Trivia Quiz?

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On 4/30/2017 at 0:01 PM, phkrause said:

Which former baseball player is mentioned in the Simon and Garfunkel song "Mrs Robinson"?

Jackie Robinson Hank Aaron Joe DiMaggio Willie Mays

I believe that would be Joltin Joe

Answer: “Mrs. Robinson" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel and is famous for its inclusion in the 1967 film The Graduate. The song contains a famous reference to baseball star Joe DiMaggio. In Paul Simon’s obituary for DiMaggio in the New York Times, Simon explained that the reference was meant as a sincere tribute to DiMaggio's unpretentious heroic stature, in a time when heroes were in short supply. Simon subsequently performed "Mrs. Robinson" at Yankee Stadium in DiMaggio's honor the month after his death.

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23 hours ago, phkrause said:

Where Was Washington’s Inauguration Held?

Washington’s first swearing-in ceremony was held in New York City at Federal Hall on the balcony located on the second floor. Afterward, he proceeded to the Senate chamber to deliver his inaugural address. It is believed by historians that this first inaugural address was written by James Madison. Washington’s inaugurations hold two distinctions over later presidents. First is that he was the only president who took the oath of office in two different locations because his second inauguration was held in Philadelphia in Congress Hall. Second, Washington’s second inaugural address was the shortest ever made at 135 words.

 

23 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Honors Were Paid to Washington During His Trip?

Washington’s journey from his home in Mount Vernon to New York City was greeted along the way by crowds and celebrations in cities such as Alexandria, Baltimore, and Trenton. A ceremonial barge at Elizabeth, New Jersey, took him across the river to New York City. The barge had been built especially for the occasion by New York citizens and was piloted by 13 rowers dressed in white. Washington was met at the barge by 13 congressmen and three New York officers.

Along the way to New York, Washington was given a surprise honor. A royal packet-boat from Spain was anchored at the harbor entrance and spotted the barge carrying the newly elected president of the United States. The packet-boat fired one shot, and flags of all the nations were unfurled. As Washington’s barge passed by, it fired a 13-gun salute, followed by a 13-gun salute by the battery.

When Washington reached New York, the fort fired another 13-gun salute. Washington, upon reaching land, was greeted by the Governor of New York, George Clinton, along with the city’s mayor, officers and a procession formed of shop owners, citizens and others to escort the newly elected president to a house that had been set up for his use while in the city.

 

23 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who Administered the Oath of Office?

Robert R. Livingston, a politician and member of the committee that drafted the 1776 Declaration of Independence administered Washington’s oath. Livingston also helped draft the state constitution of New York. In his position as state chancellor of New York when Washington was sworn in, he was the highest ranking official in the New York judiciary. Later, he served from 1801 to 1804 as the federal government’s plenipotentiary minister to France and assisted with negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase.

 

23 hours ago, phkrause said:

Why Was Washington’s Inauguration Delayed?

Mother Nature was responsible for the delay. The Confederation Congress in 1788 had agreed that the inauguration would be held in March on the first Wednesday the next year. Because of bad weather, including snow and unseasonable cold, many of the members belonging to the First Federal Congress simply could not get to New York. Since a quorum was not present and needed to conduct business, the ballots cast for president could not be counted. Finally, the ballots were counted on April 6. Washington was notified that he had won and set out from Mount Vernon in Virginia to New York for his inauguration.

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On 4/30/2017 at 5:10 PM, phkrause said:

Who is the only U.S. President to resign from office?

Andrew Johnson Bill Clinton Chester A. Arthur Richard Nixon

Would that be tricky dicky??

Answer: Richard Milhous Nixon served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office. In 1974, he resigned rather than be impeached for covering up illegal activities of party members in the Watergate affair. “By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, “I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.” President Gerald Ford took the oath of office on Aug. 9, 1974, after Nixon resigned.

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What team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?

A. Houston Oilers
B. Green Bay Packers
C. Kansas City Chiefs
D. St. Louis Cardinals

I believe that would be the Green Bay Packers!!

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In 1976, Ron Wayne sold his 10% ownership of which company for $800?

Walmart Apple Microsoft Amazon

I'm gonna guess Apple

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Dedicate Yourself to Answering These Trivia Questions

May 1, 1931, saw the lights turned on at the tallest building in the world -- the Empire State Building.  Try your luck with these trivia questions about a national symbol that still shines brightly...

Who Turned on the Lights in the Building?

What Problem Do Window Washers Face When They Work on the Empire State Building?

What Two Events Led to the Empire State Building's Lights Being Turned Off?

What Other Buildings Have Held the "World's Tallest" Title?

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Which retailer opened its first store in Roseville, Minnesota on this day in 1962?

Home Depot Target Wal-Mart Kmart

My guess Kmart

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22 hours ago, phkrause said:

What team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?

