Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: According to a recent survey, how long does it take for the average person to fall asleep? 

A: Seven  Minutes

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Q: Scientists are working on a nuclear fusion rocket that could reach Mars in how many days? 

A: 30 days. Nuclear fusion, the energy that fuels the sun and other active stars, could one day propel rockets that allow humans to go to Mars and back in 30 days so say researchers.

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Q: Most humans can guess someone's sex with 95 percent accuracy just by doing what? 

A: Smelling their breath.

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Q: A Nuke Internetwork poll found that what percent on Internet users have cut back on watching TV in order to spend more time on line?

A: 52 percent of Internet users have cut back and 12 percent have cut back on seeing friends

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Q: There is a red giant star located at5 the left shoulder of the constellation Orion and is the largest know star in our galaxy; can you name it?

A: Beetelgeuse (pronounced "beetle jooze")

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Q: What is the only insect that can turn its head?

A: The Praying Mantis

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Q: How long does the average human dream last?

A: Only 2 or 3 seconds

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Q:What two colors have no words that rhyme with them?

A: Orange and Purple

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Q: What do the stairs leading to the gallows, the blade on the guillotine, and the hangman's noose all have in common?

A: There are 13 stairs leading to the gallows, the blade on the guillotine falls from a height of 13 feet, and hangman's noose has 13 knots in it.

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Q:  Who is often called the father of the jazz saxophone?

A:  Coleman Hawkins!

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Question:

According to popular myth, windmills spin in a counter-clockwise direction except in what country?

Answer:

Ireland

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Question:

How many languages are actively spoken in the world?

Answer:

approximately 6,000

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Question:

How many miles does a hive of honeybees have to travel to create one pound of honey?

Answer:

Over 55,000 miles

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Question:

35% of people taking out ads for dating have what in common?

Answer:

They're married.

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Question:

On average, how many words do people utter during the course of a day?

Answer:

Roughly 4,800/day

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Question:

What is the maximum number of times you can fold a piece of paper in half?

Answer: 

The popular answer is seven.

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Question:

What is the one substance that weighs less in solid form than as a liquid?

Answer:

Water

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Question:

When numbers are spelled out, which number is the first to contain the letter "a"?

Answer:

One thousand

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Question:

If all the blood vessels in the human body were laid end-to-end, how far would they reach?

Answer:

60,000 miles

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Question:

Bob Hope was born on this date in 1903. He managed to wrangle some sweet perks in his various contracts for films and appearances, including lifetime supplies of automobiles, gas and what else?

Answer:

bubble gum

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Question:

Over the course of a lifetime, American women will spend on average, $20,557on these.

Answer:

shoes

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Questions:

1)  People tip more generously if their server does this.

2)  75% of people surveyed advise that you never do what on Facebook?

3)  One in ten parents at some point ask their kids for help with this.

Answers:

1)  People tip better if the server is wearing some item of clothing that's red.

2)  Never "friend" your boss.

3)  the TV remote

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Questions:

1)  According the the Food Network, the most hated food is liver, followed by lima beans. What is the third most-hated food?

2)  41% of people in romantic relationships do this, even though it bothers their partner.

3)  On average, a family of 4 spends $500 a year on this.

Answers:

1)  mushrooms

2)  stay in touch with an ex

3)  ordering pizza

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Questions:

1)  30% of Americans forget these more often than anything else.

2)  In a recent survey of 2,739 men, 14% (1 out of every 7) of them have their mothers still doing what?

Answers:

1) pin numbers

2) their laundry

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Questions:

1)  In Greek mythology what was the name for the goddess of victory?

2)  How many pints are in a gallon?

3)  Who wrote and recorded the 1972 hit, "A Horse With No Name"?

4)  What bone in the human body is the longest?

Answers:

1) Nike

2) 8

3)  America. The song was featured recently in season three of Breaking Bad.

4)  The femur, or thigh bone.

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Questions:

1)  Cryobiology is the study of the body's reactions to what kind of conditions?

