WTF Quiz #400, March 18, 2026
QUESTION 1
One of the most famous examples of someone wearing a "Canadian Tuxedo" is Justin Timberlake's appearance at the 2001 American Music Awards, where he matched Britney Spears in wearing an outfit made entirely out of WHAT TYPE OF FABRIC?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Denim
QUESTION 2
In a 1964 episode of "BBC Horizon", WHAT SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR, whose works include "Childhood's End", predicted something very much like the internet when he said, “You can call in through [a console] any information you want: airline flights, price of things at the supermarket, books you’ve always wanted to read”?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Arthur C. Clarke
QUESTION 3
"Godmother of Punk" is one nickname for WHAT 2015 ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE, whose reputation was cemented by co-founding Blackheart Records and by a runaway 1982 hit that peaked at #1 in several countries?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Joan Jett
QUESTION 4
The fifth-largest island in the world with an international border is a very irregularly shaped landmass of more than 18,000 square miles, divided about 60-40 between WHAT PAIR OF NATIONS in the Southern Hemisphere?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Argentina, Chile
QUESTION 5
In a fire tower, in a truck, in a garden, in a guardhouse, in another vehicle, out in the open, and in a boat: these are the seven circumstances that put Roy Sullivan in the record books as the person to experience more of WHAT EVENT than anyone in history?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Being Struck By Lightning (or synonymous)
QUESTION 6
Bob S was at home in the kitchen, preparing a marinade to tenderize his seafood. He took a bite of WHAT INGREDIENT in that marinade, then noticed the ingredient was, in a sense, eating him back, as it contains a powerful enzyme called bromelain?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Pineapple
QUESTION 7
Comprised largely of floral-decorated floats, equestrian units, and marching bands, an annual parade in WHAT CITY is traditionally held on a federal holiday, unless that day falls on a Sunday? The parade first instituted its "Never on Sunday" tradition in 1893 to avoid conflict with church services.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Pasadena
QUESTION 8
WHAT REALITY SHOW partners two strangers and tasks them with staying alive in the wilderness for three weeks? Each partner is allowed to bring one, and only one, helpful item and that’s it. That’s really it.
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: Naked and Afraid
QUESTION 9
The Guinness record for the furthest distance travelled by a postage stamp was set in 2015 when a stamp bearing the phrase "Pluto Not Yet Explored" was sent on WHAT NASA SPACECRAFT as it performed a flyby of Pluto on its mission to explore the modern boundaries of our Solar System?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: New Horizons
QUESTION 10
Until 2013 WHAT MULTINATIONAL PARENT COMPANY CONGLOMERATE owned, in real life, the TV network NBC, and in the fictional "30 Rock" universe had subsidiaries such as Winnipeg Iron Works and the Shienhart Wig Company?
Your Answer: N/A
Correct Answer: General Electric