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Trivia Night #6: Pies, Trains & Comic Strips: Printable Round

Hosting a trivia night at a bar, at school or at home? Print this round of 10 questions for your quizmaster, with an answer key on its own page. Read the choices aloud for an easier round, or hide them for a tougher one. Prefer to play? Take the quiz online.

Questions

  1. Key lime pie is the official state pie of which state?

    1. Georgia
    2. Hawaii
    3. Florida
    4. California

  2. Japan's famous high-speed "bullet trains" are known in Japan by what name?

    1. TGV
    2. Talgo
    3. Maglev
    4. Shinkansen

  3. In the Peanuts comic strip, what is the name of Snoopy's little yellow bird friend?

    1. Rerun
    2. Woodstock
    3. Sunny
    4. Tweety

  4. Boston cream pie, the official dessert of Massachusetts, is actually what kind of dessert?

    1. A layer cake
    2. A custard tart
    3. A cream puff
    4. A bread pudding

  5. Amtrak's high-speed Acela trains run between Washington, D.C., and which city at the northern end of the line?

    1. Providence
    2. Philadelphia
    3. Boston
    4. New York City

  6. In the comic strip Garfield, the lasagna-loving orange cat famously hates which day of the week?

    1. Wednesday
    2. Friday
    3. Sunday
    4. Monday

  7. Wildcard: The famous Hope Diamond is on public display at which Washington, D.C., museum?

    1. National Air and Space Museum
    2. National Museum of American History
    3. National Museum of Natural History
    4. National Gallery of Art

  8. Shoofly pie, a Pennsylvania Dutch favorite, gets its sweet, sticky filling mainly from what?

    1. Molasses
    2. Butterscotch
    3. Honey
    4. Maple syrup

  9. Which cartoonist created the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes?

    1. Bill Watterson
    2. Gary Larson
    3. Berkeley Breathed
    4. Scott Adams

  10. Standard-gauge railroad track, used across the US, has rails set how far apart?

    1. 5 feet even
    2. 5 feet 6 inches
    3. 4 feet 8½ inches
    4. 4 feet 6 inches

Answer key

  1. Florida (C)

    Lawmakers made it official in 2006; true Key limes are small, tart and turn yellowish when ripe.

  2. Shinkansen (D)

    The first line opened in October 1964, linking Tokyo and Osaka just days before the Tokyo Olympics.

  3. Woodstock (B)

    Charles Schulz named the bird after the famous 1969 music festival, and the name first appeared in 1970.

  4. A layer cake (A)

    It's sponge cake filled with custard and topped with chocolate glaze, traced to Boston's Parker House hotel.

  5. Boston (C)

    Amtrak's redesigned NextGen Acela trains entered service in August 2025 and can reach 160 mph on some stretches.

  6. Monday (D)

    The strip debuted on June 19, 1978, a date Garfield celebrates as his birthday.

  7. National Museum of Natural History (C)

    Jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45.52-carat blue gem in 1958, mailing it in a plain package.

  8. Molasses (A)

    A "wet-bottom" shoofly pie has a gooey layer under its crumb topping, while "dry-bottom" bakes up more cakelike.

  9. Bill Watterson (A)

    The strip ran from November 1985 to the last day of 1995, and its creator famously refused to license merchandise.

  10. 4 feet 8½ inches (C)

    That's 1,435 mm, a width English engineer George Stephenson popularized on his early railways in the 1800s.

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