2)  Where is the malleus bone?

3)  Lawrence Tero's birthday is today. I pity the fool who doesn't know who he is.

Answers:

1)  study the effects of cold on the body

2)  in the ear

3)  He's "Mr. T."

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Questions:

1)  How long was Joe DiMaggio married to Marilyn Monroe?

2)  Dry ice is the frozen form of what?

3)  What is the name of the preschool-aged child on The Jetsons?

4)  What animal's young is referred to as a pullet (singular)?

Answers:

1)  It was Marilyn's second marriage. They were married in January of 1954 and divorced in October; the entire marriage lasted only ten months - 274 days.

2)  Many confuse dry ice and liquid nitrogen because both are cold. Dry ice is pure carbon dioxide.

3)  Elroy

4)  chicken, specifically a hen

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Questions:

1)  What percentage of the earth's surface is covered in water?

2)  How old was Joan of Arc when she turned the "100-Year War" to France's favor?

3)  Who was the first Democratic presidential candidate to use an image of a donkey on his campaign posters?

4)  This U.S. president was the first to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Answers:

1)  71%

2)  17

3)  Andrew Jackson in 1828

4)  President Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906.

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Questions:

1)  According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this word has the most definitions in the English language.

2) This individual has been awarded the most Academy Awards.

3)  This song's lyrics begin with, "I think I'm gonna be sad; I think it's today, yeah"

4)  How many players are on a polo team?

Answers:

1)  "Set" has 464 definitions. Pretty close behind are "run" with 396 and "go" with 368.

2)  Walt Disney

3)  "Ticket to Ride"

4)  4

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Questions:

1)  Who played the title character in TV's The Six-Million Dollar Man?

2)  Who once quipped, "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone"?

3)  Ichthyology is the study of what?

4)  Which U.S. president was first to appoint not just one, but two female generals?

Answers:

1)  Lee Majors

2)  The infinitely quotable Algonquin Round Table author and wag, Dorothy Parker.

3)  An ichthyologist studies fish, both fresh and salt water varieties. In case you're wondering, dolphins, walruses, seals, sea lions, manatees and whales are studied by marine mammologists.

4)  Richard Nixon did just that on this date in 1970.

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Questions:

1)  Benghazi is a large city in what country?

2)  Numismatics is the study of what?

3)  Which planet is placed between Jupiter and Uranus?

4)  Not a herd, not a gaggle, not a pride - what is a group of beavers called?

Answers:

1)  Libya

2)  currency

3)  Saturn

4)  a colony

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Questions:

1)  Which Batman nemesis carried an umbrella?

2)  What was the name of Han Solo's spacecraft in Star Wars?

3)  What is the lowest hand that beats a flush in poker?

4)  What is triskaidekaphobia?

Answers:

1)  the Penguin

2)  the Millennium Falcon

3)  a full house

4)  an unreasoning fear of the number 13

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Questions:

1)  What decade was the Wizard of Oz released?

2)  Which U.S. president was the first to have a typewriter?

3)  What was the most number of Oscars awarded to one film?

4)  What two vegetables are the only ones that are perennials?


Answers:

1)  The 30s: the film came out in 1939.

2)  Rutherford B. Hayes

3)  11 Oscars have gone to three movies: Ben Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

4)  asparagus and rhubarb

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Questions:

1)  What was Louis Armstrong's first #1 hit on the Billboard charts?

2)   What is the largest life-supporting organism on the planet?

3)  What does the "I" in ISDN stand for?

4)  Before his career as a television journalist, Mike Wallace appeared in a commercial as a circus barker, complete with straw hat and cane. What was the product?

Answers:

1)  Armstrong's rendition of "Hello, Dolly" reached #1 on this date in 1964.

2)  the Great Barrier Reef

3)  integrated

4)  Peter Pan peanut butter

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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

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Questions:

1)  In 1926, she was the first woman to do this.

2)  Which part of a plant produces its own food?

