Hammer
The flat striking face of a hammer can drive nails into wood and other materials. This topic is part of Tools within Everyday Life. This page currently draws on 13 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Hammer trivia questions
A hammer is commonly used to drive what into wood?
Answer: Nails
Bonus fact: The flat striking face of a hammer can drive nails into wood and other materials.
What part of a claw hammer is used to pull nails?
Answer: Claw
Bonus fact: The curved claw on the rear of the head can grip and lever out nails.
What type of hammer has a rounded peen and is commonly used in metalworking?
Answer: Ball-peen hammer
Bonus fact: Ball-peen hammers are used for shaping metal, riveting, and striking punches or chisels.
What piece of heavy equipment provides the flat surface on which a blacksmith hammers hot metal?
Answer: Anvil
Bonus fact: An anvil provides a hard work surface and shaped areas for forming metal.
Which Norse god wields the hammer Mjölnir?
Answer: Thor
Bonus fact: Thor is the Norse god associated with thunder and Mjölnir.
What tool does a blacksmith commonly hammer hot metal on?
Answer: Anvil
Bonus fact: The anvil provides a hard shaping surface.
Which keyboard instrument creates sound by striking strings with hammers?
Answer: Piano
Bonus fact: Pressing a piano key triggers a felt-covered hammer.
Mike Hammer is a fictional private detective created by whom?
Answer: Mickey Spillane
Bonus fact: Hammer debuted in I, the Jury.
Mike Hammer is best associated with what style of crime fiction?
Answer: Hardboiled detective fiction
Bonus fact: The books are known for a tough, violent private-eye style.
What is the title of the first Mike Hammer novel?
Answer: I, the Jury
Bonus fact: I, the Jury was published in 1947.
Which Marvel hero uses a hammer called Mjolnir?
Answer: Thor
Bonus fact: Thor is based on the thunder god from Norse mythology.
A blacksmith traditionally shapes objects made mainly from what material?
Answer: Iron and steel
Bonus fact: Blacksmiths heat and hammer iron or steel into tools, hardware, and other objects.