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Q: What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
A: Pork.
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 deli sandwich topped Dateline NBC's list for total fat content - a
Reuben, BLT or tuna salad with mayo?
A: Tuna salad with mayo.
Q: What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to
eat?
A: The coconut.
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 are de-headed, de-veined an sorted by size in a laitram machine?
A: Shrimp.
Q: What's the only fish that produces real caviar, according to the FDA?
A: Sturgeon.
Q: What type of egg will yield 11 and one-half average-size omelettes?
A: An Ostrich egg.
Q: What's the groundnut better known as?
A: The peanut.
Q: What crystalline salt is frequently used to enhance the flavor to TV
dinners?
A: Monosodium glutamate.
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.
Q: What nut do two-thirds of its U. S. producers sell through Blue
Diamond?
A: The Almond.
Football trivia questions and answers.
Q: What Steelers quarterback, according to Hollywood Henderson,
"couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the' C' and the 'A'"?
A: Terry Bradshaw.
Q: What Ivy League football team once lost an NCAA record 44 straight
games?
A: Columbia.
Q: What yard line must a football team drive to, to reach the "red zone"?
A: The twenty.
Q: What budding politician led the AFL in passing yards for the 1960s?
A: Jack Kemp.
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: What football league had expansion teams in Baltimore, Las Vegas and
Shreveport for the 1994 season?
A: The Canadian Football League
Q: How many points was a touchdown worth in 1911?
A: Five.
Q: What university's football team played in the first seven Holiday Bowls?
A: Brigham Young's.
Q: What NFL team did Rafael Septien boot balls for from 1978 to 1986?
A: The Dallas Cowboys.
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: Whose NFL playing career began in 1949 and ended in 1975?
A: George Blanda's.
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?
A: John Madden.
Q: What "winning" slogan credited to Vince Lombardi was uttered first by
UCLA coach Red Sanders?"
A: "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"
Q: What three NFL teams had lost four Super Bowls each, through 1996?
A: Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings.
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.
Q: How many teams graced the NFL after the AFL officially joined the told
in 1970?
A: Twenty-six.
Q: What NFL footballer saw his weight reach a league-leading 340 pounds
in 1988?
A: William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
Q: What Native American was the NFL's first president?
A: Jim Thorpe.
Q: What color flags did NFL officials begin throwing after abandoning white
ones in 1965?
A: Gold.
Q: What NFL footballer is one of Brigham Young's many great-great-great
grandsons?
A: Steve Young.
Q: How many football teams from the troubled Southwest Conference
defected to the Big Eight?
A: Four.
Q: What Chicago Bears great ran six kickoffs back for touchdowns over
seven seasons?
A: Gale Sayers.
Q: Who threw a record six touchdown passes in one Super Bowl, in 1995?
A: Steve Young.
Q: Who became the NFL's all-time touchdown leader in 1994?
A: Jerry Rice
Q: What football defensive position is dubbed a "rover" or "monster"?
A: Safety.
Q: What letter begins the moniker of the most AFC football teams?
A: B
Q: What position was played by NFL footballers Alan, Joaquin, Luis, Max
and Tony Zedejas?
A: Kicker.
Q: What NFL team was second to the 49ers in wins during the 1980s?
A: The Washington Redskins.
Q: What NFL team was the first to win the Vince Lombardi trophy five
times?
A: The San Francisco 49ers.
Q: What NFL team won the most games in the 1960s?
A: The Green Bay Packers.
Q: Who was the second head coach in the history of the Dallas Cowboys?
A: Jimmy Johnson.
Q: What Buffalo star rushed for 13,19, and 37 yards in Super Bowls XXVI,
XXVII and XXVIII?
A: Thurman Thomas.
Q: What Dallas Cowboys running back was dubbed "Little Big Man"?
A: Tony Dorsett.
Q: What footballer, after running 64 yards in the wrong direction, was re-
oriented by teammate Benny Lom?
A: Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels.
Q: What Chicago Bears Coach learned you could break your hand by
putting a fist through a metal locker?
A: Mike Ditka.
Q: What team was led to Super Bowls VII, and VIII by their "no-name
defense"?
A: The Miami Dolphins.
Q: What Division 1-A coach took teams to a record 29 bowl games?
