Trivia Quizzes

Today’s Daily Grind is the first quiz out of the last ten to be rated below 1200 on our Elo-based Difficulty Scale. This scale is similar to the one used to rank chess players.

We’ve set the average rating to be 1200… so if a question is rated above 1200 it’s harder than average.  If a player is rated above 1200, that player is better than average.  We’ll be doing a lot of interesting things with the rating system in the next few months, so keep your eyes peeled if you are a stats geek like me.  For now, you can see the first iteration of our  stats display by clicking your hyperlinked username in the upper right hand corner of your screen… check it out, it’s pretty cool, and will only get better with time.

Anyway, today’s quiz is easier than the average Daily Grind quiz by around 100 ratings points… these 100 points translate around 3 extra questions answered correctly (out of 25) for an average, 1200 rated player.

There’s a couple questions on business trivia, the obligatory chemistry trivia question, and a bunch of cultural literacy trivia.  If you like fluff, today’s quiz is not for you… I’d recommend our entertainment trivia section to scratch that itch.

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For today’s belated Daily Grind quiz, we have two questions on famous sculptures and a few questions on American Literature trivia.

Out of the 25 questions, there are only 2 or 3 gimmies. So good luck… you’ll need it!

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I play a weekly pub trivia game, and — as a team — our greatest weakness always seems to be Greek and Norse mythology, a painful Achilles heel for a game that, in general, relies so heavily on those topics. Today’s quiz will test your knowledge of Norse Mythology trivia, i.e., how big of a nerd you are. If it weren’t for the fact that I know too much about the upcoming Thor movie, I’d have been completely lost. Unfortunately for me, there are no questions about who will play Thor (Chris Hemsworth), who will play his father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), or who is directing the film (Kenneth Branagh).

How big of a nerd are you? Good luck.

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So there’s this band called Rock Sugar.  They claim to have been stranded on a desert island in 1989 with only a CD player and a 13 year old girl’s collection of CDs… they returned to the real world with an amazing new sound.

All I can say is that 13 year old girl must have had a pretty amazing CD collection, because this band ROCKS!

You see, these guys play mashups of some metal and rock classics… Metallica, Journey, Queen, Madonna(?), and Warrant.  It’s pretty spectacular.

For a little over a month, every employee of our startup ecommerce company has been flat out addicted to this band…  the warehouse is rockin’ like never before thanks to Rock Sugar.

So, in the spirit of Rock Sugar, we’ve created a mashup of our own.  We’ve mashed up our obsession with Rock Sugar and our obsession with trivia to create this quiz… it’s my favorite quiz on the whole site.

And don’t worry.  Even if you’ve never heard of Rock Sugar (wow, is that possible?) you’ll still enjoy the quiz… after the quiz check out the band here.

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Today’s Daily Grind Trivia Quiz has a Star Wars trivia question,  some classical music trivia, and a little literature trivia.

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If you’re a parent of a child that’s more than, say, six months old, or were once a child yourself (I know, this probably doesn’t apply to many of you), then you’re no doubt familiar with PBS’s venerable children’s program,Sesame Street.

In a word, Sesame Street is: Awesome.

Actually, if you’re watching it in 2010, it actually doesn’t feel as smart as it once did — there’s a Cookie Monster cartoon now, as well as a Bert and Ernie claymation short in each episode, in addition to the 20 minuteElmo’s World that ends each episode. The truth is, however, it still provides the same educational value, it’s just often done in a different format than what many of us grew up with. But the alphabet doesn’t care — it’s just as informative in CGI, claymation, 2D, or by Jim Henson’s puppets.

In fact, Sesame Street has gone through a lot of changes over its 51-year history, having started out as a program designed to help younger children, especially of low-income families, learn to prepare for school. (That’s why it was built around a inner-city street). Smart, really.

Interestingly enough, before the show aired, research suggested that segments that involved both humans and puppets would be confusing to young viewers. However, testing demonstrated that children lost interest when the puppets were not on the air, so before the first episode aired, they decided to mix puppets and humans on the street, which has essentially created the essence of “Sesame Street.”

For the first 40 years of “Sesame Street,” the format remained relatively unchanged, until ratings began to erode, which is why Elmo’s World was created to focus on the younger viewers. But it’s still kicking — alive and vibrant as it ever was, and over the course of the series — which at its height, was the top-rated children’s program in the world — the show has won more Emmy Awards than any other program in television history, with 118.

In the spirit of the show’s success, take our Sesame Street Quiz. And if You’re a fan of Jim Henson in general, try out the more challenging Great Muppet Quiz.

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Today’s Daily Grind Quiz has a couple questions on battles trivia, a chemistry trivia question, a physics trivia question, and a few good literary character trivia questions.

Enjoy!

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If you missed last night’s Emmy Awards ceremony, you actually missed on of the better telecasts in recent memory. It lagged in the middle, as all Awards ceremonies do, and the acceptance speeches were typically dull and full of thanks to people those of us at home don’t know or care about. But Jimmy Fallon fared better than anyone could’ve predicted and scored particularly big with his opening “Glee” inspired opening number, which I can’t seem to get enough of today.

Hopefully, that’ll put you in the mood for today’s Primetime Emmy Award quiz.

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In light of today’s eruption of Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, here’s a short trivia quiz on volcanoes.

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Today’s Daily Grind Trivia Quiz starts off hard, and gets only slightly easier towards the end.

There’s a little bit of everything here from astronomy trivia to poetry trivia to a pretty cool piece of US geography trivia.

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