TRIVIA TEST - Dec. 16, 2010

1. ARCHITECTURE: What did ancient Roman aqueducts carry?

2. COMPUTERS: What does DPI measure?

3. GEOGRAPHY: Where does the Albemarle Sound lie?

4. MOVIES: Which well-known film director had planned as a teenager to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood?

5. GOVERNMENT: When was the Federal Communications Commission established?

6. LITERATURE: In poetry, what is an enjambment?

7. MUSIC: Which jazz musician and composer recorded “Giant Steps” in 1960?

8. FOOD & DRINK: What is another common name for corn?

9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who is considered the founder of the birth-control movement in the United States?

10. SCIENCE: What is the disease beriberi caused by?

Answers

1. Water

2. Dots Per Inch, which measures resolution in printing

3. Between North Carolina and the Outer Banks

4. Martin Scorsese

5. 1934

6. One line of poetry runs into another without any end punctuation

7. John Coltrane

8. Maize

9. Margaret Sanger

10. Thiamine deficiency

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TRIVIA TEST

By Fifi Rodriguez

1. MEASUREMENTS: What is the measurement of time called?

2. SCIENCE: What kind of metal is bauxite used to create?

3. GAMES: Which is the strongest hand in a poker game?

4. HISTORY: Who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel?

5. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first president born in a hospital?

6. GEOGRAPHY: Where would one find the popular tourist spot called “Vieux Carre”?

7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What kind of a creature is a gibbon?

8. ASTRONOMY: Rhea is a moon of which planet?

9. TELEVISION: Which comedians were famous for the “Who’s on First?” vaudeville routine?

10. MOVIES: In “The Silence of the Lambs,” what was Hannibal the Cannibal’s last name?

Answers

1. Chronometry

2. Aluminum

3. Royal flush

4. Aaron Burr

5. Jimmy Carter

6. New Orleans (The French Quarter)

7. Ape

8. Saturn

9. Abbott and Costello

10. Lecter

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