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General trivia about scientific, fictional, and historical mysteries.
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The intellectual movement that inspired the Illuminati was
The Reformation
The Islamic Golden Age
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
2
The real reason the Knights Templar were formed was...
To protect a great treasure
To guard the Vatican
To reclaim Israel and the Middle East from Islamic rule
To find the holy grail
3
Rasputin was...
A greedy king who killed his nephews
A monk who was poisoned, shot, and drowned before dying
A Russian writer who wrote famous mysteries
The name of a rock band who disappeared in a 1967 shipwreck
4
T/F: George Washington was a Freemason
True
False
5
Stars explode in events called
Cometnovae
Starsplosions
Supernovae
Bangs
6
Which of the following is an example of a tertiary source?
A new reflective poem about an event that occurred in 1775
An autobiography
A scholarly journal article about imagery in Shakespeare
An encyclopedia article
7
The universe is
4.6 billion years old
1.2 billion years old
13.82 billion years old
20 billion years old
8
Which of the following is *not* a possible explanation for the fall of the dinosaurs?
Meteor collision
Low egg survival rates
Eruption of Deccan Traps
Illuminati
9
Where was the first shot of the American Revolution taken?
Concord
Lexington
10
after the Big Bang, atoms converged into clouds of gas, which later became
Dark Matter
Planets
Stars
Supernovae
11
Which of the following is a secondary source?
An ancient Egyptian artifact
The 1876 U.S. Census
A scholarly journal article about imagery in Shakespeare
A love letter written during the Civil War
12
In what year was the Illuminati founded?
1191
1492
1776
2017
13
The Princes in the Tower were...
The missing nephews of Catherine the Great
The missing nephews of Elizabeth II
The missing nephews of Richard III
The missing sons of King Arthur
14
Which poet coined the phrase, "the shot heard around the world?"
Henry David Thoreau
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
R.W. Emerson
Francis Scott Key
15
The two scientists who falsified skeletons during the Bone Wars were...
Sagan & Newton
Nye & Tyson
Cope & Marsh
Einstein & Curie
16
Which of the following is *not* a primary source?
A biography written about a founding father
A letter written by a soldier to his commanding officer
A photograph of a family suffering in the Great Depression
An article written in 1776 about the American Revolution
17
Which of these two events occurred first?
Eruption of Deccan Traps
Meteor collision that left behind Chicxulub crater
18
"Mythos" means...
The factual information about a topic
Someone's emotional reaction to an image.
One's ability to reason w/ the scientific method
Images, stories, fables and narratives associated w/ a topic
19
The eye on the dollar bill is called...
The Eye of the Storm
The Ominous Eye
The Eye of the Vatican
The All-Seeing Eye
20
"Mary Celeste" was...
The ghost of a widow who haunts the White House
A spaceship crash discovered in New Mexico
The wife of James Monroe, who mysteriously disappeared
A missing ship later claimed to be seen as a ghost ship
21
The concept of "The Big Crunch" originates from which Big Bang theory?
The inflation theory
The cyclical theory
The conical theory
The crunch theory
22
The correct order of the last 3 steps of the scientific method is:
Hypothesis, conclusion, rebuttal
Preliminary research, deep research, conclusion
Observation, research, conclusion
Hypothesis, deep research, conclusion
23
Freemasons meet in meeting places called
Assemblies
Lodges
Salons
Clubs
24
Grand Duchess Anastasia...
Disappeared for 10 years before reclaiming her throne
Was later proven to have died in the Bolshevik Revolution
Was murdered by Rasputin
Was later found hiding in Virginia, USA
25
Amelia Earhart went missing...
Near Howland Island
Near San Salvador Island
In Japan
In the Bermuda Triangle
26
When archeologists use specific artifacts to build a bigger picture, they are using
The scientific method
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
27
Which of the following has the first 3 scientific method steps in the correct order?
Hypothesis, Observation, Preliminary Research
Observation, Hypothesis, Preliminary Research
Observation, Preliminary Research, Hypothesis
Preliminary Research, Observation, Hypothesis
28
The Pyramid on the Dollar bill has...
14 layers
13 layers
7 layers
1776 layers
29
"Context" means...
the textual evidence from an event
setting, time, persons involved & circumstances of an event
the mystery, reasoning skills used, and pictures of an event
the coincidences in an event
30
Anonymous began to take form on which social media platform?
tumblr
reddit
facebook
4chan
31
Mysteries can be
Historical/Geographical
Scientific
All of the Above
Fictional
32
True/False: The Bone Wars was an example of scientific integrity.
True
False
33
The Bone Wars occurred...
1877-1892
1492-1502
1791-1808
1932-1961
34
The first thing created in the Big Bang was...
Helium
Subatomic particles
Oxygen
Atoms
35
Who took the first shot of the American Revolution?
The British
The Americans
