The Elizabethan fashionable high collars were first worn to:
(A) hide neck scars
(B) protect the Adam's apple
(A) hide neck scars
100
"Operation X-Ray" was a project in World War II to attach bombs to:
(A) dolphins
(B) bats
(B) bats
100
At age 9, Kenny Bennell, the world's youngest pilot:
(A) flew solo
(B) flew across the Atlantic
(A) flew solo
100
George Wythe, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was America's first:
(A) millionaire
(B) law professor
(B) law professor
100
Some beauty contestants in Japan are judged by their:
(A) tattoos
(B) feet size
(A) tattoos
200
The oldest inhabited city in the world is:
(A) Damascus, Syria
(B) Cairo, Egypt
(A) Damascus, Syria
200
Poet Walt Whitman, at age 11:
(A) joined the Army
(B) left school
(B) left school
200
Paul Revere advertised hand-fashioned:
(A) silver goblets
(B) false teeth
(B) false teeth
200
Sgt. Gilbert Bates of the Union Army walked 1,400 miles through the South carrying a:
(A) portrait of Abraham Lincoln
(B) United States flag
(B) United States flag
200
The longest straight railroad in the world is in:
(A) Canada
(B) Australia
(B) Australia
300
America got its name from:
(A) Christopher Columbus
(B) Amerigo Vespucci
(B) Amerigo Vespucci
300
Clams and oysters pump 400 gallons of water through their bodies:
(A) daily
(B) weekly
(A) daily
300
Margaret Guest graduated from the Music Conservatory of Baker University, Kansas at the age of:
(A) three
(B) seventy-four
(A) three
300
At the Citrus Regalia, Lilia Flories of Mission, Texas, wore robes made entirely of:
(A) grapefruit
(B) orange peels
(A) grapefruit
300
Benjamin Banneker made the first wooden clock in America in 1761 although he had never:
(A) learned to tell time
(B) seen a clock
(B) seen a clock
400
King Louis XIV of France had 413:
(A) servants
(B) beds
(B) beds
400
A school of whales is also known as a:
(A) herd
(B) pod
(B) pod
400
The world's loudest noise which could be heard 3,000 miles away, was created by the:
(A) eruption of Krakatoa (volcano)
(B) atom bomb in Nagasaki, Japan
(A) eruption of Krakatoa (volcano)
400
Giant South American spiders often eat:
(A) birds
(B) mice
(A) birds
400
Noble & Cooley in Granville, Massachusetts, is America's oldest and largest manufacturer of:
(A) toy drums
(B) hairpins
(A) toy drums
500
Newlyweds in ancient China were pelted with:
(A) onions
(B) garlic
(A) onions
500
A cluster of pheasants is called a:
(A) drove
(B) nide
(B) nide
500
Spoons in ancient Egypt were sometimes shaped like:
(A) pyramids
(B) fish
(B) fish
500
John Fielding, a blind policeman, could recognize 3,000 thieves by their:
(A) facial bumps
(B) voices
(B) voices
500
To escape slavery, Henry Brown:
(A) mailed himself in a crate
(B) impersonated a king