World Trivia
How many Condederate states were there in the Civil War?
11
What is the name of the small striaight knife used in surgery?
Scalpel
Which playwright wrote "The Emperor Jones"?
Eugene O'Neil
What is drosophila more commonly called?
A fruit fly
To what island was Napoleon exiled?
Elba
What U.S. Secretary of War came up with the "ingenious" idea of using camels out west?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
Who wrote, "Uncle Remus and His Friends"?
Joel Chandler Harris
Who built the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat?
Robert Fulton (1807)
Who made healines in 1976 by being kept alive on a respirator, though her parents requested that it be disconnected?
Karen Anne Quinlan
What was the first U.S. federal highway called?
The Cumberland Road
Name Germany's most powerful battleship in World War II.
The Bismark
Which country is known for its "just-in-time" production techniques?
Japan
In space travel jargon, what does Zero G mean?
Wightlessness (zero gravity)
Who said: "If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"?
Sir Isaac Newton
What artist created his huge painting entitled "One" by pouring and spattering the paint?
Jackson Pollock
What reference document lists all the elements known to human kind?
Periodic table
Who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In 1915, who talked to Thomas A. watson over the telephone for the very first time?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who discovered X-rays?
Wilhelm Roentgen
Who is the author of the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
In what part of the body is the stirrup located?
In the ear
What seismic wave is commonly but incorrectly referred to as tidal wave?
Tsunami
What president proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.?
George Washington
Which French author declined his Nobel Prize in 1964?
Jean Paul Sartre