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. What is the name of Dr. Seuss’s egg-hatching elephant?
-2. What souvenir did New York Giant linebacker Lawrence Taylor request from a referee after he played his last game in January 1994?
-3. What organization has the motto, “Peace is our Profession”?
-4. What actress was the high-school girlfriend of Judge Joseph A. Wapner of TV’s The People’s Court?
-5. What Scottish innkeeper’s son invented the thermos bottle in 1892?
-6. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale?
-7. In what year did motor vehicle registrations in the US pass the million mark? (1913, 1932, 1941)
-8. In 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe with five ships and 250 men. How many ships and men were left when the expedition ended in 1522?
-9. What is the word “laser” an acronym for?
-10. How did manufacturers of Old Grand-Dad bourbon get away with producing their whiskey during Prohibition?

9. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Who knows that? BobH does!

6. 3 days and 3 nights

Spot on, michele!

1. Horton

Yes, and he heard a Who!

Dr. Seuss rocks

2. He wanted the referee's penalty flag.

Yes, the yellow flag. He felt it had been thrown at him often enough.

10. Was produced as medicinal whiskey for the sick (mmmm..... the Baldwin sisters come to mind )

3 - Strategic Air Command, Andrews AFB

Both correct!

8. One ship 18 men.

Good answer! Magellan himself did not survive the trip.

4. Lana Turner

Good one, Gail!

5. James Dewar

Absholulely!

7. 1913

And that's correct!

Pandora