A. Houston Oilers
B. Green Bay Packers
C. Kansas City Chiefs
D. St. Louis Cardinals

I believe that would be the Green Bay Packers!!

B. Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers topped the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967.

Source: various web sites.

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22 hours ago, phkrause said:

In 1976, Ron Wayne sold his 10% ownership of which company for $800?

Walmart Apple Microsoft Amazon

I'm gonna guess Apple

Answer: Ronald Gerald Wayne co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Wayne worked with Steve Jobs at Atari before he, Jobs, and Wozniak founded Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. Serving as the venture's "adult supervision" Wayne drew the first Apple logo, wrote the three men's original partnership agreement, and wrote the Apple I manual. He soon, however, sold his share of the new company for a mere $800. As of March 2017, if Wayne had kept his 10% stake in Apple Inc., it would have been worth over $75.5 billion.

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who Turned on the Lights in the Building?

The official story is that President Herbert Hoover turned on the lights by pressing a high-tech (for the time) button in Washington D.C. that somehow turned on the lights in the building in New York. In reality, the button in Washington did nothing; it was an act. Hoover coordinated his button-pressing with a person in New York standing by the light switches in the Empire State Building. It's unknown who exactly flipped those switches, but it wasn't Hoover.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Problem Do Window Washers Face When They Work on the Empire State Building?

Trying to clean the windows on the Empire State Building is a massive undertaking, but people do it regularly. Teams of window washers travel up and down on each side, cleaning off whatever lands on the windows. Window washers face a particularly nasty problem with the Empire State Building because its windows open, allowing tenants to throw items out of the window. One window washer reported that it was common to find coffee spilled down the side of the building and on other windows, and that one time someone threw so much strawberry preserves out the window that the goop covered several stories. What was worse was that this happened in winter, so the preserves froze all over the side of the building. Remember this the next time you're in New York and try to walk near the building.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Two Events Led to the Empire State Building's Lights Being Turned Off?

The tower lights are usually turned off nightly at about 2 a.m., but there have been two events that kept the lights off at other times. Between November 1973 and July 1974, the lights were off completely because of the energy crisis happening in the United States. In October 1973, the Yom Kippur War took place in Israel, when Egypt and Syria attacked. Because the United States defended Israel by sending arms, the Arab oil-producing companies started an embargo. The effects in the United States were pronounced, with gas stations running out of gas. In an effort to conserve as much energy as possible, the tower lights on the Empire State Building were turned off.

The other event was the death of Fay Wray in 2004. Wray had played the woman kidnapped by King Kong in the 1933 version of the movie, which included the classic scene of Kong climbing up the side of the Empire State Building while holding Wray. The tower lights went out for 15 minutes in her honor.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Other Buildings Have Held the "World's Tallest" Title?

In 1931, the 1,250-foot Empire State Building (that figure doesn't include the lightning rod) narrowly beat the Chrysler Building for the title of world's tallest building. Since then, the title has been taken over by the Sears Tower in Chicago (now called the Willis Tower; 1,454 feet excluding antennae), the Petronas Towers in Malaysia (1,483 feet), and Burj Khalifa in Dubai (2,717 feet). 

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which retailer opened its first store in Roseville, Minnesota on this day in 1962?

Home Depot Target Wal-Mart Kmart

My guess Kmart

Answer: The first Target store was opened on May 1, 1962 in Roseville, Minnesota. Banker and real estate investor George Draper Dayton incorporated Target in 1902 as Goodfellow Dry Goods. The following year the name was changed to Dayton Dry Goods Company and shortened to Dayton Company in 1910. On May 1, 1962, Dayton Company opened its first Target store, designed as a discount version of Dayton’s department stores. Target is now the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart.

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What was Mary Todd Lincoln's response when asked if her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, had a hobby?

A. Vampire hunting
B. Dogs
C. Painting
D. Cats

Don't really know, but how about "Vampire hunting??" LOL

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Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, also wrote which children's book?

Goodnight Moon Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Alice in Wonderland Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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4 Trivia Questions About Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster

On May 2, 1933, a story appeared in Scotland’s Inverness Courier about the sighting of a mysterious creature that rose to the surface of the Lake at Loch Ness and has been sought ever since. Try to answer these trivia questions about the history of Scotland’s famous monster.

Who Was the First Person to See a Loch Ness Monster?

What Scottish Law Made it Illegal to Shoot Nessie if Ever Found?

What Big Game Hunter Hunted Nessie?

Have Any of the Sightings Been Authenticated?

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Which city is home to the 605-foot Space Needle?

San Antonio Portland Seattle Jacksonville

Would that be the one in Seattle??

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18 hours ago, phkrause said:

What was Mary Todd Lincoln's response when asked if her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, had a hobby?

A. Vampire hunting
B. Dogs
C. Painting
D. Cats

Don't really know, but how about "Vampire hunting??" LOL

D. Cats

Abe was an ailurophile, or cat lover. He is pictured with a cat of his own in some portraits.

