Which is the only US state to have never had a foreign flag fly over it?
Idaho
The five-dollar-bill has the Lincoln Memorial on the back; you can just see the Lincoln statue inside. Likewise the penny, although you might need some magnification to see it there.
The Lincoln on the other side is the statue of Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial…example from on the penny and the $5
Bears explanation. There are measures for the degree of elasticity of a substance, so how can there not be a substance with the greatest elasticity?
Followup: How many have ended the game? And how many of those that ended the game have I personally seen?
Two and One
And now for my favorite trivial question (and answer):
What is your favorite trivia question (and answer)?
(What is your favorite trivia question (and answer)?)
I apologize if this has been done previously.
aahhh…thanks
When I type it, which I do regularly, it is $n$th, which puts the n in math italics, but the th in ordinary roman.
And in the word “cwm,” “w” is unambiguously a vowel, although that word is Welsh, where "w"s are classified as vowels and consonants, depending on how they are used.
“Nth” definitely contains a vowel sound, but “n” outside this use (at least not that I could think of, unless you are just talking about “n” itself) is never considered one. I think “nth” is a reasonable answer to the question, although there could be a few quibbles with it, depending on how technical you want to get.
For reference, here’s a list of all legal scrabble words containing none of AEIOUY:
BRR
BRRR
CRWTH
CRWTHS
CWM
CWMS
HM
HMM
MM
NTH
PFFT
PHPHT
PHT
PSST
SH
SHH
TSK
TSKS
TSKTSK
TSKTSKS
Which is precisely why it’s not valid as a Scrabble word, no matter what the Official (R) Dictionary™ says.
Proper, correct, English spelling of that word is “coomb”.
If you’re going to quibble that an image is not the subject then nobody has seen Lincoln since 1865.
Which book of the Bible never mentions God?
Esther
What is the literal translation of kamikaze?
“God wind” or “Divine wind”
If you start in Detroit and drive due south, what is the first foreign country you reach?
Canada
What earthly mountain’s top is furthest from the center of the earth?
Chimborazo, in Ecuador.
Which 3 MLB players who hit over 500 home runs each in their career, started and ended their careers in the same city, playing for different teams in different leagues?
Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Jimmy Foxx
FWIW, I have written a lot of trivia questions in my time, and if I worded those first two the way you have, the answers I’d be looking for would be parents and a set of grandparents respectively.
Or Cuba, depending on where in Detroit you start
I’d argue that this is just plain incorrect, and at the best a poorly-defined question. East is a direction based on the rotation of the earth. To be farthest east is to be further in that direction. The fact that a common coordinate system happens to run a discontinuity through a country doesn’t mean that you should call the bit across the discontinuity “easternmost”.
What is the US standard of length?
The meter. All the common lengths (inch, foot, yard, mile, etc) are defined in terms of the meter.
Who discovered the Watergate burglary that led to of Nixon’s resignation?
Night watchman Frank Wills
How?
By finding tape covering the latch pin on the entrance door
What is the word for describing the plowing of a field (or mowing grass) in the opposite direction for each adjacent pass of the plow/mower, or for writing succeeding lines of text in opposite directions?
boustrophedon