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. Who was Clark Kent’s high school sweetheart?
-2. What sport was the first to be filmed, and who filmed it?
-3. What was the only U.S. battleship to be present at both the attack at Pearl Harbor and at the D-Day invasion?
-4. What was the name of Edgar Bergen’s female dummy?
-5. According to Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer who introduced streamlining to packaging, what are the two most perfectly designed containers?
-6. Can you name the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne – the nine Muses of Greek mythology?
-7. What does Separation Creek in Oregon separate?
-8. Where is Rock English spoken?
-9. What is the measurement “one foot” based on?
-10. How did pound cake get its name?

10. I think it had one pound of butter in the recipe

1. Lana Lang

3. Missouri

Zook, that's a good start.

CCb

Bob, try again.

5 - must be an egg and the famous coke bottle ?

6.Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomeni, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope.

8. I'll try Gibralter ?

Bernie

9. If I remember right, it's the length of an average human foot.

10. Years ago I thing the ingredients added up to a pound?

4 - Effie

niteowl, Haroula, Bernie and Marie

Cue, the answer has to do with a king.

Gail, try again.

2. It was a boxing match, filmed by Thomas Edison

It sure was!

3. USS Nevada

10. 1 pound each of flour, eggs, sugar and butter

Koala and Flo

7. two of the Three Sisters mountains

Yes! The middle and south sisters.

I'll take a shot at #9. I have an errant brain cell that seems to remember it was an attempt by Charlemagne to standardize the measurement of a foot by using the length of his own foot.

That's not the answer I found, but there IS some debate about what the real answer is. Try a different king. And it's got nothing to do with his foot.

In the 12th century, King Henry I of England fixed the yard as the distance from his nose to the thumb of his out-stretched arm. The foot was defined as 1/3 of that measure.