James Bond Tunes
The Happening (1970's)
Miscellaneous Trivia
Geography Everyone Gets Wrong
Smarter than a 5th grader
100
Sheena Easton sang the title tune in the 1981 film starring Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet. Lyrics include: You can see so much in me, so much in me that's new. Never felt until I looked at you.
What is "For Your Eyes Only"?
100
In May 1970, the U.S. National Guard open fired on students at this university during a protest.
What is Kent State (University of Ohio)?
Four students were killed.
100
How many times does the human heart beat daily?
What is 100,000 times per day?
Pumps five or six quarts of blood each minute, or about 2,000 gallons a day.
100
Mistake: Antarctica has no time zones. How many does it have?
What is 9?
Based on territorial claims, most of the station in Antarctica use the time zone of the states owning them or their supply base.
Argentina Time, Chile Summer Time, Greenwich Mean Time, Mawson Time, Vostok Time, Davis Time, Dumont-d'Urville Time, Casey Time, New Zealand Daylight Time
100
What causes ocean tides?
What is the moon?
200
Nancy Sinatra sings the title song "You Only Live {this many times} in the the 1967 film starring Sean Connery and Akiko Wakabayashi.
What is Twice?
Nancy Sinatra was the first non-British performer to sing a James Bond title tune.
200
In 1971, this theme park opened in Orlando, FL.
What is Disney World?
The price of admission for a day pass was $3.50. Today, the same day pass starts at $137.00.
200
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed using what hand?
What is the left?
200
Mistake: The Statue of Liberty is in New York.
What state is she in?
What is New Jersey?
Even though the U.S. Geological Survey has placed Liberty Island in New York's 8th Congressional District, the island actually resides in New Jersey's waters, and is much closer to Jersey's mainland than New York's.
200
Bats are mammals. True or False?
What is true?
300
Shirley Bassey performs the title tune "[These] Are Forever" in the 1972 film starring Sean Connery and Jill St. John.
What are diamonds?
300
This commodity crisis was a highlight of 1973.
What is oil?
The OPEC oil embargo lit the fuse. Prices quadrupled worldwide, and for a short period of time, the U.S. government instituted odd-even day rationing. The national speed limit was reduced to 55 mph.
300
The number of rows in the periodic table.
What is 7?
There are seven horizontal rows of elements called periods. The vertical columns of elements are called groups, or families.
300
Mistake: The Nile is the world's longest river.
What river is the longest?
What is the Amazon River?
If you consider, as many studies do, the tributaries, multiple channels of a river, and cutoffs that eliminate longer river bends, the Amazon River beats the Nile by a whisker-4,345 miles to 4,258.
300
What is the closest plant to the sun?
What is Mercury?
400
In the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, the tune "Nobody Does it Better" is performed by this female singer-songwriter who was once married to James Taylor.
Who is Carly Simon?
400
On March 10, 1971, the U.S. Congress voted to lower the voting age to this.
What is 18?
Congress passed the 26th Amendment, but the U.S. Supreme Court intervened and limited the lowered voting age to federal elections by a 5-4 vote, stating that the states and localities controlled their respective voting laws.
400
What is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes?
What is a shark?
The shark eye has a nictitating membrane that acts as a protective layer over the eye. This membrane covers the shark eye during the feeding time in which the prey may cause damage to the eye.
They don't blink the same why humans do.
400
Mistake: All 50 states have Daylights Savings Time.
Which states do not?
What are Hawaii and AZ?
400
What is the part of the eye that controls how much light enters?
What is the pupil?
500
In the 1980 film starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond, Gladys Knight sang the title song, "License to [do this]."
What is kill?
500
In October 1970, in what is called the October Crisis in Canada, a Canadian labor minister and a British trade minister were kidnapped in this province.
What is Quebec?
500
What is the largest organism on the planet?
Hint: It's in Oregon!
What is the Honey Mushroom or Shoestring Fungus.
Total mass of it is estimated to weigh 7,500 tons. Also, the world's oldest organism as well, estimated to be around 2,400-8,650 years old.
It is a parasitic fungus, inserting itself into the body of a tree, taking the tree years to die.
500
Mistake: Route 66 is our longest highway.
What is the longest highway in the U.S.?
What is Route 20?
Though not the longest, it is the most famous. It spans 2,238 miles. On the other hand, the less famous Route 20, runs from coast to coast, from Boston to Newport, Oregon, runs 3,365 miles.
500
What species can live both in water and on land?
What is an Amphibian?