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Where, What, Who and How Trivia Quiz

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

Author
tjoebigham

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
75,928

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
7 / 20

Plays
3678

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Question 1 of 20

1. Where on a horse can you find a frog? Hint

foreleg

forehead

withers

hoof

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Question 2 of 20

2. And where on a ship would you find flukes? Hint

rudder

anchor

windlass

yardarms

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Question 3 of 20

3. Where would you find the rivers Phlegethon and Cocytus? Hint

Colchis

Crete

Hades

Thebes

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Question 4 of 20

4. Where in the U.S. was a treaty signed ending a foreign war? Hint

Ipswich, Ma.

Utica, N.Y.

Bangor, Me.

Portsmouth, N.H.

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Question 5 of 20

5. Where did the copper sheeting for the Statue Of Liberty come from? Hint

Norway

Finland

Sweden

Denmark

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Question 6 of 20

6. What is the loudest animal on earth? Hint

humpback whale

lion

blue whale

howler monkey

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Question 7 of 20

7. What do 'angels' and 'cherubs' mean to a pilot? Hint

UFOs

helicopters and balloons

hallucinations

feet in altitude

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Question 8 of 20

8. What are 'stickers' and 'scuffs' to car racers? Hint

bumpers

nails and glass shards

oil slicks

tires

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Question 9 of 20

9. What was Scrabble named when invented in 1931? Hint

Lexico

Lingo-Bingo

Wordo

Letter Lotto

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Question 10 of 20

10. What animal is called an elver when young? Hint

sardine

snake

eel

worm

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Question 11 of 20

11. Who was expelled from Pency Prep? Hint

Archie Andrews

Ignatius J. Reilly

Holden Caulfield

Zach Morris

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Question 12 of 20

12. Who first warned the Trojans about "Greeks bearing gifts"? Hint

Samuel

Cassandra

Laocoon

Daniel

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Question 13 of 20

13. Who was the 'Mayflower's' captain? Hint

Christopher Jones

Miles Standish

William Bradford

John Alden

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Question 14 of 20

14. Whose first play was 'The Man Who Had All The Luck'? Hint

Edward Albee

Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller

Eugene O'Neill

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Question 15 of 20

15. Who created the name Vanessa from the parts of a friend's name? Hint

Jonathan Swift

Andrew Marvell

John Milton

Richard Lovelace

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Question 16 of 20

16. How did emery, the polishing mineral, get its name? Hint

from Richard Emery

from a Greek island

from Jennifer Emery

from Emery, Wales

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Question 17 of 20

17. How many muscles move the human eyeball? Hint

five

three

seven

six

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Question 18 of 20

18. How many bones in the hands of an adult human being? Hint

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Question 19 of 20

19. How did corned beef get its name? Hint

from the word cornered

corn kernels

grains of salt

being baked in corncobs

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Question 20 of 20

20. How many eyes does a grasshopper have? Hint

eight

three

five

six

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where on a horse can you find a frog?

Answer: hoof

On the underside of the hoof, {actually;} it's the V-shaped pad of hornlike material that is the horse's shock absorber.

2. And where on a ship would you find flukes?

Answer: anchor

An anchor's flukes are the pointed blades on the ends of its bottom arms. (You won't find flukes on any fish. They're the horizontal tailfins on all whales.)

3. Where would you find the rivers Phlegethon and Cocytus?

Answer: Hades

They're two of the rivers in Hades, along with Styx, Acheron and Lethe. Look up your Greek mythology.

4. Where in the U.S. was a treaty signed ending a foreign war?

Answer: Portsmouth, N.H.

Portsmouth is the only American town that can boast {that;} there the treaty was signed to end the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

5. Where did the copper sheeting for the Statue Of Liberty come from?

Answer: Norway

The Statue was a gift from France, but the copper to build it came from a Norwegian island off Stavanger in the North Sea.

6. What is the loudest animal on earth?

Answer: blue whale

Ironically, the loudest is also the largest on {earth;} the blue whale emits a whistle reaching 188 decibels, louder than a jet.

7. What do 'angels' and 'cherubs' mean to a pilot?

Answer: feet in altitude

The title of the British film 'Angels One Five' means 15 thousand feet in {altitude;} cherubs are hundreds.

8. What are 'stickers' and 'scuffs' to car racers?

Answer: tires

Stickers are new tires and scuffs are ones with one or two laps on them.

9. What was Scrabble named when invented in 1931?

Answer: Lexico

Alfred M. Butts created it.

10. What animal is called an elver when young?

Answer: eel

A young eel.

11. Who was expelled from Pency Prep?

Answer: Holden Caulfield

From 'The Catcher In The Rye'.

12. Who first warned the Trojans about "Greeks bearing gifts"?

Answer: Laocoon

Dan and Sam are from the Bible. Laocoon and his sons were crushed by serpents for warning about the Trojan Horse by the Greek gods. Cassandra echoed his warning, but the gods already cursed her by never having her prophecies believed.

13. Who was the 'Mayflower's' captain?

Answer: Christopher Jones

He was also part owner of the Pilgims' ship.

14. Whose first play was 'The Man Who Had All The Luck'?

Answer: Arthur Miller

Miller went on to the classics 'Death Of A Salesman' and 'The Crucible'. And his first play has recently run again on Broadway.

15. Who created the name Vanessa from the parts of a friend's name?

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Swift got the name from his friend ESther VANbrugh for a poem of his.

16. How did emery, the polishing mineral, get its name?

Answer: from a Greek island

From Cape Emeri on the island of Naxos, where it has been mined from ancient times. (It's a form of corundum.)

17. How many muscles move the human eyeball?

Answer: six

They are the superior and inferior obliques, and the lateral, medial, superior and inferior rictus ones.

18. How many bones in the hands of an adult human being?

Answer: 54

8 in each wrist, 5 in each palm, and 14 in each set of fingers.

19. How did corned beef get its name?

Answer: grains of salt

The grains of salts used in it were called 'corns'.

20. How many eyes does a grasshopper have?

Answer: five

It's got two compound eyes, two on the bases of its antennae and one between them.

Source: Author tjoebigham

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