Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) Mickey Mouse was the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia. What was the name of the Sorcerer?

2) What country invented the automobile?

3) On this day in 1997, a computer did something it had never done previously. What was the accomplishment?

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

Answers:

1) The sorcerer's name was "Yensid," or "Disney," spelled backwards.

2) France. The U.S., thanks to Henry Ford, created the assembly line method of production.

3) IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat world champion chess player, Gary Kasparov.

4) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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