GAME 1
Which of these sports projectiles has
been recorded traveling the fastest?
golf ball tennis ball
badminton shuttlecock hockey puck
badminton shuttlecocks weigh 5grams
smashed at 264.7 mph in 1917
Which newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize
for its coverage of the Watergate Affair?
Boston Globe Chicago Tribune
New York Times Washington Post
Washington Post
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
won the a pulitzer in 1973.
How did Thomas Edison propose to his second wife?
Morse Code Voice Recording
Telephone Sign Language
Morse Code
They used it to communicate when the kids were present.
He nicked named his two oldest kids "Dot" and "Dash".
What is Dorothy's last name in
"The Wizard of Oz?"
Kane Gale Reynolds Hamilton
Gale
On opening day of hunting season in Wisconsin
the number of hunters that day would equal
the _____ largest army in the world.
6th 8th 10th 12th
6th
Which state has the most
country music festivals?
Kentucky Tennessee Wisconsin Texas
Wisconsin
Which basketball player
appears on the NBA logo?
Larry Bird Michael Jordan
Bill Russell Jerry West
Jerry West used since 1969.
A torch, an oak branch, and an olive branch are
featured on the back of which U.S. coin?
Penny Nickel Dime Quarter
Dime -- minted since 1946
symbols of liberty;
peace and strength;
and independence
Where is the busiest passenger
airport in the United States?
Atlanta Chicago O'Hare
Dallas/Fort Worth Los Angeles
Atlanta (ATL)
What is the estimated
lifespan of a $1 dollar bill?
13 months 5.8 years
7.1 years 11.3 years
5.8 years
Which item is NOT a weapon
in the board game Clue?
Candlestick Knife Rope Ice Pick
Ice Pick
Which President was once the youngest
Navy pilot in the Armed Forces?
John F. Kennedy George H.W. Bush
Lyndon Johnson Gerald Ford
George H.W. Bush
Which state has the highest %age
of people who walk to work?
Hawaii Alaska Florida Rhode Island
Alaska
Which letter was the last letter
added to our alphabet?
J Q Z K
J
What animal is the only
animal that never sleeps?
Shark Eagle
Bullfrog Earthworm
Bullfrog
Which of these cities is NOT a U.S. state capital?
Kansas City Jefferson City
Carson City Salt Lake City
Kansas City
Jefferson City, Missouri
Carson City, Nevada
Salt Lake City, Utah
What % of people in
the world are left handed?
7 11 15 19
11 %
Square Dance is the
official dance of which state?
Kentucky Tennessee
Texas Washington
Washington
Which president was blind in one eye?
Calvin Coolidge Franklin Roosevelt
James K. Polk Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
The most used letters in the English
language are E, T, A, O, I, and _______.
D N R S
N
Where is the largest cactus
plantation in the United States?
Arizona Mississippi
New Mexico Texas
Mississippi
What is the only bird that can
see the color blue?
Owl Parrot Peacock Seagull
Owl
What is the first official state of the U.S.A.?
Virginia Maryland
Massachusetts Delaware
Delaware was the first colony to ratify the Constitution in 1787.
(9 of the 13 colonies had to agree for the
Constitution to become the law of the land.)
How many NFL Championships
have the Green Bay Packers won?
9 11 13 15
13
Which retailer is known for their
"Bluelight Specials"?
J. C. Penny Kohl's
Walmart Kmart
Kmart
Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David,
married which president's daughter?
Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
David Eisenhower married Julie Nixon in 1968.
They met in 1958 when they were 8 years old.
They are still married, have 3 grown children and live in PA.
Which artist cut off his left ear?
Pablo Picasso Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent Van Gogh Andy Warhol
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh died at age 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Pittsburg had the 1st AM commercial
radio station in 1920 (KDKA).
What city was the 1st to have a
commercial FM station?
Nashville Chicago Kansas City New York
Nashville first started broadcasting
in FM on March 1st 1941.
From what bird do we get the meat known as squab?
Baby Goose Baby Pigeon
Baby Swan Baby Quail
Baby Pigeon
It tastes like dark chicken meat.
But there is not much meat on one bird.
What city in the continental U.S.
has the largest land area?
