Family Trivia Night October 21, 2020

How many feet wide is a regulation volleyball court?

What is the largest country in the world?

Which large river flows through London?

Which animal never sleeps?

The red food-coloring carmine is extracted from which source?

When was Halloween first celebrated in the United States?

Strawberries, raspberries, peaches and cherries are all related to which type of flower?

What is name of the scale used to measure the spicy heat of peppers?

Which sport has the largest number of participants in the world?

What is a group of lions called? 

How many legs does a lobster have?

A tomato is a …..?

How many noses does a slug have?

What is the most popular Halloween candy in America?

Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata are major cities in which country?

Name a mammal that can’t jump.

What is the maximum weight for a golf ball?

What two countries popularized Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating?

In what country would you find the cities Ankara and Istanbul?

Which desert covers much of northern Africa?

What color is a polar bear’s skin under their white fur?

What is the largest (in area) state in the U.S.?

What is the only U.S. city to win three of the four major professional sports championships in the same year?

How many panels make up a soccer ball?

When bats fly out of a cave, do they turn left or right?

How many bones do sharks have? 

In what country was Nelson Mandela born?

The official fruit of Illinois is an apple, what type of apple is it?

Wayne Levi was the first golfer to win a PGA tournament using a colored ball. What color was the ball?

How many stitches are there on a baseball?

Who is the only man to play both an NFL game and a MLB game in a single day?

Up until about 400 years ago the majority of carrots eaten in Europe were white.

How many toes does a cat have on each back paw?

The snack commonly referred to as "potato chips" were originally called what?

When was the fast food chain, McDonalds, founded?

What is the largest sea in the world?

Which country exports the most food?

How many players are on the field for each team in American football?

What country has the second largest population in the world?

What sport, other than baseball uses the word ‘home run’?

Can an ostrich fly?

Where was the first city-wide Halloween celebration in the United States?

What athlete has appeared on the Wheaties box the most?

What is the most watched sport in the world?

In ten pin bowling, what is it called when you roll three strikes in a row?

What do you call a group of giraffes?

Tomatoes originated from which continent?

Adidas is a company from what country?

The word ‘coconut’ comes from a 16th century Portuguese word ‘cocos’ meaning …..?

What country was known as Ceylon until 1972?

What is the fastest aquatic animal?

In what country is the Yangtze River found?

A dried plum is properly known as a …..?

In which sport would you use the terms reefing and furling?

Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia and south of Asia?

What food would the fictional sailor Popeye consume in order to instantly increase in strength?

A calzone (sounds like kal-zone-ay) is a type of …..

In what country was the first written account of children using the phrase “trick or treat” on Halloween?

Which mammal lives the longest?

How many years can a snail sleep for?

What item is banned in California on Halloween?

The round orange pumpkins that are used for most jack o’ lanterns today are native to what continent?

How many feet wide is a regulation NBA court?

Which company received a major backlash for changing its traditional recipe in the mid 1980's?

What country holds the title for the World’s heaviest pumpkin?

How many eyes do most spiders have?

In what country would you find the cities Glasgow and Edinburgh?

What is the largest country (by size and population) in South America?

In the correct spelling of the Halloween, where is the apostrophe placed?

Where did the term jack-o-lantern come from?

How many pounds of candy corn are produced each year?