Trivia Tuesday: 5 New Trivia Questions from “Page-A-Day”

Every Tuesday is a Trivia Tuesday on AmericaJR… Look for five new trivia questions and answers from the “365 Amazing Trivia Facts for 2020” calendar…3

This Week’s Questions:

1. What is an astrobleme?
2. What is the world’s smallest mammal?
3. Where did the pineapple originate? (Hint: It wasn’t Hawaii.)
4. What are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have moons?
5. What do Leo Tolstoy, Mary Shelley, Gandhi, and Franz Kafka have in common?

This Week’s Answers:

1. The remnant of a crater formed by the impact of a meteorite or comet.
2. While there is some debate over how to determine the world’s smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat is considered the smallest based on skull size and height.
3. Botanists believe the pineapple plant originated in South America. The plant was exported to Hawaii and became a symbol of the island, thanks in part to Hawaii’s Dole pineapple plantation.
4. Venus and Mercury. By contrast, Jupiter and Saturn have dozens of moons!
5. They were all vegetarians.

Source: Workman Publishing / “Page-A-Day”

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