*john illseley, alan clark and terry williams have been on

8/14/2019 *John Illseley, Alan Clark and Terry Williams Have Been On

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Albums*John Illseley, Alan Clark and Terry Williams have been on mega-selling albums with which band?A: Dire Straits.

*Which 1990 chart toppers had five entries in the album charts at Christmas the same year?A: New Kids On The Block.

*Which mid-70s No 1 album sleeve shows two men shaking hands in an empty street, with one man on fire?A: Wish You Were Here.

*November Rain was on which Guns'N'Roses album?A: Use Your Illusion 1.

Which guitarist Joe joined The Eagles on Hotel California?A: Walsh.

*John McVie played bass with which major album-selling band?A: Fleetwood Mac.

Which of the Rolling Stones' albums featured Miss You and Beast Of Burden?A: Some Girls.

Which band recorded the album The Joshua Tree?A: U2.

In the 70s who put a Message In A Bottle?A: Police.

*Which artist had a big hit with You Make Me Wanna?A: Usher.

Money For Nothing was an 80s NO 1 for which band?A: Dire Straits

*Which US Boys band featured three members of the Wilson Family?A: The Beach Boys.

Keith Richards rocked on in which super group?A: The Rolling Stones.

*How many boys were there in The Pet Shop Boys?A: Two.

Who fronted The Heartbreakers?A: Tom Petty.

Which heavy metal group took the name of Dutch-born members guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex?

A: Van Halen*Which 60s icon was backed by The Band?A: Bob Dylan.

*Which band included Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel?A: Genesis.

Which 60s sensation group was a modeled after the beatles?A: The Monkees.

*In which state did the band Chicago get together?A: Illinois.

Which band produced the album Dark Side Of The Moon?A: Pink Floyd

Which group flew into the Hotel California?A: The Eagles.

*R.E.M. cut the No 1 album Out Of blank?A: Time.

*Which band sang I want to Know What Love Is?A: Foreigner.

How many brothers were in the original Jackson family line up?A: Five.

What did the letter O stand for in ELO?A: Orchestra.

Whose hits include Bad Moon Rising and Green River?A: Creedence Clearwater Revival.


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Which all time great band featured Harrison and Star?A: The Beatles.


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Baseball

Q: What hide was first used to cover baseballs in 1975?A: Cowhide

*Q: What country's first U.S. major league baseball p layer was Chan-Ho Park?A: South Korea's

*Q: Which two cities have the oldest stadiums in major league baseball?A: Boston and Detroit

*Q: What shortstop holds the major league records for games played, assists and double plays?A: Ozzie Smith

*Q: What Pittsburgh Pirate had exactly 3,000 career hits before dying in a plane crash?A: Roberto Clemente.

*Q: What major league baseball team did the Walt Disney Company assume operational control of in 1996?A: The California Angels.

*Q: How many seasons saw Hank Aaron blast 50 or more homers?A: Zero.

Q: Who holds the record for most innings pitched in a major league season?A: Cy Young.

*Q: What major league baseball team was forced to endure a 20-day road trip in 1996?A: The Atlanta Braves.

Q: What's the most home runs hit by one player in a single major league game?A: Four.

Q: What establishments were 90 percent of the viewers watching the first televised World Series from?A: Bars.

*Q: What did Babe Ruth, Rogers, Hornsby, Ted Williams and Willie Mays all do in their first major league at-bats?A: Strike out.

*Q: What song do baseball fans break into when Mitch Williams steps out of the bullpen?A: Wild Thing

Q: Which finger on a pitcher's throwing hand controls a curve ball and slider?A: The middle.

*Q: Who set a major league record for the fewest errors by a shortstop, with three in 1990?A: Cal Ripkin Jr.

*Q: Who was the only baseballer to lay over 500 games at each of five di fferent positions?A: Pete Rose.


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Basketball

Q: What Indiana Pacer did Knicks fan Spike Lee anger during the 1994 playoffs by calling him "Cheryl"?A: Reggie Miller.

Q: What franchise has played in the most NBA finals since 1947?A: The Lakers.

Q: What two NBA players won the MVP trophy three times each from 1986 through 1992?A: Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.

Q: What player did the Boston Celtics draft between won-lost seasons of 29-53 and 61-21?A: Larry Bird.

Q: What Baltic country did Portland Trail Blazer Arvydas Sabonis play for at the 1996 Olympics?A: Lithuania.

Q: What NBA team became the first to defeat the Boston Celtics in 12 straight games, in 1995?A: The New York Knicks.

Q: Who was the first hoopster to win eight NBA scoring titles?A: Michael Jordan.

Q: What NBA team is know in China as "the Red Oxen"?A: The Chicago Bulls.

Q: Who was the last Boston Celtics coach to lead the team to two straight NBA titles?A: Bill Russell.

Q: What two NBA stars did Forbes list as the highest paid athletes for 1994?A:Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal

Q: What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior?A: Phil Jackson

Q: Who earned $32 million of his $36 million 1993 earnings from endorsements?A: Michael Jordan.

Q: What 20th-century decade saw the NBA adopt the 24-second shot clock?A: The 1950s.

Q: What 1960 rookie bested the league's "triple double" record of two during his first week in the NBA?A: Oscar Robertson.

Q: What seven-foot-two Chicago Bulls hoopster was the first Australian to lay in the NBA?A: Lue Longley

Q: What future NBA star was dubbed "Boy Gorge" when his weight passed 300 pounds in college?A: Charles Barkley.

Q: What Lakers coach had been an 11th-round pick in the 1967 NFL draft?A: Pat Riley.

Q: What NBA team plays home games at a facility nicknamed "The O-rena"?A: The Orlando Magic

Q: Who became the NBA's winningest coach ever on January 6, 1995?A: Lenny Wilkins

Q: Who netted an NBA record 72.7 field goal percentage in the 1972-73 season?A: Wilt Chamberlain.

Q: What sports team got its name because its owners wanted to "set the pace" in the NBA?A: The Indiana Pacers.

Q: What NBA star attempted a record 28,307 field goals in regular season games?A: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Q: What NBA team started out in 1948 as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks?A: The Atlanta Hawks.

Q: What NBA team failed to make the playoffs in 1994 for the first time since 1976?A: The Los Angeles Lakers.

Q: What basketball team was the f irst in major league sports to be named for an insect?A: The Charlotte Hornets.


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Q: What L.A. Lakers great might have played for Chicago if the Bulls had called "tails" in a 1979 NBA coin toss?A: Magic Johnson

Q: What Chicago Bulls coach has checked into hotels under the pseudonym "Mr. Red Cloud"?A: Phil Jackson.

Q: What NBA team is named after a car part?A: The Detroit Pistons.

Q: What hoopster scored in double figures in 787 straight games, from December 4, 1977 to December 4, 1987?A: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Q: What NBA team retired jersey numbers 3, 33, 32, and 35 in the 1990s?A: The Boston Celtics.

