Daily Quiz Thread

[Engel]

1927

Which planet is the closest to the sun?

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Mercury

How many US states begin with the letter M?

 

[Princess Dustmop]

Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana ... so, 8.

How many prefectures are there in Japan?

 

[Betsy]

47?

What is the first name of the landlady Mrs. Hudson, in the Sherlock Holmes books?

 

[Engel]

Martha

What is acrophobia?

 

[Adelyn]

The extreme fear of heights.

What is arachnophobia?

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Fear of spiders! I am a huge sufferer of this!

What car was used to time travel in the blockbuster movie Back To The Future?

 

[Merab]

DeLorean ?

Which planet has a moon so big it’s sometimes referred to as a double planet system

 

[Engel]

Pluto (and Charon)

How many moons does Mars have?

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Two moons (Phobos and Deimos)

What is Kleptomania?

 

[Betsy]

The need to steal items (its a mental health disorder)

Who invented the chocolate cookie?

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Ruth Wakefield?

Who invented the Easter egg?

 

[Betsy]

JS Fry?

A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed for 3 days and left on Friday. How?

 

[Bill & Ted]

His horse was called Friday

Who wrote War Horse?

 

[Engel]

Michael Morpurgo

Who wrote the poem, 'If'?

 

[Betsy]

Rudyard Kipling

What is a Bibliophile?

 

[Merab]

A book lover ( like me )

What is a polyglot

 

[Patunia the guinea pig]

Someone who knows many languages

What is a markor?

 

[Engel]

A type of goat.

What meat is used in a shepherds pie?

 

[Betsy]

Minced lamb otherwise it's a Cottage Pie.

Come up and we go, go down and we stay. What am I?

 

[Engel]

An anchor

What does CIA stand for?

 

[Betsy]

Central Intelligence Agency

Who is the only singer to win the Grammy Awards for Album, Record, and Song of the Year twice? Both of the winning albums had titles that were two-digit numbers.

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Adele?

What year did Top of the Pops air it's last ever show?

 

[Merab]

2006 ?

What is the smallest breed of penguin ?

 

[Betsy]

The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin.

What was Mickey Mouse's original name?

 

[Merab]

Mortimer Mouse

Which planet has moons named after the Greek underworld

 

[Betsy]

Pluto

What 2 things can't you eat for breakfast?

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Lunch and dinner

What is the smallest mammal in the world?

 

[Betsy]

white-toothed pygmy shrew.

What goes up but never comes down?

 

[Popcorns & Wheeks]

Age

How many sides does a nonagon have?