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Medium Funny Trivia Questions
The medium questions from our funny set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The medium band moves into strange laws, phobia names and word origins — the funny bone that is really a nerve, the octothorpe, the salmon law. Most tables get two or three and argue cheerfully about the rest.
14 medium funny trivia questions with answers
Hitting your "funny bone" actually means striking which nerve?
Answer: Ulnar nerve The ulnar nerve runs unusually close to the skin as it passes the elbow.
A "murmuration" describes a swirling flock of which bird?
Answer: Starlings Thousands of birds turn together with no leader, each tracking a handful of neighbours.
The # symbol has an official-sounding name coined by telephone engineers. What is it?
Answer: Octothorpe It was reportedly invented at Bell Labs when the key was added to touch-tone phones.
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: The number 13 It is why many hotels skip straight from floor 12 to floor 14.
What is the anatomical name for the smooth space between your eyebrows?
Answer: Glabella The word comes from the Latin for "smooth", since the area is hairless.
Wombat droppings are unusual for being what shape?
Answer: Cubic Uneven stiffness in the intestine wall moulds the flat sides, so the cubes don't roll away.
A group of jellyfish is called a what?
Answer: A smack A large seasonal gathering is also called a bloom.
Nomophobia is the modern fear of what?
Answer: Being without your mobile phone The name is a squash of "no-mobile-phone phobia".
The word "jovial" comes from the name of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter Those born under Jove were thought cheerful, just as Saturn gave us "saturnine".
In older English, the word "pineapple" originally meant what?
Answer: A pine cone The tropical fruit borrowed the name because it looked like a giant pine cone.
Pogonophobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Beards From the Greek pogon, meaning beard.
A group of ferrets is known as a what?
Answer: A business It is thought to be a corruption of an older word, "busyness".
Under the UK's Salmon Act 1986, it is an offence to handle salmon in what way?
Answer: In suspicious circumstances Section 32 is aimed at poaching, but the wording has amused people ever since.
Somniloquy is the technical term for what?
Answer: Talking in your sleep Sleepwalking has its own name, somnambulism.
Answer key
- Ulnar nerve
- Starlings
- Octothorpe
- The number 13
- Glabella
- Cubic
- A smack
- Being without your mobile phone
- Jupiter
- A pine cone
- Beards
- A business
- In suspicious circumstances
- Talking in your sleep
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