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 Pueblo Indian cultures what are Kachinas?
-2. Who was "The Lady with the Lamp"?
-3. What was the Gypsy (the Romani People) country of origin?
-4. Breeding a male donkey and a female horse gets you a mule. What does breeding a female donkey and a male horse get you?
-5. Here in the States we call it the Big Dipper, but what might you hear it called in Ireland?
-6. What covers a book bound in "morocco"?
-7. From what London station does the Hogwarts Express depart?
-8. What bird sounds like it’s saying "Oh sweet Canada Canada Canada"?
-9. Who owned horses named Moll Flanders, Madonna, Canyon Kid and High Hat?
-10. What candy's name originally meant "ball of sweet salt" in Arabic?

2.Florence Nightingale (a nurse)

1. Dolls

5. The Plough (in the UK anyway)

Haroula, good answer!

Bob, that's right. What's "in" the dolls?

Rog, I'm sure you're right. I've got something different for Ireland.

4. hinny

7. 7 3/4

Michele

Cue, the name of the station.

Oops...The only station I know of is Piccadilly Station but I don't even know if that's a train station. Wait...that's Piccadilly Circus or is it Piccadilly Square? I don't know..I'm just in a Picadilly!

8. white throated Sparrow

I'm afraid I don't know what's in the dolls. I don't remember my Tony Hillerman that well.

Let's try...

6. tooled leather?

Cue

Gail, good one!

Bob, both Jim and Joe know. You're close with #6. What kind of leather?

3. India

margo

10. I'll guess taffy.

Margo, good answer!

LadyK, good guess but try again.

For number 4, I was going to answer: a jail sentence.

7. Kings Cross Station

6. goatskin?

10. caramel

All good answers!

Paul

9. Fred Astaire?

5. The Big Shillelagh?

Try again, Rog. The man is British.

Cue

9. Winston Churchill

margo

That's right!

1. Hopi dolls made of Cottonwood root.

5. King David's Chariot

Manxman

Yes Bob, but what's supposedly "in" them? What do they represent?

1. spirits

Yes! Ancestral spirits to guide and protect them.