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What famous document begins: "When in the course of human events..."?

A: The Declaration of Independence.
What current branch of the U.S. military was a corps of only 50 soldiers when
World War I broke out?
A: The U.S. Air Force.
Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any
more broccoli"?
A: George Bush.
What so-called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead Than RED" and
"Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950's?
A: The Cold War.
What president was shot while walking to California Governor Jerry Brown' office?
A: Gerald Ford.
Who earned infamy for noting: "A billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be"?
A: J. Paul Getty.
What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways
in the U.S. West?
A: The Chinese.
Lots of fun free trivia questions.
What former speaker of the U.S. House has a chair in peace studies named for him
at the University of Ulster?
A: Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?
A: A net.
What future Soviet dictator was training to be a priest when he got turned on to
Marxism?
A: Joseph Stalin.
What election year saw bumper stickers reading "Wallace, Wallace, Uber Alles"?
A: 1968.
What 20th-century conflict was dubbed the "forgotten war" despite 54,246 U.S.
deaths?
A: The Korean War.
What single name is more commonly applied to Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great?
A: Charlemagne.
Who was the last president of the Soviet Union?
A: Mikail Gorbachev.
What had Pliny the Younger seen erupt when he wrote: "We were terrified to see
everything changed, buried in ashes like snowdrifts"?
A: Mount Vesuvius.
Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia fetch $5,000 at
auction?
A: Jimmy Carter.

What Alabama city saw state troopers attack Civil Rights marchers on Edmund Pettis
Bridge?
A: Selma.
What Texan ended up with one delegate after spending $12 million of his own money
running for president in 1980?
A: John Connally.
What congressional award was Dr. Mary Edwards Walker the first woman to receive?
A: Medal of Honor.
What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench warfare?
A: The Tank
What California city did the last Pony Express ride end in?
A: Sacramento.
Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version of his first name?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What civil rights leader did Dorothy Parker leave the bulk of her estate to?
A: Martin Luther King Jr.
What did Republicans call the platform they hyped in the 1994 Congressional
elections?
A: The Contract With America.
What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of the English at the
Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297?
A: William Wallace.
What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham Lincoln's pocket when he
was shot?
A: The Confederate States of America.
What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, starting in 1989?
A: Apartheid.
What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know
as?
A: El Cid.
How many U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico?
A: Five.
What's the ballet term for a 360-degree turn on one foot?
A: Pirouette.
What did blind bank robber David Worrell use as a weapon when trying to rob a
London bank?
A: His cane.
What Great Lake state has more shoreline than the entire U.S. Atlantic seaboard?
A: Michigan.
What model appeared topless on the self-penned 1993 novel Pirate?
A: Fabio.
Trivia questions and answers.
Which country has more tractors per capita, Canada, Iceland or Japan?
A: Iceland.
Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
A: Thomas Edison.
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Cat Wrestling, Tight-rope walking elephants, fire breathing dragons, and crazy
animal antics!
What Elton John album became the first album to enter the charts at Number One, in
1975?
A: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
What laundry detergent got lots of mileage out of the ad line, "ring around the
collar"?
A: Wisk.
Who, after anchoring off Hawaii in 1779, was mistaken for the god Lono?
A: Captain James Cook.
What continent is cut into two fairly equal halves by the Tropic of Capricorn?
A: Australia.
What explorer introduced pigs to North America?
A: Christopher Columbus.
What magazine boasts the slogan: "Test, Inform, Protect"?
A: Consumer Reports.
Who was billed as the "Killer of Custer" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
A: Sitting Bull.
What railway linked Moscow and Irkutsk in 1900?
A: The Trans-Siberian Railway.
What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to be considered a "big
band"?
A: Ten.
What's a water moccasin often called, due to the white inside its mouth?
A: A cottonmouth.
What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States in 1962?
A: Cuba.
What continent has the fewest flowering plants?
A: Antartica.
What element begins with the letter "K"?
A: Krypton.
What country saw a world record 315 million voters turn out for elections on May
20, 1991?
A: India.
What Lewis Carroll book was banned in China afer censors decided: "Animals should
not use human language"?
A: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
What is the least popular month for U.S. weddings?
A: January.
What spot once registered 134 degrees, the highest temperature ever in the U.S.?
A: Death Valley.
