Real Time Quiz Answers
Real Time Quizzes are chat-based events that run somewhat frequently and offer a fun way to make a little bit of extra cash. These events are announced in the right-hand chat window of the game, and all players currently online will have the opportunity to join in by typing "!QUIZ" into any chat channel. Once you've joined the game, you will be presented with a series of 8 quiz questions on a wide variety of subjects, and you will have unlimited attempts to answer each one (although mistakes will hurt your score!). All users are given the same sequence of questions, and the game ends with the first person to successfully answer all 8.
All participants in the Real Time Quiz will earn $500 per correct answer, -$100 per each mistake. The winner of the event will have their name announced in the chat and will also earn a bonus of $2,500. This means that finishing the quiz first and without mistakes will net you a total of $6,500.
Most of the answers to the Real Time Quiz questions can be found with a quick internet search. However, sometimes the accepted answers may be unconventional, outdated, or may require very specific wording! Below are the answers that are accepted for the purpose of the Real Time Quizzes.
Animals
Q: How many toes does an ostrich have on one foot?
A: Two
Q: What is a group of monkeys called?
A: Troop
Q: What is a group of giraffes called?
A: Tower
Art
Q: Who wrote the poem The Raven?
A: Poe
Q: What is the name of the painting that Grant Wood is most famous for?
A: American Gothic
Q: What is otherwise known as the "seventh art" in French?
A: Cinema
Astronomy
Q: What planet is known for its layer of blue clouds?
A: Neptune
Q: What is the term for the distance light can travel in one year in a vacuum?
A: Light year
Q: Which planet is closest to our sun?
A: Mercury
Q: What do you call a small space rock while it is orbiting in space? (much larger and it would be an asteroid)
A: Meteoroid
Q: What created the Barringer Crater in Arizona?
A: Meteorite
Biology
Q: A ________ is all the genetic material contained in an organism, including its chromosomes, genes and DNA.
A: Genome
Q: What is the process by which plants manufacture their food
A: Photosynthesis
Q: How many chambers does a human heart have?
A: 4
Q: The first name in an animal or plant's scientific name is the name of its _______.
A: Genus
Q: Is bamboo a grass or a tree?
A: Grass
Q: How many chromosomes in a human cell?
A: 46
Botany
Q: Name the tubes which transport water and minerals up the stem of a plant.
A: Xylem
Chemistry
Q: The diagram of the elements, showing their atomic masses and weights and relationships to one another is called the _______ Table.
A: Periodic
Q: A group of two or more connected atoms is called a what?
A: Molecule
Q: What kinds of gases/elements do not normally form compounds with other elements?
A: Noble
Q: The four states of matter are solid, liquid, gaseous and....?
A: Plasma
Q: What is it called when a solid transforms immediately into a gas without becoming a liquid first?
A: Sublimation
Geography
Q: What is the longest river on Earth?
A: Nile
Q: What is the capital of Italy?
A: Rome
Q: In which modern country were the Inca people concentrated?
A: Peru
Q: What is the capital of England?
A: London
Q: What land mass is known as the "Island Continent?"
A: Australia
Q: In North America, the line that separates rivers which flow to the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico from those which flow to the Pacific is called the what?
A: Continental divide
Q: Siberia is in what country?
A: Russia
Q: What chain of mountains separates Europe from Asia?
A: Ural
Q: Until recently, the country known as Iran was also called what?
A: Persia
Q: What is the capital of Kenya?
A: Nairobi
Q: The "Valley of the Kings" is located in what country?
A: Egypt
Q: What is another name for the line describing 0 degrees of longitude?
A: Prime meridian
Q: How many boroughs in the city of New York?
A: 5
Geology
Q: The layer of nearly molten rock right under the Earth's crust is called its ______.
A: Mantle
Grammar
Q: Two words that are pronounced alike and spelled the same, but mean different things are called what?
A: Homonyms
History
Q: What was the first artificial satellite?
A: Sputnik 1
Q: Who was the first person to orbit the Earth?