3)  This actor had a brief term as a boxer and billed himself as "Packy East."

4)  This major-league pitcher, a noted knuckleballer, once struck out 5 batters in 1 inning.

Answers:

1)  Gertrude Ederle was just 19 when she made her historic swim across the English Channel.  She was the first woman to do so.

2)  leaves

3)  Bob Hope

4)  Joe Niekro

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Questions:

1)  This actor was the first to play Ian Fleming's iconic character, James Bond.

2)  This company manufactures the XBox gaming console.

3)  England's "one penny black" was first issued on this date in 1840.  What was it?

4)   On this date in 1954, Englishman Roger Bannister was the first to do this.

Answers:

1)  Barry Nelson portrayed Bond on a British TV show on October 21st, 1954.  Click here for details: http://www.007james.com/articles/who_played_james_bond.php

2)  Microsoft

3)  It was the world's first postage stamp.

4)  Bannister ran the mile in under 4 minutes.

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Questions:

1) Where is Cinco de Mayo celebrated the most?

2) When did people start celebrating Cinco de Mayo?

3) What famous American said, "Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything"?

4) NaCl is the chemical formula for what?

Answers:

1) The United States

2) A group of California State University students started celebrating Cinco de Mayo around 1967.

3) Charles Kuralt

4) Salt

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Questions:

1)  Who was the first horse to break the two-minute mark in the Kentucky Derby?

2)  Who was the oldest jockey to win the "Run for the Roses"?

3)  What goes into a mint julep?

4)  Racing rules hold that racehorses may only have names with 18 or less letters. Why is that?

Answers:

1)  Secretariat beat 0:02:00 with a time of 00:01:59.40. Interestingly, his time in the Preakness was corrected in 2012 from 01:54.4 to 01:53 flat to make him the fastest ever in that race.

2)  Willie Shoemaker was 54 when he rode Ferdinand in 1986.

3)  bourbon, spearmint and sugar

4)  Name length is limited to 18 letters so as to fit on one line on racing forms.

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Questions:

1)  How many zeros are there in 1 billion?

2)  What type of animal did Warner Brothers' Pepe le Pew represent?

3)  On this date in 1970, she became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

4)  This famous figure "retired" on this date in 1975. He is also the only American to have his own zip code.
Answers:

1)  9

2)  skunk

3)  Diane Crump

4)  Smokey the Bear

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Questions:

1)  Which four words end in "_dous"?

2)  Besides "angry" and "hungry," what other words end in "_gry"?

3)  On this date in 1952, the first toy commercial appeared on television. What toy was it?

4)  What fairy tale was the first to be printed in English?

Answers:

1)  stupendous, horrendous, tremendous, hazardous

2)  There are no stand-alone words besides angry and hungry that end in "_gry" - unless you

• a) accept "gry," an obsolete unit of measurement invented by John Locke, or
• b) you treat the question as a trick and offer the word "energy," which ends in _g-r-y, just not in that order.

3)  Mr. Potato Head

4)  "The History of Tom Thumb" was the first fairy tale to be published in English; it was published in 1621.

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Questions:

1)  What iconic car was featured in Back to the Future?

2)  This nut is used in recipes to flavor macaroons.

3)  Rickets is a condition caused by a vitamin deficiency. Which vitamin?

4)  This was the only #1 hit to feature a zither.

Answers:

1) Back to the Future featured a Delorean

2)  almonds

3)  Vitamin D

4)   The song, "The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas reached #1 on this date in 1950 and stayed there for 11 weeks.

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Questions:

1)  How many spark plugs are in a six-cylinder diesel engine?

2)  Pope Francis recently canonized two individuals as saints last week.  Who were they?

3)  Jay Leno went ten years before having a guest host on the Tonight Show. Who was his first sub?

4)  This famous actor inadvertently invented a mic boom by tying a microphone to a fishing pole.

Answers:

1)  none

2)  Pope John XXIII (1958 - 1963) and Pope John Paul II (1978 - 2005).

