This quiz is about the real old fashioned way of building a cabin, c. 1750-1850 on the Appalachian frontier. I bet you know more than you think! Let's see.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 19 16
Category:
Woodworking
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act was supposed to be part of a compromise that brought the country together. Well, no. It helped tear the country further apart, and almost started a war by itself. What was so bad about it?
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 04 16
Category:
Slavery in America
Before 1865, slave catchers had the legal right to drag runaway slaves back from free states and re-enslave them. But sometimes, local citizens didn't let that happen. Here are two questions each on five different "rescues," out of so many that occurred.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 22 16
Category:
Slavery in America
These English Victorian words come from the "Slang Dictionary", published by Chatto and Windus in London, 1874. The ones chosen for this quiz all begin with the letter "F".
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 28 19
Category:
British Slang and Dialects
Here are some questions about Rhode Island's long history as a colony and state.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 12 16
Category:
Rhode Island
All these words are slang from the 1850s having to do with the general meaning of good, right, surprising or acceptable. They're from John Russell Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" (Boston: 1859).
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 24 16
Category:
American Slang
"12 Years a Slave" has been called one of the most realistic movies about slavery in America to be made recently. It's based on Solomon Northup's book, the true story of how he was kidnapped into slavery and taken to Louisiana. Spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Mar 31 17
Category:
Tr - Tz Movies
Pioneers needed basic hand tools to build simple homes and furniture. Do you recognize some of these? Somewhat U.S. centric.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Oct 30 16
Category:
Woodworking
There's no particular plan here, just a bunch of different questions about people and places in Mississippi's history.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Oct 15 16
Category:
Mississippi
South Dakota's history includes thousands of years of competition between groups who wanted the land. Hope you enjoy these questions!
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 13 16
Category:
South Dakota
A hailstorm followed by a flood and then a frost fractured everything in my vegetable garden and berry patch. Can you put it back together so it makes sense?
Easier, 10 Qns, littlepup,
May 18 20
Category:
Fractured Words
These words come from the "Slang Dictionary" published by Chatto and Windus in London, 1874. The ones chosen for this quiz all begin with D.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Jan 03 17
Category:
British Slang and Dialects
These are birds that have come to our feeder, during the first full year we had it up. We live on the border of Ohio and West Virginia in a small town, but these seem to be pretty common for this whole area.
Easier, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 17 16
Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Category:
Wild Birds USA
The holiday presents given on the farm were practical and everyone was somewhat grateful, but who really wants ordinary useful items? Each animal and its gift will rhyme. Look for capitalized words as the two clues and give answers in the same order.
Easier, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 30 16
Category:
Rhymes
This quiz has a question in ten different Funtrivia categories, each dealing with the number or word "one."
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Apr 21 24
Category:
1
Hearth cooking didn't even use a wood stove. With a crane, a wide hearth, lots of cast ironware, a shovel and lid lifter and ladle, you could make any delicacy that you could on a stove, sometimes better!
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 27 16
Category:
History of Food
I'm making a quick trip around the world in May, visiting as many celebrations and festivals as I can. Come join me!
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Jan 11 15
Category:
May & June
When a family has a new baby, they get a little human who needs to study and learn about the new world around her. This quiz explores the stages of development in infancy and childhood, not necessarily in order, based on the work of Jean Piaget.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Jan 15 15
Category:
General Psychology
They heyday of horses and mules on the Erie Canal in New York State was from the 1830s to the turn of the 20th Century. This quiz is about life on the canal in that era.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 01 16
Category:
Obsolete Jobs
These obscure 19th Century minstrel songs are something music historians may know, but watch for lots of hints for everyone! Dialect was common in this era, so be forewarned. Stereotypes that were inoffensive then are not now.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 22 16
Category:
History of Music
Some are common, some are rare, but all of these U.S. garden vegetables and berries have "black" in their name.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Jul 17 22
Category:
Colors of the Garden
These are fractured currencies, written with the country name first, like "Canadian dollar." You just need to write the currency, NOT the country. Say them out loud, and I hope you can discover the currency.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 08 16
Category:
Fractured Words
North American Chipmunks are little furry balls of cuteness who probably live in a park or forest near you, and don't need to wear sweaters or sing, to be worth watching for! Here's a quiz about them.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 22 16
Category:
Rodents
Americans faced a variety of shortages in the nineteenth century, some brief, some long-term. Don't panic, but hoard a little just in case, while in this quiz we explore some things that were running out.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Oct 05 14
Category:
USA in the 19th.Century
Lynchburg, Virginia, founded by anti-slavery Quakers, enriched by tobacco, surrounded by the Civil War... I have a friend who'd never forgive me if I didn't write a quiz on the history of his hometown.
