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61. Who was the original 'doubting Thomas'?

From Quiz A Potpourri of General Trivia

Answer: the Apostle Thomas

The Apostle Thomas was so called because he would not believe in the Resurrection until he could see and touch the Master. (John 20:24-29)

From Quiz A Little Bit of Everything

Answer: Whiskey Rebellion

From Quiz A Smorgasbord of Trivia

Answer: The Bible

From Quiz How Good is Your General Ignorance Again?

Answer: Thomas Edison

The word "hello" is believed to have been derived from an earlier similar word and was first used in other contexts, such as to express surprise. However, Thomas Edison was the first to use the word as a greeting when answering a telephone. According to a letter written by him in 1877, while he was working on improving Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, Edison found that the word "hello" could be heard at some distance. Consequently he began using this word to start a telephone conversation and the practice was adopted by his co-workers. It then spread to operators in telephone exchanges and became the standard greeting.

From Quiz What Happened Next? - The Sequel

Answer: The Beatles

Acker Bilk took "Stranger on the Shore" to number one in May 1962; David Rose reached number one with "The Stripper" in July 1962; and The Tornados were number one with "Telstar" in December 1962. These were all instrumentals, so not only was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" the fourth number one by a British band, it was the first British song to top the Billboard Hot 100.

From Quiz JJ's Mixed Trivia III

Answer: 100m, 400m, 110m hurdles and 1500m

The modern decathlon is based on an athlete doing ten events which are split across two days as follows: Day 1 100 metres Long Jump Shot Put High Jump 400 metres Day 2 110 metre hurdles Discus Pole Vault Javelin 1500 metres For me the Decathlon is the ultimate test for athletes in demonstrating their core strengths as well as their endurance and technical abilities.

From Quiz Useless Information

Answer: 12 pounds/5.4 kilograms

Elephants are born with four sets of seven successively larger teeth. Four are used at a time. When they wear out, others move up to take their place. The last set can last 20 years and when they fall out, the elephant can no longer eat and starves to death.

From Quiz Smorgasbord

Answer: Guatemala

Poinsettia is a plant in the spurge family, indigenous to Mexico and Guatemala. It has red and green foliage and is often used in floral displays at Christmas time. Contrary to a popular misconception, the poinsettia is not poisonous. It was first introduced into the United States in 1825 by Joel Roberts Poinsett.

From Quiz General Knowledge

Answer: Morocco

Somalia is a white star on a blue background. Burkina Faso is a yellow star on horizontal red/green bands. Cameroon is a yellow star on a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow.

From Quiz Look! An Easy Quiz With "Obscure" in the Title!

Answer: United States

Although it's unclear who exactly invented the fortune cookie, all the people who claimed to do so are Japanese-American. The original fortune cookies were based on a type of cookie served in Japanese temples. Even though fortune cookies are extremely popular in Chinese restaurants in America, restaurants in China don't serve them as they are considered "too American".

From Quiz Generally General

Answer: San Ignacio

I lived almost two years in San Ignacio, aka Cayo. Lovely, lovely area if you like warm and humid! San Ignacio generally has a terrific farmers' market on the banks of the Macal River, and is just a couple miles from Xunantunich, a spectacular Mayan ruin. Great vacation spot.

From Quiz Key to the City

Answer: Football manager

Redknapp had just led Portsmouth FC to the FA Cup, with a finals win over Cardiff City when he received the freedom to the city of Portsmouth. Just three days prior to the presentation though Redknapp had signed on with Tottenham as their new manager, which angered most of the fans in attendance at the ceremony. Redknapp did admit during his speech that "My timing has never been very good and, this week, it could never have been worse."

From Quiz Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Answer: First trimester

Unborn babies begin to develop fingerprints when they are in the womb for three months. This time frame is considered a woman's first trimester.

From Quiz A Miscellaneous Compilation

Answer: Chris Moneymaker

Chris Moneymaker won a $40 online tournament that provided him with the $10,000 buy-in into the WSOP Main Event in 2003. His $40 investment ended up winning him $2.5 million when he won the Main Event. EPSN coverage of the event led to a poker boom when many other amateurs thought they could duplicate this feat. Jamie Gold won the WSOP Main Event in 2006 for a whopping $12 million, the largest Main Event payday up to that date. Doyle Brunson is a poker legend who won back-to-back Main Events in 1976 and 1977. He is also the author of "Super System", a book many consider to be the Bible of poker.

