Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Alan Rock's Trivia Questions

Q: Which TV news magazine debuted on this date in 1978?
A: ABC's "20/20".

Q: When America's first drive-in movie theater opened on June 6, 1933, it was a complete failure. Then somebody suggested trying it at night. Where was it?
A: Camden, New Jersey. My dad proposed to Mom at a drive-in movie theater. Dad still has a souvenir of that romantic night -- the speaker he drove away with when he forgot to remove it from his side window.

Q: June 6, 1944 was a big day during World War Two. What do we call it?
A: D-Day, when thousands of Allied forces occupied the beaches of Normandy -- sort of like Spring Break with artillery. Older Americans remember it as the big war, primarily because it was the last one we won.

Q: You want your frog to be happy. What color should you paint its box?
A: Blue -- frogs love blue (L.M. Boyd's Book of Odd Facts).

No comments: