Posted By: Pandora
Trivia 5/8 - 05/08/13 06:12 PM
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. The American Dialect Society named “truthiness” as its 2005 Word of the Year. What political satirist is credited with popularizing the word?
-2. What 1995 cop drama movie is famous for pairing two Hollywood heavyweights, Pacino and DeNiro?
-3. If it looks like a jellyfish and swims like a jellyfish, it might be an underwater colony of creatures known as… what?
-4. What knobby little tuber, resembling a ginger root, tastes like a cross between a radish and a potato?
-5. During the Civil War, what waste product did the Confederates mine for saltpeter to use to make gunpowder?
-6. Which basketball franchise, with eight years of consecutive NBA championships, holds the longest streak of consecutive championships in United States’ pro sports history?
-7. According to the Bible, whose jealous brothers sold him to a spice caravan?
-8. Whorl, arch, and loop are the three basic patterns for what?
-9. Name the Russian mystic who was shot three times, stabbed, poisoned, clubbed, and finally died by drowning.
-10. What household item has a support wire, mica disc, exhaust tube, ring contact, stem press, and base?
-1. The American Dialect Society named “truthiness” as its 2005 Word of the Year. What political satirist is credited with popularizing the word?
-2. What 1995 cop drama movie is famous for pairing two Hollywood heavyweights, Pacino and DeNiro?
-3. If it looks like a jellyfish and swims like a jellyfish, it might be an underwater colony of creatures known as… what?
-4. What knobby little tuber, resembling a ginger root, tastes like a cross between a radish and a potato?
-5. During the Civil War, what waste product did the Confederates mine for saltpeter to use to make gunpowder?
-6. Which basketball franchise, with eight years of consecutive NBA championships, holds the longest streak of consecutive championships in United States’ pro sports history?
-7. According to the Bible, whose jealous brothers sold him to a spice caravan?
-8. Whorl, arch, and loop are the three basic patterns for what?
-9. Name the Russian mystic who was shot three times, stabbed, poisoned, clubbed, and finally died by drowning.
-10. What household item has a support wire, mica disc, exhaust tube, ring contact, stem press, and base?
Try again. 
Yes, but what else?
