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. Before she married Justinian I and became Empress of the Byzantine Empire, what was Theodora's occupation?
-2. Where was the "Burned Over District"?
-3. Where did Beatrix Potter get many of her characters' names, including Peter Rabbit and Jeremy Fisher?
-4. Who designed the Pyramide du Louvre?
-5. Where is Krakatau in relation to Java?
-6. If someone gives you a raspberry (the plant type of raspberry), what emotional message might they be sending?
-7. What is the Palmer Method?
-8. The leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade lent his name to what clothing item?
-9. What poison has this composition: AsFeS?
-10. Of the following, who was a real person? - Betty Crocker, Poppin’ Fresh, Duncan Hines

10. Duncan Hines

5. east

8. the Cardigan sweater?

7. cursive handwriting (doubt it is taught anymore )

9. Arsenic

The ladies are running hot!

Marian, try again.

3 - from her pets ?

4. I.M. Pei

5. under water

SQF gets the chicken dinner!

niteowl and soot, try again.

3. Think it was from grave markers in a cemetery near where she lived.

trying again - 3 - children that she knew -nieces ,nephews ,etc. ?


ooo - maybe ,sondi !

You got it, Sondi! The Brompton Cemetery in west London.

2. New York

Western NY - right!

6. to remember the Holocaust?

Nope. This is more along the lines of "yellow roses mean friendship".

1. prostitute/actress

Good answer!

5. Northwest of Java

I thought it had sunk after exploding

6. Kindness?

soot, it's still there. Good answer!

Koala, a very good try but not correct.

6. Remorse

No raspberries for that answer!