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. Who are the Tralfamadorians?
-2. About how long does a 95 mph fastball take to travel from the pitcher to home plate?
-3. In which country did Chess originate?
-4. Where in the human body are the phalanges?
-5. Which Greek mythological figures comprise the Gemini constellation?
-6. Where is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg?
-7. What is in a "Mary Pickford?"
-8. During the Battle of Bunker Hill, who proclaimed "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"?
-9. Ben Franklin is famous for his kite and key lightning experiments, but what other object did he try to electrify?
-10. For a hamlet to become a town, what does it need?

1. The people from Tralfamadoria

Okay, I obviously don't know #1 so I'll take a stab at 4...in the fingers.

That's a good one!

10. a market or some other goods and services

6. Massachusetts, I think - not sure what city though

3. India?

Sondi, wish I had been here sooner because that lake is only a couple of towns away from me

9. Frogs' legs??

michele, try again.

Sondi, that's close enough. It's in Webster, MA. They call it Webster Lake. The original is from an Algonquin Indian language called Nipmuc and translates as "lake divided by islands".

jboliver, you're right!

Rog That's more high school classroom than Ben Franklin.

6. Ahh, too late I would have known that it's right up the street.

8. William Prescott

10. a church

Yes to both!

5. Castor and Pollux

9. We're not allowed to talk about that body part in this forum. LOL

#5 is correct.

And while Franklin did electrify himself, it wasn't intentional.

1. An alien race.

From which novel?

2. I get about .435 seconds

95 MPH = 139 feet per second (1668 inches per second)
Distance from mound to plate = 60' 6" (726 inches)

You got about right, Cue!

1. Alien race in Slaughterhouse Five.

It's been many years since I read that novel. I'm about due to read it again.

9. a turkey

7. white rum, fresh pineapple juice, grenadine, and Maraschino liqueur.

Excellent work!

I want to re-read the Martian Chronicles. That was my gateway book to sci-fi.