Author Biography: gable

Gretel is a Shorthaired German Pointer. She is good at sniffing out games and is also interested in words. She has discovered that her canine relatives appear in many common sayings. How many pooches can you find in her word kennel?

Do you share my passion for kitchen gadgets and cooking? If so this quiz may be of interest.

Many businesses and organizations use animals to advertise their products or services. How many can you identify?

Oswald Omnilibrum has decided to start a personal library. All the titles on the shelf will contain the word "Up". Can you help him?

Food can be entertaining as well as nutritious. See if you can identify these various Marys on the menu. (Hint: for some questions, you may need to think of how languages other than English express this name.)

Zac and Jesse live in Missouri. Bodhi and Elliott live in Virginia. They all went to the beach in Connecticut. Can you help them do math along the way? Recommended for grades: 5,6,7

Marie Antoinette had no clue about what foods her peasants could afford. However, cake is a universal favorite food. At least consuming this quiz won't cost you too many carbs or calories.

"Curtains for You" may mean you are about to be killed. Or, it may mean you know something about window coverings, films, or music. Have fun finding out.

Seth MacFarlane hosted the 2013 Academy Awards Ceremony. He had a nightmare that the wrong winner names were stuffed into the envelopes. Can you help him remember what really happened?

How much do you know about the Jewish community?

Maurice Sendak is probably best known by parents who have read stories by him or with his illustrations to their children and grandchildren. How much do you know about this creative genius, who died on May 8, 2012?

Some people like coffee for the caffeine. Others just like the taste. Coffee marketers have found many ways to advertise and sell this beverage. How many of these brands can you puzzle out?

My Momma told me that when I got married I should keep a traditional Jewish household. Among our wedding gifts I found a pile of different candles and other unfamiliar objects and had to figure out what to do with them. Do you know?

To be clean and mature it is important to wash. The soap industry is very mature. Over time many soaps have been advertised on the airwaves in an effort to attract our water and towels. How many can you identify?

Here are some questions about a well-known California University and some trivial facts about it.

In response to the Fun Trivia Agent Challenge, this quiz asks you to think about songs, composers and compositions with black themes.

In April 2011, ABC TV cancelled two long-running soap operas: "All My Children" and "One Life to Live". Two years later, soap hungry fans were pleased to see the shows back in business on the web.

The Zamboni turned 60 in 2009. How much do you know about this vehicle and its history? If this quiz piques your curiosity check out "Zamboni:The Coolest Machines On Ice", by Eric Dregni published by Voyageur Press.

More people may know Winnie the Pooh than the wonderful poems written by A. A. Milne. See how many you know.

According to Baby Names World on the website parents.com the popularity of the girl's name Wendy peaked in 1970-1980 when it ranked #38 in popularity on the list of girls names. By 2008 it had slipped to #458. Test your WIQ (Wendy IQ) here.

Using only the letters in UNITED NATIONS MEMBER can you sift out these country names? The countries are, of course, members of the UN.

The FunTrivia Team Classical Music Mensa (CMM) was founded by Dr Bob Williams (known to his trivia family as DrBobWill. This quiz is in honor of DrBob's 80th Birthday (March 16, 2012)

Ten PIGS have escaped from the FunTrivia barnyard and are hiding in words. Can you round them up and place letters around or beside them to create new words? Each answer contains the consecutive letters P-I-G.