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Big Trivia Test

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






2. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?






3. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?






4. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?






5. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?






6. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs - in the ubiquitous 1978 poster?






7. What molecule is named for the Greek word for 'smell -' because of the odor associated with lightening storms?






8. what former president coined the phrase 'lunatic fringe' to refer to the wackos in his own reform movement?






9. Which artist had the double album Electric Ladyland?






10. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?






11. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection Greatest Hitz?






12. Who killed the literary character Fyodor Karamazov?






13. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was the last film of what legendary costume designer?






14. For what film did Robert De Niro learn to play the saxophone?






15. What 1942-43 battle took the greatest toll in military history - with more than 1.5 million casualties due to wounds - starvation - and freezing temperatures?






16. WC Heinz and Richard Hornberger used the pen name 'Richard Hooker' to write what Korean War Novel?






17. Give the missing last member: liberte - egalite - and...






18. Why did The Greatest American Hero's name hurriedly change to 'Ralph Hanley' in 1981?


19. What 1979 hit was the first song featuring a marching band ever to make the Billboard Top Ten?


20. What book begins - 'Of Man's first disobedience - and the fruit/ Of that forbidden tree'?






21. What nation defeated mighty Brazil in the 'Maracanazo' to win the 1950 World Cup?






22. Star Trek's Wesley Crusher was given the name Wesley because it was whose real-life middle name?






23. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?






24. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?






25. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney






26. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'






27. What law was passed in New York in 1908 that prevented women from smoking in public?






28. What book is divided into 114 chapters called 'suras'?






29. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?






30. What well-known children's author finally won a Newbery Medal in 1984 for Dear Mr. Henshaw?






31. Give the missing last member: The Bad News Bears - Breaking Training - and...






32. Almost since its 1961 inception - what has humbly billed itself as 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine?'






33. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?






34. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?






35. What nation's only female leader has been Angela Merkel?






36. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?






37. What paint color was actually unavailable on the first Model Ts - though it became the only color used from 1914 to 1926?






38. On TV's 24 - what organization did operative Jack Bauer work for?






39. Whose expedition to the South Pole did Roald Amundsen's beat by more than a month?






40. What narrator of a 1955 novel marries Charlotte Haze for ulterior motives?






41. How many band members were there in Led Zepplin?






42. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






43. What Rolling Stones hit begins appropriately - on the album version - with the sound of car horns?






44. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?






45. What city's summer olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?






46. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?






47. Give the missing last member: Wynken - Blyken - and...






48. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than 25 years?






49. What is frozen to make dry ice?






50. What kind of animal is the title character of Oliver & Company?






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