Q: What NBA team plays home games in an arena located at Two Pennsylvania Plaza?A: The New York Knicks.

Q: What NBA hoopster averaged an amazing 48.5 minutes per game, including overtime, in the 1961-62 season?A: Wilt Chamberlin.

Q: What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"?A: Dennis Rodman.

Q: What NBA star retired for the third time on May 14, 1996?A: Magic Johnson.

Q: How many rules did James Naismith originally write to define basketball --13, 33, or 53?A: Thirteen.

Q: Who led the NBA in hair colors in 1995?A: Dennis Rodman.

Q: What seven-foot-one NBA center's first name translates as "little one"?A: Shaquille O'Neal's.

Q: What do you have to be in the NBA to win the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy?A: Rookie of the year.

Q: Whose all-time NBA assists record was broken by John Stockton in 1995?A: Magic Johnson's.

Q: What basketball team had drubbed the New Jersey Reds 2,495 times straight before losing to them 100-99 in 1971?A: The Harlem Globetrotters.

Q: What city decided to call its new NBA team the Grizzlies, after much debate?A: Vancouver.

Q: Whose 1996 return to the NBA earned him simultaneous Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and Sports Illustratedcovers?

A: Magic JohnsonQ: What Celtics star of the 1980s did the Boston Globe say looked like Herman Munster?A: Kevin McHale.

Q: What was the first NBA team to win 70 games or more in the regular season?A: The Chicago Bulls.

Q: Who holds the NBA scoring mark for a single half, with 59 points?A: Wilt Chamberlin.

Q: What nickname did NBA star Karl Malone earn for his ability to deliver in the clutch?A: The Mailman.

Q: How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a player?A: Five.

Q: What former L.A. Lakers guard became the team's general manger?A: Jerry West.

Q: What hoopsters did major league pitcher Bob Gibson and Ferguson Jenkins once play for?A: The Harlem Globetrotters.

What is the only domesticated animal not mentioned in the Bible?A: A Cat.

What follows mass as the most popular activity in U.S. Catholic churches?A: Bingo.

What Arab nation has the highest percentage of Christians?A: Lebanon.


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Religion

What symbol did St. Patrick use to explain his theory of the Holy Trinity?A: The Shamrock.

What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem boasting the Temple of Solomon?A: Zionism.

What country boasts the largest number of Catholics?A: Brazil.

What name has been shared by the most popes?A: John.

Which two wicked cities were destroyed by God in Genesis?A: Sodom and Gomorrah.

What two countries claim two-thirds of the world's 2,000-plus registered saints?A: Italy and France.

What fruit is depicted in Leonardo's Last Supper, even though it did not arrive in the Holy Land until long after Jesus' death?A: The Orange.

What is there more of in the world- nonreligious people, Hindus or Muslims?A: Nonreligious people.

What former church lady got $75,000 to let "A Current Affair" televise her wedding in 1993?A: Tammy Faye Bakker.

What religious movement began with Martin Luther's attack on the sale of indulgences?A: The Reformation.

What Saudi Arabian city was the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad?A: Mecca.

What storied city on the Euphrates River was 55 miles south of Baghdad?A: Babylon.

What biblical place name means "pleasure"?A: Eden.

What city did Napoleon occupy in 1798, sending Pope Pius VI to the south of France?A: Rome.

What church raised millions sellig members "electropsychometer" lie detectors?A: The Church of Scientology.

What nation has 1,000 permanent inhabitants and produces no export goods?A: Vatican City.

What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453?A: Constantinople.

What nation's Catholics saw the Pope make a triumphant homecoming visit in 1980?A: Poland's.

What animal is mentioned most frequently in both the New and Old Testaments?A: The Sheep.

What's the only 100 percent Christian nation on Earth?A: Vatican City.

What biblical epic was the top-grossing movie of the 1950's?A: The Ten Commandments.

Who was the first pope?A: St. Peter.

What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?A: The Bible.

How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale?A: Three days and three nights.

According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrifton the Nile?A: Pitch, or natural asphalt.


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What language is Jesus believed to have spoken?A: Aramaic.

According to the Bible, what weapons was the Philistine giant Goliath carrying when he was slain by David?A: A sword and a spear, according to I Samuel 17:45.

According to the Bible, how many pearly gates are there?A: 12 (Revelation 21:12-21).

What were the names of the three wise men?

A: Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior.

Who were the parents of King Solomon?A: David and Bathsheba.

How many books of the Bible are named for women?A: Two - Ruth and Esther.

In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband?A: Ahab, King of Israel.

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Books

Who wrote Breakfast At Tiffany's?A: Truman Capote.

What ws the 1951 autobiography by Lionel Barrymore?A: We Barrymores.

What was the particular link between Jean Plaidy, Phillipa Carr and Victoria Holt?A: They are the same person.

Which fictional detective refers to using the little gray cells?A: Hercule Poirot.

What is the real name of the author of Miss Manners Guide For the Turn of the Millennium?A: Judith Martin.

Under which name did American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?A: Mark Twain.

Whose novel, published at the very end of the 19th century, produced the most-filmed horror character of the 20th century?A: Bram Stoker (Dracula).

Whose novels include Go Tell It On The Mountain?A: James Baldwin.

What ws the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms Marsh?A: Ngaio.

Who wrote Winesburg, Ohio?A: Sherwood Anderson.

Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight's Children?A: Salmam Rushdie.

In which decade of the century did HG Wells die?A: 1940s

Whose sports-based novels of the 90s include Comeback and To the Hilt?A: Dick Francis.

Aunt Agatha and Bingo Little feature in the escapades of which man about town?A: Bertie Wooster.

Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?A: Stephen King.

In which decade was The Lord Of The Rings first published?A: 50s.

Whose best-selling books include When You Look Like Your Passport Photo It's Time To Go Home?A: Ema Bombeck.

Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?A: Arthur Hailey.

Which novelist with an English place last name wrote White Fang?A: Jack London.

Who wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?A:Maya Angelou.

Georges Simenon created which character known by one name?A: Maigret.

What type of Jungle animal was Shere Khan?A: TIger.

David John Cornell wrote spy stories under which name?A: John Le Carre.

In 1917, which Joseph endowed an annual literary prize.A: Pulitzer.

Who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?A: Edward Albee.


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In which Ian Fleming novel did the dog Edison appear?A: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Whose autobiography was called Bound For Glory?"A: Woody Guthrie.

Which writer did Sean O' Casey describe as English Literature's performing flea?A: PG Wodehouse.

Ten Days That Shook the World is about what?

A: Russian Revolution.

Who completed his novel Omerta shortly before his death?A: Mario Puzo.

In Peter Pan, what are Hook's last words?A: Floreat Etona.

What was Ian Fleming's first novel?A: Casino Royale.

Who wrote A Hard Road to Glory: The History of the African American Athlete?A: Arthur Ash.

