TRIVIA TEST - Sept. 30, 2010

1. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin prefix “juxta” mean?

2. PSYCHOLOGY: What kind of fear is represented in anthophobia?

3. CHEMISTRY: What is the atomic number of hydrogen?

4. MOVIES: For what 1983 film did Shirley MacLaine win an Academy Award for best female actress?

5. MATH: What is the Arabic equivalent of the Roman numerals XCV?

6. TELEVISION: Which newsman had the famous signoff line, “And that’s the way it is”?

7. MEDICINE: What is the normal human body temperature in Celsius?

8. HISTORY: What was the name of Amelia Earhart’s navigator on her final ill-fated flight?

9. MEASUREMENTS: What is the amount in a quire?

10. GEOGRAPHY: What is the only U.S. state that has only one syllable in its name?

Answers

1. Alongside

2. A fear of flowers

3. 1

4. “Terms of Endearment”

5. 95

6. Walter Cronkite

7. 37 C

8. Fred Noonan

9. 25 sheets of paper

10. Maine

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