Thanksgiving Quiz 2024
The 20th Annual Edition!
It is with a mix of pride and horror that I present the 20th (!) annual Thanksgiving Quiz. It’s the same format as always: 20 questions, Google/ChatGPT honesty policy. You can submit your answers to me as a team or individual. Winners will receive the literally priceless honour of a shoutout in my next article. Otherwise, you can find the answers here.
This actress has starred in four of the six highest grossing movies ever. In two of them her skin is green, in two of them her skin is blue.
What is the only country in the world that ends with the letter "Q"?
This element is named after the Greek name for the Sun.
The largest animal to have ever lived is alive today. It can weigh about the same as 40 elephants, 30 T-Rexes, or 2,670 humans. What is it?
Name the country that has seven cities with more than 100 skyscrapers (the USA only has NYC and Chicago).
What is the only animal-derived edible food that never goes bad?
This writer had a number one book, movie, and TV show all in the same year in both 1995 and 1996!
What is the only sport to have been played on the moon?
This Disney stage adaptation is the highest-grossing property in history, earning over $8 billion worldwide.
With the exception of Fidel Castro, the bodies of all founders of Communist states have been publicly mummified and embalmed, including Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. Can you name another?
This energy drink company has been the best performing stock of the last 30 years: rising 200,000% from February 1994 to February 2024.
Who posted one of the most famous (and probably apocryphal) ads of all time “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.”
In this Summer Olympic sport both men and women compete directly against each other. There are no separate divisions for genders, and all competitors are judged by the same standards.
Why is France’s longest border in South America?
This song by The Buggles was the first music video played on MTV.
Skeletor is to He-Man as Mumm-ra is to the?
What links Antietam, the first day of the Somme, the Stalingrad encirclement (November 19, 1942) and the opening day of the Battle of Verdun?
What links Andúril, Mjolnir and Excalibur?
What mythical creature is usually represented as a lion with a goat's head in the middle of its back and with a tail that ends in a snake's head.
What links these Oscar-winning performances by Daniel Day Lewis, Gary Oldman, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench?
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!
Fun! I knew 10 of these outright. The other 10, I made educated guesses and got 8 of them, for a total of 18/20. I passed!