Daily Trivia

2008-12-03T14:15:03Z

Yesterday’s answer: Charles Bronson.

Today’s question: The name of what South American capital city means “I see a hill”?

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2008-12-02T14:15:38Z

Yesterday’s answer: Jethro Tull.

Today’s question: What actor, in describing his craggy appearance, once said “I resemble a rock quarry that got dynamited?”

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2008-12-01T14:15:43Z

Friday’s answer: First mystery guest on What’s My Line was Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto, then of the New York Yankees, later TV spokesman for The Money Store.

Today’s question: What rock group is named after the eighteenth-century English inventor of the seed drill?

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2008-11-28T14:15:10Z

Yesterday’s answer: 15. The number had been increased in 1795 to include Kentucky and Vermont. But with more and more states joining the Union, the number was reduced to 13 as of July 4, 1818, to represent the original 13 states.

Today’s question: Who was the first mystery guest to appear on the TV quiz show What’s My Line? in 1950? I thought maybe we’d had this one before, but we had who was the last mystery guest.

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2008-11-27T14:15:43Z

Yesterday’s answer: they are called dives because when the term was first introduced in New York City, such an establishment was usually located below street level in a run-down row house, requiring patrons to descend into the building’s depths.

Today’s question: How many stripes were on the official American flag in 1818 before Congress passed a law forever setting the number at 13?

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2008-11-26T14:15:47Z

Yesterday’s answer: 4 oz., when available. Which was never, because the officers guzzled it all.

Today’s question: Why do we call seedy saloons “dives”?

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2008-11-25T14:14:59Z

Yesterday’s answer: Green and maroon.

Today’s question: What was the daily ration of hard liquor for soldiers in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?

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2008-11-24T14:15:51Z

Friday’s answer: “Little Boy Blue” provided the title Come Blow Your Horn.

Today’s question: All of automaker Henry Ford’s cars were black until 1925, when he introduced two new colors. What were they?

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2008-11-21T14:15:05Z

Yesterday’s answer: Apollos De Rivoire was the father of Paul Revere.

Today’s question: What popular nursery rhyme provided Neil Simon with the title for his first play?

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2008-11-20T14:15:57Z

Yesterday’s answer: Crystal got it - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Today’s question: Who was Apollos De Rivoire?

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2008-11-19T14:15:12Z

Yesterday’s answer: those were all good guesses, but the actual answer is the hand grenade toss.

Today’s question: What American novel was the first to sell over one million copies?

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2008-11-18T14:15:53Z

Yesterday’s answer: “The Continental,” from the movie The Gay Divorcee Which, as we all know, is pronounced to rhyme with “horsey.”

Today’s question: What unusual—and quite revolutionary—track & field event was officially recognized by the Physical Culture and Sports Commission of Communist China in 1956? “Revolutionary” is a hint.

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2008-11-17T14:15:54Z

Friday’s answer: that’s from Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo.

Today’s question: What was the first song to win the Academy Award when the Best Song category was first introduced in 1934?

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2008-11-14T14:15:19Z

Yesterday’s answer: Lily got it—Eleanor Roosevelt. Better than “my fellow prisoners.”

Today’s question: In what film did the heroine declare, “I’ve met the most wonderful man. Of course, he’s fictional, but you can’t have everything.”

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2008-11-13T14:15:21Z

Yesterday’s answer: popcorn was banned because it was considered too noisy. In the 1920’s. During the silent movie era.

Today’s question: Who once addressed the Mayflower-minded members of the Daughters of the American Revolution as “my fellow immigrants”?