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. What city was the first to claim a population of one million inhabitants?
-2. Beatrix Potter is famous for her Peter Rabbit story and other animal tales, but in what field of science was she an expert?
-3. Who grew up on the planet Alderaan?
-4. Sir Isaac Newton is credited with the discovery of calculus, but he had a different name for it. What was it?
-5. What does a female Chickadee do when her mate loses a singing contest?
-6. What does SMERSH, the WWII-era Soviet military counter-intelligence unit, mean?
-7. The first inter-city electromagnetic telegraph line was strung between Washington DC and Baltimore. What was the first message Samuel Morse sent along the wire?
-8. In the TV show The X-Files, what game was Mulder playing with his sister Samantha when she was abducted?
-9. What was Seward's Folly?
-10. Jupiter's moons are named for the Roman god's many lovers, but what is the source of the names of Uranus's moons?

6. If I remember my James Bond books, it's an abbreviation for something like "smer(something) shpionam" - Death to Spies

3. Princess Leia?

1.I will guess Tokyo.

2 - fungi ?

9. The purchase of the Alaska Territory by the United States.

5. She has a "fling" with the lead vocalist, then returns to the nest to her original partner.

4. fluxions

Great answers! This is a tough batch!

curly, good guess, but try again.

1. London England??

Nope

1. Rome?

10 - taking a stab at shakespear characters ?

Yes to both! Rome claimed over one million inhabitants in the first century BC.

8. Stratego

7. What hath God wrought

Great answers!

I used to love that game when I was a kid.