Esquire magazine editor A.J. Jacobs's 2004 book
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World provides the material for this week's random quiz. Thousands of factoids pervade the book, as his journey references just over 400 of the 65,000 entries in the 30,000+ pages of the
Encylopaedia Britannica as springboards into discussions on anything and everything. Are you a Know-It-All?
Know-It-All Questions
- Q1) To which letter of the alphabet does the Encyclopaedia Britannica devote the most pages?
- Q2) What dog is the only mammal besides humans whose urine contains uric acid?
- Q3) From what university did Dick Cheney flunk out?
- Q4) What was Project Ozma, begun in 1960?
- Q5) Who was the only baseball player hit three home runs in a World Series game?
- Q6) Who is Leonardo Pisano better known as?
- Q7) What household device did Sir John Harington invent in the 16th century?
- Q8) What American candy was named for a plum-sized Chinese fruit?
- Q9) What drug originally comes from the ergot fungus on grain, especially rye?
- Q10) From what country's machada did the Hawaiian ukulele develop?
- Q11) What component of blood is also known as erythrocyte?
- Q12) True or false: Cleveland, Ohio was named for President Grover Cleveland.
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