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Sidnobls has been a FunTrivia author since Oct 02 07 and has written 34 quizzes. Sidnobls writes for many different categories, but is most active in History, Humanities, and General Knowledge, and has won 1 Editor's Choice award on submitted quizzes.

  • has earned 2,288 excellent quiz ratings from quiz takers.
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Quizzes / Other Works Authored by Sidnobls
1.
  Craigslist meets Qumran editor best quiz   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These "Dead Sea Personals" were found recently in a long buried jar where they languished, rolled up in the desert, until just recently. Who would have posted or responded to the following personal ads?
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 06 22
Category: The Bible
Average
sidnobls
Jul 06 22
3034 plays
2.
  My True Love Guild to Me - 1st Day    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Quiz Maker Guild author SidNobls has wrapped a Christmas quiz gift of "A Partridge in a Pear Tree", but you don't need to be an ornithologist or an arborist to enjoy this quiz.
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Oct 20 10
Category: Twelve Days of Christmas
Difficult
sidnobls
15012 plays
3.
  The Impossible Quiz   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Though this quiz is, in fact, impossible, it should be easy to get 10 correct, if you figure out the key.
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Feb 21 08
Category: Language Use
Tough
sidnobls
6378 plays
4.
  Cape Cod Daycation   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
While pondering how to spend my day off, the sandy strand known as Cape Cod beckoned, so I loaded up the Yugo for a classic escape.
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Dec 09 22
Category: Mixed Massachusetts
Tough
sidnobls
Dec 09 22
646 plays
5.
  Guard Your Veg!   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you carrot all for the 2005 film "Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit", nobody will beet your score on this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jun 16 19
Category: Wallace and Gromit
Average
sidnobls
Jun 16 19
476 plays
6.
  NASA Turns Fifty   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
U.S. President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law on July 29, 1958, creating NASA. Here are questions on the first fifty years of NASA missions.
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jun 30 08
Category: Man in Space
Average
sidnobls
1084 plays
7.
  Moving to Boston   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Can you acquire enough knowledge of Boston's peculiarities to thrive in your new home?
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 30 17
Category: Massachusetts
Tough
sidnobls
Jul 30 17
1415 plays
8.
  This Quiz Stinks   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes today and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench." - Mark Twain The first letter of the first 9 answers spell out the answer to question 10.
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 06 22
Category: 9 for 10
Tough
sidnobls
Jul 06 22
1398 plays
9.
  "Right, Reorge!" - A Jetsons Tribute   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
As George Jetson's dog Astro would say, "Rood ruck on ris run!"
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Feb 03 09
Category: Jetsons
Average
sidnobls
1071 plays
10.
  Weather or Not    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How the Weather has Rained on History's Parade, with a grateful nod to Laura Lee's book "Blame It on the Rain", and to the Weather Channel for inspiration.
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jan 21 08
Category: Specialized History
Tough
sidnobls
2668 plays
11.
  Mixed Up Dickens!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Oh dear! The loose pages of my beloved "Complete Dickens" manuscript have blown all over the courtyard, and in scrambling to gather them up, I've got them all out of sort. What happens to these Dickensian characters when they are put wrong way to?
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jan 17 09
Category: Dickens, Charles
Tough
sidnobls
661 plays
12.
  "Pirates" in Translation   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You'll need to get out your Penzance-English / English-Penzance Dictionary to figure out just what is going on in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera "Pirates of Penzance".
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, May 09 08
Category: Pirates of Penzance, The
Average
sidnobls
494 plays
13.
  This Quiz is Murder!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Regardless of how well you know people in the headlines or the history books, you'll think this quiz is murder.
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Apr 28 09
Category: Same Surname
Tough
sidnobls
932 plays
14.
  Monday's Child    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The days of the week upon which children are born determine the nature of their character. Are you like others born on the same day? How much do you know about this ancient prophesy poem?
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jun 02 09
Category: Origins of Idioms
Tough
sidnobls
1119 plays
15.
  Pulitzer Play Plots   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Can you name the Pulitzer Award winning dramas from brief descriptions of their plots?
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Nov 21 20
Category: Plays Mixture
Average
sidnobls
Nov 21 20
773 plays
16.
  Baseball's Mitchell Report   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How much attention did you pay to the "Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball"?
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Apr 25 14
Category: MLB Historical
Average
sidnobls
471 plays
17.
  The 60s Across the Centuries    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Something about the decade of the 60s brought out the desire for change- like the urge to rearrange the living room every half century or so.
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Oct 17 16
Category: Famous Dates
Difficult
sidnobls
1255 plays
18.
