Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  In what city is the famous opera house, La Scala, located?

2)  In Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, when does the awaited Godot show up?

3)  Chris Haney and Scott Abbott were playing a game of Scrabble when they decided to invent their own game (from About.com).

4)  Lachanophobia is a fear of what?

Answers:

1)  La Scala (Italian: Teatro alla Scala) opened August 3rd, 1778, and is regarded as one of the leading, and most enduring, opera houses in the world.

2)  The conceit of Beckett's absurdist play is that Godot never arrives.


3)  Trivial Pursuit was first conceived on December 15, 1979 by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott. At the time, Chris Haney worked as a photo editor at the Montreal Gazette, and Scott Abbott was a sports journalist for The Canadian Press. The two friends came up with the basic concept of Trivial Pursuit within a few short hours (from About.com).

4)  vegetables