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. In land surveying, how long, in feet, is a chain?
-2. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby took movie "roads" to seven destinations. Name them.
-3. What gives the gemstone turquoise its distinctive color?
-4. Which president turned over 40 years of government paychecks to charity?
-5. Which Beatles hits were on the first single recorded by the Fab Four on their Apple label?
-6. Why was the Animal Crackers box designed with a string handle?
-7. What is the meaning of the Greek word kosmetikos, from which we get the word cosmetics?
-8. What great thinker proved that a lunar eclipse is the circular shadow of the earth on the moon?
-9. Where are the only remaining free-roaming panthers in North America?
-10. Where did Samuel Clemens get the idea for his pseudonym, Mark Twain?
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