What was the combined ages of Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney when they published their book of Everyday Wisdom in 1994?A: 208

Of the trio of female US novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?A: Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird).

Which actress wrote the children's book Nibbles & Me?A: Elizabeth Taylor.

What was William Golding's follow up to The Lord of the Flies?A: The Inheritors.

Which French novelist played in goal for Algeria?A: Albert Camus.

Whose autobiographical novel was called The Enormous Room?A: e e cummings.

Which British novelist said, "Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac?"A: Graham Greene.

Which novelist was the cousin of actor Christopher Lee?A: Ian Fleming.

How was H H Munro better known?A: Saki.

What was DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover originally to have been called?A: Tenderness.

What was the subject of Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed?A: Poor car standards.

Who left an unfinished work called Cantos?A: Ezra Pound.

Which book had the longest stay on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list?A: A Life Less Ordinary (M Scott Peck).

Which country banned Black Beauty for its supposed racist title?A: Namibia.

What was the first book in the Goosebumps series?A: Welcome To Dead HOuse.

Which children's author's autobiography was called Boy?

A: Ronald Dahl.

What is the first name of P G Wodehouse's character Cheesewright?A: Stilton.


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Celebrities

*Who did Mate Garcia marry in 1996 by pointing to his symbol?A: Prince.

*Who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment after an incident in a hotel in 1991?A: Paula Jones.

*Which celebrity restaurants do Stallone, Willis and Schwarzenegger own?A: Planet Hollywood.

***Who became Ambassador to Ghana in 1974?A: Shirley Temple Black.

*Who was nicknamed the "cowboy philosopher"?A: Will Rogers.

Who was born first, Ronald Reagan or Frank Sinatra?A: Ronald Reagan.

Jerry Hall hails from which oil state?A: Texas.

Who did Jacqueline Bouvier marry in September 1953?A: John F. Kennedy.

Twiggy was the most famous model of which decade?A: 60s

*Which Richard did Elizabeth Taylor marry twice?A: Burton.

*Where was Sean Lennon's mother born?A: Japan.

Who is older, Jay or Donny Osmond?A: Jay.

Michael Jackson's first wife was the daughter of which "King"?A: Elvis Presley.

Giorgio Armani is famous in which field?A: Fashion design.

Fashion designer Donatella, sister of the murdered Gianni, has which last name?A: Versace.

*Which actress is Carrie Fisher's mother?A: Debbie Reynolds.

Ivanka Trump has a similar name to her mother; who is she?A: Ivana Trump.

Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?A: Ronald Reagan.

Disasters Trivia

*Which Open Tennis tournament was John McEnroe expelled from?A: Australian.

Which disaster took place in Kobe, Japan in 1995?A: Earthquake.

Charles Rolls of Rolls Royce fame died in what type of vehicle?A: Airplane.

*Which scandal hit sportsman was described by wife Monica in 1998 as "kind of shy?"A: Mike Tyson.

*Bandleader Glenn Miller was last seen in an aircraft leaving which country?A: England.


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Where was the USA's worst nuclear accident, in 1979?A: Three Mile Island.

Who was the first US President to resign while in office?A: Richard Nixon.

Which Olympic Games were the scene of a terrorist attack by Palestinian guerrillas?A: Munich.

In which month did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?

A: December.

Which German airship crashed in New Jersey in 1937?A: Hindenberg.

*In what decade did the Dust Bowl devastate Midwest farmers?A: 1930s

*In which country was the Titanic launched?A: Ireland.

*What was the nationality of the jet shot down in Russian air space in 1983?A: Korean.

*In what year was the Wall Street Crash.A: 1929.


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Easy

In the X Files what is Mulder's first name?A: Fox.

Which of the Beatles was the first to be widowed?A: Paul McCartney.

In which country were the 1996 Olympic Games held?A: United States.

In Mask Jim Carrey starred as someone working where?A: A bank.

*Who had a 70s No 1 with If You Leave Me Now?A: Chicago.

What is the postal abbreviation for Indiana?A: IN.

*Which Jeff starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys?A: Bridges.

IN 1998 actor James Brolin married which singer / actress?A: Barbra Streisand.

Bill Clinton was Governor of which state when he became President?A: Arkansas.

Wichita international airport is in which US state?A: Kansas.

The Dalai Lama fled which country in the 50s?A: Tibet.

In which decade did Boris Yeltsin come to power?A: 1990s.

*Woody Allen was born in which decade of the 20th century?A: 30s.

Who had a 70sNo 1 hit with Stayin' Alive?A: The Bee Gees.

What type of curtain divided eastern and Western Europe during the cold war?A: Iron.

Bandleader Edward Ellington was known by what nickname?A: Duke.

Which state is called the Garden state?A: New Jersey.

What did Cecil B de Mille make?A: Movies.


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Famous Names

*Who was flying the plane in which the first US airplane fatality occurred?A: Orville Wright.

Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?A: Martin Luther King.

Who was the first Briton to win the US Open tennis title?A: Fred Perry.

What part of his body did Keith Richards insure of a million pounds?A: Third finger, left hand.

*In 1998 who did Vanity Fair describe as "simply the world's biggest heart throb?"A: Leonardo DiCaprio.

*Who first gave Buster Keaton the nickname Buster?A: Houdini.

Who or what was Deep Blue, Gary Kasparov's famous chess opponent?A: Computer.

*Who retired as world Heavyweight champion in March 1949 aged 34?A: Joe Louis.

*Which bandleader has the f irst names Edward Kennedy?A: Duke Ellington.

*Who went to the electric chair for the murder of Charles Lindbergh junior?A: Bruno Hauptmann.

*Who was the sole survivor of the car crash in which Princess Dianna died?A: Trevor Rees-Jones.

Which President offered military aid to Korea in 1950?A: Truman.

*Who was the Bronx Bull who Sugar Ray Robinson defeated in 1951?A: Jake La Motta.

Who were the first married couple to go to the electric chair?A: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Ulrich Salchow was the first Olympic medalist in his sport and give his name to one of its jumps; what sport is it?A: Skating.

*Who was America's second man in space?A: M Scott Carpenter.

*Which poet read a poem at John F Kennedy's inauguration?A: Robert Frost.

Which cartoon strip was Charles Schulz's most famous creation?A: Peanuts.

*What was Malcom X's real last name?A: Little.

*Who founded The Reader's Digest?A: DeWitt Wallace.


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Food

What breakfast cereal was Sonny the Cuckoo Bird "cuckoo for"?A: Cocoa Puffs.

*On what vegetable did an ancient Egyptian place his right hand when taking an oath?A: The onion.

How many flowers are in the design stamped on each side of an Oreo cookie?A: Twelve.

Black-eyed peas are not peas. What are they?A: Beans

*What are the two top selling spices in the world?A: Pepper and mustard

*What animals milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?A: The water buffalo's.

