16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the most toxic poison dart frog?
Answer
golden poison frog
What is the common name of the frog whose tadpole is larger than the adult?
Answer
paradoxical frog
What is the scientific name of the smallest known frog?
Answer
Paedophryne amauensis
Which bird has the most feathers, with up to 25,000?
Answer
Tundra swan
What species is the ancestor of the domestic chicken?
Answer
Red junglefowl
What is the smallest species of penguin?
Answer
Little penguin
Which extinct bird was the only parrot native to the continental United States?
Answer
Carolina parakeet
What bat has the longest tongue relative to its body length?
Answer
tube-lipped nectar bat
What mammal has the most cervical vertebrae (nine)?
Answer
Three-toed sloth
What mammal produces the loudest sound of any animal?
Answer
Sperm whale
What was the profession of the Brothers Grimm's father?
Answer
lawyer
What university did the Brothers Grimm attend?
Answer
University of Marburg
Which Grimm fairy tale features a wild man named 'Iron Hans'?
Answer
Iron Hans
What is the title of Lewis Carroll's 1869 poem about a ghost?
Answer
Phantasmagoria
What is the exact date of Lewis Carroll's death?
Answer
14 January 1898
What diagrammatic method for syllogisms did Lewis Carroll invent?
Answer
Carroll diagram
What was the first name of Lewis Carroll's older brother?
Answer
Skeffington
Who illustrated the original edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
Answer
John Tenniel
What is the title of Lewis Carroll's only two-volume novel?
Answer
Sylvie and Bruno
What was the profession of Lewis Carroll's father?
Answer
Clergyman
What wizard ancestor is resurrected in 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'?
Answer
Joseph Curwen
What is the name of the hotel where the narrator stays in 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'?
Answer
Gilman House Hotel
What was the name of H.P. Lovecraft's maternal grandfather?
Answer
Whipple Van Buren Phillips
What was the immediate cause of H.P. Lovecraft's death?
Answer
Cancer of the small intestine
On what date did Emily Brontë die?
Answer
19 December 1848
In what year did Patrick Brontë die?
Answer
1861
What was the title of the Brontë sisters' first published book?
Answer
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
What was the name of the school at Cowan Bridge attended by Charlotte and Emily?
Answer
Cowan Bridge School
On what date did Edgar Allan Poe marry Virginia Clemm?
Answer
May 16, 1836