A: Bear Bryant
Q: What quarterback spent 46 days in 1996 at the Menninger Clinic to kick
an addiction to the pain killer Vicodin?
A: Brett Farve.
Q: What West Coast NFL team still sports the motto: "Commitment to
Excellence"?
A: The Oakland Raiders.
Q: What Dallas star was the NFL's tallest player during the 1980s, at six-
foot-nine?
A: Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
Q: What did Dolphins receiver Mark Duper legally change his name to in
1985?
A: Mark Super Duper.
Q: What Big Eight football team's fans cheer for the Cyclones?
A: Iowa State's
Q: What NFL team won the most games in the 1970s?
A: The Dallas Cowboys.
Q: How many Super Bowl MVP awards does Terry Bradshaw have?
A: Two.
Q: What city was known to NFL fans as Titletown, USA in the 1960s?
A: Green Bay.
Q: What future NFL quarterback wore sunglasses for his 1977 Utah high
school yearbook photo?
A: Jim McMahon.
Q: What Native American language was Super Bowl XXX the first to be
broadcast in?
A: Navajo.
Q: What Cowboy's 99-yard run from scrimmage put him in the NFL record
book in 1983?
A: Tony Dorsett's.
Q: What team hired the NFL's first professional cheerleading squad, in
1972?
A: The Dallas Cowboys.
Q: Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala, in 1995?
A: Deion Sanders.
Q: How many of the five Dallas teams Tom Landry took to Super Bowls
were victorious?
A: Two.
Q: What teams played in the first all-California Super Bowl?
A: The San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers.
Q: What team has been drubbed in Super Bowls by scores of 27-10, 39-20,
42-10, and 55-10?
A: The Denver Broncos.
Q: What NFL team introduced the no-huddle offense during the 1980s?
A: The Cincinnati Bengal's.
Q: What quarterback got stuck with the given names Yelberton Abraham?
A: Y.A. Tittle.
Q: What Baltimore Colts great led the NFL in passing in the 1960s, with
26548 yards?
A: Johnny Unitas.
Q: What Pittsburgh Steelers great was the first wide receiver to be named
super Bowl MVP?
A: Lynn Swan.
Q: What Division 1-A football team's fans cheer for the Yellow Jackets?
A: Georgia Tech's.
Q: What Jets quarterback, asked if he preferred grass or Astroturf, replied:
"I don't know, I never smoked Astroturf"?
A: Joe Namath.
Q: What NFL team once had Bob Hope, Henry Mancini, Maureen Reagan
and Danny Thomas on its advisory board?
A: The Los Angeles Rams.
Q: What did a Buffalo fan hit Chuck Foreman in the eye with during a
game, ending his chance of winning the NFC rushing title in 1975?
A: A snowball.
Q: Who was involved as a player or coach in three Super Bowls with the
Cowboys, two with the Eagles and one with the Bears?
A: Mike Ditka.
Q: How many football teams play in the Big Ten Conference?
A: Eleven.
Q: What Vikings quarterback has been called the NFL's "original
scrambler"?
A: Fran Tarkenton.
Q: What nickname did NFL great Lance Alworth share with a Disney movie
title character?
A: Bambi.
Q: How many years must a player be retired to be eligible for the Pro
Football Hall of Fame?
A: Five.
Q: What was Miami quarterback Bob Griese the first NFL player to wear in
a game, in 1977?
A: Glasses.
Q: What pro football franchise did Tim Mara buy in 1925 for $500?
A: The New York Giants.
Q: Who had the most rushing yards in the NFL for the 1980s?
A: Eric Dickerson.
Q: What record-setting quarterback was the NFL's 82nd draft pick in 1979?
A: Joe Montana.
Q: What elusive Detroit running back has been dubbed "the Lion King"?
A: Barry Sanders.
Q: Who did the New York Giants beat by a point in the closest Super Bowl
ever?
A: The Buffalo Bills.
Golf trivia questions and answers.
Q: What two golfers led the PGA in earnings three seasons each in the
1960s?
A: Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
Q: What's a scratch golfer's handicap?
A: Zero.
Q: What's a golfer said to have if he is entitled to tee off first?
A: The Honor.
Q: What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made Easy
instructional videos?