What candy maker switched from making caramels to chocolate bars in 1903?A: Milton S. Hershey

*What was the f irst commercially manufactured breakfast cereal?A: Shredded Wheat.

*What was the first of H.J. Heinz' "57 varieties"?A: Horseradish

Where did the pineapple plant originate?A: In South America. It didn't reach Hawaii until the early nineteenth century.

*What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?A: Vitamin A

Q: What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?A: Chicken.

Q: What company first condensed soup in 1898?A: Campbell's.

Q: What nutty legume accounts for one sixth of the world's vegetable oil production?A: The peanut.

Q: What country saw the cultivation of the first potato, in 200 A.D.?A: South America.

Q: What type of lettuce was called Crisphead until the 1920s?A: Iceberg lettuce.

Q: What tree gives us prunes?A: The plum tree.

Q: What type of chocolate was first developed for public consumption in Vevey, Switzerland in 1875?A: Milk Chocolate.

Q: What newly-imported substance caused the first major outbreak of tooth decay in Europe, in the1500's?A: Sugar.

Q: What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour taste?A: Lactose.

*Q: What baking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, did the U.S. Air Force replace its toxic paint stripper with?A: Baking soda.

Q: What staple is laced with up to 16 additives including plaster of paris, to stay fresh?A: Bread.

*Q: What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity?A: An Apple.

*Q: What method of preserving food did the Incas first use, on potatoes?A: Freeze-drying.

*Q: What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to eat?A: The coconut.


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Q: What hit the market alongside spinach as the first frozen veggies?A: Peas.

Q: How many sizes of chicken eggs does the USDA recognize, including peewee?A: Six.

*Q: What type of animals egg will yield 11 and one-half average-size omelettes?A: An Ostrich egg.

*Q: What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?

A: Honey.

Q: What should your diet be high in to lessen the chance of colon cancer, according to a 1990 study?A: Fiber.


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Football

Q: What yard line must a football team drive to, to reach the "red zone"?A: The twenty.

*Q: What NFL footballer saw his weight reach a league-leading 340 pounds in 1988?A: William "The Refrigerator" Perry.

*Q: Who played defensive back for the New York Giants before he coached the Cowboys?A: Tom Landry.

*Q: How many points was a touchdown worth in 1911?A: Five.

Q: What National Football Conference division do the Lions, Bears and Packers play in?A: The Central Division

*Q: What Dallas quarterback fumbled a record five times in four Super Bowl games?A: Roger Staubach.

*Q: Who said life's three important things were "family, religion and the Green Bay Packers"?A: Vince Lombardi.

Q: What sportscaster posted an NFL coaching record of 103-22-7 along with having his name attached to many video games?A: John Madden.

Q: What former Chicago Bears star was known as "the Enforcer," "the Animal" and "Paddles"?A: Dick Butkus.

Q: What were NFL players required to wear in games for the first time in 1943?A: Helmets.


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Science

*Q: What process involves treating rubber with sulphur to harden it?A: Vulcanizing.

Q: What scale of zero to 14 is used to measure acidity or alkalinity?A: The pH scale.

Q: What O-word describes oxygen with molecules that have three atoms instead of two?A: Ozone.

Q: What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per second?A: The Watt.

Q: What planet is closest in size to our moon?A: Mercury.

Q: What's the common name for a cubic decimeter?A: A liter.

Q: What measure of energy comes from the Latin word meaning "heat"?A: The calorie.

Q: What's removed from water in the process of desalination?A: Salt.

Q: What species Amazonian electric variety packs a 650 volt wallop?A: The eel's.

Q: What C word defines a substance that speeds a chemical reaction without being consumed?A: Catalyst.

Q: What's the base unit of mass in the metric system?A: The kilogram.

Q: What cooking fuel is produced by heating wood without oxygen?A: Charcoal.

Q: What's the only metal that 's not a solid at room temperature?A: Mercury.

Q: Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a pound of coal or a gallon of gasoline?A: A gallon of oil.

*Q: What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to inches?A: Centimeters.

Q: What method of underwater detection is short for "sound navigation and ranging"?A: Sonar.

Q: What hazardous substance is euphemistically referred to as "mineral fiber"?A: Asbestos.

*Q: What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid?A: Pink.

*Q: What process involves heating an ore to obtain a metal?A: Smelting.

Q: What's the U. S. equivalent of 0.45 kilograms?A: One pound.

*Q: What's defined as the distance between a lens and its focal point?A: It's focal length.

Q: What energy unit is defined as the heat required to raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius?A: One Calorie.

Q: What founding father was knocked unconscious while attempting to electrocute a turkey?A: Benjamin Franklin..

Q: What continent is subjected to the world's largest ozone hole?A: Antarctica.

Q: What sea creature can have an eye measuring 16 inches across, the largest in the animal kingdom?A: A squid.


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Q: What explosive cosmic event was seen with the naked eye in 1987, for the fi rst time in 383 jyears?A: A supernova.

Q: What three terms are represented in Newton's second law of motion F = ma?A: Force, mass, acceleration.

Q: How many of the nine planets have moons?A: Seven.

*Q: What were exterminated from Harvard's bio labs when they were found to be carrying radioactive chemicals into the walls?

A: Ants.

*Q: What type of trees yield the resin used to produce turpentine?A: Pine trees.

Q: What's the most malleable metal?A: Gold.


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History

Q: What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S. accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?A: The Persian Gulf War.

Q: What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle against Japan?A: Okinawa.

Q: What opportunistic country declared war on Japan five days before its surrender in 1945?A: The Soviet Union.

Q: What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government first printed paper money?A: The Civil War.

Q: What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in 1945?A: Germany.

Q: What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf Warriors use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?A: Slimed.

Q: What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him a "believer" in the Vietnam War?A: Dead.

Animals Doing Uniquely Human Things! Crazy Animal Antics Printed Merchandise Cat Wrestling, Party Cows, Dogs playingpoker, fire breathing dragons, Chickens riding Motorcycles and other crazy stuff.

Q: What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only following orders"?A: The Nuremberg war crimes trials.

Q: What was the first war the U. S. took part in that was partially financed with lottery dollars?A: The Revolutionary War.

Q: What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union after the Civil War.A: Georgia.

Q: What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"?A: Norman Schwarzkopf.

Q: Which two nations, constitutionally barred from military actions, sent money to support the Allied coalition against Iraq in "1991"?A: Germany and Japan.

Q: What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?

A: Dayton.Q: What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class of 1829?A: Robert E. Lee

Q: What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?A: The Flying Fortress.

Q: What English King introduced death by boiling and legalized the killing of gypsies?A: Henry VIII.

Q: What two continents have never been the site of a major military conflict?A: Antarctica and Australia.

Q: Who returned to Russia from exile in October, 1917?A: Vlaldimir Ilyich Lenin.

Q: What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?A: The Star-Spangled Banner.

Q: What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down another/A: The Korean War.

