Trivial Trivia
By William F. Bultas
See how many of these miscellaneous trivia questions you can answer correctly. Par is 10 correct, & you have done exceptionally well if you can answer more than 15 of these correctly. The answers to this quiz are on this page. Enjoy!
1. Who wrote the poem that begins "'Twas the night before Christmas...."?
John Steinbeck
Clement Moore
Denis Diderot
John Vincent
2. Who wrote Tar Baby?
John Updike
Cynthia Sloane
Toni Morrison
Erica Langley
3. What is skijoring?
A sport in which competitors ski backward
Falling down while skiing
A sport in which a skier is pulled by a horse
Making a 360 degree jump while skiing
4. Which of the following Olivers was involved in the Iran-Contra Affair?
North
Cromwell
Goldsmith
Holmes
5. What was gangster Al Capone convicted of?
murder
running an illegal gambling ring
treason
income tax evasion
6. If you are a sandhog, what are you?
A desert groundhog
A worker in tunnel construction
An archaeologist
An extra for Baywatch
7. In the original Star Trek episodes, characters from the Enterprise wearing this color were most likely to be killed:
gold
red
blue
white
8. Who starred in the movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins?
Sylvester Stalone
Guy Thompson
Bob Roberts
Fred Ward
9. Who plays the part of Martha in the movie Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Elizabeth Taylor
Sandra Bullock
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Emma Thompson
10. Who won World Cup '98?
France
Brazil
Japan
Germany
11. Artis Ivey is better known as
Heavy D
Coolio
Dr. Dre
Leonine
12. Who makes the claim that they are "Earth's Biggest Bookstore"?
Borders
Barnes and Noble
Waldenbooks
Amazon.com
13. Which of the following wrote Nancy Drew books?
Julian Peabody
Carolyn Keene
Thomas Macey
Michael Burger
14. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been known to
always support the Democratic party
drive drunk
smoke cigars
juggle knives
15. Laughing gas is also known as
hydrogen chloride
nitrous oxide
caninine 5
carbon monoxide
16. "To be or not to be" is from
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Hamlet
17. Following the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was convicted of
First Degree Murder
Second Degree Murder
First Degree Murder & Treason
Nothing
18. Michael Faraday discovered
Alpha particles
Electromagnetic induction
The Bermuda Triangle
The Dead Sea Scrolls
19. Who possessed a License to Kill?
Bruce Lee
Chuck Norris
James Bond
The Jackal
20. In 1996, The Miss Universe Pageant was held in
Las Vegas, Nevada
Bangkok, Thailand
Windhoek, Namibia
Miami Beach, Florida
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