Trivia Test: Dec. 13, 2018

Questions

1. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president declared that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the last Thursday in November?

2. TELEVISION: What was the name of Roy Rogers’ horse on the TV series?

3. ACRONYMS: Where did the name “jeep” come from?

4. ASTRONOMY: The planet Venus has how many moons?

5. LANGUAGE: What is unusual about the words facetious, abstemious and arsenious?

6. FOOD & DRINK: What is foie gras?

7. GEOLOGY: What is the only rock that floats?

8. LITERATURE: In what 19th-century novel is the character of Captain Nemo introduced?

9. GEOGRAPHY: What inland U.S. state has the longest freshwater coastline?

10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the birthstone associated with the month of June?

Answers

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. Trigger

3. The military, where a “general purpose” vehicle was known as a GP.

4. None

5. All three words are spelled with the vowels in correct order.

6. A pate made of duck or goose liver

7. Pumice

8. “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”

9. Michigan

10. Pearl

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