From Quiz A Bit of Everything

Answer: A million millions

The system by which a thousand millions is a billion is called the short scale. In Europe and Latin America, the long scale is used: a billion is a million millions, a trillion is a million billions and so forth.

From Quiz Multi Category Compilation

Answer: 88

Centaurus is the closest of the constellations to Earth. The star Proxima Centauri, located in that constellation, is the closest star to our planet, after the Sun.

From Quiz GCSE Based Questions

Answer: Chloride

Titanium is extremely difficult to extract from its ore, and involves two stages: treating the oxide with chlorine, to form titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4). The second stage is reducing this titanium tetrachloride with magnesium, in an atmosphere of argon, to get the pure titanium.

From Quiz What Was the Question Again? #2

Answer: typewriter

Other words that can be typed using only the top row of keys include "pepperroot", "perpetuity", "proprietory", "repertoire", "repetitory", "protereotype", and "europe". Sholes sold his patent (US 79,265) for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who, jointly with Remington & Sons of Ilion, New York, made the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer; production of the first typewriter began on March 1, 1873. Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is the first novel to be written on a typewriter. Clarke's article, entitled "King Tut's Golden Typewriter" appeared in the Toronto Mail and Empire in c. 1922, soon after archaeologist Howard Carter announced the discovery of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

From Quiz A Little About a Lot

Answer: Hardening a chemical found in adhesives

Super Glue would be a good example of a composite adhesive. This fast-setting adhesive contains more than one chemical, with the cyanoacrylate serving the purpose to dry quickly. It will bond human skin instantly. Many impatient model builders use these products instead of slow, air drying glues, to speed up the building process, and because most fast-setting adhesives will not turn yellow with age.

From Quiz Stuff You've Never Wondered About

Answer: It's the only bone in the human body not attached to another bone

The hyoid bone is U-shaped and is found at the base of the tongue. It supports the tongue muscles. Incidentially the tongue is the only muscle to be attached at only one end.

From Quiz A Little Bit Of Everything

Answer: Volapük

Volapük was created in 1879-1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Catholic priest in Baden, Germany.

From Quiz Guilty Pleasures

Answer: blue

Years ahead of the whole "gummi" thing, "Dots" have been sticking to the teeth of movie fans for years. "Dots" has recently expanded into a tropical fruit line and 'hot' "Dots".

From Quiz The Universal Quiz

Answer: Charon

Charon is very large in comparison to Pluto, measuring about half the radius of the planet.

From Quiz Trivia Gamut

Answer: Yuan

During the time of Mongol occupation, trade flourished. On a side note, when the Mongols tried to take over Japan during this period, they faced problems in the form of harsh winds. The Japanese called these winds "kamikaze," or "divine winds."

From Quiz Nothing Is Hard 33

Answer: hydrogen

10% of Jupiter's atmosphere is helium. Traces of methane, ammonia and water vapour are only found in the cloud layers of Jupiter's atmosphere. Jupiter's atmosphere also consists of white clouds of ammonia, orange clouds of ammonium hydrosulphide and bluish clouds of water ice.

From Quiz Random Bits of Trivia Vol. 2

Answer: War of Jenkins' Ear

Spain accused the British sea Captain Robert Jenkins of smuggling. Upon returning to Great Britain Jenkins claimed the Spanish had cut off his ear, thus igniting the existing tension to the level of war.

From Quiz General Knowledge

Answer: A cell made by fusing an antibody-producing B-Cell with a cancer cell

"The cancer cell contribute the ability to divide indefinitely, while the antibody cell contributes the ability to synthesize large amount of a single antibody." From the Collins Dictionary of Biology

From Quiz General Knowledge

Answer: Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr was just a stage name. His real name is Richard Starkey.

From Quiz Ten Topics : Part Six

Answer: Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer. Some of his works include "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker."

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