2259 General Trivia Questions with Answers
2259 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the release of water vapor from plants called?
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Transpiration
What is the proper topping for a pastitsio?
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Bechamel Sauce
What is the process that removes salt from sea water?
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Desalination
What is the process of removing dead skin cells from the body called?
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Exfoliation
What is the process of breaking down food called?
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Digestion
What is the present participle form of hunt?
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Hunting
What is the place where projectors are used to show the night sky?
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Planetarium
What is the outside covering of a plant's root called?
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Root Epidermis
What is the outer skeleton of organisms such as spiders and insects called?
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Exoskeleton
What is the opposite to ordinary matter called?
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Antimatter
What is the only product Elvis Presley ever did a live TV commercial for?
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Southern Maid Donuts
What is the only canine that can climb trees?
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Gray Fox
What is the occupation of Janet Evanovich's character Stephanie Plum?
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Bounty Hunter
What is the number of pounds in a kilogram?
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2.20462
What is the northernmost capital city in the world?
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Reykjavik, Iceland
What is the name of Thor's war hammer?
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Mjolnir
What is the name of the woman credited with creating "Toll House" Cookies?
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Ruth Wakefield
What is the name of the top-secret government project in "The Andromeda Strain"?
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Project Wildfire
What is the name of the system in which clocks are set ahead an hour every spring?
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Daylight Savings Time
What is the name of the submerged fringe of a continent?
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Continental Shelf
What is the name of the rooster on boxes of Kellogg's "Corn Flakes"?
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Cornelius
What is the name of the protagonist in "The Bourne Betrayal"?
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Jason Bourne
What is the name of the poem John Keats wrote to a singing bird?
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Ode To A Nightingale
What is the name of the largest shark?
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Whale Shark