Trivia - Dec. 31, 2009

TRIVIA TEST

1. ANATOMY: What is the common name for dentition?

2. LITERATURE: Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles”?

3. ADVERTISING: What product was sold with the slogan, “Put a tiger in your tank”?

4. GEOGRAPHY: Which two major Canadian cities are situated on the St. Lawrence River?

5. PSYCHOLOGY: What kind of fear is represented in heliophobia?

6. MOVIES: “A little pig goes a long way” was the slogan for which movie?

7. LANGUAGE: What does the diacritical mark “breve” indicate?

8. HISTORY: Which was the first of the 13 original United States to be admitted to the union?

9. MUSIC: What musical artist and band had a hit with the song “Last Dance with Mary Jane”?

10. MEASUREMENTS: What is the metric equivalent of 1 quart?

STRANGE BUT TRUE

By Samantha Weaver

• It was British author Douglas Adams, best known for writing the science-fiction comedy series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” who made the following sage observation: “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

• The original Colonel Sanders earned a grand total of 5 cents for every chicken sold in his early stores.

• During Prohibition, a bootlegger was so called because many smugglers of illicit alcohol stored their liquor in flasks hidden in the upper part of their boots.

• It’s not widely known that iconic American author Mark Twain was also an actor — albeit briefly. He played himself in the 1907 film “A Curious Dream.”

Trivia Answers

1. Cutting teeth

2. Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Esso gasoline

4. Montreal and Quebec

5. Fear of the sun

6. “Babe”

7. A short vowel

8. Delaware

9. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

10. 1 liter (1.057 quarts)

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