Q: What so called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead Than Red" and "Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950s?A: The Cold War.

Q: What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench warfare?A: The Tank.

What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in 1836?A: The U.S.

Who was the only American to become vice president and president after resignations?A: Gerald Ford.
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*What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the 4000 and 5000 marks?A: 1995.

*Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth voyage to the New World?A: Christopher Columbus.

*Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?A: Colin Powell.

*Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?

A: Anne Boleyn.

*What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet"?A: Abraham Lincoln.

*What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops participating in Operation Desert Storm?A: Saudi Arabia.

*Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?A: Michael Dukakis.

*What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?A:1952.

*What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?A: Captain.

*What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South Vietnam?A: The Viet Cong.

*Who led the Million Man March on Washington?A: Louis Farrakhan.

*What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history, killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?A: China.

What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in World War II?A: Prague.

What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish minority in the 1990s?A: Iraq.

What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?A: Colin Powell.

What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast?A: A donkey.

*What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History of the World" while banished to the Tower of London?A: Sir Walter Raleigh.

*Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?A: Abraham Lincoln.

*Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in prison?A: Rudolf Hess.

What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?A: The Berlin Wall.

What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and Honduras, after an unpopular referee's call in 1969?A: Soccer.

What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, speech and the press?A: The First Amendment.

*Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of Russia's Marxist movement?A: Joseph Stalin.

What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who was also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?

A: Jack Kevorkian.

*What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair thinned and her cheeks hollowed?A: Mirrors.

*What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by a donation from a Texas cattle heiress?A: The Alamo.

*How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster?A: Zero.

*What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"?A: Winston Churchill.


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*What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?A: Banzai.

What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be buried in?A: The Mississippi River.

*Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?A: Patti Hearst.

What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?

A: James Garfield.

What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of about 200?A: The Central Intelligence Agency's.

What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much"?A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

*What awards, founded in 1901, are funded with the help of the Bank of Sweden?A: The Nobel Prizes.

What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of 1979?A: Vietnam.

*What color were the "black boxes" on TWA Flight 800?A: Orange.

*What secretary of defense admitted the Vietnam War was a "mistake" in 1995?A: Robert McNamara.

*What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?A: Princess Diana.

*What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury?A: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

*Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?A: Martin Luther King Jr's.

*What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?A: Pope John Paul II.

What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?A: General Motors.

What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?A: The Korean War.

*What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?A: Unemployment.

*What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?A: Boston.

*Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?A: Benedict Arnold.

What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest military and naval d isaster in our nation's history"?A: The attack on Pearl Harbor.

*Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's note of surrender?A: Ulysses S. Grant's.

What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?A: "Sink Ships".


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International

Q: What organization elects the 15 judges of the World Court?A: The United Nations.

*Q: What nation was miffed when Hubert Humphrey declined its secret offer to help finance his 1968 presidential campaign?A: The Soviet Union.

*Q: What physicist's last words were not understood because his nurse did not speak German?A: Albert Einstein's.

Q: What dictator is affectionately dubbed EL Maximo by fans?A: Fidel Castro.

*Q: What 10-year old began earning his bad reputation by throwing puppies off the Kremlin walls in 1540?A: Ivan the Terrible.

*Q: What country used weather-born balloons to drop more than a hundred bombs on North America during World War II.A: Japan.

*Q: What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough"?A: Karl Marx's.

Q: What did four million prisoners die mining for in Stalin's Kolyma forced labor camp?A: Gold.

*Q: What 1938 pact caused Winston Churchill to utter: "We have sustained a defeat without a war"?A: The Munich Pact.

*Q: What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?A: Robert La Salle.

*Q: What can Germans publicly deny the existence of the earn five years in prison?A: The Holocaust.

Q: What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to Palestinians?A: Hamas.

Q: What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in 1962?A: Cuba.

Q: What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, stating in 1989?A: Apartheid.

*Q: What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the pseudonym Maria Maggi?A: Eve Peron.


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Invention

Q: What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp in the second century?A: Paper.

Q: What did "Art Fry invent after scraps of paper to mark tunes in his hymnal kept falling out?A: Post-it Notes.

Q: What did Leonardo invent to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper fresco?A: The hygrometer.

Q: What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?A: Briton.

Q: What "foot doctor" held over 300 patents?A: Dr. Scholl.

Q: What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios?A: The transistor.

Q: What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr. Jonas Salk to come out of retirement in 1987?A: AIDS.

Q: What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor William James Morrison?A: Dentist.

Q: What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?A: Galileo.

Q: What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire performers bouncing on safety nets?A: The trampoline.

Q: What century saw the invention of the shoelace?A: The eighteenth.

Q: What name did George Eastman invent in 1888 because it was easy to memorize, pronounce, and spell?A: Kodak.

Q: What innovative inventor's Dymaaxion car could carry eleven passengers, exceed 120 mph and get 30 miles per gallon in 1934?A: Buckminster Fuller's.

Q: What type of structure did R. Buckminster Fuller patent in 1954?A: The geodesic dome.

Q: What century saw Alexander Cummings issued the first patent for a flush toilet?A: The eighteenth.

Q: What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape?A: The vacuum cleaner.

Q: What landmark invention eased farming chores for Sumerians in 3500 B.C.?A: The plow.

Q: What food product did Hyppolyte Merge-mouries invent in 1868 by treating oils with hydrogen?A: Margarine.

Q: What British second lieutenant got the idea to fill a canister shell with musket balls and a charge of gunpowder?A: Sir Henry Shrapnel.

Q: Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?A: Thomas Edison.

Q: What kitchen invention took the top prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?A: The dishwasher.

Q: What company gave the world the first electric toothbrush?A: Interplak.

Q: What Edwin Budding invention began changing the face of English landscapes in the 1820s?A: The lawn mower.

Q: What invention for keeping cold air out of buildings in winter was patented by Theophilus Van Kannel in 1888?A: The revolving door.

Q: What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?A: The Tractor.


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Math

Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?A: Pi.

Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?A: Obtuse.

Q: What's the top number of a fraction called?A: The numerator.

Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?A: Pythagoras.

Q: What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?A: A quadrilateral.

Q: What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?A: A hologram.

Q: What number does "giga" stand for?A: One billion.

Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?A: Zero.

Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?A: Binary.

Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?A: Twenty.

Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?A: An octagon.

Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?A: Tangent.

Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?A: The hexagon.

Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?A: One.

Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?A: K and M.

Q: What's short for "binary digit"?A: Bit.

Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?A: The sixteenth.

Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?A: Googol.

Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?A: The Slide rule's.


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Medical and health

Q: What's the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men?A: Prostate cancer.

Q: What does "CPR" stand for in medical emergencies?A: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Q: What, along with heart disease and cancer, accounts for 64 percent of U.S. deaths?A: Stroke.

Q: What virus did the World Health Organization say would infect 40 million people by the year 2000?A: HIV.

