December Random Trivia (10/18/24)

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100

What dessert is made by heating, liquefying, and rapidly spinning sugar?

Cotton candy

200

What state, with the capital Augusta, used to be part of Massachusetts before 1820? (it also starts with a M)

Maine

300

What Middle Eastern country has Baghdad as its capital?

Iraq

400

The Dewey ______ System is used to organize library collections.

Decimal

500

What mythical creature with at least one horn is the national animal of Scotland?

Unicorn

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100

The Christmas ____ Count observes and catalogs what group of flying animals every December?

Bird

200

The first ten amendments of the US Constitution are known as what?

Bill of Rights

300

Andrew Johnson was a US President who was born in December. Number seventeen, which (much better) President did he secede, after said President was killed?

Abraham Lincoln

400

On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese Navy. What state, then a territory, is Pearl Harbor in?

Hawaii

500

Bhutan is a small country in the Himalayas that has what mythical creature on its flag?

Dragon

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100

Boxing Day is a Canadian holiday celebrated the day after what famous December holiday?

Christmas

200

Don't overthink it: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel helped design what steel structure in Paris?

Eiffel Tower

300

The Matterhorn, Denali, K2, Vostok, and Everest, they're all what?

Mountains

400

Barbary macaque, tufted capuchin, olive baboon, red colobus, and mandrill: they're all what type of mammal?

Monkeys

500

What domesticated animal, famous for spitting when its angry, is the largest camel in South America?

Llama

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100

What southern US state has the capital of Montgomery, but its largest city is Birmingham?

Alabama

200

Snake eyes, easy eight, boxcars, and a hard six are all combos you can get from rolling what?

Dice

300

Vanilla, rocky road, pistachio, blue moon, they're all flavors of what?

Ice cream

400

Geneva is probably the most famous city in what famously neutral country?

Switzerland

500

What language, with 274 million speakers, is the sixth most spoken one in the world, predominantly in the Middle East?

Arabic

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100

What famous female civil rights leader is celebrated on December 1?

Rosa Parks

200

Syrup can be derived from plenty of hardwood trees, but the one we consume most comes from what trees?

Maples

300

What holiday for parents is celebrated in June here in the US, but in December in Thailand?

Father's Day

400

Jasmine, darjeeling, Earl Grey, and oolong are all types of what beverage?

Tea

500

What scientist is most famous for "discovering" gravity?

Sir Isaac Newton