A: Leslie Nielsen.
Q: What Grand Slam golf tournament has the most clubhousers sipping
mint juleps?
A: The Masters.
Q: Who's second to Sam Snead in PGA Tour wins?
A: Jack Nicklaus
Q: What tournament did Arnold Palmer say he would play in as long as he
could walk?
A: The Masters.
Q: Who won a record six PGA Player of the Year Awards-Jack Nicklaus,
Arnold Palmer or Tom Watson?
A: Tom Watson.
Q: Who summed up a playoff loss to Jack Nicklaus at the 1991 U. S. Senior
Open with "the Bear crushed the Mouse"?
A: Chi Chi Rodriguez.
Q: What golfer bid a tearful farewell to fans after playing his last U.S.
Open, in 1994?
A: Arnold Palmer.
Q: Who became the youngest and oldest player to win the Masters, in
1963 and 1986?
A: Jack Nicklaus.
Q: What golfer's worst finish at the British Open from 1966 to 1980 was
sixth?
A: Jack Nicklaus.
Q: What's the only Grand Slam event Lee Trevino never won?
A: The Masters.
Q: Who was the first Swedish golfer to win the U.S. Womens's Open two
straight times?
A: Annika Sorenstam.
Q: Who's the most successful Zimbabwean golfer of all time?
A: Nick Price.
Q: How many rounds must a golfer have have played to be eligible for a
handicap?
A: Ten.
Q: What female golfer's high school nickname was "Taco"?
A: Nancy Lopez's.
Q: Who was the first golfer since Jack Nicklaus to win eight PGA events his
first six years on tour?
A: Phil Mickelson.
Q: What did John Daly number the new iron he began teeing off with in
1996, because it had virtually no loft?
A: Zero.
Q: What golfer hit Ben Crenshaw in the head with his putter in 1986,
forcing Crenshaw to head for the hospital?
A: Ben Crenshaw.
Q: What Japanese golfer is the only player to have won events on the PGA
tour, Senior Tour, Japanese, European, and Australian Tours?
A: Isao Aoki .
Q: What golfer won nine tournaments during her 1978 rookie year on the
LPGA Tour?
A: Nancy Lopez.
Q: What golfer ended nine years of final-round frustration by winning the
1996 Memorial Tournament?
A: Tom Watson.
Q: What golfer had played 87 straight Grand Slam tournaments until a
shoulder injury forded him to miss the 1996 British Open?
A: Tom Watspm.
Q: Who followed his first winless season by winning the U.S. Open and PGA
Championship in 1980?
A: Jack Nicklaus.
General science trivia questions and answers.
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.
Q: What explosive cosmic event was seen with the naked eye in 1987, for
the first 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.
Invention trivia questions and answers.
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.
What screen character i the world's fastest ice sculptor and topiary artist?
A: Edward Scissorhands.
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.
Some more fun trivia questions answers and facts.
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 director earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during his tour of
duty in Vietnam?
A: Oliver Stone.
What theme is central to the movies The Lost Weekend, The Morning After
and My Name Is Bill W.?
A: Alcoholism.
What NBC sitcom once saw two if its neurotics try to pitch NBC on a sitcom
about nothing?
A: Seinfeld.
What three Godfather cast members were all up for the Best Supporting
Actor Oscar?
A: James Caan, Robert Duvall, AL Pacino.
Who's the adopted son of Vito Corleone?
A: Tom Hagen.
Who's the TV FBI agent with a penchant for the paranormal?
A: Fox Mulder.
What movie sees Danny Devito tell Michelle Pfeiffer: "You lousy minx, I
ought to have you spayed"?
A: Batman Returns.
What Saturday Night Live cast member left in 1994 after being in a record
153 shows?
A: Phil Hartman.
What 1982 movie had critic Janet Maslin carp: "The Oscar seemed to have
been mistaken for the Nobel Peace Prize"?
A: Gandhi.
What crooner's new line of neckwear did David Letterman suggest be
named "Alleged Mob Ties"?
A: Frank Sinatra's.
What song-writing duo's hits made it to Broadway i the show "Smokey
Joe's Cafe"?
A: Leiber and Stoller's.
Who's known in Colorado Springs as Dr. Mike?
