Posted By: Pandora
Trivia - 07/10/13 04:29 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. Bonanza, a weekly saga of a family in the post-Civil War era, was set on a ranch on the outskirts of what Nevada town?
-2. What’s in the water that makes the 13th hole extremely hazardous at the Lost City Golf Course in South Africa?
-3. What philosopher and “gadfly of Athens” was tried, convicted, and executed on charges of corrupting the youth and not believing in the ancestral gods?
-4. In what 1984 “rockumentary” was the keyboardist’s philosophy “Have a good time, all the time”?
-5. The vast Athabasca Tar Sands give Canada the world’s second-largest reserves of what natural resource?
-6. Of the top 100 American consumer magazines, name the only one with a two-word French title.
-7. When the waitress calls out your order as “draw one with life preservers,” what’s she getting for you?
-8. What is the name of the old man in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
-9. Which comic actor’s film roles included Otis B. Driftwood, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, Rufus T. Firefly, and Captain Geoffrey Spaulding?
-10. The koala bear isn’t a bear. What kind of animal is it?
-1. Bonanza, a weekly saga of a family in the post-Civil War era, was set on a ranch on the outskirts of what Nevada town?
-2. What’s in the water that makes the 13th hole extremely hazardous at the Lost City Golf Course in South Africa?
-3. What philosopher and “gadfly of Athens” was tried, convicted, and executed on charges of corrupting the youth and not believing in the ancestral gods?
-4. In what 1984 “rockumentary” was the keyboardist’s philosophy “Have a good time, all the time”?
-5. The vast Athabasca Tar Sands give Canada the world’s second-largest reserves of what natural resource?
-6. Of the top 100 American consumer magazines, name the only one with a two-word French title.
-7. When the waitress calls out your order as “draw one with life preservers,” what’s she getting for you?
-8. What is the name of the old man in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
-9. Which comic actor’s film roles included Otis B. Driftwood, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, Rufus T. Firefly, and Captain Geoffrey Spaulding?
-10. The koala bear isn’t a bear. What kind of animal is it?
Socrates
