September Trivia
September 3, 1944 this diarist is send to Auschwitz.
Who is Anne Frank?
The Pulitzer was started with an endowment of $500,000 from this newspaper magnate.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
A small cabin or tentlike structure for use as a bathhouse, especially on a beach or by a swimming pool.
What is a cabana?
This board game has contestants solving murder.
What is Clue?
This spin off of Happy Days starred Pam Dawber and Robin Williams.
What is Mork and Mindy?
Practice what you
Preach
These three countries have landed on Mars
What are the US, China, and Russia
O Where have you been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, O Where have you been charming Billy?
I've been to seek a wife, she's the joy of my life, she's a young thing but she can not leave her mother.
September 6, 2001 this tenor, whose career as a singer began and age 40 dies at age 71.
Who is Luciano Pavarotti?
This newspaper has won the most Pulitzer prizes, 132 since 1918
What is The New York Times?
The front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one.
What is a facade?
This racing board game has a location called Gum Drop Mountain.
What is Candy Land?
Initially airing in 1976, with a revolving cast of women, this is how many Angles were in each episode of Charlie’s Angels.
What is three?
Better Late
Than Never
The first Greek mathematician to view and name Venus in 1610 is now famous.
Who is Gallileo Gallilei?
Hands... Touchin' hands... Reachin' out... Touching me, touchin' you
Sweet Caroline, Good times never seemed so good, I've been inclined, To believe they never would
September 15, 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers this while studying influenza
What is Penicillin?
He is the only US President to win a Pulitzer.
Who is Kennedy?
Inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc
What is queasy?
This board game involves drawing things on paper for your teammates to guess.
What is Pictionary?
The second series in the Law and Order series, SVU stands for this.
What is Special Victims Unit?
Fit as a
Fiddle
Only this planet spins backward on its axis, making the sun rise in the West.
What is Venus?
Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
September 20, 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, this US President declares a "war on terror"
Who is George W Bush?
Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes, all in this category, between 1924 and 1943.
What is Poetry?
To bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquility
What is Pacify?
In this game players fire upon each other's war vessels.
What is BattleShip?
The Nelson family starred on tv from 1952-1966 in this family series.
What is Ozzie and Harriet?
A woman's work is
Never Done
Jupiter has had a storm raging on its planet since it was first discovered. We call it by this simple phrase.
What is The Big Red Spot?
You're in the mood for a dance... And when you get the chance
You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet
Only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah
September 23, 1957 This President orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?
The Pulitzer prizes are presented every spring in recognition of achievements in journalism, music, literature and this.
What is Drama?
Injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness
What is damage?
This board game tells players 'Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
What is Monopoly?
This popular ABC sitcom, running from 1964 to 1972, was about ad exec Darrin and his marriage to Samantha, who has magical powers.
What is Bewitched?
Laughter is the Best....
Medicine
Mars' atmosphere and ground appear red due to this element.
What is Iron?
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow
Sweet home, Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home, Alabama
Lord, I'm comin' home to you
September 4, 1609 Navigator Henry Hudson is the first European to locate this island.
Prior to 1997, only classical type music was considered for a prize, but that year Winton Marsalis won for his "Blood On the Fields" which is this kind of music.
To dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person)
What is Obsess?
In Chess, bishops can move in this direction
What is diagonally
Airing from 1972-1982, this CBS dramedy series is based on Richard Hooker’s 1968 book, which was “A Novel About Three Army Doctors”
What is MASH?
The Early bird...
Catches the Worm.
This is the only planet in our solar system that was not named for a God or Goddess.
What is Earth?
Start spreading the news.... I am leaving today
I want to be a part of it.... New York, New York
September 9, 1776, Congress renames the country to the United States of America from this name.
What are the United Colonies?
The Public Service yearly winner does not receive a cash prize and is not a single winner, but a team of these people.
Who are news journalists?
An appetizer or dish of several individual tortilla chips topped with cheese, pickled jalapeño peppers, refried beans, etc., and baked or broiled
What are Nachos?
There are this many categories in the classic Trivial Pursuit game.
What is six?
This popular 1950s sitcom starring Robert Young and Jane Wyatt dealt with the problems of the Anderson household.
What is Father Knows Best?
Jack of All Trades
Master of None
The first mission sent to orbit Mercury was called this.
What is Messenger
Life is old there, older than the trees... Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home... To the place I belong... West Virginia, mountain mama... Take me home, country roads
September 17, 1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and this man signed the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Like the Oscars, most people know who is up for and who will likely win the Pulitzers yearly. True or False?
False. Until they are announced, no one knows who the finalists are among all the nominations.
To speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of.
What is Malign?
This board game involves climbing up and sliding down places at specific points.
What is Chutes and Ladder (or snakes and ladders)?
A statue outside New York's Port Authority bus station honors Jackie Gleason's irascible bus driver from this classic TV program.
What is the Honeymooners?
Saved by the
Bell
Jupiter's G-named moon is the largest in our solar system.
What is Ganymede?
Come along and sing a song and join the Jamboree
M-I-C K-E-Y M O U S E
September 20, 1973 Billie Jean King beats this man in battle-of-sexes tennis match
Who is Bobby Riggs?
In 1941 Hemmingway's For Who the Bell Tolls did not win. He did win in 1953 for this novel.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
To bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts
What is Tangle?
This game is said to be the oldest in recorded history
What is Backgammon?
Sam Malone and Diane Chambers are two of the main characters in this American sitcom television series that earned a top-ten rating during eight of its 11 seasons.
What is Cheers?
Give Credit Where
Credit is Due
Planets outside our solar system are called by this "e" name.
What are Exoplanets?
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother what will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me
Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be
September 27, 1822 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using this artifact.
Prefiguring his later recognition as a Nobel laureate in literature, this singer-songwriter received a Special Citation in 2008.
Who is Bob Dylan?
Popular drama in Japan. A public performance of this type of drama.
What is Kabuki?
In Scrabble, two letters are worth 8 points. X and this letter.
What is J?
The fictional Atlanta interior decoration firm of Sugarbaker and Associates was the center of the action of this sitcom of the 1980s and 1990s
What is Designing Women?
There's no such thing as a free
Lunch
Since January 2023, these are the names of the two rovers currently exploring Mars. C.P
What are Curiosity and Perseverance?
When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie, that's amore
When the world seems to shine
Like you've had too much wine, that's amore
Bells will ring, ting-a-ling-a-ling
Ting-a-ling-a-ling and you'll sing, "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay
Tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella