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. John Clayton Jr. was the childhood name of what fictional character?
-2. What is the distance between bases on a Little League baseball field?
-3. What was the name of the Japanese destroyer that sank PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, on August 2, 1943?
-4. Which TV newsman lived with a tribe of headhunters for a month after bailing out of a crippled military plane in the Himalayas during WWII?
-5. Who invented the aerosol valve in 1949?
-6. The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one?
-7. In 1960, the citizens of Hot Springs, New Mexico, voted to rename their town in honor of a popular radio show. What is it now called?
-8. What great thinker used the lunar eclipse’s circular shadow of the Earth on the moon as part of his proof that the earth was round?
-9. What do the letters Z, I, and P stand for in “zip code”?
-10. What breakfast food gets its name from the German word for “stirrup”?

Both remaining answers start with an A

7. I think it is Truth or Consequences??

1. Tarzan

Both correct!

9. Zone Improvement Plan

4. Eric Sevareid

10. bagel

2. 60 feet

Yes to all!

6. The Book of Esther

8. Pythagoras maybe

soot, good one!

Bob, an excellent guess. Try again.

8.Aristarchus of Samos

Aristarchus was a brilliant mathematician who first put forward the concept of heliocentrism. But he didn't use the above-mentioned proof.

3. Amagiri

Correct!

8. Lucretius

Nope! Both of the remaining answers start with an A.

5. Robert Abplanalp (cool name)
8. Aristotle

You've earned an A, Koala!