A: Yuri Gagarin
Q: In what year was the famous Battle of Hastings fought?
A: 1066
Q: Who crowned Napoleon I Emperor of France?
A: Himself
Q: Genghis Khan was from what country?
A: Mongolia
Horses
Q: What is the source of the newest growth of a horse's hoof called?
A: Coronary band
Q: True or False: Arabians, Akhal-Tekes, Turkomans and Caspians are single-coated breeds (i.e., without a woolly undercoat in winter).
A: True
Q: On an English saddle, it's a good idea to switch your stirrup leathers from time to time, to keep those on one side from _______ too much.
A: Stretching
Languages
Q: "Bitte" is 'please' in what language?
A: German
Q: "Cheval" is 'horse' in what language?
A: French
Q: "Ave" is 'hello' in what language?
A: Latin
Literature
Q: What Greek hero was able to capture and tame Pegasus?
A: Bellerophon
Q: After Bellerophon rode Pegasus into battle, to whom did he present the winged horse?
A: Muses
Q: Which great seafarer commanded the Argo?
A: Jason
Q: Who said, "To be, or not to be?"
A: Hamlet
Q: What is the proper name for a person who makes and sells hats?
A: Milliner
Q: Name one of the Three Musketeers.
A: Athos
Q: Who said, "Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your ears!"
A: Mark Antony
Q: Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A: Homer
Q: What ancient Greek writer was famous for his fables?
A: Aesop
Math
Q: What is a polygon with seven sides called?
A: Heptagon
Q: What is a polygon with nine sides called?
A: Nonagon
Q: If you divide length of the adjacent side of an angle in a right triangle by the length of the hypotenuse, what value do you get?
A: Cosine
Q: If you divide length of the opposite side of an angle in a right triangle by the length of the hypotenuse, what value do you get?
A: Sine
Q: If you divide length of the opposite side of an angle in a right triangle by the length of the adjacent side, what value do you get?
A: Tangent
Q: A line that intersects only one point on a circle is called a ________.
A: Tangent
Q: You had five doodads. Two broke. You then bought twice as many as you had left. You gave one away. How many doodads do you have now?
A: 8
Q: What is one of the temperature scales?
A: Kelvin
Meteorology
Q: Snow, rain, hail and sleet are all forms of what?
A: Precipitation
Q: What do you call whispy clouds found high in the atmosphere?
A: Cirrus
Misc.
Q: What is the name of the stone that was important to decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs
A: Rosetta stone
Q: What native people originally inhabited Peru?
A: Inca
Oceanography
Q: The warmer the water the _____ oxygen it holds.
A: Less
Physics
Q: The tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, unless acted upon by an outside force, is called what?
A: Inertia
Q: What force causes two objects to warm up when rubbed together?
A: Friction
Q: True or False: The Earth's North Magnetic Pole is in the same place as the North Pole.
A: False
Science
Q: Paleontology is the study of what?
A: Fossils
Q: Meteorology is the study of what?
A: Weather
Q: Organic chemistry is the study of chemicals containing which element?
A: Carbon
Q: Egyptology is the study of what?
A: Egypt
Q: Planetology is the study of what?
A: Planets
Q: What word means the study of plants?
A: Botany
Q: The Moon orbits the Earth once every ____ days.
A: 28
Q: Ichthyology is the study of what?
A: Fish
Q: Linguistics is the study of what?
A: Language
Space
Q: What is the name of the first manned spacecraft?
A: Vostok 1
Zoology
Q: What was the earliest known ancestor of the horse?
A: Eohippus
Q: A certain weasel in its white winter coat is called an ermine. What is it called in its brown summer coat?
A: Stoat
Q: Which is the only wild cat with stripes?
A: Tiger
Q: Cows, sheep, goats and buffalo are members of what group of mammals?
A: Ungulates
Q: True or false: Mongooses are members of the weasel family.
A: False
Q: What do you call a cat who has more than the usual number of toes?
A: Polydactyl
Q: How many whiskers do most cats have on their muzzles?
A: 24
Q: What is the smallest bird?
A: Hummingbird