Q: What do cosmetic surgeons remove 200,00 pounds of from Americans per year?A: Fat.

Q: What do doctors look at through an ophthalmoscope?A: The eye.

Q: What disease accounts for two of every three cases of dementia?A: Alzheimer's.

Q: What S-word is defined as "a lateral curvature of the spine"?A: Scoliosis.

Q: What substance produced by the body is counteracted by antihistamine drugs./A: Histamine.

Q: What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.

Q: What's most likely to occur when your diaphragm goes into spasms?A: Hiccups.

Q: What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?A: Athlete's foot.

Q: How many times a day must you take medication if your prescription reads "q.i.d."?A: Four.

Q: What part of the eye may be obscured by cataracts?A: The lens.

Q: What arthritic disorder occurs due t increased uric acid the the blood?A: Gout.

Q: What hereditary blood defect is known as "the royal disease"?A: Hemophilia.

Q: What organ is inflamed when one has encephalitis?A: The brain.

Q: Where does the embryo implant itself in a tubal pregnancy?A: A Fallopian tube.

Q: How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?A: Nine.

Q: What brain operation was tried first on a confused 63-yuar-old female at George Washington Hospital in 1956?A: A lobotomy.

Q: What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?A: Muscle.

Q: What was bovine spongiform encephalopathy called by the British press in 1996?A: Mad cow disease.

Q: What's the medical term for low blood sugar?A: Hypoglycemia.

Q: What's the tranquilizer diazepam better known as?A: Valium.

Q: What's the common term for a cerebrovascular accident?A: Stroke.

Q: What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into contact with/A: Poison Ivy.


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Q: What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?A: Morphine.

Q: What was the most widely prescribe antideppressant in the U.S. in the 1990s?A: Prozac.

Q: What syndrome does SIDS mean to child care experts?A: Sudden infant death syndrome.

Q: What disease is the focus of oncology?

A: Cancer.

Q: Where is liver bile stopped before being released into the small intestine?A: The gall bladder.


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Entertainment

What 1961 movie has Audrey Hepburn note: "Personally, I think it's a bit tacky to wear diamonds before I 'm 40"?A: Breakfast at Tiffany's.

What Sinatra signature tune became Elvis Presley's best-selling posthumous hit?A: My Way.

Who played Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald, Count Dracula and Beethoven in movies?A: Gary Oldman.

What video, the first to cost over $150,000, helped Michael Jackson's Thriller soar?A: Beat It.

Who is the most voluptuous female in Toontown?A: Jessica Rabbit.

What was the first Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to win four Academy Awards?A: Terminator 2.

What actor did author Anne Rice first denounce, then praise in the role of her beloved Lestat?A: Tom Cruise.

Who sang "Things Go Better With Coke" in 1969 before switching to Pepsi in the 1980's?A: Ray Charles.

What movie earned Tom Hanks his third straight Oscar nomination, in 1996?A: Apollo 13.

What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a daytime talk show host?A: Harpo's.

What Stephen Foster tune encourages racing enthusiasts to "bet on de bay"?A: Camptown Races.

What James Hilton effort became the first Pocket Book, in 1939?A: Lost Horizon.

What martial artist warbles the theme song for Walker, Texas Ranger?A: Chuck Norris.

Who was the voice behind Woody, the cowboy doll in Toy Story?A: Tom Hanks.

What jazz musician got his aristocratic nickname in high school for his neat attire and fastidious manners?A: "Duke" Ellington.

What talk show hostess gave her guests the fewest opportunities to speak, according to a 1996 MSU survey?A: Oprah Winfrey.

Where do "bluebirds fly", according to a song from the Wizard of Oz?A: Somewhere over the rainbow.

What enduring daytime soap featured Kevin Kline, Don Knotts and Susan Sarandon?A: Search for Tomorrow.

What book did E.B. White base on personal experiences at his farm in Maine?A: Charlotte's Web.

What three words preceded "Land that I love" in a 1938 Irving Berlin tune?A: "God Bless America".

What Oliver Stone movie did the Washington Post dub "Dallas in Wonderland"?A: JFK.

What infomercial diet guru penned the monster bestseller "Never Say Diet"?A: Richard Simmons.

Who was the first solo female host of the Academy Awards Ceremony?A: Whoopi Goldberg.

What happy homemaker chirps on TV: "It's a good thing"?A: Martha Stewart.

What screen character i the world's fastest ice sculptor and topiary artist?A: Edward Scissorhands.


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Who died last - Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley or Vivian Vance?A: Lucille Ball.

What Briton had two f the three number one singles issued posthumously in the U.S.?A: John Lennon.

Who saw his Mazurkas described by a Berlin critic in 1833 as "repugnant" and "tortuous"?A: Fredric Chopin.

How many former Beatles had chart-topping singles from 1973 to 1974?

A: Four.

What role in The Godfather did Robert De Niro test for?A: Sonny Corleone.

What's the first word of the most pop song titles?A: I.

What 1995 movie's lead character tells the motel clerk he's there to drink himself to death?A: Leaving Las Vegas. Fun trivia questions answers and facts.

What 1989 movie has Dan Aykroyd note: "Cars don't misbehave"?A: Driving Miss Daisy.

What critter is the "Iggy" short for in Iggy Pop?A: The iguana

What movie sees Danny Devito tell Michelle Pfeiffer: "You lousy minx, I ought to have you spayed"?A: Batman Returns.

Who'd begun work on a 10th symphony when he died during a thunderstorm in 1827?A: Ludwig van Beethoven.

What zip code was mentioned 301 times in the first five years of Entertainment Weekly?A: 90210.

What jazz style did Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie help invent?A: Bebop.

Who said, "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl?"A: Charlie Chaplin.

In which sport did John Kelly compete in the 1920 Olympics?A: Rowing.

How old was Shirley Temple when she received an honorary Oscar?A: Six.

In which state did Robert Redford found the Sundance Institute?A: Utah.

Who lived at the real 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when the musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had its debut in 1976?A: Gerald Ford.

Sunday in the Park with George is based on which painting?A: Sunday Afternoon On the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Godspell was based on which book of the Bible?A: St. Matthew's Gospel.


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The Oscars

Titanic won 11 Oscars, but for how many was it nominated?A: 14.

In which film did Cher win an Oscar playing Loretta Castorini?A: Moonstruck.

For which film did Robert de Niro win his first Oscar?A: The Godfather Part II.

From which year did Martina Navratilova compete officially as an American rather than a Czech player?A: 1981.


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Famous People

Marlon and Tito were two members of which famous family group?A: Jackson Five.

What breed of dog was Madonna's Chiquita?A: Chihuahua.

Whose funeral caused Sam Goldwin to say, "The only reason people showed up was to make sure he was dead?"A: Louis B Mayer.

Who directed the $100 million-grossing movie Wayne's World?A: Penelope Spheeris.

Chevy Chase was a professional in which sport?A: Tennis.