A: Dr. Michaela Quinn.
What movie pairs Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas as lovers?
A: Philadelphia.
Who'd begun work on a 10th symphony when he died during a
thunderstorm in 1827?
A: Ludwig van Beethoven.
What famed 1936 war novel mentions the Tarleton twins in its first line?
A: Gone With the Wind.
Who was the first living person to become a member of the Country Music
Hall of Fame?
A: Roy Acuff.
What song was heard 250 different ways in a 1994 Ken Burns
documentary?
A: Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
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.
What was late SCTV star sighed: "I'm the one who has to look in the
mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you?
A: John Candy.
What singer did Michael Bolton neglect to thank while accepting a
Grammy for "When a Man Loves a Woman"?
A: Percy Sledge.
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.
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 gallblader.
Music trivia questions and answers
What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to be
considered a "big band"?
A: Ten.
What musical instrument's sales escalated from 228,000 in 1950 to 2.3
million in 1971?
A: The guitar's.
What 1976 chart-topping song did Barry Manilow sing, but not write?
A: I Write the Songs.
What does the Italian musical term adagio mean?
A: Slow.
Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970's according to Billboard?
A: Elton John.
What's the only group to claim two of the top ten best-selling singles of
the 1970's?
A: The Bee Gees.
Who was the first country artist to sell over 10 million copies of an album?
A: Garth Brooks.
What band is named after a scuplture in Seattle that hums in the wind?
A: Soundgardem.
What two Frank Sinatra hits were tops for U.S. karaoke singers in 1993?
A: New York, New York and My Way.
What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown?
A: The Harp.
What studio did the Beatles use to record 191 songs?
A: Abby Road.
What jazz musician got his nickname by shortening "Satchel Mouth"?
A: Louis Armstrong.
What jazz trumpeter was dubbed the "Prince of Darkness"?
A: Miles Davis.
What did Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lose in a 1984 auto accident?
A: An arm.
What Southampton junior high school musical was cancelled in 1994 when
Shinnecock Indians objected to the " Ug-a-wug" song?
A: Peter Pan.
What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in 1991, 1992,
and 1993?
A: Leonard Bernstein.
Who's "Monk" to jazz buffs?
A: Thelonious MOnk.
What California group waited 22 years to score their first chart-toping
single since 1966?
A: The Beach Boys.
What city's opera house does " The Phantom of the Opera" prowl?
A: Paris.
Who scored his first platinum album since 1978 with " The Icon Is Love " in
1994?
A: Barry White.
What Michael Jackson album spawned five chart-topping singles?
A: Bad.
What trumpeter became the oldest person ever to score a chart-topping
single, in 1964?
A: Louis Armstrong.
What rock star was trying to bite the head off a bat in concert when the
bat decided to bite back?
A: Ozzy Osbourne.
What Shania Twain recording became the best-selling country music
album ever by a female artist, in 1996?
A: The Woman in Me.
What patriotic song was originally titled "The Defense of Fort McHenry?
A: The Star Spangled Banner.
Who's waxed more gold and platinum albums than any other solo female
artist?
A: Barbara Streisand.
How many songs from the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
were released as singles?
A: Zero.
What singer for a 70's British rock quartet changed his name from
Frederick Bulsara?
A: Freddie Mercury.
What rock'n'roll singer is memorialized by a eight-foot bronze statue in
Lubbock, Texas?
A: Buddy Holly.
What Woody Guthrie song goes "From California to the New York island /
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters"?
A: This Land is Your Land.
What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government after it
became an anthem for black school children?
A: Another Brick in the Wall.
What were the two most popular rock operas of 1969?
A: Hair and Tommy.
What are the two most common unbowed stringed instruments found in a
symphony orchestra?
A: The Harp and the Piano.
What legendary soul singer wrecked his Corvette the first time he drove it?
A: Ray Charles.
What tenor received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house in
1988?
A: Luciano Pavarotti.
What Beatles single lasted longest on the charts, at 19 weeks?
A: Hey Jude.
Military trivia questions and answers.
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.
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.
Olympics trivia questions and answers.
Q: How many of Carl Lewis' Olympic gold medals were won in long jump
cometitions?
A: Three.
Q: What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the
only event in the earl years of the ancient Olympics?
