 of 15

6. Where is the eyepiece located on the tube in a reflecting - Newtonian - telescope? Hint

At the end opposite the mirror off to the side

Directly behind the main mirror

At the end nearest the mirror off to the side

None of the above

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Question 7 of 15

7. What was the most common home-user virus in 2002? Hint

Klez.I

Klez.H

Bugbear

Michaelangelo

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Question 8 of 15

8. In what sporting event did Queen Elizabeth II participate in 2002? Hint

Threw out the first pitch at a baseball game

Dropped the puck at a hockey game

Kicked the ceremonial kickoff at a football game

Flipped the ceremonial coin at a football game

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Question 9 of 15

9. How many votes did George Bush beat Al Gore by in Florida in the 2000 presidential election? Hint

537

1725

930

193

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Question 10 of 15

10. Who won a landslide victory in Turkey's 2002 election, but could not take office? Hint

Bulent Ecevit

Rodgers Rop

Mosohi Star

Recep Erdogan

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Question 11 of 15

11. Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is NOT known for which one of the following? Hint

Linguistics

American Sign Language

Philosophy

Political criticism

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Question 12 of 15

12. Who won Canada's Grey Cup in 2000, emblematic of football supremacy in the Great White North? Hint

BC Lions

Edmonton Eskimos

Montreal Alouettes

Calgary Stampeders

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Question 13 of 15

13. In the first book of his series, in what house does Harry Potter finally get placed in at Hogwarts? Hint

Ravenclaw

Slytherin

Gryffindor

Hufflepuff

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Question 14 of 15

14. Who was the new Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002? Hint

Richard Attenborough

Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Williams

Roger Williams

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Question 15 of 15

15. If you travel straight south from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, how far west of Los Angeles will you be when you hit LA's latitude? Hint

200 Miles

600 Miles

20 Miles

0 Miles

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Not including the 3 to the left of the decimal point, how many digits to the right of the decimal point does the digit 0 - zero - first appear in the decimal expansion of pi?

Answer: 32

Professor Yasumasa Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record at the end of 2002 by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places. Nearly one in ten of those digits is a zero! Kanada and his team at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University figured out the value for pi using a Hitachi supercomputer for 400 hours, and spent five years designing the program used in the September experiment.

2. Which of these British Columbia towns is farthest west?

Answer: Dawson Creek

All the other towns are east of the 120th line of longitude.

3. What is the common name of the British military academy in England?

Answer: Sandhurst

My father went to Sandhurst.

4. How many people were riding in the presidential Lincoln as it passed under the Triple Underpass in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963?

Answer: Seven

They were: President and Mrs. Kennedy (the former being mortally wounded), Governor and Mrs. Connelly (the former of these two being wounded), Secret Service drivers Greer and Kellerman, and the seventh being Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who'd jumped from the follow-up car to the limousine.

5. Which Canadian Prime Minister was also a Nobel Prize winner?

Answer: Lester Pearson

Pearson won the Nobel Prize for Peace in the 1950s for his diplomatic solution to the Suez crisis. He became Prime Minister in 1963 in a succession of minority governments until his justice minister, Pierre Trudeau, changed the face of Canada.

6. Where is the eyepiece located on the tube in a reflecting - Newtonian - telescope?

Answer: At the end opposite the mirror off to the side

Invented by Sir Isaac Newton, a reflecting telescope reflects light off a mirror back up throughout the tube, where a small secondary mirror deflects it 90 degrees to one side near the end opposite the main mirror.

7. What was the most common home-user virus in 2002?

Answer: Klez.H

Anyone with a virus checker will know it is Klez.H. If you don't you've probably got it!

8. In what sporting event did Queen Elizabeth II participate in 2002?

Answer: Dropped the puck at a hockey game

At an exhibition NHL game in Vancouver, the Queen dropped the puck.

9. How many votes did George Bush beat Al Gore by in Florida in the 2000 presidential election?

Answer: 193

Initial count, 1,725; Recount, 930; Certified, 537; Final, 193

10. Who won a landslide victory in Turkey's 2002 election, but could not take office?

Answer: Recep Erdogan

Bulent Ecevit lost the election and the reins of power. The Mosohi Star was the liner that sunk off Indonesia. Rodgers Rop won the men's NYC marathon.

11. Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is NOT known for which one of the following?

Answer: American Sign Language

Chomsky has critiqued the US as being somewhat responsible for 9-11, he is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. It is the chimpanzee Nim Chimpski who uses American Sign Language.

12. Who won Canada's Grey Cup in 2000, emblematic of football supremacy in the Great White North?

Answer: BC Lions

BC won it the hard way, first in Edmonton, then two in a row in Calgary.

13. In the first book of his series, in what house does Harry Potter finally get placed in at Hogwarts?

Answer: Gryffindor

As you can tell by my spellings, I'm not a Harry fan.

14. Who was the new Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002?

Answer: Rowan Williams

Rowan Atkinson is Mr. Bean.

15. If you travel straight south from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, how far west of Los Angeles will you be when you hit LA's latitude?

Answer: 600 Miles

That's right, you'll be that far out into the Pacific.

Source: Author crusher28

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