Posted By: Pandora
Trivia - hint provided for last one - 03/29/18 03:55 PM
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 did Jabaz Wolffe make twenty-two attempts at between 1906 and 1914?
-2. Which Virginia city served as the last capital of the Confederacy?
-3. What is the fine, soft fabric that is made from the soft wool growing beneath the outer coat of the goat for which it is named?
-4. National Maritime Day commemorates the departure of what ship, the first steam-powered vessel to successfully cross the Atlantic?
-5. Who was the first person to win Tonys in four different categories--Featured actor (Seesaw), Director (Nine), Choreographer and lead performer (My One and Only)?
-6. If you order a certain dish "a la russe", you should know that what food is involved somewhere in that dish? hint: S C
-7. What violet, transparent quartz birth stone for February has a name which literally means "not intoxicated" because the gem was believed to be a remedy for drunkenness?
-8. What originally disreputable dance of alternating quick and long sliding steps originated in Argentina in the early 20th Century?
-9. This young scientist and sci-fi writer discovered the concept of geosynchronous orbits (at about 22,300’).
-10. What name for a motherless calf can often be heard in Western songs?
-1. What did Jabaz Wolffe make twenty-two attempts at between 1906 and 1914?
-2. Which Virginia city served as the last capital of the Confederacy?
-3. What is the fine, soft fabric that is made from the soft wool growing beneath the outer coat of the goat for which it is named?
-4. National Maritime Day commemorates the departure of what ship, the first steam-powered vessel to successfully cross the Atlantic?
-5. Who was the first person to win Tonys in four different categories--Featured actor (Seesaw), Director (Nine), Choreographer and lead performer (My One and Only)?
-6. If you order a certain dish "a la russe", you should know that what food is involved somewhere in that dish? hint: S C
-7. What violet, transparent quartz birth stone for February has a name which literally means "not intoxicated" because the gem was believed to be a remedy for drunkenness?
-8. What originally disreputable dance of alternating quick and long sliding steps originated in Argentina in the early 20th Century?
-9. This young scientist and sci-fi writer discovered the concept of geosynchronous orbits (at about 22,300’).
-10. What name for a motherless calf can often be heard in Western songs?