A: Hercules.
Q: What U.S. athlete was "about a week" pregnant when she broke the
world 200-meter record at the 1984 Olympics?
A: Evelyn Ashford
Q: What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968
Winter Olympics?
A: Peggy Fleming.
Q: What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the
Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.
Q: What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during
the 1996 Olympics, according to an ESPN poll?
A: The Dream Team.
Q: What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the first
black man from South Africa to win a gold medal, in 1996?
A: The Marathon.
Q: What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to
win Olympic gold, in 1900?
A: Golf.
Q: What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in
under a minute, in 1922?
A: Johnny Weissmuller.
Q: What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play
"Jeffery" in 1993?
A: Greg Louganis.
Q: What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give u during
the 1996 Olympics?
A: Sex.
Q: What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?
A: Insbruck.
Q: What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for
the 1996 Olympics?
A: The U.S..
Q: What L.A. Laker star's height was listed as two meters in 1996 Olympic
programs?
A: Sahquille O'Neals's.
Q: What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a balance
beam?
A: Olga Korbut.
Q: What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth
Olympic team in 1996?
A: Mary Slaney.
Q: What sport is played with stones and brooms?
A: Curling.
Q: What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900
to 1920?
A: Tug of War.
Q: What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo,
crane and fishtail?
A: Synchronized swimming
Q: How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: One
Q: What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta's 1996
Olympic festivities?
A: Muhammad Ali.
Q: What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as "the pig"?
A: The pommel horse.
Q: What event earned Norway's Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994
Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating.
Q: What new women's team sport was played on sand at the 1996
summer Olympics?
A: Beach Volleyball.
Q: Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S. Winter
Olympian ever?
A: Bonnie Blair.
Q: What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold Medal
celebration lap through the late night streets of Atlanta?
A: Her gold medal.
Q: What decathlon champ was the first black student body president at
UCLA?
A: Rafer Johnson
Q: What year was the first summer Olympiad televised live?
A: 1960
Q: What procedure did the IOC begin afer a Danish cyclist died during the
1960 Summer Olympics?
A: Drug testing.
Q: How many minutes does an Olympic basketball game last?
A: Forty
Q: What Olympic event is about to start when a jury director orders, "En
garde"?
A: Fencing
Q: What track favorite donned golden shoes to capture gold in both 200-
and 400-meter 1996 Olympic sprints?
A: Michael Johnson.
Q: What country's Olympic basketball team does Chicago Bulls star Toni
Kukoc play for?
A:Croatia's.
Q: What part of their vehicle's equipment are bobsledders only allowed to
use after crossing the finish line?
A: Brakes.
Q: Who was unable to run the 200-meter final at the 1992 Olympics due to
food poisoning?
A: Michael Johnson.
Q: How many times did the Summer Olympics feature the sport of Live
Pigeon Shooting?
A: Once.
Q: How many continents must a sport be played on before the IOC will
consider making it an Olympic event for men?
A: Four.
Q: What athlete was protected by seven security guards at the 1994
Winter Olympics?
A: Nancy Kerrigan.
Q: What country competed alone in Athens' 4896 Olympic 100-meter
Freestyle for Sailors?
A: Greece.
Q: What Olympic athlete dated the son of Romanian dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu?
A: Nadia Comaneci.
Q: What walking sport should be added to the Olympics, according to 42
percent of U.S. sports editors, sportscasters and columnists?
A: Golf.
Q: What Olympic event has runners wearing shoes with perforations to
allow for drainage?
A: Steeplechase.
Q: How many seconds are there on an Olympic basketball shot clock?
A: Thirty.
Q: What Olympic field event consists of a crouch, shift, thrust, and
release?
A: The shot put.
Q: What general stormed into the boxing ring at the 1928 Olympics to
protest judges ruling for a South African over an American?
A: Douglas MacArthur.
Q: What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 1969 to 1973, but
never an Olympic gold medal?
A: Janet Lynn
Q: What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold in
basketball, soccer and softball?
A: The U.S.
Q: What 1996 Olympic event had two U.S. squads playing each other for
the gold medal?
A: Beach volleyball.
Q: What U.S. Olympic city did the torch relay to Atlanta start in?
A: Los Angeles.
