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2nd TRIVIA BLITZ WINNERS
APRIL 16-18, 1999
The skunk was off to a flying
start in the 2nd Trivia Blitz, but our
competitors were not to be daunted.
Congratulations to the top three scorers!
SoxxxTheCat
Twinsfan
Voodoo Vibe
TRIVIA BLITZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1.
Which breed of dog has the best eyesight?
The greyhound
2.
What organ that humans possess is missing in
deer?
The gall bladder
3.
Mouche is the name for beauty patches used in the
16th and 17th centuries. How were these
transported, and what modern day product was
derived from them?
Small jeweled boxes, which
became holders for compacted powder
4.
Name the three people whose faces were originally
supposed to have been carved into Mt. Rushmore.
Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and
John Colter (Western legends)
5.
What current day business began in Dallas, Texas
as the Tote'n Serve Ice
stations?
7-11 stores
6.
According to Billboard's Top 40 Album
charts, who was the #1 artist of the 1950's?
Harry Belafonte
7.
What is the oldest, continuously occupied capital
city in the world?
Damascus
8.
Who wrote the closing theme song
"Remembering You" for the TV show All
in the Family?
Carroll O'Conner and Roger
Kellaway
9.
In 1922, subscribers could tune in to 3 different
music channels and one all news channel for only
11 cents per month thanks to the invention of
what U.S. serviceman?
General George Squire
10.
Susan Atkins, while under the tutelage of Charles
Manson, gave birth to a son, now named Paul. What
name was he given at birth?
Ze Zo Ze Cee Zadfrack
11.
Nurtured and ecouraged by headmaster Roger Hills,
what Todd School alum began his sterling career
playing the Virgin Mary in a school play?
Orson Welles
12.
What is the name of the plane that dropped the
second A-Bomb on Japan?
Bock's Car
13.
What movie's last line was "The horror, the
horror?" Bonus point for the name of the
actor who said it.
Apocalypse Now, Marlon
Brando, in a voice-over
14.
What year did the following image appear?
1966
15.
Which came first, the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile or
the Weinerwhistle?
The Weinermobile was 1936,
the Weinerwhistle was 1952
16.
What artist created such coveted prints as Day
Dreaming, Temptation,
and Enchanted Evening?
Alberto Vargas
17.
By what name do we know the Boston
Cooking School Cookbook today?
Fannie Farmer's Cookbook
18.
Jack Norworth and Al Bon Tilzer are co-writers on
what American favorite song?
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
19.
There have been nearly 200 ceremonies to put
celebrity prints in cement at Mann's Chinese
Theater. Who was immortalized in ceremony #1 and
who was lucky at ceremony #13?
Mary Pickford and Douglas
Fairbanks, Ceremony #1, April 30, 1927,
Marion Davies, Ceremony #13, May 13, 1929
20.
In 1925, high school biology teacher John Scopes
was convicted of violating Tennessee's new law
banning the teaching of the theory of evolution.
What was Scopes'penalty?
A fine of $100
21.
Who was the first Latin American ever to serve as
the United States' number one public health
official?
Antonia Novella, former US
Surgeon General
22.
Who developed the Visible Speech Chart?
Bonus point if you give the creator's age at the
time of development.
Alexander Bell, 17, 4/1864
23.
Who are Donna DeLory and Niki Harris?
Back-up singers for Madonna
24.
The acquisition of a library card by what TV
character set off a 500% increase in real life
card issuance?
The Fonz
25.
What was so popular at the 1893 World's Fair that
over 1 million of them were distributed?
H. J. Heinz pickle pins
26.
What car manufacturing icon commited suicide at
the age of 60 after his brother's demise from
heart failure?
Arthur Chevrolet
27.
Who was the first woman in British Parliament,
taking over her husband's seat in the House of
Commons?
Lady Astor
28.
What company was responsible for the chemical
dumping in Love Canal? Bonus point if you can
name their parent company.
Hooker Chemical, a subsidiary
of Occidental Petroleum
29.
Husband and wife Melvin Kaminsky and Annemarie
Italiano are better known by what names?
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft
30.
Tim Conway, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Marilyn McCoo
and Billy Davis, Captain and Tennille, Donny and
Marie, Melba Moore and Clifton Davis, Burns and
Schreiber, The Brady Bunch, Ken Berry, Jim
Stafford, Julie Andrews, Mac Davis, Glen
Campbell, Barbara McNair, Ray Stevens, David
Steinberg, Dick Clark, Dick Cavett, Leslie
Uggams, Donna Fargo, Don Knotts, McLean
Stevenson, Rich Little, Chuck Barris, Lola
Falana, Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Jones, Carol
Burnett, Liberace, Sonny and Cher, Dinah Shore,
The Hudson Brothers, The Smothers Brothers, The
Carpenters, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell
Sisters, Sheilds and Yarnell, The Manhattan
Transfer, The Starland Vocal Band, Peter
Marshall, Pat Paulsen, The Jacksons, John Byner,
Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, Helen Reddy, Andy
Williams, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dinah Shore, Kelly
Monteith, Sha Na Na, Bill Cosby, Ben Vereen,
Bobby Darin, Bobby Goldsboro, Bobby Vinton, Dolly
Parton, Richard Pryor, Howard Cosell and, of
course, The Muppets. Aside from being famous,
what did each and every one of these entertainers
have in the 1970's?
