Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  This basketball team is the world's most famous team.

2)  Born Ruth Lee Jones, this singer was equally at ease in jazz, soul and pop idioms. She performed with such jazz greats as Clifford Brown, Cannonball Adderley and Wynton Kelly. Her breakthrough crossover hit, "What a Difference a Day Makes" introduced her to the mainstream.  What was her stage name?

3)  What was odd about the Battle of New Orleans?

4)  The sociological term for the type of living arrangement where two people marry and establish their own residence?

Answers:

1)  The Harlem Globetrotters

2)  Dinah Washington

3)  What was odd about it was the timing. The Battle of New Orleans was fought two weeks after the War of 1812 ended.

4)  "neolocal"

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