What was the first organ successfully transplanted from a cadaver to a live
person?
A: A kidney.
What surname means "son of Nick"?
A: Nixon.
What duo survived a 1909 shootout with Bolivia's cavalry, according to historians?
A: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine
to form more massive nuclei"?
A: Fusion.
What's the largest and densest of the four rocky planets?
A: Earth.
What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour
taste?
A: Lactose.
Who offered insurance against an accidental death caused by a falling Sputnik?
A: Lloyds of London.
How many months per year do residents of Tromoso, Norway go without seeing a
sunset?
A: Three.
What Beatrix Potter tale is the top-selling children's book of all time?
A: The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
What national holiday in Mexico has picnickers munching chocolate coffins and
sugar skulls?
A: The Day of the Dead.
What nation's military attached dynamite packs to Dobermans before sending them
into Palestinian guerilla hideouts?
A: Israel.
What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in 1781?
A: Uranus.
How many days does a cat usually stay in heat?
A: Five.
What is the only domesticated animal not mentioned in the Bible?
A: A Cat.
What word appears exactly 773,692 times in the King James Bible?
A: Amen.
What follows mass as the most popular activity in U.S. Catholic churches?
A: Bingo.
What Arab nation has the highest percentage of Christians?
A: Lebanon.
Bible trivia questions answers and facts.
What symbol did St. Patrick use to explain his theory of the Holy Trinity?
A: The Shamrock.
What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem boasting the
Temple of Solomon?
A: Zionism.
What country boasts the largest number of Catholics?
A: Brazil.
What name has been shared by the most popes?
A: John.
Which two wicked cities were destroyed by God in Genesis?
A: Sodom and Gomorrah.
What two countries claim two-thirds of the world's 2,000-plus registered saints?
A: Italy and France.
What fruit is depicted in Leonardo's Last Supper, even though it did not arrive in
the Holy Land until long after Jesus' death?
A: The Orange.
What is there more of in the world- nonreligious people, Hindus or Muslims?
A: Nonreligious people.
What former church lady got $75,000 to let "A Current Affair" televise her wedding
in 1993?
A: Tammy Faye Bakker.
What religious movement began with Martin Luther's attack on the sale of
indulgences?
A: The Reformation.
What Saudi Arabian city was the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad?
A: Mecca.
What storied city on the Euphrates River was 55 miles south of Baghdad?
A: Babylon.
What biblical place name means "pleasure"?
A: Eden.
What city did Napoleon occupy in 1798, sending Pope Pius VI to the south of
France?
A: Rome.
What church raised millions sellig members "electropsychometer" lie detectors?
A: The Church of Scientology.
What nation has 1,000 permanent inhabitants and produces no export goods?
A: Vatican City.
What was the world's principal Christian city before it fell to the Ottoman Turks
in 1453?
A: Constantinople.
What nation's Catholics saw the Pope make a triumphant homecoming visit in 1980?
A: Poland's.
What animal is mentioned most frequently in both the New and Old Testaments?
A: The Sheep.
What's the only 100 percent Christian nation on Earth?
A: Vatican City.
What biblical epic was the top-grossing movie of the 1950's?
A: The Ten Commandments.
Who was the first pope?
A: St. Peter.
What does an ecclesiophobic evangelist fear?
A: Churches.
What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in
medieval times?
A: The Bible.
How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale?
A: Three days and three nights.
According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal
the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile?
A: Pitch, or natural asphalt.
What language is Jesus believed to have spoken?
A: Aramaic.
According to the Bible, what weapons was the Philistine giant Goliath carrying
when he was slain by David?
A: A sword and a spear, according to I Samuel 17:45.
According to the Bible, how many pearly gates are there?
A: 12 (Revelation 21:12-21).
What were the names of the three wise men?
A: Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior.
Who were the parents of King Solomon?
A: David and Bathsheba.
How many books of the Bible are named for women?
A: Two - Ruth and Esther.
In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband?
A: Ahab, King of Israel.
How long does it take light from the sun to reach the earth?
A: Approximately 8 minutes and 18 seconds.
How far is the moon from the earth?
A: The actual Earth-Moon distance ranges from about 360,000 to 405, 000
kilometers, depending on the position in the Moon's orbit. (223,694 to 251665
miles)
How much bigger is the sun than the earth?