3)  Katie Couric

4)   Lionel Barrymore

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Questions:

1)  Who was the first to be sworn in as Vice-President?

2)  This quote is usually attributed to whom? -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

3)  How many Apollo missions to the moon have there been?

4)  What bodies of water are connected by the Panama Canal?

Answers:

1)  John Adams

2)  Voltaire

3)  17

4)  The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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Questions:

1)  This was the first big band to play George Gershwin's music, bringing it to a mainstream audience.

Big Bands were famous for having signature or theme songs. Name the bands for these songs:

2)  "One O'clock Jump"

3)  "Lullaby of Birdland"

4)  "Take the 'A' Train"

Answers:

1)  Paul Whiteman

2)  Count Basie

3)  George Shearing

4)  Duke Ellington

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Questions:

1)  What country is Pope Francis from?

2)  In the case of an emergency, what can coconut water be used for?

3)  The Cisco Kid had a black and white horse named, "Diablo" and a sidekick named "Pancho." Who was the actor who played him?

4)  This is the second most abundant element in the universe.

Answers:

1)  Argentina

2)  blood plasma

3)  Roald Amundsen

4)  helium

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Questions:

1)  On this date 100 years ago, Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher.  For what team did he first play?

2)  The unit of measurement known as the "furlong" is never really used nowadays; how many furlongs are in a mile?

3)  In an ad hominem attack, what "weapons" are used?

4)  During World War II, citizens were encouraged to create their own gardens at home to offset the food shortage. These gardens were popularly and patriotically referred to as what?

Answers:

1)  The Baltimore Orioles

2)  8

3)  The "weapons" employed in an ad hominem attack are words. An ad hominem attack is a rhetorical device employed in debates and often seen in political campaigns. It is a way to deflect attention away from an uncomfortable question by redirecting attention by denigrating his or her character, thereby appealing to the audience's emotions rather than their desire for information.

4) "victory gardens"

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Questions:

1)  Henry Winkler made "The Fonz" a 70s icon on Happy Days. What was the character's not-so-tough first name?

2)  Gene Roddenberry was the creator of what science fiction franchise?

3)  The quiz show Take It or Leave It debuted on CBS radio on this date in 1940. The title for the show's grand prize question became a catchphrase in the 40s.

4)  How many boroughs are there in New York City?

Answers:

1)  Arthur

2)  Roddenberry is responsible for having either directly written or inspired all things Star Trek.

3)  The show asked the "$64 Question, which later blossomed into the "$64,000 question." In the 40s, the "$64 question" became a catchphrase for a particularly vexing question or problem.

4)  There are five: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

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Questions:

1)  He is credited for having said, "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."

2)  On this date in 1902 this country became the first to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals.

3)  How many incisor teeth do humans have?

4)  How many "deadly sins" are there?

Answers:

1)  Confucius

2)  Denmark

3)  8

4)  "The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a classification of vices (part of Christian ethics) that has been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct Christians concerning fallen humanity's tendency to sin. In the currently recognized version, the sins are usually given as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony" (from Wikipedia).

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Questions:

1)  Which is the hottest planet in our solar system?

2)  Tanqueray is what kind of alcohol?

3)  What was unveiled at the New York World's Fair on this date in 1964 ?

4)  Who was the author of Fahrenheit 451?

Answers:

1)  Venus

2)  gin

3)  Ford Mustang

4)  Ray Bradbury

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Questions:

1)  Solid carbon dioxide is also known as what?

2)  Who was the star of the 80s TV show, Knight Rider?

3)  She was the first woman to be inducted into the National Comedy Hall of Fame.

4)  What material does craft quilling usually involve?

Answers:

1)  Dry ice

2)  David Hasselhoff

3)  Minnie Pearl

4)  paper

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Questions:

1)  According to U.S. government estimates, what percentage of tax payers cheat when filing their income tax?

2)  Why was the first U.S. income tax implemented?

3)  The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution passed in 1913. What did it establish?

