Most quiz-takers can name the first person to have climbed Mount Everest, but can you name these other firsts on the top of some of the world's other famous summits?
...in their dark little house:
"Let's some good action
on feline theme park attractions."
Said the mouse to the cat,
as in the airplane they sat:
"Forgive me, but I stealthily modified
our trip to add the occasional rodent-based ride."
Probably the most difficult issue when trying to make a photo quiz is to find images you are actually allowed to add to the quiz. Before attempting to make a photo quiz, please take a look at these questions to understand what you can and cannot use.
This quiz has pictures of ten long obsolete pieces of hardware, from the 1950s to the 1990s (and maybe a few years beyond). How many of those can you recognize - and how many have you actually used? Which device has which use?
You know these colors from the flags of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, but many other countries use them as well. I'll describe ten of them for you - you name the country. And remember - proudly fly the red, white and blue!
A truth of life is: people die. Some, however, come close to dying and yet live on. This quiz will look at ten of them - not how they died, but how they managed to not die.
Quick! Help me - I need to finish some tasks in my house renovation before the guests arrive. Unfortunately I have a very untidy toolbox, so can you tell me just which piece of hardware I need for which task?
You've just emerged from an airplane after spending 13 hours crammed into seat 53E, dead center, last row. You swear to never again endure this - let's explore some premium and luxury air travel instead!
Since there are very few quizzes on this interesting nation on the border between Europe and Asia, I have taken it upon myself to give the 195-day bus a new place to stop. Enjoy these questions!
I am not only going to make this claim - I am going to prove it: I have taken the best ten quizzes from the January 2012 FunTrivia site rankings and written an extra question for each of them. Come along as we celebrate the best of the best!
It's no secret I love roller coasters of all kind. But my true love is wooden coasters. So, can you help me and tell me which of these I need to ride? I have not included any hybrid coasters (steel track on wooden supports) - all pure wood or steel!
This quiz will give you some terms in German that all relate to the Bundeswehr (German defense forces). You decide whether each term translates to a rank, a piece of equipment, a unit or something else.
After Disneyland Paris and Europa Park, the Efteling is the third most popular theme park in Europe. Join me on a tour through its five enchanted, fairy-tale based realms - look out for clues that might make questions easier than they look!
Have you rested a bit? Then we can embark on the second half of our tour of the Efteling theme park and see its most elaborate and famous dark rides along with some historic carousels and other interesting features. Let's go!
Begun in the year 1248, the Cologne Cathedral is a masterwork of medieval architecture. It took over 600 years to complete, but stayed true to the original plans over all that time!
One of the joys of Christmas is the Good News - but not only in the biblical sense. How about some good news from history - one item of good news for each day from December 1 all the way to Christmas Day?
Who can forget Gandalf's great quote when facing the Balrog? However, it could have been used in many other places in the trilogy. I have rewritten ten scenes for you - who "shall not pass" in each one?
Although several composers completed exactly nine symphonies, most classical music lovers would first and foremost associate "The Nine Symphonies" with Ludwig van Beethoven. How well do you know these works?
At first glance, Lego is all about upright bricks and right angles, but advanced builders can do fascinating things by ignoring this rule, often using parts specifically made for these shenanigans. Learn how to do it!
When you think of the human chest, you may first think of the heart and maybe the ribs. However, there are many other organs and structures located in this region also known as the thorax. Let's explore - no surgical experience needed.
The 1930s were a decade of mounting international tension culminating in the outbreak of World War II. Can you identify the countries where these 1930s events took place?
Do you remember the glorious days from 1977 to about 1985 when programmers created hours of enjoyment from a few kilobytes of memory? Here are ten games from the era, carefully chosen to send you into orbit and beyond!
For all his experiments, Mr. Schroedinger needed a lot of cats, so he had a whole cattery. Here are ten of them, all with very appropriate science-related names. Match each CAT to its description!
