Trivia Test: November 21, 2019

1. MUSIC: Who composed the "1812 Overture"?

2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the sixth gift in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?

3. SCIENCE: What is the softest mineral?

4. GOVERNMENT: Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?

5. ENTERTAINMENT: Who are the only two people to receive an Oscar award and a Nobel Prize?

6. U.S. STATES: How many states border Oklahoma?

7. LITERATURE: Which 20th-century novel features a place called Shangri-La?

8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president's famous speech included the line, "Tear down this wall"?

9. GEOGRAPHY: Which country lies directly south of Venezuela?

10. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Which filmmaker and author once wrote, "Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address"?

Answers

1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

2. Geese

3. Talc

4. 13th

5. George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan

6. Six: Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado

7. "Lost Horizon"

8. Ronald Reagan, urging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall

9. Brazil

10. Nora Ephron

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