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. How much water does a ten-gallon hat hold?
-2. Who wrote scripts for his own films under pseudonyms that included Otis T. Criblecoblis and Mahatma Kane Jeeves?
-3. If seedless oranges don't have seeds, how are they propagated?
-4. What role did Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk play in Elvis Presley's life?
-5. In wine making, what is the must?
-6. Why did the English call their gold coins guineas?
-7. Columbus had three ships on his first exploration of America. How many were under his command on his second expedition?
-8. For whom was the Mercedes automobile named?
-9. Where did M*A*S*H army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce hail from?
-10. What sport was originally known in England as "plank-gliding"?

9. Iowa?

Nope, just realized I was thinking about a different character. Oh well!

1. I will guess 2.5??

8.From an Austrian girl

Sherlock

curly, try again. That's too much.

Haroula, that's right. The daughter of race-car driver Emil Jellinek.

10. water skiing ?

If that was a guess, it was a good one!

2. W. C. Fields

4. He was aka Major Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager

Good answers, ladies!

(Except I think he was Colonel)

6.From Guinea, in West Africa.

Correct! That's where the gold was mined.

5. The pulp (Mmmmmmm...Wine)

Try again, Koala.

7.17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men

1. wild guess...1 gallon

Good answer, Haroula!

And zook, that's close enough. The answer is 3/4 gallon, or 3 quarts.

9. Maine

Crab Apple Cove, to be exact.

5. yeast

Nice try, but nope.

5. pulp

5. grapes

Koala said the same thing as Gail, but it's not quite correct. Soot, of course grapes, but in what form?

5. grape juice containing the skin, seeds and stems

Yes, it's mainly juice with some roughage.

3.It can only be propagated through cutting and plant it

Correct! The first plant was a mutant.