What mammal can rotate its head 180 degrees?
Answer
Tarsier
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What mammal has the longest gestation period?
Answer
African elephant
What male mammal has a venomous spur on its hind leg?
Answer
Platypus
What mammal can hold its breath for over two hours?
Answer
Cuvier's beaked whale
Which mammal has up to 260 teeth?
Answer
Spinner dolphin
In 'Rumpelstiltskin', what does the queen promise in exchange for spinning straw into gold?
Answer
her firstborn child
In 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses', what magical item helps the soldier spy on the princesses?
Answer
a cloak of invisibility
In 'The Fisherman and His Wife', what is the wife's final wish?
Answer
to be like God
In 'The Golden Goose', what happens to anyone who touches the goose?
Answer
they stick to it
In Hansel and Gretel, what is the witch's house built of?
Answer
Bread and cakes
Which Grimm fairy tale involves a miller's daughter who must spin straw into gold?
Answer
Rumpelstiltskin
What is the name of the princess in the Brothers Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty?
Answer
Little Briar Rose
What is the German title of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale collection?
Answer
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Which Lewis Carroll poem is subtitled 'An Agony in Eight Fits'?
Answer
The Hunting of the Snark
What question does the Caterpillar repeatedly ask Alice in Wonderland?
Answer
Who are you?
Who illustrated the first edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'?
Answer
Henry Holiday
From which two Latin names did Lewis Carroll derive his pen name?
Answer
Carolus Ludovicus
What is the title of Lewis Carroll's 1879 book critiquing non-Euclidean geometry?
Answer
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
What word game did Lewis Carroll invent in 1879?
Answer
Doublets
Which poet did Lewis Carroll parody in 'You Are Old, Father William'?
Answer
Robert Southey
What Carroll novel features the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
Answer
Through the Looking-Glass
What is the name of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem about a crew hunting a mythical creature?
Answer
The Hunting of the Snark
Which Oxford college was Lewis Carroll a fellow of?
Answer
Christ Church
What is the opening poem in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' called?
Answer
All in the golden afternoon
Which Lovecraft story features a lost city in Antarctica?
Answer
At the Mountains of Madness
What is the name of the half-human son in 'The Dunwich Horror'?
Answer
Wilbur Whateley
What river flows through Arkham in Lovecraft's stories?
Answer
Miskatonic River
What real-life Massachusetts town inspired the fictional Innsmouth?
Answer
Newburyport
What is the name of Lovecraft's wife?
Answer
Sonia Greene
Who was Lovecraft's friend and literary executor who expanded the Cthulhu Mythos?
Answer
August Derleth
What was the name of the publisher of the first edition of 'Jane Eyre'?
Answer
Smith, Elder & Co.