Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) The automobile was first invented in what country?

2) What was the first novel to have been written on a typewriter?

3) What was the name of the sorcerer who had Mickey Mouse as his apprentice?

4) On this date in 1997, a computer managed to do something it had never done before. What was it?

Answers:

1) France. The U.S. went on to create, thanks to Henry Ford, the assembly line method of manufacturing automobiles.

2) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.

3) In the final credits, the sorcerer's name is given as "Yensid," which is Disney spelled backwards.

4) IBM's Deep Blue super computer beat world champion chess play, Gary Kasparov.

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