A: The Earth is about 13 thousand kilometers (8000 miles) wide, whereas the Sun is
roughly 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) across. If the Sun were a hollow
ball, you could fit about one million Earths inside of it!

Which planet is closest to the sun?

A: Mercury.
What is the name of the most recently discovered planet?
A: Quaoar.
What is the sun made out of?
A: The Sun is, at present, about 70% hydrogen and 28% helium by mass everything
else amounts to less than 2%
What powers the sun?
A: Fusion, the same as a hydrogen bomb.
How old is the sun?
A: About 5 billion years.
How old is the earth?
A: The earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
How old is the universe?
A: The Universe is at least 15 billion years old, but probably not more than 20
billion years old.
Which planet spins the fastest?
A: Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system rotating on average
once in just under 10 hours.
fun printable cosmological trivia questions and answers
Which planet spins the slowest?
A: Venus is the slowest spinning planet in the solar system. It rotates only once
every two hundred forty-three Earth days
How long is a Martian year?
A: The orbital period of Mars is 686.9726 days.
Does the sun rotate?
A: The movements of the sunspots indicate that the Sun rotates once every 27 days
at the equator, but only once in 31 days at the poles.
How big is the milky way?
A: The Milky Way is actually a giant, as its mass is probably between 750 billion
and one trillion solar masses, and its diameter is about 100,000 light years.
What is the Milky Way?
A: The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.
What star other than the sun is closest to the earth?
A: It is Proxima Centauri, the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri triple star
system.
In the X Files what is Mulder's first name?
A: Fox.
Which of the Beatles was the first to be widowed?
A: Paul McCartney.
Which Menacing US sitcom was screened as Just Dennis in the UK?
A: Dennis The Menace.
In which country were the 1996 Olympic Games held?
A: United States.
In Mask Jim Carrey starred as someone working where?
A: A bank.
Who had a 70s No 1 with If You Leave Me Now?
A: Chicago.
What is the postal abbreviation for Indiana?
A: IN.
Which Jeff starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys?
A: Bridges.
IN 1998 actor James Brolin married which singer / actress?
A: Barbra Streisand.
Bill Clinton ws Governor of which state when he became President?
A: Arkansas.
Wichita international airport is in which US state?
A: Kansas.
The Dalai Lama fled which country in the 50s?
A: Tibet.
In 1998 Celine Dion and R Kelly sang I'm Your what?
A: Angel.
In which decade did Boris Yeltsin come to power?
A: 1990s.
Woody Allen was born in which decade of the 20th century?
A: 30s.
Which series with Ellen DeGeneres as originally called These Friends of Mine?
A: Ellen.
Which Spanish Salvador was a surrealist artist?
A: Dali.
Which country does golfer Ben Crenshaw come from?
A: USA.
Who had a 70sNo 1 hit with Stayin' Alive?
A: The Bee Gees.
What type of curtain divided eastern and western Europe during the cold war?
A: Iron.
Bandleader Edward Ellington was known by what nickname?
A: Duke.
Which state is called the Garden state?
A: New Jersey.
What did Cecil B de Mille make?
A: Movies.
Which star of Shakespeare in Love guest-edited the magazine Marie Claire?
A: Gwyneth Paltrow.
What was added to Stevie Wonder's name when he was a youngster?
A: Little.
What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in 1836?
A: The U.S.
What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described California as "a large
country of the West Indies"?
A: Encyclopedia Britannica's.
Who was the only American to become vice president and president after
resignations?
A: Gerald Ford.
What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the 4000 and 5000 marks?
A: 1995.
Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth voyage to the New
World?
A: Christopher Columbus.
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What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read; "An ounce of wit
is worth a pound of sorrow"?
A: Spiro Agnew.
Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
A: Colin Powell.
Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
A: Anne Boleyn.
What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is stronger than the
bullet"?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops participating in
Operation Desert Storm?
A: Saudi Arabia.
Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of the American Civil
Liberties Union, in 1988?
A: Michael Dukakis.
Fun history trivia questions and answers.
What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the party of
"Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
A:1952.
What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle
mission?
A: Captain.
What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South Vietnam?
A: The Viet Cong.
What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916?
A: Rasputin.
Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
A: Louis Farrakhan.
What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history, killing 830,000 in
1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
A: China.
What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in World War II?
