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 the poem which appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?
-2. How high and wide are the netted goals in ice hockey? How about field hockey?
-3. Which of the U.S. service academies was the first to admit women?
-4. Two members of TV’s A Team had names with initials – B.A. Baracus and H.M. Murdock. What do the initials represent?
-5. What do the initials S.O.S. stand for in the brand of steel-wool soap pads marketed under that name?
-6. If you live as long as Methuselah, how old will you get?
-7. Where did Samuel McPherson Hunt, gangster Al Capone’s feared hitman, carry his submachine gun when he went out on a job?
-8. Which European country has two elements named after it on the Periodic Table? What are the two elements?
-9. A milligram is a thousandth of a gram. What is a picogram?
-10. What animal’s milk is used in Roquefort cheese?

9. a trillionth (US)

added: and UK as I have learned. I always thought UK was one of the countries that would have called this a billionth. Many countries do but not the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#English-speaking

10 - sheep's milk

6. Very Old!!

7. in his golf bag

Yes to all!

soot

Bob

8.France.
Francium and Gallium

Good answer, Haroula!

1. The New Colossus

That's it, Fil, by Emma Lazarus.

5. Save Our Saucepans

It's twoo it's twoo!

4. B(ad) A(ttitude) and H(owling) M(ad)

Yes to both!

6. 969 years old.

Spot on, SQF!

2. 6 x 4 - 12 x 7
3. Coast Guard

Well finished off, Koala Bear!