Saturday, January 24, 2015

Alaan Rock's Trivia


Q: How many squares are there on a chess board? 

A: 64

Q:There have been three famous jazz musicians with the name Bill Evans. Two of them (piano and sax) kept their name. What did the third Bill Evans change his name to?  
A: Yusef Lateef. He is a fine solo musician who also has played with Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie. There is some debate on Lateef's real name, it may have been Bill Huddleston. He did go by the name "Bill Evans" though.
Q:Albert DeSalvo was also known by the infamous name? 
A: The Boston Strangler
Q:E.I. du Pont introduced the first commerical production on Nylon on this date in 1938. What did they use it for?  
A: To manufacture tooth brush bristles.


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