Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.

-1. Frederico Fellini's film "La Dolce Vita" contained an annoying photographer who gave his name to this term for such people. What is the term?
-2. What Italian violin maker trained with the Amati family and brought the art of instrument making to its culmination in the 18th Century?
-3. Finish this famous line from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge: "Water, Water, Everywhere...
-4. What present nation was once Zaire and, before that, the Belgian Congo?
-5. In 1835, who survived the first attempt to assassinate a president?
-6. In the Scottish Highland games, what do the Scots call the sport of lifting huge logs and trying to hoist them the farthest away?
-7. This unit of heat corresponds to that required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree fahrenheit. Name this unit, used mostly in England?
-8. What future hard-boiled detective received an Academy Award nomination for a part in "Birdman of Alcatraz" and played Pontius Pilate in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"?
-9. What vegetable is called tartuffo by Spaniards, kartoffel by Germans and kartofel by Russians?
-10. What fabric takes its name from the Persian "shir-o-shakar", meaning milk and sugar, referring to its alternating stripes of puckered and flat cloth?

1. No idea but I suspect it is the origins of Paparrazzi (sp?)

You suspect correctly, shroeder! And I like your (new?) autograph.

7. British Thermal Unit (BTU)

8. Telly Savalas

9. Potato

2 - taking a stab at antonio stradivari ?

4. Democratic Republic of the Congo.

6. Taber toss

6. Caber toss

All good solves! (Except for Bob, who was close, but has those guys tossing drums )

10. Seersucker

5. Andrew Jackson

Okay, try number 2, also probably only close...

3. "...and not a drop to drink."

3. Seem to remember being taught "nor any drop to drink"

Good answers, all! Even Bob, who was right about being close.