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Trivia Quiz # 11 - 23 May 2002
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1.  What animals are mentioned fourteen times in the Bible?Dogs

2.  Besides humans, what are the only animals with unique fingerprints?Koalas; their prints cannot be distinguished from human fingerprints.

3.  What did the New York Board of Education ban in its schools on March 4, 1908?the whipping of children

4.  What city has more homeless cats per square mile than any other city in the world?Rome has more homeless cats per square mile than any other city in the world.

5.  What city was second only to London as the largest English-speaking city in the world at the time of the War of Independence.
Philadelphia

6.  What breed has been determined recently to be the deadliest of all dog breeds?Rottweilers - A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by the large dogs. In contrast, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.

7.  What was the dominant power in eastern Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century?
Poland

8.  Almost every weekday morning, free Kleenexes are handed to the commuters in front of Japan's rail and bus stations.  The tissues are distributed by workers of the companies whose messages and advertisement are printed on the packages. What is the reason for this?
most public bathrooms do not have paper towels or toilet paper.

9.  The U.S. interstate highway system requires that 1 mile in every 5 must be straight. Why?
These sections can be used as airstrips in a time of war or other emergencies.

10.  What is a baby bat called ?A baby bat is called a pup.

11.  Lobsters, like grasshoppers don't feel what?pain. They have a decentralized nervous system with no cerebral cortex, which in humans is where a reaction to painful stimuli proceeds.

12.  What happens to nearly 43 percent of convicted criminals serving prison sentences in the United States within a year of being released from prison?
They are re-arrested

13.  What are the only mobile National Monuments in the USA?The San Francisco cable cars

14.  Centuries ago, men were told that the evil effects of this would make them sterile; women were cautioned to avoid this unless they wanted to be barren.  What is it?
coffee

15.  There are more than 100 offenses that carry what penalty in Iran?the death penalty

here's some more great human wisdom probably inspired by self-proclaimed "holier than thou" zealots

16.  During the 18th century, what happened to books that were considered offensive?
punished by being whipped

17.  In Great Britain a 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to announce what?a royal birth

18.  Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make what?
Potato chips. Special varieties referred to as chipping potatoes are grown for this purpose.

19.  The Roman emperor Commodus had all of the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks collected in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Colosseum, where they were ordered to do what?
to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers.

20.  "Big cheese" and "big wheel" are Medieval terms of envious respect for those who could afford to do what?
buy whole wheels of cheese at a time, an expense few could enjoy.

21.  What is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States?Impotence