4) The first President to implement an income tax in the U.S. was ______________.

5)  This President was responsible for the largest federal income tax cut in the 20th century.

6)  In the U.S., the income tax laws are written by which branch of the government.

7) As of 2000, the U.S. Internal Revenue code was how many pages long?

8)  Which country has the highest income tax percentage rate?

Answers:

1)  17%

2)  to fund the escalating costs of the Civil War

3)  The Sixteenth Amendment made the collection of an income tax permanent.

4)  Lincoln

5)  Reagan

6) the legislative branch - laws are written and passed by Congress

7)  4,500+ pages

8)  Belgium at 56%

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Questions:

1) Which planet has the most moons?

2) Where did coffee originate?

3) Which planet did Mork from the sitcom Mork & Mindy come from?

4) Snap, snow, and pigeon are varieties of which foodstuff?

Answers:

1) Jupiter

2) Ethiopia (according to the National Coffee Association)

3) Ork



4) Peas

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Questions:

1)  Joseph Yule, Jr. died this week. The world knew him by what name?

2)  Who was known for saying, "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."?

Answers:

1)  Actor Mickey Rooney passed away this week at the age of 93.

2)  Mae West

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Questions:

1)  Who was President following Abraham Lincoln?

2)  The Connecticut Huskies and the Kentucky Wildcats recently faced off in what sport?

3)  What song was the first father-daughter duet to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop chart?

Answers:

1)  Andrew Johnson

2)  NCAA Mens' Basketball

3)  Frank and Nancy Sinatra's "Somethin' Stupid" reached #1 on this date in 1967.

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Questions:

1) The 1947 Roswell, NM incident concerned what?

2) According to the Washington Irving story, how many years did Rip Van Winkle sleep?




Answers:

1) A UFO



2) Twenty

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Questions:

1)  What color does acid turn litmus paper?

2)  What was the name of Angela Lansbury's character in the long-running TV show, Murder, She Wrote?

Answers:

1)  pink

2)  Jessica Fletcher

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Questions:

1)  How many countries border Mexico?

2)  What is Prince George's mother's title?

3)  What color is the star on Captain America's chest?

Answers:

1)  three: United States, Guatemala and Belize

2)  The former Kate Middleton's is  properly referred to as the Duchess of Cambridge.

3)  white

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Questions:

1)  Usually associated with Country music, he had a pop hit with "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," the duet he sang with Julio Iglesias.

2)  This U.S. President was a Quaker.

3)  The Punic Cathaginian military commander, Hannibal, was famous for having led these animals over the Alps and into Italy to be used in war.

4) Under siege even this week, this country recorded the largest earthquake in 1960.

Answers:

1)  Willie Nelson

2)  Richard Nixon

3)  elephants

4)  Chile

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Questions:

1)  What color is gazpacho soup?

2)  Cobalt is a shade of what color?

3)  The Itchy & Scratchy Show is actually a show-within-a-show, featured on what television program?

4)  On this date in 1960, The Paul Winchell Show last aired on ABC-TV. Winchell was a  ventriloquist and his dummy's name was Jerry Mahoney. Later, Winchell invented something; what was it?

Answers:

1)  Gazpacho is tomato-based and typically ranges in color from red to orange.

2)  blue

3)  The Simpsons

4)  With the assistance of Dr. Henry Heimlich, Winchell designed the first artificial heart.

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Questions:

1)  What is the capital of Brazil?

2)  Where is the "Sea of Showers"?

3)  What helps the "medicine go down"?

4)  Who wrote the children's classic, The Jungle Book?

Answers:

1)  Brasilia

2)  the moon

3)  According to Mary Poppins, one should have "a spoonful of sugar."

4)  Rudyard Kipling

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Questions:

1)  This computer company was the first to reach $1 billion in annual sales.

2)  What is the most traded currency in terms of value?

Answers:

1)  Apple hit the $1 billion mark in sales in 1982.

2)  The U.S. dollar