August 2017 - Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

Proverbs Trivia

This type of “fruit is sweet” or “sweetest”

Answer: forbidden

Going Through The Motions Trivia

Each engine of a 747 generates over 43,000 pounds of this force

Answer: thrust

Proverbs Trivia

In “The Tempest”, Shakespeare wrote, “Misery acquaints a man with strange” ones of these

Answer: bedfellows

Going Through The Motions Trivia

A strong motion accelerograph, a type of this device, records shaking too strong for sensitive ones

Answer: seismograph

Proverbs Trivia

On this holiday “all the birds of the air in couples do join”

Answer: Valentine’s Day

Going Through The Motions Trivia

(Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Science Museum of Minnesota) Movement of the ocean floor can cause these fearsome waves with a Japanese name

Answer: tsunamis

Proverbs Trivia

According to Ovid, “To be loved” you have to be this

Answer: lovable

Going Through The Motions Trivia

In a car, the reciprocating, or up-&-down, motion of these is changed to rotary motion in the wheels

Answer: pistons

Proverbs Trivia

This “is thicker than water”

Answer: blood

Going Through The Motions Trivia

(Jimmy of the Clue Crew paddling a kayak) From the Latin for “to twist”, this causes a kayak to rotate in the opposite direction from the side of a stroke

Answer: torque

Proverbs Trivia

“Honesty is the best” this

Answer: policy

The Virtues Trivia

It’s paired with liberty in the Pledge of Allegiance

Answer: justice

Proverbs Trivia

“A heavy purse makes a light” one of these organs

Answer: a heart

The Virtues Trivia

We assume that Bill Clinton was born with it; we know he was born in it

Answer: Hope

Proverbs Trivia

According to Alexander Pope, “Hope” does this “in the human breast”

Answer: “springs eternal”