Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader? Trivia With a Twist
An Information Literacy event
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
- Why do rats constantly gnaw at things like phone cables and electrical wires?
Their teeth never stop growing and need to be worn down. - What is the only state that can be typed on one row of the keyboard?
Alaska - Who was president of the United States when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
Franklin Pierce - What does the term “dinosaur” actually mean?
Terrible lizard - There are three countries of the world that are located entirely inside another country. Name any one of them.
Lesotho (South Africa), Vatican City (Italy), San Marino (Italy) - What is the Latin term for a blank slate, which usually refers to an empty mind ready for filling with information?
tabula rasa - What mammal sleeps longer than any other mammal?
Little brown bats, then koalas (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/26353141) - What do these people have in common? Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.
They were all left handed - What was the first product to have a bar code?
Pack of Wrigley’s gum - What King in a standard deck of cards does not have a mustache?
King of Hearts - What is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise?
Venus - Name one real person who has been featured on a Pez dispenser.
Daniel Boone, Betsy Ross, Elvis Presley, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan - Approximately 90% of the world’s recoverable helium is located in the ground in what state?
Texas (under Amarillo) - What is philematology?
The study of kissing - What do these have in common: shoes, chairs, the rear half of a horse, a box of nails, a torpedo, drums, and bottles of wine?
They were all found in shark stomachs - Which Dr. Seuss book uses only 50 different words?
Green Eggs and Ham - What country has the largest coastline?
Canada - What restaurant chain has the most locations throughout the world?
Subway - Who is the largest distributor of toys in the world?
McDonalds - Toilet paper was invented in this country.
China
Prizes awarded included:
Pack of Wrigley’s gum, pack of playing cards, Pez dispenser, Hershey Kisses (to connect to the philematology question), Subway and McDonald’s gift cards, and a roll of toilet paper. No shark stomach contents were awarded.
