I don't know about the rest of you, but within the last week, I've become addicted to Trivia Crack. I kept seeing some of my Facebook friends playing it, but I try to avoid Facebook games, otherwise they become a huge time suck for me. I can't even begin to tell you how much of my life was wasted playing Farmville, Castleville, Frontierville, Zoo World, and all the rest of the games, I got tricked into playing.
Eventually I caved, and instead of playing on Facebook, I downloaded the app to my NOOK. And the rest, they say, is history. I can't stop playing it, and when I'm not playing against a friend, I'm rating user questions, just to keep my useless trivia skills razor sharp. In my crazed addiction, I've even submitted twenty questions for community approval, I'm still waiting to see if any of them make it into the game.
Until then, I thought I would put the twenty questions I've come up with, and see if you guys, without cheating, can answer them.
Geography
The island of Gibraltar is a territory of which nation?
Italy
Great Britian
France
Spain
In what state does the Mississippi River start in?
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Minnesota
Iowa
Science
What is the smallest species of antelope?
Dik-Dik
Oribi
Royal
Steenbok
What animal is also known as a wapiti?
Deer
Moose
Elk
Caribou
What is the symbol of Curium on the Periodic Table?
Cm
Cu
Cr
Ci
Art
Which of the following is not a shade of green?
Chartreuse
Myrtle
Ultramarine
Kelly
What was the name of the prophetic rabbit in the classic book, Watership Down by Richard Adams?
Silver
Dandelion
Fiver
Hazel
Perry Mason is a creation of which American mystery writer?
Richard Castle
Ellery Queen
Ryan David Jahn
Erle Stanley Gardner
Who was the subject of Marie Tussaud's first wax sculpture?
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Horatio Nelson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who wrote The Circular Staircase?
Agatha Christie
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Jessica Fletcher
Who Wrote And Then There Were None?
Patricia Wentworth
Agatha Christie
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Erle Stanley Gardner
Sports
The 1928 Winter Olympic Games were held where?
Squaw Valley
Innsbruck
Albertville
St. Moritz
What was the first professional baseball team Daryl Strawberry played for?
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Francisco Giants
Entertainment
In the 1966 TV Christmas special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, who is the voice actor that sings "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"?
Thurl Ravenscroft
Hal Smith
Dallas McKennon
Boris Karloff
In what year did Elijah Bond release the first commercially made ouija board?
1934
1890
1817
1952
Who played Zorro in the Walt Disney produced TV show?
Van Williams
Dennis Morgan
Mario Lopez
Guy Williams
Who played opposite Cary Grant in, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House?
Ruth Hussey
Bea Arthur
Myrna Loy
Rosalind Russell
What is not the name of a Thin Man movie?
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Thin Man Takes a Ride
After the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man
History
The Spanish Flu pandemic that killed around 50 million people world wide, happened in what year?
1879
1903
1942
1918
What was the name of the American Great Lakes freighter that was sunk by a storm on Lake Superior, on November 10th, 1975?
The SS Superior City
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The SS Monarch
The SS Samuel Mather
I love trivia and have been afraid to even look at this game. I know the answer to a few of your questions.
ReplyDeleteI will not download this game, I will not download this game!
ReplyDeleteI love this game! We were playing it quite a bit here and it turns out it doesn't bring out the best in us. There was a lot of trash talking!
ReplyDeleteTrash talking can be the best part of any game!
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling you may end up caving in!
ReplyDeleteKathy, if you like trivia, it won't take long to get hooked on it.
ReplyDeleteWhich questions did you know?
Getting hooked is what I'm afraid of. The answers I think I know:
ReplyDeleteGeography:
Great Britain
Minnesota
Science:
cm
Art:
Chartreuse
Erle Stanley Gardner
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - Agatha Christie
History:
1918
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald
You had them right except for chartreuse.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like Trivial Pursuit (Trivial Thingz in India) that the family used to play until a few years ago. It was very addictive. The only online or computer game I play today is chess.
ReplyDeleteI've tried to learn how to play chess, and while I understand the moves, my brain refuses to engage and I end up getting trounced. :-(
ReplyDeleteI had to remove this game from my phone. I had almost entirely stopped reading and was playing even while I was eating. It is so much fun, though and I did enjoy thumping people at it!
ReplyDeleteOddly, like a lot of the app games I get hooked on, my interest is already waning. The questions are either really easy, or so random, it's starting to get a little annoying.
ReplyDeleteThe ones we really hate are the ones where they ask for a year or a number and the choices are chronological, i.e. what year did a particular event take place - 1956, 1957, 1958 or 1959. I don't think we need to be that trivial!
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