A: Prague.
What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish minority in the
1990s?
A: Iraq.
What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
A: Colin Powell.
What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
A: Solidarity.
What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas
Nast?
A: A donkey.
What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax increasers"?
A: "Go ahead, make my day".
What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History of the World"
while banished to the Tower of London?
A: Sir Walter Raleigh.
Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in prison?
A: Rudolf Hess.
What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?
A: The Berlin Wall.
What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and Honduras, after an unpopular
referee's call in 1969?
A: Soccer.
History trivia questions and answers.
What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, speech
and the press?
A: The First Amendment.
Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of Russia's Marxist
movement?
A: Joseph Stalin.
What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who ws also thought to
favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?
A: Jack Kevorkian.
What country was ruled from 827 until 860 by Egbert, Ethelwulf and Ethelbald?
A: England.
What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair thinned and her
cheeks hollowed?
A: Mirrors.
What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by a donation from
a Texas cattle heiress?
A: The Alamo.
Who's letter to Ronald Reagan read: "I'm very sorry...I thank God no one died"?
A: John Hinckley Jr.'s.
How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster?
A: Zero.
What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject"?
A: Winston Churchill.
What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?
A: Banzai.
Who distanced herself from politics by changing her last name to Davis at 22?
A: Patti Reagan.
Who piloted the first airplane to suffer a passenger fatality, in 1908?
A: Orville Wright.
What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be buried in?
A: The Mississippi River.
Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?
A: Patti Hearst.
What seventh king of Israel shares his name with a Herman Melville literary
character?
A: Ahab.
What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?
A: James Garfield.
What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of about 200?
A: The Central Intelligence Agency's.
What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little time in which to do
so much"?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What child name's plunge in U.S. popularity was attributed to a famous 1974
scandal?
A: Richard's.
What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing the conventions and
paraphernalia of war to total idiocy?
A: M*A*S*H
What awards, founded in 1901, are funded wit the help of the Bank of Sweden?
A: The Nobel Prizes.
What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of 1979?
A: Vietnam.
What spa town headquartered the French who collaborated with the Nazis in World
War II?
A: Vichy.
What seductive World War I spy had a daughter named Banda who was also a spy?
A: Mata Hari.
What color were the "black boxes" on TWA Flight 800?
A: Orange.
Where in Beijing did Chinese students build a Goddess of Democracy in May, 1989?
A: Tiananmen Square.
What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was issued a death
threat?
A: Salman Rushdie.
What Connecticut resident was the first woman in U.S. history to be elected a U.S.
governor without inheriting the office from a hubbie?
A: Ella Grasso.
What secretary of defense admitted the Vietnam War was a "mistake" in 1995?
A: Robert McNamara.
What nation's 90-man army is the world's oldest, dating back to 1506?
A: Vatican City's.
Q: What's the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men?
A: Prostate cancer.
Q: What does "CPR" stand for in medical emergencies?
A: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Q: What, along with heart disease and cancer, accounts for 64 percent of U.S.
deaths?
A: Stroke.
Q: What virus did the World Health Organization say would infect 40 million people
by the year 2000?
A: HIV.
Q: What do cosmetic surgeons remove 200,00 pounds of from Americans per year?
A: Fat.
Q: What do doctors look at through an ophthalmoscope?
A: The eye.
Q: What disease accounts for two of every three cases of dementia?
A: Alzheimer's.
Q: What S-word is defined as "a lateral curvature of the spine"?
A: Scoliosis.
Q: What substance produced by the body is counteracted by antihistamine drugs./
A: Histamine.
Q: What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.
Q: What's most likely to occur when your diaphragm goes into spasms?
A: Hiccups.
Q: What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
A: Athlete's foot.
Q: How many times a day must you take medication if your prescription reads
"q.i.d."?
A: Four.
Q: What part of the eye may be obscured by cataracts?
A: The lens.
Q: What arthritic disorder occurs due t increased uric acid the the blood?
A: Gout.
Q: What hereditary blood defect is known as "the royal disease"?
A: Hemophilia.
Q: What organ is inflamed when one has encephalitis?
A: The brain.
Q: Where does the embryo implant itself in a tubal pregnancy?
A: A Fallopian tube.
Q: How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?
A: Nine.
Q: What brain operation was tried first on a confused 63-yuar-old female at George
Washington Hospital in 1956?
