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A Few Trivia Questions
(February 2017)
ANSWERS Are At The Bottom Of This Page.

1) If you start at the island of Gibraltar and head SOUTH, what country do you run into?

2) What car company bought out Alpha Romeo?

3) What nation AND sport is the Gray Cup associated with?

4) Who sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy on his 43rd birthday?

5) What woman is the ONLY person to have won the Nobel Prize twice?

6) What flower is also a part of the eye?

7) In the Archie Comics, what character wears a crown on his/her head?

8) What is the longest river in China?

9) Who did the Chicago Cubs defeat in the 2016 baseball World Series?

10) What year did Operation Desert Storm begin?

11) Which of the following does not belong?
a) Grizzly b) Wooly c) Kodiak d) Polar

12) In what country is Mount Ararat?

13) What sport might you see a scrum?

14) How many pedals do most Grand Pianos have?

15) Which of the following does not belong?
a) Berkley b) Harvard c) Colombia d) Princeton

16) What continent is closest to Antarctica?

17) What mammal almost always gives birth to 4 offspring at a time?
Toughest Question Of The Night.........

18) What force must be stopped to stop a moving car?

19) What is the most Southeast city in Iowa?

20) How far are horse shoe stakes set apart?

21) Who served as President from 1877-1881?

22) Which of the following does not belong?
a) Little John b) Friar Tuck c) Will Scarlett d) John Barleycorn

23) How many states does Interstate 80 travel thru?

24) What sport was first played in Chicago in 1887 on Thanksgiving day? It was played indoors, but then went outdoors next Spring. It was meant to replace baseball.

25) What year did Fidel Castro take over Cuba?

26) Which of the following does not belong?
a) osprey b) mallard c) widgeon d) teal

27) What is the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit and Celsius?

28) In what country was the Auschwitz concentration camp?

29) What famous actor is Shirley McLane's brother?

30) What famous man of science lived in Pisa and died while being under arrest?

31) What is the only Central American country that does not border the Caribbean Sea?

32) What sport has two categories, Free Style and Greco-Roman?

33) What card game has two types, auction and contract?

34) What island was Napoleon exiled to?

35) What two great lakes does Niagara Falls separate?

36) What did Henry Seeley invent?

37) Who wrote From Russia With Love?

38) Which of the following does not belong?
a) pepper b) sugar c) cinnamon d) paprika

39) How many states border Oklahoma?

40) Who did Franklin Roosevelt defeat in a landslide in 1932?

BONUS QUESTION:
Women were first allowed to compete in the Olympic Games in 1900, what were the TWO sports?

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ANSWERS

1) If you start at the island of Gibraltar and head SOUTH, what country do you run into?
Morocco

2) What car company bought out Alpha Romeo?
FIAT

3) What nation AND sport is the Gray Cup associated with?
Canada---Football

4) Who sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy on his 43rd birthday?
Marilyn Monroe

5) What woman is the ONLY person to have won the Nobel Prize twice?
Madam Currie.....We missed this, we said Mother Teresa

6) What flower is also a part of eye?
Iris

7) In the Archie Comics, what character wears a crown on his/her head?
Jughead

8) What is the longest river in China?
Yellow River.....I said Yangtze....at first they said NO, but then judges
discovered that Yangtze is Chinese for Yellow and they gave it to us.

9) Who did the Chicago Cubs defeat in the 2016 baseball World Series?
Cleveland Indians

10) What year did Operation Desert Storm begin?
1991, I remembered it as it the year that Ray passed away.

11) Which of the following does not belong?
a) Grizzly b) Wooly c) Kodiak d) Polar
b) Wooly Bear is a caterpillar

12) In what country is Mount Ararat?
Turkey....I knew this, it is where Noah's Ark might have ended up.

13) What sport might you see a scrum?
Rugby

14) How many pedals do most Grand Pianos have?
2......We had no idea.

15) Which of the following does not belong?
a) Berkley b) Harvard c) Colombia d) Princeton
a) Berkley...the others all belong to the IVY League.

16) What continent is closest to Antarctica?
South America

17) What mammal almost always gives birth to 4 offspring at a time?
The toughest question of the night......Armadillo....we put Raccoon.

18) What force must be stopped to stop a moving car?
Inertia

19) What is the most Southeast city in Iowa?
Keokuk

20) How far are horse shoe stakes set apart?
40 feet.....We had no idea.

21) Who served as President from 1877-1881?
Rutherford B. Hayes.....Piece Of Cake, for me....in my wheelhouse.

22) Which of the following does not belong?
a) Little John b) Friar Tuck c) Will Scarlett d) John Barleycorn
d) John Barleycorn....others are members of Robin Hood's Merry Men.

23) How many states does Interstate 80 travel thru?
12....Good question, we got it right.

24) What sport was first played in Chicago in 1887 on Thanksgiving day? It was played indoors, but then went outdoors next Spring. It was meant to replace baseball.
Another good question...We put lacrosse....answer was softball.

25) What year did Fidel Castro take over Cuba?
1959

26) Which of the following does not belong?
a) osprey b) mallard c) widgeon d) teal
a) osprey...the others are types of ducks.

27) What is the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit and Celsius?
212f-----100c

28) In what country was the Auschwitz concentration camp?
Poland

29) What famous actor is Shirley McLane's brother?
Warren Beatty

30) What famous man of science lived in Pisa and died while being under arrest?
Galileo

31) What is the only Central American country that does not border the Caribbean Sea?
El Salvador

32) What sport has two categories, Free Style and Greco-Roman?
Wrestling

33) What card game has two types, auction and contract?
Bridge

34) What island was Napoleon exiled to?
Elba

35) What two great lakes does Niagara Falls separate?
Ontario and Erie

36) What did Henry Seeley invent?
Very, very tough.....The electric iron. We guessed, the Seeley mattress.

37) Who wrote From Russia With Love?
Ian Fleming

38) Which of the following does not belong?
a) pepper b) sugar c) cinnamon d) paprika
b) sugar....the others are spices. I had no idea.

39) How many states border Oklahoma?
Great question.....we missed it.....6.....we said 5

40) Who did Franklin Roosevelt defeat in a landslide in 1932?
Piece of cake again......Herbert Hoover

BONUS QUESTION:
Women were first allowed to compete in the Olympic Games in 1900, what were the TWO sports?
We really debated this one and said Tennis and Equestrian.....answer was Tennis and Golf.

PURE GENIUS QUESTION:
This was my best answer of the night....not bragging, but it fascinates me why a brain remembers some things and cannot for the life of me remember others......
What year was the first telecommunication satellite launched?
They gave us 4 possible answers, but I knew it without the help....why?
a) 1959 b) 1947 c)1957 d) 1962
Remember the song Telstar???? It was pretty popular, an instrumental.
Answer is d) 1962

GREAT FUN.....REMEMBER WE HAVE 8 ON A TEAM, SO NO ONE GETS A BUNCH OF THESE CORRECT.