  A Globetrotting Gentleman   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
In loving memory of Socalmiguel, fellow guilder, quiz maker, gentleman and rebus writer extraordinaire, The first 10 are places on earth he graced during his lifetime. The last 5 questions on this quiz are his, from a quiz he was not able to complete.
Tough, 15 Qns, sidnobls, Mar 04 09
Category: Rebuses
Tough
sidnobls
484 plays
19.
  The 70s Across the Centuries   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The 70s ... It was the "me decade" that gave rise to outrageous personal expression and equally outrageous reactions.
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 04 15
Category: Famous Dates
Very Difficult
sidnobls
1648 plays
20.
  "Pinafore" in Translation   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You'll need to get out your Spithead-English / English-Spithead Dictionary to figure out just what is going on in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera "HMS Pinafore".
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, May 08 16
Category: H.M.S. Pinafore
Tough
sidnobls
224 plays
21.
  Barry Lyndon   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel "Barry Lyndon" was a notable success for the author. If you weren't around for the book signings, good luck on this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jun 12 08
Category: Thackeray, William
Average
sidnobls
203 plays
22.
  Vicenary Matters    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
It shouldn't take you twenty minutes to make a good score!
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Nov 21 12
Category: 11-50
Tough
sidnobls
410 plays
23.
  10 Questions about Fenway Park   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
For those who love history and baseball, let's take a tour of baseball's oldest and most venerable ballpark, even if you're a Yankee fan!
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Apr 30 08
Category: Boston Red Sox
Very Difficult
sidnobls
701 plays
24.
  The 80s Across the Centuries    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The 80s was a decade of cultural achievement so adventurous that we would look back years later and ask 'What were we thinking?'
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, May 30 11
Category: Pick The Year
Difficult
sidnobls
1197 plays
25.
  The 90s Across the Centuries    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The final decade before the turn of the century nudged the world to explore its own spirituality in a variety of ways. How much do you know about people's attempts to know just where they stood in the grand scheme of things?
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Aug 28 10
Category: Famous Dates
Very Difficult
sidnobls
1477 plays
26.
  "Mikado" in Translation    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You'll need to get out your Titipu-English / English-Titipu Dictionary to figure out just what is going on in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera "The Mikado".
Tough, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 20 11
Category: Mikado, The
Tough
sidnobls
311 plays
27.
  Baseball in Skirts Anagram    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
My 'Diamond Dreams' exhibit program has some things mixed up. Can you sort out which teams featured which players in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954?
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, May 17 09
Category: Baseball
Average
sidnobls
154 plays
28.
  The Zamboni   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The siren sounds and the teams head for the locker rooms. It's time for you to clear the ice. Many fans head for the vending area, but many stay to watch you. How much do you know about the origin and operation of the ice resurfacer?
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jan 25 23
Category: Thematic Transportation
Difficult
sidnobls
Jan 25 23
549 plays
29.
  Worship at St. Anagram's    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Asked to fill in for the priest at St. Anagram's, I found this note in the sacristy when I arrived. Can you help me solve these anagrams (in capitals) and sort out what I'm supposed to do?
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 23 23
Category: Roman Catholicism
Difficult
sidnobls
Jul 23 23
999 plays
30.
  Beatles for Brainiacs    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In a recent poll, dead historical luminaries revealed their favorite Beatle songs. Can you match the correct person to their fave Fab Four lyric?
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jul 05 08
Category: Lyrics by The Beatles
Difficult
sidnobls
850 plays
31.
  Heads Up!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here's a nod to some people who got a little ahead of themselves. If you can rack your brains and come up with their circumstances - hats off to you!
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Feb 17 22
Category: Difficult History
Very Difficult
sidnobls
Feb 17 22
1217 plays
32.
  Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Shel Silverstein published this collection of his poems in 1974. He was previously the author of the hugely successful book "The Giving Tree". Both books have become children's classics. Test your knowledge on selected poems from this collection.
Average, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Apr 26 08
Recommended for grades: 4,5,6
Category: Silverstein, Shel
Average
sidnobls
441 plays
33.
  The 10s Across the Centuries    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Those embattled teens ... seems like the second decade of every century, we are angst filled enough to whack out some other dynasty. How much do you know about conquest between '10 and '19?
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, May 08 08
Category: Famous Dates
Difficult
sidnobls
558 plays
34.
  Exonyms and Eponyms    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
World travelers soon encounter the importance of language. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but globe trotters may well board the wrong plane without a little knowledge of the local lingo.
Difficult, 10 Qns, sidnobls, Jun 13 20
Category: Languages
Difficult
sidnobls
Jun 13 20
479 plays