Tough, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 18 16
Category:
Virginia
"One" has been part of various slang phrases for the last couple of centuries, from America to England to Australia. Here's just a small sampling.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 10 16
Category:
Varieties of English
Americans had many choices to illuminate their lives before the electric light bulb changed everything. What do you know about the various kinds of candles, lamps and lamp oils available in the early and mid Nineteenth Century USA?
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Sep 30 14
Category:
USA in the 19th.Century
This quiz is on the history of the Pine Tree State, the most northeastern state of the U.S.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 04 16
Category:
Maine
If you have a spot that rarely gets sun, you can still have a flower garden. Here are some ideas! Most shade garden plants love moist, rich, slightly acidic soil. Add lots of compost, mulch well, and keep the garden watered through dry spells.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 14 16
Category:
Garden Name Game
Have you noticed in US Civil War movies that all the civilian men are wearing trousers (and the soldiers too)? Here's a quiz about those civilian trousers, with trivia about how they resembled today's and how they didn't.
Tough, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 27 16
Category:
Social History
Charlie Chaplin put his famous moustache to good use in this 1940 film, where he played an infamous dictator with the same facial hair, as well as a Jewish barber.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Feb 05 15
Category:
Gn - Gz Movies
Don't look down! You might be wearing something dyed with indigo right now! But your blue jeans use the synthetic dye. This quiz is about the unique history and interesting process of the natural dye.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 27 16
Category:
Applied Art, Design
Tens of thousands of Americans endured the enforced journey from the upper to the lower south, during the heyday of the interstate slave trade in the early 1800s. This quiz explores their experience.
Tough, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 02 14
Category:
Slavery in America
This quiz is based on Hank Trent's discovery of who wrote "Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave" (1838), as documented in the 2013 annotated edition, but you don't need to have read it. Lots of hints!
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Feb 06 15
Category:
Slavery in America
South Carolina has such a rich Civil War history, other eras can get overlooked. Here are some questions about other times.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Oct 20 16
Category:
South Carolina
See how much you know about three-toed sloths, but don't hurry, don't worry, and keep smiling, just like they do. If only our lives were as simple as theirs!
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Oct 27 16
Category:
Xenarthrans (Sloth, Anteater, etc)
Do you know something about different canals around the world? Here's a chance to find out. Look for clues hidden in the questions.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Jan 19 15
Category:
Canals & Dams
The Bone Wars refers to the competition to find fossils in the 1870s American West between two paleontologists, who unearthed some of the famous dinosaurs we know but bankrupted each other in the process. Watch for hints!
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 16 16
Category:
History of Science
There are more than just sunflowers out there! See if you recognize some of these yellow wildflowers.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 08 16
Category:
USA
All these questions about poetry have something to do with the end of a poetic form or a line of poetry.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 06 14
Category:
Poetry Terminology
Maybe you know more than you think you do, about this rare hunting dog that's the only hound native to the USA.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Oct 23 16
Category:
Hounds
Some are sky blue, some are deep purple, and a lot are in between. See if you can recognize these wildflowers of the eastern U.S.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 12 16
Category:
USA
If you're a woman, come here to get dressed from the skin out in the fashion of the 1860s. Gentlemen, avert your eyes a moment, or take the quiz too if you'd like, whichever you want.
Tough, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 29 16
Category:
Fashion & Beauty Mixture
The largest moth in North America, the luna moth only lives a week as an adult, but how beautiful it is! I still remember when I saw my first one. Here's a quiz about them.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Dec 03 17
Category:
Butterflies and Moths
Big or small, spring, summer or fall, all these wildflowers or wild escapes in the eastern USA have white blossoms.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Feb 17 17
Category:
USA
"Blind Tom" was the stage name of Thomas Wiggins, a brilliant musician and the first African American to be invited to perform for the President at the White House. This quiz is about him, with lots of hints.
Average, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 19 16
Category:
African-American
Ebenezer Entwhistle suffered many symptoms, and received much contradictory advice, during his life in the early nineteenth century USA. Can you identify which of the competing medical theories his friends and doctors believed in, based on their advice?
Tough, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Sep 24 14
Category:
History of Medicine
These aren't just battles! Just choose the state or foreign country. I hope some of these events will be a bit different and challenging, but Civil War buffs are hard to stump.
Difficult, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 30 16
Category:
Civil War Battles
The first step in woodworking is to choose the right wood. Match these eastern US trees with the characteristics of their wood.
Difficult, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 10 16
Category:
Woodworking
Charcoal burners produced charcoal from wood for iron furnaces, blacksmiths and other industrial uses, in the 19th century. It was a demanding job, requiring skill and strength.
Tough, 10 Qns, littlepup,
Nov 25 16
Category:
Obsolete Jobs