A: A lobotomy.
Q: What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?
A: Muscle.
Q: What was bovine spongiform encephalopathy called by the British press in 1996?
A: Mad cow disease.
Q: What's the medical term for low blood sugar?
A: Hypoglycemia.
Q: What's the tranquilizer diazepam better known as?
A: Valium.
Q: What's the common term for a cerebrovascular accident?
A: Stroke.
Q: What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into
contact with/
A: Poison Ivy.
Q: What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain
reliever?
A: Morphine.
Q: What was the most widely prescribe antideppressant in the U.S. in the 1990s?
A: Prozac.
Q: What syndrome does SIDS mean to child care experts?
A: Sudden infant death syndrome.
Q: What disease is the focus of oncology?
A: Cancer.
Q: Where is liver bile stopped before being released into the small intestine?
A: The gall bladder.
Q: What process involves treating rubber with sulphur to harden it?
A: Vulcanizing.
Q: What scale of zero to 14 is used to measure acidity or alkalinity?
A: The pH scale.
Q: What O-word describes oxygen with molecules that have three atoms instead of
two?
A: Ozone.
Q: What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per second?
A: The Watt.
Q: What planet is closest in size to our moon?
A: Mercury.
Q: What's the common name for a cubic decimeter?
A: A liter.
Q: What measure of energy comes from the Latin word meaning "heat"?
A: The calorie.
Q: What's removed from water in the process of desalination?
A: Salt.
Q: What species Amazonian electric variety packs a 650 volt wallop?
A: The eel's.
Q: What C word defines a substance that speeds a chemical reaction without being
consumed?
A: Catalyst.
Q: What's the base unit of mass in the metric system?
A: The kilogram.
Q: What cooking fuel is produced by heating wood without oxygen?
A: Charcoal.
Q: What's the only metal that's not a solid at room temperature?
A: Mercury.
Q: Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a pound of coal or a
gallon of gasoline?
A: A gallon of oil.
Q: What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to inches?
A: Centimeters.
Q: What method of underwater detection is short for "sound navigation and
ranging"?
A: Sonar.
Q: What hazardous substance is euphemistically referred to as "mineral fiber"?
A: Asbestos.
Q: What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid?
A: Pink.
Q: What process involves heating an ore to obtain a metal?
A: Smelting.
Q: What's the U. S. equivalent of 0.45 kilograms?
A: One pound.
Q: What's defined as the distance between a lens and its focal point?
A: It's focal length.
Q: What energy unit is defined as the heat required to raise one kilogram of
water by one degree Celsius?
A: One Calorie.
Q: What founding father was knocked unconscious while attempting to electrocute a
turkey?
A: Benjamin Franklin..
Q: What continent is subjected to the world's largest ozone hole?
A: Antarctica.
Q: What sea creature can have an eye measuring 16 inches across, the largest in
the animal kingdom?
A: A squid.
Q: What explosive cosmic event was seen with the naked eye in 1987, for the first
time in 383 jyears?
A: A supernova.
Q: What three terms are represented in Newton's second law of motion F = ma?
A: Force, mass, acceleration.
Q: How many of the nine planets have moons/
A: Seven.
Q: What were exterminated from Harvard's bio labs when they were found to be
carrying radioactive chemicals into the walls?
A: Ants.
Q: What type of trees yield the resin used to produce turpentine?
A: Pine trees.
Q: What's the most malleable metal?
A: Gold.
Q: What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp in the second
century?
A: Paper.
Q: What did "Art Fry invent after scraps of paper to mark tunes in his hymnal kept
falling out?
A: Post-it Notes.
Q: What did Leonardo invent to check humidity while he worked on the Last Supper
fresco?
A: The hygrometer.
Q: What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?
A: Briton.
Q: What "foot doctor" held over 300 patents?
A: Dr. Scholl.
Q: What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned pocket-sized radios?
A: The transistor.
Q: What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr. Jonas Salk to come out of
retirement in 1987?
A: AIDS.
Q: What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor William James
Morrison?
A: Dentist.
Q: What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
A: Galileo.
Q: What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire performers bouncing on
safety nets?
A: The trampoline.
Q: What century saw the invention of the shoelace?
A: The eighteenth.
