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Painting by Numbers
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One "Blue Boy," two "American Gothic" farmers, "Three Musicians" ... some might classify paintings by color or medium or style, but I like to look at them strictly by the numbers. Will you help me count my way through the history of western art?
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10 Q
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CellarDoor
Oct 06 09
3930 plays
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Aspects of Humor: What's So Funny?
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Humor is an elusive topic due to its elastic nature. What I find funny, you may not. Try to discover what it is that makes us laugh.
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10 Q
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trident
May 14 07
8214 plays
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Medically Speaking
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Many medical terms are easier to understand if you can figure out the root of their pre- or suffixes. Test your skill with this quiz!
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10 Q
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Catamount
Jul 09 05
4992 plays
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Meet Tom Swifty
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Do you like puns? So you'll like this peculiar kind of word play called Tom Swifty. Explanation given in the first question.
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10 Q
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zordy
Apr 13 07
33960 plays
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Face Fungus and Laughing Gear
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"Never call anything by its given name" seems to be the first rule of Australian lingo. This quiz looks at the odd names Aussies give to body parts and the use made of body parts to describe totally unrelated objects.
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10 Q
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Nannanut
Aug 14 04
3120 plays
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Greek Goddesses- Who Is She?
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Top goddesses, with each their own story. Can you guess who they are?
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Easy
10 Q
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sweet_cake
Apr 06 07
5346 plays
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Pseudoscience Basics
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"Science" isn't so much a thing as a way of thinking. "Pseudoscience" is when people, through ignorance or malice, use a thought process that looks like science, but doesn't have the same rigor. This quiz tells the story of how you make that mistake.
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10 Q
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Correspondguy
Oct 11 09
2907 plays
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Reg Grundies and Sloppy Joes
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More Aussie craziness. Clothing has its fair share of slang words. What on earth are Reg Grundies?
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10 Q
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Nannanut
Aug 21 04
3156 plays
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Love, Etymologically
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I was researching the etymology of the tennis term "love" the other day and was struck by the histories of the names of some popular sports. What do you know about the origins of some of their names?
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10 Q
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adams627
Feb 06 10
2742 plays
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In Other Words
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All of us are familiar with the old cliches---after all, they're "as plain as the nose on your face." But, let's see if we can figure out what they are when they are stated in unfamiliar terms. Let's go.
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Easy
10 Q
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bassman68
Oct 03 08
2967 plays
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In Other Words, Dumb
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This quiz features some of the more common and amusing expressions that are used to imply dim-wittedness. If you're "not all there", you should be here.
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Average
10 Q
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Wizzid
Oct 30 09
4248 plays
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My Uncle Filbert's Art Collection
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I recently inherited what is probably the greatest collection of "Dogs Playing Poker" art in the world. I will give details of each painting, and you must figure out the artist that appraisers believe most likely painted each picture.
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10 Q
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JellyTrollMorton
Apr 09 04
4419 plays
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Old Fogeyisms
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If you know these terms then you know fogeys. If, like the author of this quiz, you use these terms, then perhaps...you too are a...
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Easy
10 Q
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uglybird
Jun 11 04
12861 plays
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More Fogeyisms
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Holy cow! My last fogey quiz was duck soup! Here's another opportunity to prove your "fogacity".
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Easy
10 Q
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uglybird
Jul 08 04
4353 plays
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Wicked Garden
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I wandered into the garden of good and evil with a handful of books and harvested a bumper crop of wicked words.
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10 Q
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pollucci19
Nov 20 10
2697 plays
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A to Z Acronyms
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Our society loves to abbreviate words and phrases. Here is an alphabetical list of some common acronyms; let's see what you know about them! (This quiz is dedicated to Funtrivia.com team member CD ROCK of Heaven's Angels who passed away March, 2009).
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25 Q
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BRY2K
Apr 04 09
2607 plays
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Words In Custody
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English usage imposes limits on the company some words usually keep. Aspersions are most often "cast", and there is seldom "kith" without "kin". See if you know which word seems to be the constant (or at least frequent) companion of the other.
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10 Q
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uglybird
Jun 07 04
5163 plays
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Architecture for Everybody
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Some people find the subject of architecture rather esoteric. This quiz solves that problem by presenting some of the very basic terms and definitions important to architects. Good luck!
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Easy
10 Q
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thejazzkickazz
Aug 15 04
5010 plays
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Double Letter Words
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This quiz covers 20 different words with double letters in them. For instance, "letters" has two Ts. Enjoy.
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Easy
20 Q
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salami_swami
Jul 11 08
2358 plays
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Parts of (Hilarious) Speech
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Parts of speech...ho hum...Wait! I can make this fun. I'll give you giggle-inducing phrases to
enliven your practice with identifying parts of speech.
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Easy
10 Q
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Pagiedamon
Dec 11 08
4086 plays
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Pick-a-Pun: The Musicals!
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Yes, it's Pick-a-Pun, the game show where all the answers MIGHT be funny, but only one registers "Ouch" on the Groan-Ometer. Today's theme is Musicals, so get singing, and let the Pun begin!
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Easy
10 Q
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ing
Oct 12 05
4620 plays
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The QWERTYUIOP Quiz - Top Line Words.
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All of these words can be made using just the top line of letters on your computer keyboard. Given the definition can you discover the QWERTYUIOP word?
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10 Q
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musicmonkeyman
Dec 24 05
4464 plays
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What Did They Really Mean?
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The word "malapropism" comes from Mrs. Malaprop, a character created by the playwright Richard Sheridan. She often used fancy words that were just plain wrong. I'll give you some famous malapropisms and you guess the correct term.
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Very Easy
10 Q
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Catamount
Jun 21 04
14538 plays
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Raw Prawns and Drinking Lizards
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Australians have always had a unique turn of phrase. In this quiz I promise not to come the raw prawn with you. If you are flat out like a lizard drinking you might want to change tack and play.
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10 Q
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Nannanut
Jun 13 04
2877 plays
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Proverbially Meowing...
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As a follow up to my "Proverbially Barking" quiz, I realised afterwards that I had been a little unfair toward our feline friends, who also happen to have a lot of proverbs and idioms revolving around them. So here's my quiz on cats!
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Easy
20 Q
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thegogga
Mar 15 07
3258 plays
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Am I Clumsy, Unlucky or What? Part Two
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You think my last clumsy episode was unbelievable. Wait until you hear about this one!
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Easy
10 Q
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funnytrivianna
Feb 02 08
3654 plays
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The Evil Essay
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As an English instructor, I spend a good deal of my life helping people write essays. See if you already know the basics of essay writing--or, as I call it, "The Evil Essay".
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Easy
10 Q
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pagiedamon
Jul 04 08
5670 plays
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Become a Better Writer
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Everyone needs to write sometimes. You might have to dispute a bill in writing or compose a self-evaluation. Or, you just might want to write a quiz at FunTrivia! Learn a few basics to becoming a better writer.
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10 Q
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Pagiedamon
Dec 28 08
3381 plays
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Excuse My French
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Please excuse me, but I must use French words in this English quiz. Here's ten questions about French words adopted into the English language.
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Easy
10 Q
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guitargoddess
May 31 11
3378 plays
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Some Devilish Idioms
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The devil is fairly popular in idiomatic phrases... Which of these devilish idioms do you know?
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Easy
10 Q
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thegogga
Apr 18 08
3336 plays
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