Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Alan Rock's Trivia

Questions:

1) When asked if there was anything she didn't play, what female athlete replied, "Yeah, dolls."

2) The founders of Portland, Oregon chose the name by flipping a coin. If the coin had come up on the other side, what would Portland be named?

3) Why is the monarch butterfly never eaten?

4) What happened to London Bridge?

Answers:

1) Babe Didrikson.

2) Boston.

3) It's poisonous.

4) The famed London Bridge, which spanned the River Thames for almost 140 years from the 1830s until 1968, now connects Arizona's Lake Havasu City's mainland and island. The bridge survived a terrorist attack in 1884 and bombing from Germany in both world wars; but it could not withstand the forces of nature, as it was sinking into the Thames River's clay bottom.

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