Source: various web sites.

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18 hours ago, phkrause said:

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, also wrote which children's book?

Goodnight Moon Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Alice in Wonderland Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Answer: Ian Fleming is a 20th-century novelist known for inventing the popular spy character James Bond. Fleming also wrote the popular children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a story about a magical car, to entertain his son. Fleming took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called "Chitty Bang Bang", built by Count Louis Zborowski. Fleming did not live to see Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang published. He suffered a heart attack on August 11, 1964 and died in the early morning of the following day—his son Caspar's twelfth birthday. The book was published two months after his death.

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who Was the First Person to See a Loch Ness Monster?

Nessie’s first newspaper write-up wasn’t even close to the first time anyone had claimed to see her. For that, you need to go back to the 6th century AD, when a man named St. Columbia came across a sea monster in the River Ness. According to documents written by St. Adamnan, the monster was preparing to eat a holy man when St. Columbia came to the rescue, commanding the monster to stay back in the name of God. Amazingly, the monster obeyed, and did not harm the holy man. 

She’s apparently stayed away ever since, rising only when strange people with old cameras take horrible grainy photos of her that don’t look like anything.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Scottish Law Made it Illegal to Shoot Nessie if Ever Found?

Just in case anybody actually finds Nessie, keep in that you legally cannot hurt her. That’s right, a creature not even proven to exist is protected under law. After much deliberation in the early ’80s as to what the government could do if Nessie were ever found and somebody decided to turn her into Loch Ness Burgers, the Scottish government finally decided that she was protected under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, which made it illegal to “snare, shoot, or blow up” any creature identified by those party-poopers we call “scientists.”

In other words, after spending centuries searching for Nessie, if we actually find her, we have to leave her alone. That doesn’t sound very fair.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Big Game Hunter Hunted Nessie?

Marmaduke Wetherell was hired by the London newspaper, Daily Mail, to hunt down the Loch Ness Monster after the 1933 sighting. He was not only a big game hunter but an actor and director. After conducting a search for a few days, Wetherell reported that he had not found the monster but had discovered giant footprints along the Loch’s shore. When the National History Museum examined the footprints, they were declared to be those of a hippopotamus. Dried hippo feet were sometimes used as umbrella stands or stuffed.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Have Any of the Sightings Been Authenticated?

Although thousands of eyewitnesses have said that Nessie is real, no genuine evidence has been produced. A sighting was made by a London physician in 1934 and was a realistic-appearing photo. In 1984, a professional photographer wrote an article for a British photography magazine saying that his analysis of the photo showed the animal as much smaller and that it was probably an otter or bird. The photographer was wrong.

In a deathbed confession by the stepson of the big game hunter, Marmaduke Wetherell, his stepson, Christian Spurling, admitted that it was a fake and that the doctor and Marmaduke Wetherell were both in on it. After making a credible serpent head for the monster, it had been mounted on top of a toy submarine and floated on Loch Ness for the photographs.

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which city is home to the 605-foot Space Needle?

San Antonio Portland Seattle Jacksonville

Would that be the one in Seattle??

Answer: The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and a symbol of Seattle. Built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators. Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, it is 605 feet high, 138 feet wide, and weighs 9,550 tons. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude, as strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

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Recently, Otto, a Peruvian bulldog, set the record for longest human tunnel skateboarded through by a dog. How many people comprised the tunnel?

A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40

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Which U.S. President's disability resulted in the White House being made wheelchair-accessible?

Ulysses S. Grant Franklin D. Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson Harry S. Truman

I'm guessing FDR

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Get On Up With These Tricky Trivia Questions

On May 3, 1933, James Joseph Brown, Jr. was born and went on to become the “Godfather of Soul.” Please, please, please try your luck with these James Brown trivia questions.

What Was the Name of Brown’s Band?

Did Brown Ever Win a Grammy Award for His Music?

What Famous Person Worked as James Brown’s Road Manager?

What Movies Did Brown Appear In?

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What is the only state whose capital city begins with the letter "F"?

Maine Montana South Dakota Kentucky

I'm thinking SD??

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19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Recently, Otto, a Peruvian bulldog, set the record for longest human tunnel skateboarded through by a dog. How many people comprised the tunnel?

A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40

C. 30

Little Otto skateboarded through 30 people!

Source: various web sites.

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which U.S. President's disability resulted in the White House being made wheelchair-accessible?

Ulysses S. Grant Franklin D. Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson Harry S. Truman

I'm guessing FDR

Answer: The White House did not become wheelchair accessible until Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933. President Roosevelt suffered paralysis due to polio, so the White House was remodeled to accommodate his wheelchair. Franklin Roosevelt also added a heated indoor swimming pool to help with his therapy. He later established a foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia where he founded a hydrotherapy center for the treatment of polio patients, and founded the March of Dimes that eventually funded an effective polio vaccine.