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. What is the name of the poem that appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? (bonus points awarded for the name of the author)
-2. In blackjack, players try to get cards that add up to 21, and no higher. What is the count sought in baccarat?
-3. How did Napoleon Bonaparte finance his invasion of Russia in 1812?
-4. What great American tried to stump the celebrity panel on TV's Masquerade Party by showing up in a penguin costume?
-5. In which U.S. state can you visit Athens, Carthage, Damascus, Egypt, England, Formosa, Hamburg, Havana, Holland, Jerusalem, London, Manila, Melbourne, Oxford, Palestine, Paris, Scotland, and Stuttgart?
-6. What did Chinese businessmen in the third century B.C. use as their personal seals on documents?
-7. In the world of gardening, what is a clairvoyee?
-8. What is the largest member of the dolphin family?
-9. Which actress changed her name from Edda van Heemstra for Hollywood?
-10. Superstition holds the four-leaf clover as lucky. What about the even more rare five-leaf clover?

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

5. My guess is Tennessee??

Point and bonus points to Fil!

Good guess Remi, but not correct.

7. a greenhouse?

9.Audrey Hepburn

2. Nine

Haroula and flotsam

Cue, nice try, but try again.

8. the Whale?

What kind of whale?

8. Orca?

That's the one!

10. more luck plus money

I wish! Try again.

5. I'm going to guess Maine, just because I know it has a few of them.

3. With counterfeit money

5. My second guess is Arkansas??

Nice try, LadyK, but curly got it!

Haroula, that's correct!

4. Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr.

7 - a viewpoint,i think.....

You got it, Koala!

niteowl, that's a good start. A viewpoint in what?

6. Thumb prints on clay.

Correct!

lol = o , i thought a park or garden was assumed- specifically on a path or such ,i think it's a place where you look and see a special thing, like a surprise focal point,,,,i think ?

That's a good guess, niteowl, but nor correct. I wonder what those surprise focal points are called on garden paths? The answer to my question could be in a garden or a park.

sorry , i just can't remember...maybe since we went this far , someone else can jump in ?

7. open fences?

Close enough! It's a fence or a hole in a hedge designed to frame a pretty view.

10. bad luck ?

That's right, unless you give it away immediately. Then it's good luck to both.