Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: What is said to be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and adding 40? 

A: The Temperature

Q: It is said that a violin contains about how many separate pieces of wood?

A: 70

Q: A stroke of lighting discharges how many million volts? A: From 10 to 100 million volts and 30,000 amperes of electricity Q: When President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who played football for West Point, got injured trying to tackle what Olympic and NFL star?  A: Jim Thorpe

Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: Who was the Creole musician from New Orleans who was the self-proclaimed "inventor" of jazz? 

A: Jelly Roll Morton

Q: What United States park and tourist destination is 95 percent water? 

A:  Biscayne National Park.

Q: How many vocal sounds can cats make? 

A: Over a hundred while dogs only have about ten.

Q: How many blinks does the average person make? 

A: About twelve times per minute or about 10,000 blinks on an average day

Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: On radio in the 1940s, who was Captain Midnight’s mechanic? 

A: Ichabod "Icky" Mudd. Aristotle Jones was the Captain’s scientific adviser.

Q:Wes Montgomery taught himself to play the guitar while still a teenager, and developed an interesting playing style. What was unique about his self-taught style? 

A: He played with his thumb

Q:Who was the first musician to put together a jazz trio of piano, guitar and bass?

A: Nat King Cole

Q:In the film “Back To The Future” what make of car is motified to make a time machine? 

A: DeLorean

Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: How many different animal shapes are in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo? A: 17. In total there have been 37 different animals featured in Barnum's Animal Crackers since 1903. The current crackers are bear, bison, camel, cougar, elephant, giraffe, gorilla, hippopotamus, hyena, kangaroo, lion, monkey, rhinoceros, seal, sheep, tiger, and zebra.

Q: What was so unusual about the month of February 1865? 

A: The only month is recorded history not to have a full moon.

Q:Who was the fist U.S. President to hold a press conference on television? 

A: JFK

Q: How many honeybees does it take to produce one tablespoon of honey? 

A: 12