New York City, New York Los Angeles, CA
Houston, Texas Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida 747 square miles
Houston, Texas 599.6 square miles
Neither New York or Los Angeles
make the top 10 in area.
How many grooves are
on the edge of a quarter?
119 129 139 149
119
Hawaii required residents to pay income tax
in 1901 before they were a state.
What state was the first one to have a state income tax?
Oklahoma Missouri Wisconsin Indiana
Wisconsin in 1911
Oklahoma in 1915
Missouri in 1917
Indiana in 1963
What do Paul Revere, J. Edgar Hoover,
and Betsy Ross all have in common?
all dsylexic all left-handed
all born Jan. 1 all vegetarians
All were born on January 1.
Which automobile manufacturer
produced a car named the Prelude?
Chevrolet Lincoln Toyota Honda
Honda
Who was the first Hollywood actress
to appear on a postage stamp?
Grace Kelly Elizabeth Taylor
Lucille Ball Katherine Hepburn
Grace Kelly in 1993.
What is measured on the Beaufort scale?
earthquakes wind
radioactivity voltage
wind
developed in 1805
12 levels from calm (0) to hurricane (12)
Which soft drink was originally called "Brad's Drink"?
Coca-cola Pepsi
Mt. Dew Dr. Pepper
Pepsi has the digestive enzyme pepsin in it,
and originally advertised to aid digestion.
Which of the following women have
NOT appeared on a U.S. coin?
Martha Washington Pocahontas
Susan B. Anthony Helen Keller
Helen Keller
The Harlem Globetrotters basketball
team was founded in which city?
Chicago Detroit New York Philadelphia
Chicago in 1927.
All players came from the southside.
They did not play in Harlem until 1968.
Which entrepreneur made tractors
before entering the sports car business?
John DeLorean Enzo Ferrari
Ferruccio Lamborghini Ferdinand Porsche
Lamborghini was a mechanic during WWII.
He built a tractor business using leftover military hardware.
When he found himself in a position to indulge his passion
for luxury cars he decided to build the perfect car--
the Lamborghini 350GTV in 1963.
Who became one of the richest men in
Hungary thanks to a toy he invented?
Erno Hackysack Erno Lego
Erno Slinky Erno Rubik
Erno Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube.
With over 350 million sold, it is the best selling toy of all time.
1 in 7 people in the world have touched a Rubik's Cube.
The Ishihara test is used
to check for which condition?
diabetes color blindness
dimentia asthma
color blindness
Developed in 1917 by
Dr. Shinobu Ishihara of Tokyo.
Who was the highest ranking actor in military history?
Humphrey Bogart James Stewart
Charlie Chaplin Cary Grant
James Stewart
WWII and Vietnam vet and pilot.
Became a Brigadier General in the Air force reserves.
Reagan gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Lake Baikal, the deepest lake on Earth,
is located on which continent?
Australia Africa Asia Europe
Asia
In Siberia is the deepest (5,387 ft.) oldest, freshwater lake.
It is 20-25 million years old, and has many unique species of plants and animals.
What is the only food that does not ever spoil?
white rice peanut butter maple syrup honey
honey
3,000 year old honey found in
Egyptian tombs is still edible.
What is the tallest man-made monument in the United States?
The Gateway Arch Mount Rushmore
Statue of Liberty Washington Monument
The Gateway Arch is 630 feet.
That is 75 feet taller than the Washington Monument.
It is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
The 60 foot heads on Mt. Rushmore to scale would make them 465 ft. tall.
They could still walk under the arch.
When year did the "Star Spangled Banner"
become the official United States anthem?
1815 1865 1918 1931
1931
What is the world's largest
inland body of water?
Lake Superior Caspian Sea
Black Sea Great Bear Lake, Canada
Caspian Sea
Who was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey,
a pack of cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, and 10 dimes?
Marlin Brando Al Capone
Winston Churchill Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra died in 1998.
The dimes were in case he needed to use a pay phone,
dating back to 1963 when his son was kidnapped and he was
forced to communicate by payphones throughout the city.
He always carried 10 dimes after that.
Where is the Copacabana night club located?
Miami New York
Havana Rio de Janeiro
New York
Barry Manilow got the idea for
the song while in Rio de Janeiro.