Q: What Olympic event's winner is considered to be the "world's greatest
athlete"?
A: The decathlon's.
Physics science trivia questions and answers.
Q: What method of arranging elements into related groups was invented
by Dimitri Mendeleyev?
A: The periodic table.
Q: What physicist remarked: "God is subtle, but he is not malicious"?
A: Albert Einstein.
Q: What M-word defines anything that occupies space?
A: Matter.
Q: What do you call a substance containing only one kind of atom?
A: An element.
Q: What teenager began studying physics after he noticed a chandelier
swinging during a 1581 earthquake?
A: Galileo.
Q: What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?
A: The electron.
Q: What element comes last alphabetically?
A: Zirconium.
Q: What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?
A: Uranium.
Q: What American physicist pioneered the theory of "black holes" in
1939?
A: J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Q: What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and
protons?
A: An Ion.
Q: What theory of physics proposes that energy is not transferred
continuously but in discrete amounts>
A: The quantum theory.
Q: What element was converted to plutonium in the first nuclear reactors?
A: Uranium.
Q: What acronyms for "Weakly Interacting Massive Particles " and "Massive
Compact Halo Objects" do physicists use to explain dark matter?
A: Wimps and Machos.
Q: What astronomical term gradually replaced the cumbersome
"gravitationally completely collapsed object"?
A: Black Hole.
Q: What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of
radiation"?
A: Laser.
Q: What's a single unit of quanta called?
A: A quantum.
Q: What did scientists build in a squash court under a football stadium at
the University of Chicago in 1942?
A: A nuclear reactor.
Q: What's the atomic number of hydrogen?
A: One.
Q: What element begins with the letter "k"?
A: Krypton.
Q: What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in which nuclei
combine to form more massive nuclei"?
A: Fusion.
Q: What E-word was the first elementary particle to be discovered?
A: The electron.
Presidential 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.
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 rites 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 portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut?
A: William Howard Taft.
What future president's Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass under his
yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson's.
What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly radio
address?
A: Saturday.
What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the
cavalry reserves in the 1930's?
A: Ronald Regan.
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while planning
for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an "enemies list"
and "hush money" at the Watergate hearings?
A: John Dean.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find "a tremendous rat"
swimming with her in the White House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
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
Q: What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
Q: Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version of his
first name?
A: Jimmy Carter.
Q: Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
Q: Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not going to
eat any more broccoli"?
A: George Bush.
Q: Who told Jimmy Carter in a debate: "There is no Soviet domination of
Eastern Europe"?
A: Gerald Ford.
Q: How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam's civil war?
A: Five.
Q: Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general of volunteers after
he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
A: Ulysses S. Grant.
Q: What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church
after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.
Q: What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in 1994?
A: Alzheimer's disease.
Q: What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in 1971?
A: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Q: What U.S. president's State of the Union address lasted a record 81
minutes?
A: Bill Clinton's.
Q: What president was shot at while walking to California Governor Jerry
Brown's office?
A: Gerald Ford.
Q: What U.S. vice president was once wanted for murder in New Jersey?
A: Aaron Burr.
Q: What inscription on U.S. coins did Theodore Roosevelt try in vain to
have removed?
A: In God We Trust.
Q: What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed
under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.
Q: Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome" before a joint
session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
Q: 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.
Q: What name did romantic George Bush paint on his bomber during World
War II?
A: Barbara.
Q: Who was the first U.S. vice president named acting president while his
boss was under the knife?
A: George Bush.
Q: What portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut?
A: William Howard Taft.
Q: What U.S. president had the shortest life?
A: John F. Kennedy.
Q: What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate
state to remain in Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Johnson.
Q: What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
A: Jimmy Carter.
Q: What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in 1988?
A: "Read my lips".
Q: 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.
Q: What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
A: Bill Clinton.
Who called Eisenhower, Hoover and Truman in the early morning hours of
November 23, 1963?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
Who told Jimmy Carter in a debate: "There is no Soviet domination of
Eastern Europe"?
A: Gerald Ford.
Whose 1800 presidential campaign did the Hartford Courant offer a formal
apology for opposing, in 1993?
A: Thomas Jefferson's.
