Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)   Who was the first African-American to win an individual gold medal in the Winter Olympics?

2)  The shortest verse in the New Testament is just two words: "Jesus wept."  Where is this scripture found?

3)  What is the internal angle of the corners in an equilateral triangle?

4)  The U.S. Table Tennis Association originally sought to call the sport by another name. What did they want to call it?

Answers:

1)  Shani Davis won gold in the 1,000 meter speed-skating event in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino (Turin), Italy.

2)  John 11:35

3)  60 degrees

4)  Ping-Pong. The name Ping-Pong was already patented by Parker Brothers, so "table tennis" it was.

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