Where did Calvin Klein graduate from in 1962?A: New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.

Who did Stella McCartney replace as designer at Chloe?A: Karl Lagerfeld.

Who said, "I'd rather go mad than see a psychiatrist?"A: Michael Caine.

In which castle did Posh Spice Victoria Adams get married?A: Luttrellstown Castle.

Who said, "I never really hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back?"A: Zsa Zsa Gabor.

What did Elvis's widow Priscilla call her child by a different partner?A: Navarone.

In which year did Andy Warhol die?A: 1987

Who became Christian Dior's assistant at the age of 17?A: Yves St. Laurent.

Who designed the jewel-encrusted jacket worth $1 million modeled by Naomi Campbell in 1998?A: Gai Mattioli.

What type of car was Isadora Duncan test driving when her scarf caught in the wheel spokes and strangled her?A: Bugatti.

Which wife received an $874 million divorce settlement in 1982?A: Soraya Khashoggi.

Who was described by New York Magazine as "the first image maker"?A: Ralph Lauren.

President trivia questions and answers.

What U.S. president's State of the Union address lasted a record 81 minutes?A: Bill Clinton's.

What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?A: Bill Clinton.

What 1970's president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?A: Jimmy Carter. Presidential trivia questions and answers.

What U.S. president had the shortest life?A: John F. Kennedy.

What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?A: Theodore Roosevelt.

What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic?A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.

What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out"?A: Richard Nixon.

Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome" before a joint session of Congress?A: Lyndon B. Johnson.


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What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?A: Andrew Jackson.

What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?A: Woodrow Wilson.

What future U.S. president received the last ri tes of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954?A: John F. Kennedy.

What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his term in office?

A: The war of 1812.

What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?A: The U.S. Constitution.

Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a Playboy video?A: Patti Davis.

How many U.S. states are named after a president?A: One.

Who is the only president to have survived two assassination attempts by women?A: Gerald Ford.

What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?A: December 8, 1941.

What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China?A: Barbara Walters.

Who revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb in his last State of the Union speech?A: Harry S. Truman


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Science

What was the first city to be leveled by a plutonium-based atomic bomb?A: Nagasaki.

What high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher?A: PASCAL.

What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off-John Glenn, Alan Shepard or Gus Grissom?A: Gus Grissom.

What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when first used in combat in 1176?A: A submarine.

What creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race in Sydney, Australia?A: The Kangaroo.

What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?A: Uranium.

What organ of a buffalo did Plains Indians use to make yellow paint?A: The gallbladder.

What optical aids was nearsighted model Grace Robin the first to show off in 1930?A: Contact lenses.

What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red blood cells in, in 1993?A: A tyrannosaurus rex's.

What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?A: Honey.

What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?A: The Macintosh.

What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the favorite of most women?A: Eyes.

What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?A: Uranus.

What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?A: Olestra.

What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by nuclear power wags?A: Chernobyl's.

What is a single unit of quanta called?A: A quantum.

What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?A: It's head.

What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?A: Coppertone.

What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?A: Morphine.

What substance nets recyclers the most money?A: Aluminum.

What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?A: Shoes.

What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its belly on land?A: The penguin.

What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?A: Athlete's foot.

What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?A: Pork.

How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?A: Nine.


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What computer company was named after a founder's memories of spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?A: Apple.

What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the windpipe?A: The Thyroid.

What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"?A: Laser.

What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?

A: Venus.

What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world in 1520?A: The rifle.

What type of machine did 19-year-old French genius Blaise Pascal invent to help his dad do taxes in 1642?A: An adding machine.

What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.

What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?A: The tractor.


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Random Questions.

What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into contact with?A: Poison Ivy.

What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in 1781?A: Uranus.

What V-word is defined as "the ability of a liquid to resist flowing".A: Viscosity.

What are "human incubation chambers" heated to before Gillette's odor judges test deodorants by smelling human armpits?A: 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

What antidepressant is most often referred to by snide shrinks as "Slo Mo"?A: Valium.

What gardeners' aid is identified by numbers indicating its percentages of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium?A: Fertilizer.

What organ of the body leads all others with 3,195 distinct genes?A: The brain.

What Cool Whip ingredient outweighs all the others?

A: Water.What's the common name for the eye inflammation doctors call conjunctivits?A: Pink eye.

What two-word term is defined as "the lowest possible temperature"?A: Absolute zero.

What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?A: The sixteenth.

What boxcar-sized instrument was repaired by the crew of the shuttle Endeavor in 1993?A: The Hubble telescope.

What name for a bone disease translates as "porous bone"?A: Osteoporosis.

What earthenware ceramic was produced in ancient China from feldspar and china clay?A: Porcelain.

What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when first used in combat in 1776?A: A submarine.

What are the two main constituents of bronze?A: Copper and tin.

What four planets have a smaller diameter than Earth?A: Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Venus.

What word was coined when a trapped moth caused an early computer to crash?A: Bug.

What technological revolution was credited with the large increase in paper use in the 1980s and 1990s?A: The computer revolution.

What comet was first sighted by the Chinese in 240 B.C.?A: Halley's Comet.

What does "SPF" mean on sunscreen containers?A: Sun Protection factor.

What M-word is defined as "a device that changes sound into electric current"?A: Microphone.

What brand became the first sugar-free sugar substitute, in 1957?A: Sweet'n Low.

What colorless gas is essential in the production of fertilizers and light bulbs?A: Nitrogen.

What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world in 1520?A: The rifle.


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What explosive jelly is combined with gasoline to make incendiary bombs?A: Napalm.

What did Dr. Heinrich Dreser hype as a non addictive substitute for morphine in 1898?A: Heroin.

What did the Nimbus-7 satellite monitor changes in the depth of?A: The ozone layer.

What body part is low-density lipoprotein most likely to clog?

A: Arteries.

What's wire rope most often called?A: Cable.

What was the short word for "Infantile Paralysis" on 1950s March of Dimes posters?A: Polio.

What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?A: The Bible.

What's the most common automotive essential that is measured in terms of its viscosity?A: Oil.

What did 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier prove was a compound of hydrogen and oxygen?A: Water.

What objects are studied in what enthusiasts call "ufology"?A: Unidentified flying objects.

Who's known in the shrink biz as "Weird Beard"?A: Sigmund Freud.

What celestial objects were once referred to as "hairy stars"?A: Comets.

What piece of lumber's actual size is one-and-a-half by three-and-a-half inches when "surfaced"?A: A two-by-four.

What tool did astronomer Rodger Thompson say is "fundamentally altering our view of the universe"?A: The Hubble telescope.

What's the most common contributor to chronic bronchitis?A Smoking.

What's the study of materials at very low temperatures?A: Cryogenics.

What unit of length is derived from the Latin word uncia?A: The inch.

What country launched Europe's first super-high-speed passenger train, in 1981?A: France.