A television variety show
31.
Where will you find the longest bridge in the
world? Bonus point if you give its name.
Louisiana, Pontchatrain
Causeway
32.
What three components make up the Jefferson
National Expansion Memorial?
The Gateway Arch, The old St.
Louis Courthouse, The Museum of Westward
Expansion
33.
What is the main ingredient of the Black Rock
Creeper drink and the Snallygaster drink?
Mountain Dew
34.
Candymaker Elmer Doolin from San Antonio, Texas
spent $100 for a recipe that made him a fortune.
What was that recipe for?
Fritos or corn chips
35.
What revered doctor was at various times in his
life an olympic medalist, a convict, and a
presidential candidate?
Dr. Benjamin Spock
36.
Who were the guests on the premier broadcast of The
Cher Show in 1975?
Bette Midler, Flip Wilson,
Elton John
37.
What record did Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur
hold when she passed away in 1998?
Guinness Book of World
Records, oldest living human, 117 years old
38.
What do Olive Oyl, Winky Dink and Scott Towels'
Aunt Bluebell have in common?
Mae Questel
39.
In 1921, who was the first person to earn an
International Pilot's License?
"Queen" Bessie
Coleman
40.
At what yearly event was the voice of Mary
Fendrich Hulman made famous?
The Indy 500 with
"Gentleman, start your engines"
41.
Which river is known as the American
Clyde?
The Delaware
42.
In 1901, Nap Lajoie was the first major leaguer
to get what, resulting in a run being scored?
Intentional walk with bases
loaded
43.
What is known as the "old lady of thread
needle street"?
Bank of England
44.
Filmmaker Preston Sturges created strong female
characters in such classic films as The
Lady Eve and Miracle of
Morgan's Creek. What was his
non-filmic contribution to the female world?
He invented
"kiss-proof" lipstick
45.
Which country will be the first to feel the wrath
of Y2K? Bonus point if you can say why.
New Zealand. They are always
the first country, in the first time zone, to
cross into a new year.
46.
The mob threatened to do bodily harm to Sammy
Davis Jr. because of an interracial affair
between the singer and which blonde starlet?
Kim Novak
47.
What was the first Tupperware product
manufactured and sold by Earl Tupper?
A bathroom drinking glass
available in a rainbow of colors
48.
Who are Linda Lee Danvers, Donna Troy, and Susan
Richards?
These are the civilian names
of Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and 'that lady
with the invisible power"' from The
Fantastic Four
49.
Mick Jagger's massive lips have graced the cover
of Rolling Stone magazine 19
times, more than any one else's. Whose lips
graced the very first cover? Bonus point if you
name what the source of the first cover photo
was.
John Lennon, the photo was a
black and white publicity photo from his film
'How I Won The War.'
50.
What does the G on Speed Racer's shirt stand for?
Go - Speed's Japanese name is
Go Mifune
51.
Which noted film director teamed with which
famous actor to create the pop band The
Monkees in the 1960's?
Bob Rafelson and Jack
Nicholson
52.
In what year did the Daytona 500 make its final
run on the original half beach, half paved road
track?
1958
53.
Which star made his national television debut on
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's Stage Show
on January 28, 1956?
Elvis Presley
54.
What design is Paris engineer Louis Reard most
famous for?
The bikini
55.
After his breakthrough performance in The
Petrified Forest, Humphrey Bogart was
hired as a featured contract player by Warner
Bros. What was his weekly salary?
$550
56.
Where would you have found the character
"Silent E"?
The Electric Company
television show
57.
Who played a giant gherkin in the old Heinz
pickle commercials?
Arte Johnson
58.
William Moulton Marston invented the systolic
blood pressure test. What other contribution did
Marston make to the hearts of men all over the
world?
He created Wonder Woman for
DC comics
59.
Whose lifelong heroes were jazz clarinetists Pee
Wee Russel and Woody Herman?
Paul Reubens aka PeeWee
Herman
60.
Specifically, where would your find the
"products" Grave Train, ViceJoy, Pure
Hex and Gadzooka?
In the first series of Topp's
Wacky Packages from 1973
61.
What is the most common fungal infection in the
United States?
Athlete's foot
62.
Pennsylvania voters turned out in record numbers
on November 7, 1933, to overturn blue laws and
permit what on Sunday?
Sports
63.
What device did Doug Englebart demonstrate at
Stanford University in 1968?
A computer mouse
64.
A San Antonio, Texas, office building that opened
on January 1, 1928 was the first such building in
the United States with what special feature?
Air conditioning
65.
The Bureau of International Expositions did not
sanction the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Why
not?
The U.S. is only permitted
one per decade, and Seattle was it in 1962
66.
