Category: Brain Teasers

Trivia: What are female sheep called?

Ewes
Bats
Hogs
Lassies

Correct Answer: Ewes

So why is this answer correct? : When it comes to sheep, males are known as “rams,” females are “ewes,” and babies are “lambs.”

Trivia: What are male honey bees called?

Workers
Drakes
Drones
Stags

Correct Answer: Drones

So why is this answer correct? : Every colony has three types of honey bees: a queen, female workers, and male drones.

Trivia: What are female donkeys called?

Does
Jennys
Nannys
Mares

Correct Answer: Jennys

So why is this answer correct? : Female donkeys are also known as “jennets,” and male donkeys are “jacks,” which is where the word “jackass” comes from.

Trivia: Baby whales are known as what?

Fledglings
Kids
Calves
Tadpoles

Correct Answer: Calves

So why is this answer correct? : While both sexes are called calves as babies, adult female whales are called “cows,” and adult male whales are called “bulls.”

Trivia: What is another name for male chickens?

Colts
Bucks
Roosters
Bulls

Correct Answer: Roosters

So why is this answer correct? : Male chickens are also commonly referred to as “cocks,” while female chickens are simply known as “hens.”

Nicholas II — whose reign lasted until the Russian Revolution — became emperor on November 1, 1894, when what Russian monarch died?

Alexander III
Catherine the Great
Nicholas I
Alexander I
Peter the Great

Correct Answer: Alexander III

On November 1, 1954 The FLN began hostilities aimed at gaining what colony’s independence from France?

Vietnam
Tahiti
Lebanon
Ivory Coast
Algeria

Correct Answer: Algeria

George McClellan replaced what man as commander of the Union Army on November 1, 1861?

Alexander Macomb
Philip H. Sheridan
Winfield Scott
Nelson A. Miles
Alexander Macomb

Correct Answer: Winfield Scott

Trivia: Which Halloween song was briefly banned for being “too morbid”?

Thriller
Ghostbusters
Monster Mash
Werewolves of London

Correct Answer: Monster Mash

So why is this answer correct? : It’s hard to believe that the BBC deemed the “Monster Mash” by Bobby Pickett unfit for the airwaves in the U.K. when it debuted in 1962. Lyrics like “It was a graveyard smash” were seen as “too morbid” at the time. That same year, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. The ban was eventually lifted in the U.K. However, it wasn’t until 1973 that the tune finally entered the British charts, ultimately reaching the No. 3 spot.

Trivia: Where is the largest annual Halloween parade in the world?

Edinburgh
New York City
Barcelona
Las Vegas

Correct Answer: New York City

So why is this answer correct? : The Village Halloween Parade in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village draws in more than 2 million spectators annually. Tens of thousands of costumed participants, including dancers, jugglers, marching bands, and stilts walkers, strut through the streets of the Big Apple to celebrate the holiday. This spooky parade was established in 1973 by a puppet maker named Ralph Lee, who initially planned it as a neighborhood walk for his children and friends.