PA Thanksgiving Trivia 2019

Question 1

What country has the most tornadoes in the world?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 2

Which letter is worth 8 points in the game Scrabble?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 3

Who is the only basketball player to score 100 points in a game?

Accepted Answer

Wilt Chamberlain

Question 4

Which of the following is the best poker hand?

Accepted Answer

three of a kind

Question 5

What is the largest state in the United States east of the Mississippi River?

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Question 6

What country contains the highest and lowest points on the South American continent?

Accepted Answer

Argentina

Question 7

What is inscribed on the tablet that the Statue of Liberty holds?

Accepted Answer

July 4, 1776

Question 8

If you are a hippophobe, which animals are you afraid of?

Accepted Answer

Horses

Question 9

What is the name of the storm clouds pictured here?

Accepted Answer

Cumulonimbus

Question 10

Which country in South America speaks Portuguese as its primary language?

Accepted Answer

Brazil

Question 11

What team did the Saint Louis Browns become when they moved?

Accepted Answer

Baltimore Orioles

Question 12

What is the state nickname for Florida?

Accepted Answer

The Sunshine State

Question 13

Which war was the longest war in US history?

Accepted Answer

Vietnam War

Question 14

Which of the following people wrote the Acts of the Apostles?

Accepted Answer

Saint Luke

Question 15

What is the brightest star in the night sky?

Accepted Answer

Sirius

Question 16

What is the official language of the country of Austria?

Accepted Answer

German

Question 17

What was the first flavor of Lifesavers?

Accepted Answer

peppermint

Question 18

How is the election of a new Pope announced to the world?

Accepted Answer

White Smoke

Question 19

Who was George W. Bush's running mate in the 2000 presidential election

Accepted Answer

Dick Cheney

Question 20

How many times was Franklin Roosevelt elected president?

Accepted Answer

four times

Question 21

In which year did the pilgrims first land in America?

Accepted Answer

1620

Question 22

What crop grows in a paddy field?

Accepted Answer

Rice

Question 23

Which NFL team has never appeared in a Super Bowl?

Accepted Answer

Houston Texans

Question 24

Which person the President of the United States never allowed to travel with?

Accepted Answer

Vice President

Question 25

What is the most popular fruit to eat in North America?

Accepted Answer

Banana

Question 26

Which team's baseball stadium has a swimming pool in it?

Accepted Answer

Arizona Diamondbacks

Question 27

What is the most common name used in nursery rhymes?

Accepted Answer

Jack

Question 28

What ocean was Amelia Earhart flying over when her airplane disappeared?

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ocean

Question 29

How many spaces are there on a Monopoly board?

Accepted Answer

40

Question 30

Who appeared in his first film, Love Me Tender, in 1956?

Accepted Answer

Elvis Presley

Question 31

What is the fairytale world in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe?

Accepted Answer

Narnia

Question 32

Which city is located in Northern Ireland?

Accepted Answer

Belfast

Question 33

What character in the Bible was not a prophet?

Accepted Answer

Josiah

Question 34

What is the square root of 529?

Accepted Answer

23

Question 35

Whose debut album was titled Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey?

Accepted Answer

Bruce Springsteen

Question 36

What continent is known as the Cradle of Humankind, famous for archaeological finds?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 37

Which team lost the first Super Bowl?

Accepted Answer

Kansas City Chiefs

Question 38

Which character was NOT a villain in the TV series Batman?

Accepted Answer

Scarface

Question 39

Which species of tiger is the largest?

Accepted Answer

Siberian

Question 40

What is an illegal move by a baseball pitcher called?

Accepted Answer

balk

Question 41

Where was the first zoo in the United States located?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia

Question 42

What is considered to be the longest river in the world?

Accepted Answer

Nile River

Question 43

Which sport can you play a full-court press in?

Accepted Answer

basketball

Question 44

The Sharks and the Jets were rival gangs in which Broadway musical?

Accepted Answer

West Side Story

Question 45

Which of the following languages is considered a Romance language?

Accepted Answer

Portuguese

Question 46

What country was the artist Pablo Picasso from?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 47

What element on the periodic table is represented with the letters Pb?

Accepted Answer

Lead

Question 48

Which of these iPod devices was launched first?

Accepted Answer

Nano

Question 49

What is the main boulevard in the city of Paris?

Accepted Answer

Champs Elysee

Question 50

In which year did George Washington become president of the United States?

Accepted Answer

1789

Question 51

What condiment was the first product produced by Heinz?

Accepted Answer

horseradish

Question 52

What is the only month of the year that can have fewer than 4 moon phases?

Accepted Answer

February

Question 53

What is the most common color of houses in North America?

Accepted Answer

White

Question 54

What was the first toy advertised on TV in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Potato Head

Question 55

What is the most widely-used food seasoning in the world?

Accepted Answer

Salt

Question 56

What is nori, the traditional wrapping of sushi made from?

Accepted Answer

seaweed

Question 57

What is the oldest public park in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Boston Common

Question 58

How many national championships have the Minnesota Golden Gophers won in football?

Accepted Answer

seven

Question 59

Shooting four strokes under par in a hole of golf is known as what?

Accepted Answer

condor

Question 60

Name a boxer that Rocky Balboa did not defeat in one of the Rocky movies?

Accepted Answer

George Foreman

Question 61

What is an infant eagle called?

Accepted Answer

eaglet

Question 62

Who is Miss Piggy in love with?

Accepted Answer

Kermit the Frog

Question 63

What was Juliet's last name in Romeo and Juliet?

Accepted Answer

Capulet

Question 64

Where was the site of the first atomic bomb explosion?

Accepted Answer

Trinity Site, New Mexico

PA Thanksgiving Trivia 2019

Questions 70

PA Thanksgiving Trivia 2019

Questions 70