What presidential candidate did Ronald Reagan support when voting for
the first time?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Kitty Kelly wrote an Unauthorized Biography about which First Lady?
A: Nancy Regan President trivia questions and answers.
Q: Who topped the PGA Tour in earnings for five years in the 1970s?
A: Jack Nicklaus
Q: What golf tourney banned sportscaster Gary McCord for calling course
bumps "body bags" and suggesting "bikini wax" sped the greens?
A: The Masters.
Q: What dreaded golf shot occurs when the ball is hit with the hosel of the
club?
A: A Shank.
Q: What decade saw names first appear on the backs of NFL jerseys?
A: The 1960s.
Q: What Pro Football Hall of Famer was the first to get a second bust in
the Hall, for broadcasting?
A: Frank Gifford.
Q: What three 49ers have earned Super Bowl MVP honors, through 1996?
A: Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Steve Young.
Q: What Brooklyn Dodgers great got his nick name for what he called his
shooter when playing marbles as a child?
A: "Pee Wee" Reese.
Q: What sport was popularized by Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku?
A: Surfing.
Q: What NBA star refuses to have the hot water turned on at his Chicago
home because he rarely takes showers there?
A: Dennis Rodman.
Q: What's an NBA player deemed to be if he's received the Maurice
Podoloff Trophy?
A: The Most Valuable Player.
Q: What's the most common nickname for a major league baseball
pitcher?
A: "Lefty".
Q: Who was the NBA Coach of the Year trophy named after?
A: Red Auerbach.
Q: What's the last name of NFL All Pro brothers Shannon and Sterling?
A: Sharpe.
Q: Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand slam
events at least four times?
A: Steffi Graf.
Q: What position must college footballers play to receive the Davey
O'Brien Award?
A: Quarterback.
Q: What NBA team charges $600 for a floor seal at a regular season
game?
A: The Los Angeles Lakers.
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.
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.
What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort scale?
A: Wind.
What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came
into contact with?
A: Poison Ivy.
What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to
eat?
A: The coconut.
Space facts trivia questions answers and facts.
How old is the universe?
A: In a study published in the journal Science, a team of researchers says
the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion years old.
What is a black hole?
A: A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape,
even light.
How far is the nearest black hole?
A: As of now the closest known one is thought to lie at about 1,600 light
years from Earth.
What is a supernova?
A: A supernova is a stellar explosion which produces an extremely bright
object made of plasma that declines to invisibility over weeks or months.
What is a quasar?
A: The scientific consensus is that quasars are powered by material falling
into super massive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies.
What is a neutron star?
A: Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of some massive stars.
What is a brown dwarf?
A: Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects with a mass below that necessary
to maintain hydrogen-burning nuclear fusion reactions in their cores.
What is a red giant?
A: They are stars of 0.4 - 10 times the mass of the Sun which have
exhausted their supply of hydrogen in their cores and switched to fusing
hydrogen in a shell outside the core.
How hot is the sun?
A: The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface of
the Sun, is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is a solar flare?
A: A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy
stored in twisted magnetic fields is suddenly released.
What are cosmic rays?
A: Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles, originating in outer
space, that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the Earth from all
directions.
What is the Van Allen belt?
A: The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles
(plasma) around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
What is the most common element found in the universe?
A: Hydrogen
What is Jupiter made of?
A: Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of atoms,
75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and "rock"
How many moons does Jupiter have?
A: Jupiter has 63 known satellites (as of Feb 2004): the four large Galilean
moons plus many more small ones some of which have not yet been
named.
How long is a day on Mercury?
A: Mercury rotates three times in two of its years.
How many stars are there in in the big dipper?
A: The Big Dipper is a group of seven bright stars, 3 which form a handle
and 4 which form a bowl.
How many stars are in the little dipper?
A: The little dipper has 6 stars.
What is a constellation?
A: A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a
pattern.
How many named constellations are there?
A: There are 88 constellations.
What is the big red spot on Jupiter?
A: The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system. It is
large enough that two Earths could fit across it.
Where is the element gold come from?
A: Gold only comes from Super Novae.
What is a parsec?
A: The parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, approximately equal
to 3.261 light years
Which planet has the most moons?
A: Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.
Which planet is the hottest?
A: Venus is the hottest planet.
Which planet is the coldest?