What product did Scott Paper offer in 1966 for
the low, low price of $1.25?
Paper dresses
67.
In what film did Peter Sellers dub the voices of
14 of the cast members, both male and female and
in one scene, actually had 11 of his characters
carry on a conversation together?
The Malaga
68.
Who was the first female governor in the United
States? Bonus point if you can name what federal
department she headed after her stint in state
office.
Nellie Taylor Ross, governor
of Wyoming in 1925, head of the U.S. Mint
69.
What was author Rachel Carson protesting in her
1963 book Silent Spring?
Use of pesticides
70.
Because he was black, American surgeon Richard
Charles Drew could not use what facility he
designed?
The first blood bank
71.
In 1936, Warner Brothers story man Ben Hardaway
was the man responsible for what?
Naming Bugs Bunny
72.
On March 3, 1939, Harvard University student
Lothrop Withington, Jr., began what campus fad?
Swallowing live goldfish
73.
Memorialized in a bas-relief in New York's
Central Park and celebrated in dozens of Johnny
Carson's skits, what is Balto the Wonder Dog
famous for doing in 1925?
Delivering an antitoxin to
save the residents of Nome, Alaska
74.
When was the FBI's Ten Most Wanted
list started? Bonus point if you know how many
the Top 10 has been increased to.
1950, 16
75.
In 1931, Hub Beardsley brought Alka-Seltzer to
the public, a remedy developed by whom?
Maurice Treneer
76.
What special place in history does the movie Wife
Beware hold?
First film at a drive-in
movie
77.
Written in 1939, Gadsby was
a full-length novel written without any words
containing the letter "e". How many
words were contained in this 267-page work?
50,110
78.
What New Hampshire town is commonly considered
the inspiration for Grace Metalious's steamy 1956
novel, Peyton Place?
Gilmanton
79.
What famous corporate name is associated with
Walla Walla, Washington?
Acme
80.
The last public execution in the U.S. was held in
1936 in what state? Bonus point if you can name
the executed's crime.
Kentucky, Rainey Bethea for
murder
81. This is Caroline Munro in a
1978 commercial for what product? Include the
product maker or no point for this one.
Noxema shave creme
82.
Do you know your foods by sight? A favorite color
of corporate logos is red. Which three company's
products can be recognized by a red spoon, a red
oval, and a red triangle?
Betty Crocker, Post,
Nabisco...this question was tossed in the
final scores
83.
What type lamp reached its height of popularity
in the late 1950s?
The pole lamp
84.
What is the largest fountain in the world? Bonus
point if you name who it is a memorial to.
Buckingham Fountain, Clarence
Buckingham
85.
What North Dakota born writer surpassed Zane Grey
as the master of Western fiction?
Louis L'Amour
86.
What common bond will you find in a Broadway show
from the 1980's, a movie which made Ruby Keeler a
star, and a George M. Cohan song?
42nd Street
87.
Whose first program, 3 to Get Ready,
was the first morning talk show of its kind,
defining television as an audience-bound event?
Ernie Kovacs
88.
Where did John Gruelle come up with the name for
his cheery, red-headed Raggedy Ann
doll?
From the poems Little
Orphan Annie and The
Raggedy Man by James Whitcombe
Riley
89.
What band made the very first jazz recording?
Bonus point if you can give the year.
The Original Dixieland Jazz
Band from New Orleans in 1917
90.
Where in the U.S. will you find the first station
to successfully produce electrical power from
atomic energy? Bonus point if you can tell the
year it occurred.
Arco, Idaho 1951
91.
It took Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh 4 hours and
48 minutes to reach where in 1960?
The lowest point on earth,
the bottom of the Marianas Trench
92.
What current day religious organization was
formerly known as "The International Bible
Students' Association"?
Jehovah's Witness
93.
What company first marketed the image of Aunt
Jemima?
The Davis Milling Company in
1890
94.
What did Annie Edson Taylor do for her 43rd
birthday and live to tell about it?
Went over Niagara Falls in a
barrel
95.
What scientific first did Glenn Seaborg and his
collagues accomplish in 1942?
Create the first man-made
element, plutonium
96.
Who referred to himself as the "Father of
Radio", due to his invention of the electron
tube.
Lee DeForest
97.
The Bat Lizard, Star Child, Spaceman, and the Cat
are collectively known as who?
The band KISS
98.
Who is known as the "rhumba king"?
Xavier Cugat
99.
Which subway came first; London, Paris or New
York?
London (1860), Paris (1898),
New York (1900)
100.
Champion swimmer and diver, Annette Kellerman,
was featured on several trading cards put out by
what company?
Panhandle Scrap, a brand of
chewing tobacco
101.
Where will you find La Llarona
lamenting the loss of her children?
Mexico
102.
Where is the world's highest spire located? Bonus
point if you can name the cathedral that has this
spire.
Germany, Ulm Cathedral
103.
We all know where the name for the Baby
Ruth candy bar came from, now, what
company produced and sold it?
Curtiss Candy Company in 1920
104.
What religion uses the Avesta?
Zoroastrianism
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