Trivia

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?

10. From the quote "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." ?

7. Skilled in decorating.

6. So you could hang it on the Christmas Tree.

I remember when I was little that I would get a box to eat while sitting in the grocery shopping cart while my Mom shopped.

1. 66 feet ? (seem to recall something about 22 yards = 1 chain!)

Bernie

10. Was it on a boat, sounding out the depth? Rings vague bells...

Rog, sounds right.

3. copper...I think

Haroula, that one was right up your alley!

Gail, Bernie and zook - good answers!

Jema and Rog, I'm going with Rog. The boatmen on the Mississippi would call out "mark twain" to indicate a depth of two fathoms.

8. Galileo?

2. I am pretty sure they went to Rio, Morocco and Zanzibar.

Flo, try again.

flotsam, that's three of the seven!

I've got nothing for #8 if someone else knows.

Did they go to Bali or Timbuktu?

Bali yes, Timbuktu no.

4.Herbert Hoover.

Good answer, Haroula!

9. I'll guess the Florida Everglades.

You guessed right, LadyK! There and the Big Cypress Swamp, also in Florida.

2. Morocco, Bali, Utopia, Rio, Zanzibar, Singapore and Hong Kong.

8. Aristarchus?

That's all of them, Koala!

Gail, I think that's a good one. My source says Aristotle, but I can't find any backup for that answer.

5. Hey Jude - Revolution

Well done, Koala Bear!