Q: What name did George Eastman invent in 1888 because it was easy to memorize,
pronounce, and spell?
A: Kodak.
Q: What innovative inventor's Dymaaxion car could carry eleven passengers, exceed
120 mph and get 30 miles per gallon in 1934?
A: Buckminster Fuller's.
Q: What type of structure did R. Buckminster Fuller patent in 1954?
A: The geodesic dome.
Q: What century saw Alexander Cummings issued the first patent for a flush
toilet?
A: The eighteenth.
Q: What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using a soap box,
pillow case, a fan and tape?
A: The vacuum cleaner.
Q: What landmark invention eased farming chores for Sumerians in 3500 B.C.?
A: The plow.
Q: What food product did Hyppolyte Merge-mouries invent in 1868 by treating oils
with hydrogen?
A: Margarine.
Q: What British second lieutenant got the idea to fill a canister shell with
musket balls and a charge of gunpowder?
A: Sir Henry Shrapnel.
Q: Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his life?
A: Thomas Edison.
Q: What kitchen invention took the top prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
A: The dishwasher.
Q: What company gave the world the first electric toothbrush?
A: Interplak.
Q: What Edwin Budding invention began changing the face of English landscapes in
the 1820s?
A: The lawn mower.
Q: What invention for keeping cold air out of buildings in winter was patented by
Theophilus Van Kannel in 1888?
A: The revolving door.
Q: What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
A: The Tractor.
Nature trivia questions and answers
How many bacteria can be found in a typical cubic inch of garden soil--30
thousand, 30 million or 30 billion?
A: Thirty Billion.
What pets are a major cause of salmonella poisoning if handled by humans?
A :Turtles.
What U.S. age group more than doubled in size between 1960 and 1990--under 25,
over 645 or over 85?
A: Over 85.
What biblical figure was California's 4,700-year-old bristlecone pine tree named
after?
A: Methuselah.
What insect does an isoopterpophobic homeowner fear?
A: The termite.
What deficiency disease did 19th-century scientists find could be avoided by
avoiding polished rice?
A: Beriberi.
What animal travels at 25 mph under water but fins it easier to toboggan on its
belly on land?
A: The penguin.
What color are emu eggs?
A : Green.
What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and erosion,
according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
A: Its head.
What single-seeded drupe was the first fruit munched on the moon?
A: The peach.
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What disorder's name is derived from the Greek for "without appetite"?
A: Anorexia's.
What creature's name was derived from French words meaning "spiny pig"?
A: The porcupine's.
What type of leaves were botanists shocked to find in the stuffing inside the
mummified remains of Pharaoh Ramses II?
A: Tobacco leaves.
What distant planet circles the sun every 84 years?
A: Uranus.
What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red blood cells in,
in 1993?
A: A Tyrannosaurus rex's.
What are there 88 of in the night sky, according to the international AStronomical
Union?
A: Constellations.
What nationally-observed day in the U.S. marks winter's midpoint?
A: Groundhog Day.
What tree family includes the largest and fastest-growing living thing on Earth?
A: The Sequoia.
What is the common name for the class Aves, which consists of over 8,500 living
species?
A: Birds.
What can clear mucus from sinus passages faster than any other hot beverage,
according to a 1978 Mount Sinai Medical Center study?
A: Chicken soup.
What's the most intelligent mammal after man?
A: The Chimpanzee.
What flatulent New Zealand creatures did geophysicist David Lowe say were
contributing to the gradual warming of Earth's atmosphere?
A: Sheep.
How many parents are required in order to reproduce by parthenogenesis?
A: One.
What long-beaked bird needs 1,600 blossoms to get its daily diet of nectar?
A The hummingbird.
What nation is prowled by 60 percent of the world's tigers?
A: India.
What sea mammal's upper lip moves much like the trunk of an elephant?
A: The manatee's.
What type of glands are missing in pigs, who must wallow in mud to beat the heat?
A: Sweat glands.
What's the top apple-producing state in the U.S.?
A: Washington.
What bulb has been dubbed "the stinking rose"?
A: Garlic.
What now extinct fowl was originally named "disgusting bird" by its Dutch
discoverers?
A: Dodo.
What creature has 98.4 percent of its DNA n common with humans?
A: The Chimpanzee.
What constellation must you aim a telescope at to view the Crab nebula?
A: Taurus.