Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  What type of energy is exhibited when objects are in motion?

2)  Who is said to have begun the tradition if exchanging gifts at Christmas?

3)   This was the year Nixon resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal.

4)  This is the designation for a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler components by chemical means.

Answers:

1)  kinetic energy

2)  Some credit the Romans. Exchanging gifts was customary in the Roman celebration of Saturnalia. The tradition was banned in the Middle Ages by the Catholic Church but was later reinstated and Christianized by virtue of associations with St. Nicholas and Christmas and tied to the gift-bearing wise men at Jesus' birth.

3)  1974

4)  an element