So you want to seize the seas, on your own ship? Well, before you set out to buy and restore the nearest half-wreck into the ship of your dreams, you may want to understand the various main types of ships. Here are ten important ones to consider.
The Bundespresseball (Federal Press Ball) is a splendid celebration of about 2,500 German notables from politics, business and culture. Can you identify these people who could have been there in 2011?
Hubert, a German, receives a Green Card. He immediately travels to the United States with his few belongings only to find that his English vocabulary is lacking. So he will have to improvise from German words...
The Dungeon Master is the storyteller and judge of every Dungeons and Dragons game. Do you have what it takes to be one? Come in and find out! (3.0 and 3.5 editions and assuming somewhat experienced players)
Are you tired yet? I hope not, because the last leg of our tour still has a few great rides. Let's finish our day by exploring the rest of Switzerland along with France and Italy!
I hope you had a good lunch - we'll take in two slow, scenic rides at Adventureland before heading to Iceland, Scandinavia and Holland for some heavy g-forces and a splash or two on the third leg of our "Europe in a day" tour.
Compared to many other countries, German army uniforms tend to be relatively subdued in symbolism and extent of decoration, but there are still quite a few interesting (and rare) insignia for German soldiers to earn. Let's have a look!
Yours truly absentmindedly and inadvertently sat down in front of a screen and randomly zapped the remote. To make things worse, it was rerun day and all I got to see were episodes from various series. Can you tell me what I accidentally watched?
I hope you rested well, because we'll need to cover twenty more rides before the park closes. In the penultimate leg of our grand European tour, we'll travel from Holland through Russia and Greece into Switzerland.
What better place could there be to learn about being a kid than a theme park? If you want to train to be a real kid even though you've left the age group decades ago, I have assembled just the curriculum for you. Let's ride!
Help - I've signed up to sing at a Simon and Garfunkel cover concert, but rossian's dog has gotten into my sheet music and now I'm missing a word in each song! Can you help me bridge those troubled gaps and not sound like silence?
From the dawn of man to the 21st century, some of the greatest minds have challenged and changed humanity's conception of the stars and galaxies. Now I'll challenge you to identify their bios even if I don't explicitly name their most famous discoveries!
Onward! In our second installment, we will ride the available attractions in the fairy tale, Austrian, Spanish and Portuguese themed areas. Discover Arthur: the Ride and nine others, but be careful: you will get wet and you might get soaked!
At over 70 rides plus a dozen daily shows, Europa-Park is among the largest single theme parks in the world. Let's take a tour and ride almost everything an adult can fit into. I promise you'll get some right even if you've never been there!
We started our race with a G, so we'll finish it in G. Picking up where 'Amazing G Race' left off, here are ten more G questions to end LACE-23's suite of over forty Amazing Trivia Race III quizzes in a triumphant G major finale.
Ready to explore another theme park with me? Toverland is a small, young but charming Dutch park themed around magic. If you've never been there, don't let that keep you away - the pictures help and some questions are general ride and coaster knowledge.
In this quiz, we'll be looking at the easiest possible chess problems - "Mate in one move". Each black and white piece type can move and deliver mate in exactly one position. Who MOVES to deliver mate in each case? Some positions are slightly tricky!
Welcome! Let us take a look at several European Christian religious buildings, all of which have been chosen, by themselves or in a greater context, as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Let's shuffle up some lyrics - here are fifteen songs and each of them hides (exactly) one card in its lyrics. Which song has which card? (Matches must be exact words - "sixth" or "seventy" does not count, but "two hundred" has a valid "two".)
Come on. It's been over two thousand years now. Surely you can do without that holiday just this once. No? Really not? Well, I guess you could use these alternatives to get into the spirit, because I'm not going to budge. No Christmas. No way.
In this quiz, I am presenting ten sets of celebrities that not only share something similar about their name, but also something about their careers. However, each set contains an imposter - can you spot them?