A: Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.
How much would 100 pounds here on earth weigh on the moon?
A: If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you would weigh only about 16
pounds on the moon.
What is Titan's atmosphere made of?
A: The atmosphere of Titan is made mostly of Nitrogen (80-90%), just like
the Earth's atmosphere!
What is the diameter of the earth?
A: The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32
kilometers).
What is the diameter of the moon?
A: The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 kilometers.
How fast is the speed of light?
A: In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per
second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km/h). Approximately 186,000 miles per
second.
How many miles is one light year?
A: A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles.
What is a meteorite made of?
A: Most meteorites contain at least some iron metal (actually an alloy of
iron and nickel). You can see the metal shining on a broken surface. Iron
meteorites are all metal, stony iron meteorites are about half metal, half
stone, and stone meteorites contain small flecks of metal.
How long is an astronomical unit?
A: The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and
Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).
Fun travel trivia questions, and answers.
Is Scandinavia in the north or south of Europe?
A: North
Which Arctic country's Finnish name is Lapin Li?
A: Lapland
The Straight of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic Ocean with which Sea?
A: Mediterranean
Which country is also called the Hellenic Republic?
A: Greece
What is Europe's most mountainous country?
A: Switzerland
In Norway, a fjord is made up largely of what?
A: Water
The island of Rhodes belongs to which Mediterranean country?
A: Greece
Euro tunnel links which two countries?
A: England and France
The Left Bank generally refers to the Left Bank of the Seine in which city?
A: Paris
Okinawa is a volcano in which country?
A: Japan
What is the largest country in South America?
A: Brazil
What was the ancient city, carved out of red rock in Jordan, that was
forgotten by Europeans until the 19th century?
A: Petra.
Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was a Ephesus?
A: The Temple of Artemis
What was the original purpose of the leaning tower of Pisa?
A: Bell Tower
What island in San Francisco Bay was the site of an almost escape-proof
prison?
A: Alcatraz.
What was the former site of the two temples celcbrating Ramses II and
Nefertari, before they were moved because of flooding by the waters of
the Aswan High Dam?
A: Abu Simbel
Where is the Valley of the Kings, the scene of a terrorist attack in 1997?
A: Egypt.
What was Ho Chi Minh City before it was called Ho Chi Minh City?
A: Saigon
To the nearest thousand, how many islands does Indonesia have?
A: 13
Which country contains the Biblical rivers of the Tigris and the
EUPHRATES?
A: Iraq
What was St. Petersburg called for most of the 20th century?
A: Leningrad.
Which country lies to the north of Austria and to the south of Poland?
A: Czech Republic
What name is given to the popular holiday area between Marseille and La
Spezia?
A: Riviera
How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
A: 984 feet.
Archaeologists believe they have located the burial site of Boudicca, the
British queen who led a bloody revolt against Roman rule in the first
century A.D. Where is it?
A: Under Platform 8 of the King's Cross Railway Station in London.
What Middle Eastern country's name includes the name of it's first ruler?
A: Saudi Arabia. Ruler Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud unified his dual kingdoms of
Hejaz and Nejd and their dependencies under the name Saudi Arabia in
1932.
What is the name of Moscow's largest department store?
A: GUM
What country has more volcanoes than any other?
A: Indonesia. It has 167 of the 850 active volcanoes known in the world.
What was an official language in 87 nations and territories, by 1994?
A: English.
What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
A: North America.
What is the capital of Kuwait?
A: Kuwait City. World trivia questions.
"What town name did residents of a Florida retirement community switch
to because they found Sunset Depressing?
A: Sunrise.
What's the second most populous continent?
A: Europe.
23.When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called
a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the
offspring is called a hinny.
24.The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female
horse.
25.A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
26.Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
27.Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs --
fierce and agile herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and
Europe -- and eotragus -- anantelope-like, Asian forest creature.
28.Horses cannot vomit.
29.Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
30.A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each
year.
31.A capon is a castrated rooster.
32.A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks
of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
33.A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
34.A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows
have exactly the same pattern of spots.
35.A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the
recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed),
and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
36.A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in
1872.
37.It is physically impossible for pigs to lookup into the sky.
38.Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes;
white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes.
Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on
its quality, nutrients or flavor.