Which bird of prey is commonly called the windhover?
Answer
Common kestrel
89712 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89712 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which bird of prey appears on the reverse of Greece’s €1 coin?
Answer
Little owl
Which eagle appears on the coat of arms of Poland?
Answer
White eagle
Which hawk is the smallest accipiter commonly found in North America?
Answer
Sharp-shinned hawk
Which owl is the only bird known to nest regularly in abandoned prairie-dog burrows?
Answer
Burrowing owl
Which eagle is the largest bird of prey native to the Philippines by wingspan?
Answer
Philippine eagle
Which owl is the tallest living owl species?
Answer
Great gray owl
Which eagle is the national bird of Indonesia?
Answer
Javan hawk-eagle
Which wild cat species was used in developing the Chausie cat breed?
Answer
Jungle cat
In which U.S. city was the Snowshoe cat breed developed during the 1960s?
Answer
Philadelphia
Which cat breed was developed from Siamese and Burmese cats?
Answer
Tonkinese
In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, what is the name of Meg Murry’s youngest brother?
Answer
Charles Wallace
Which young-adult novel by Lois Lowry won the 1994 Newbery Medal?
Answer
The Giver
In Watchmen, what superhero name does Jon Osterman adopt?
Answer
Doctor Manhattan
Who created the comic-book series Sin City?
Answer
Frank Miller
Which actor played private investigator Philip Marlowe in the 1946 film The Big Sleep?
Answer
Humphrey Bogart
In the film L.A. Confidential, which 1950s city police department do the detectives serve?
Answer
Los Angeles Police Department
Which novel by Umberto Eco centers on murders at a medieval Italian abbey?
Answer
The Name of the Rose
What is the name of the fictional detective played by Peter Falk in Columbo?
Answer
Lieutenant Columbo
In the 1944 film Double Indemnity, who wrote the screenplay with Billy Wilder?
Answer
Raymond Chandler
Which 1941 film introduced Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade?
Answer
The Maltese Falcon
Which crime novelist created the character Tom Ripley?
Answer
Patricia Highsmith
Which Leo Tolstoy novella was published posthumously in 1912?
Answer
Hadji Murat
What was the name of Leo Tolstoy’s wife before marriage?
Answer
Sofya Behrs
What is the name of the central character in Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection?
Answer
Dmitri Nekhlyudov
Which Leo Tolstoy novella follows the life of a horse named Kholstomer?
Answer
Kholstomer
Which Leo Tolstoy work presents a fictionalized account of the 1855 defense of Sevastopol?
Answer
Sevastopol Sketches
Which Russian religious movement was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s teachings?
Answer
Tolstoyanism
What was Leo Tolstoy’s 1897 essay on aesthetics called?
Answer
What Is Art?