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. Over what fort did the Star-Spangled Banner that inspired Francis Scott Key fly?
-2. In botany, what does an idioblast cell produce?
-3. What state produces the most rice?
-4. What is the title of that melting clocks painting by Salvador Dali?
-5. Muckle John, the last official Court Jester in England, served which Monarch?
-6. What makes Ivory Soap (99-44/100% pure) float?
-7. What city hosted the first World's Fair?
-8. Which musician performed right before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington?
-9. The American Alligator has four toes on each of its back legs. How many does it have on each of its front legs?
-10. On what island was Papillon imprisoned?

1. Fort McHenry

10.Devil's Island

10. Devil's Island.

Hi Sue.

6. extra air added during production

7. It probably depends on what you call a World's Fair but I would guess the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. Don't know the real name and don't know the year. Probably around 1870. I read about it in Bill Bryson's At Home.

4. The Persistence of Memory

All correct!

Love Bryson but haven't read that one yet.

2. I'll guess toxins.

5. Charles I ??

3. Hawaii?

flotsam

LadyK and BobH, try again.

2. How about color?

8. Mahalia Jackson

9 - gonna guess at 2 ?

Manxman gets a hit!

Ladies, try again.

3. My cousin who lives there told me that Arkansas produces the most rice

hmmm ,my initial reaction was 4 on the front also...

9. Alligators have five front toes.

2. CALCIUM OXALATE?



dOC

Sondi and Gail, good answers!

Drmojo, that's one of several good answers. I had slime and gum.