Because I've had about as much as I can stand about ObaMao and his Communist Slide plans for our country, I decided to post something totally unrelated. I'm really tired of my stomach clenching every time that man speaks and our stock market plunges.
As my daughter says: "The media is the wet nurse of hysteria!"
So, have fun with a little trivia to get your mind off the serious stuff for a minute, mmmmK?
Questions:
1. Where did the Wright Brothers make the first successful powered flight in 1903? '
2.
How
is the Jewish Day of Atonement better known?
3.
How
many times does the letter “p” occur in the first line of the tongue twister
abut Peter Piper?
4.
Which
is the only common chemical compound to expand when it freezes?
5.
Which
country’s name means “The Savior?”
6.
How
many of Snow White’s seven dwarfs had beards?
7.
Which
two elements are liquid at room temperature?
8.
Which
amendment to the American constitution protects witnesses from
self-incrimination?
9.
Who
wrote “Tosca?”
10.
In
the northern hemisphere, does water drain clockwise or counter-clockwise?
11.
What
morbid coincidence links Mama Cass and Keith Moon?
12.
What
is known in France as “mercredi des Cendres?”
13.
In
which film did the song “Moon River” originally appear?
14.
Which
composer conducted a performance of one of his works in Wanamaker’s department
store in New York in 1904?
15.
In
which sport do competing teams try to travel backwards and in opposite
directions?
16.
What
was the first national park in the U.S.?
17.
Where
is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury?
18.
After
the White House what is the most visited home in the U.S.?
19.
A
mother and father have five sons. Each son has one sister. How many
people are there in this family?
20.
Which
1949 novel was originally titled the Last Man in Europe?
21.
How
many feet are in a mile?
22.
Which
note does an orchestra tune up to?
23.
What
average speed did the winning car of the Indianapolis 500 exceed for the first
time in 1925?
24.
A
man jumps from a bridge into a river and swims for a kilometer upstream.
At exactly one kilometer, he passes a bottle floating in the river. He
continues swimming in the same direction for half an hour and then turns around
and swims back towards the bridge. The man and the bottle arrive at the
bridge at the same time. If the man had been swimming at a constant
speed, how fast is the river flowing?
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Answers:
1. Kitty Hawk
2. Yom Kippur
3. Nine
4. Water
5. El Salvador
6. Six
7. Bromine and mercury
8. Fifth Amendment
9. Puccini
10. Counterclockwise
11. They both died at the same address (12
Curzon Place, Mayfair, London)
12. Ash Wednesday
13. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
14.
Richard Strauss
15. Tug of war
16. Yellowstone
17. Graceland
18. 10 Downing Street (it is the title held
by the British Prime Minister)
19. Eight
20. Nineteen Eighty-four
21. 5,280
22. “A”
23. 100 mph
24. 1 km per hour
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