What's believed by many to be a satellite of Neptune that escaped its primary orbit?A: Pluto.

What planet is circled by only two moons?A :Mars.

What artillery weapon was launched upon the world in 400 B.C.?A: The catapult.

What procedure is performed on an abscess if the dentist thinks the tooth can be saved?A :Root canal.

What Greek advised: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine by your food"?A: Hippocrates.

What "black metal" gave blacksmiths their name?

A :Iron.

What word describes the physical components of a computer?A: Hardware.

What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?A :Venus.

What planet needs 248 years to meander its way around the sun?A: Pluto.

What did 18th-century astronomer Edmund Halley chart 24 of?A: Comets.


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What type of telephones did AT&T stop making in the mid-1980s?A: Rotary phones.

What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?A :Uranus.

What home appliance did the U.S. produce seven million of in 1953, up from 6,000 in 946?A: The television.

What teenage year does an American first develop phobias in, on average?

A: Thirteen.

What innovation decreases the odds of hitting the car in front of you, but increases the odds of being hit by the car behind you?A: Anti-lock brakes.

What red-blooded body organ are vitamins A, B, D, E, and K stored in?A: The Liver.

What's the positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom called?A: A proton.

What did William Stanley invent in 1885 to transfer the current of one circuit to another?A : The transformer.

What country was India ink developed in?A: China.

What three-letter word denotes the residue of combustion or incineration?A: Ash.

What fiber-optic instrument allows surgeons to see and repair damage within joints?A: An arthroscope.

What photo company brags that with their products, "there really are no negatives"?A :Polaroid.

What high-tech mogul appeared on a 1995 cover of Time headlined "Master of the Universe"?A: Bill Gates.

What time period is sandwiched between the Cretaceous and Triassic?A: The Jurassic.

What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?A: Coppertone.

What colorless, odorless substance is the main constituent of natural gas?A: Methane.

What was the first place name uttered by a man on the moon?A: Houston.

What early scientist, after being forced to declare the Earth was motionless, muttered: "Nevertheless, it does move"?A :Galileo.

What typewriter brand was invented by a man whose father made a well-known flintlock rifle?A: Remington.

What term for "bipolar disorder" has fallen out of general use?A: Manic depression.

What planet has a storm system called the Great Red Spot?A: Jupiter.

What will not be back to entice astronomers until 2061?A: Halley's Comet.

Where did Bill Clinton urge U.S. scientists to look for more signs of life, in 1996?A: Mars.

What office image transmitter did Bell Labs demonstrate as early as 1924?

A: A fax machine.

What direction did cartographers usually place at the top of maps when they believed the Earth was flat?A: East.

What U.S. agency is considered by e-mail users to deliver "snail mail"?A: The U.S. Postal Service.

What N-word describes a cloud of dust and gas in space.A: Nebula.

What car model was developed in 1938 by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche?A: The Volkswagen Beetle.


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What Internet search utility was named for the mascot of the University of Minnesota, where it was developed?A: Gopher.

What type of power is defined as the generation of electricity from water?A: Hydroelectric power.

What type of pills are known in the pharmacy biz as "pillows:?A: Sleeping pills.

What organ was operated on in the first microsurgical procedure, in 1921?

A :The ear.

What transparent material is produced by heating lime, sand and soda?A: Glass.

What does the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom determine?A: Its Atomic number.

What unit of time, when measured by an atomic clock, equals 9,192,631,770 energy changes of a cesium atom?A: One second.

What heat-resistant element replaced cotton as the filament of choice in electric light bulbs in 1910?A: Tungsten.

What unit of power did James Watt coin to help market his steam engines?A: Horsepower.

What treatment for cavities was first recommended by a 10th-century physician name Rhazes?A: Fillings.

What did the EPA once refer to as "poorly buffered precipitation"?A: Acid Rain.

What car parts require alignment in toe, camber and caster?A: Wheels.

What could Harrison's chronometer accurately measure during 18th-century voyages?A: Longitude.

What's short for "binary digit"?A: Bit.

Who licensed the MS-DOS operating system to IBM in 1980?A: Bill Gates.

How many 1990s cigarettes must you smoke to get the toxic effect of one 1950s cigarette.?A: Three.

In what year did Hussein become king of Jordan?A: 1952.

*Which part of Lenin was preserved after his death?A: Brain.

In what year was the world's first woman Prime Minister elected?A: 1960.


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World Trivia

What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by 1994?A: English.

What's the second most populous continent?A: Europe.

What southwestern U.S. state has the highest percentage of non-English speakers?A: New Mexico.

Which is further from the equator, Tasmania, Tanzania, or Transylvania?A: Transylvania.

What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S. Sliver Depository?A: West Point.

What religion has the most adherent, Buddhism, Christianity or Islam?A; Christianity

What U.S. state boasts a town called Captain Cook?A: Hawaii.

What's the Greek name for hell?A: Hades.

What country did Greek historian Herodotus dub "the gift of the Nile"?A: Egypt.

What country is only bordered by Spain?A: Portugal.

What's the flattest U.S. state?A: Florida.

What Australian city boasts the largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece?A: Melbourne.

What U.S. state boasts the towns of Gulf Stream, Lakebreeze and Frostproof?A: Florida.

What country has been the planet's largest aid donor since 1991?A: Japan.

What island nation is a must for anyone wishing to see 40 species of lemurs?A: Madagascar.

What country is almost twice as large as either the U.S. or China?A: Russia.

How many Great Lakes do not border Michigan?A: One.

What cowboy tune is the official song of Kansas?A: Home on the Range.

What continent boasts the most telephone lines?A: Europe.

What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for okra?A: Gumbo.

What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the Americas and Asia?A: The Midway Islands.

What state volunteered to drop the moniker Hog and Hominy State?A: Tennessee.

What regional accent did Americans deem sexiest, most liked and most recognizable?A: Southern.

What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?A: I-90.


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Television trivia

Who was a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers before she became TV's Lois Lane and ?A: Teri Hatcher.

Who's been Saturday Night Live's most frequent host?A :Steve Martin.

What sitcom star advised: "It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it"?A: Roseanne.

What TV cop badgered unwitting suspects with the line, "Just one more thing..."?A: Columbo.

What happy homemaker chirps on TV: "It's a good thing"?A: Martha Stewart.

Which two Saturday Night Live characters broadcast from an Aurora, Illinois basement?A: Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar.

What's the "dimension of imagination," according to the host of a classic TV series?A: The Twilight Zone.

What TV star did 500,000 people show up to watch sing at the Berlin Wall?A: David Hasselhoff.

What sitcom's scripts were penned with the help of an Army handbook and map of Korea?A :M*A*S*H

What two cartoon mice attempt every night to take over the world from their cages in Acme Labs?A: Pinky and the Brain.

Who appeared in Return of the Killer Tomatoes before he landed a role on ER?A: George Clooney.

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