GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ NO. 74
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:01 pm1. What U.S. state is called 'The Land of the Midnight Sun'?
ALASKA
2. What 19th century whaling ship was rammed and sunk by a whale?
THE ESSEX
3. If the top stripe on an American flag is red, what color is the bottom stripe?
RED
4. What unit of measurement is used to measure the 'hotness' of hot peppers?
SCOVILLE UNIT
5. What former major league baseball player has the record for most triples, lifetime?
SAM CRAWFORD
6. In what U.S. city would you find 'The Alamo'?
SAN ANTONIO
7. Before he was Chancellor of Germany, what was Hitler's trade?
WALLPAPER HANGER
8. In horse racing, what do they call a 'Maiden'?
HORSE THAT HAS NEVER WON A RACE
9. What type of bass guitar did Paul McCartney popularize during his tenure with the Beatles?
HOFNER
10. Who was the artist of the famous painting of a farmer with a pitchfork and his daughter, known as 'American Gothic'?
GRANT WOOD
11. How many members were in the 70s' disco group 'The Village People'?
6
12. Why was the greek god 'Prometheus' sentenced to suffer for all eternity?
FOR BRINGING FIRE TO MORTALS
13. What Oscar winning actor murdered his wife and killed himself in 1978?
GIG YOUNG
14. What did Johnny B. Goode carry his guitar in?
A GUNNY SACK
15. What happened to the stolen millions at the end of the Rat Pack movie 'Ocean's Eleven'?
IT WAS CREMATED
16. In surfing terminology, what is a 'Booger'?
A BODY BOARDERr
17. What was the word spoken repeatedly by Poe's Raven?
NEVERMORE
18. What former First Lady does Marge Simpson share her maiden name with?
JACKIE KENNEDY
19. How did Spiderman acquire his powers?
BITTEN BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER
20. During World War II, General Anthony McAuliffe was surrounded and ordered by the Nazis to surrender. What was his one word response?
NUTS
21. Which of the following was 'not' one of the players banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series known as the 'Black Sox Scandal'?
A Lou Chiozza B Charles Risberg C Fred McMullin D Claude Williams
A LOU CHIOZZA
22. What U.S. state was once inadvertently left out of a Rand McNally atlas of the 50 states?
NORTH DAKOTA
23. Before he was famous, what guitarist played backup on Frank Sinatra's hit 'Strangers in the Night'?
GLEN CAMPBELL
24. Swede Momsen was a well known pioneer in what field?
SCUBA DIVING
25. What civil war general later went on to participate in the formation of the Ku Klux Klan?
NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST
ALASKA
2. What 19th century whaling ship was rammed and sunk by a whale?
THE ESSEX
3. If the top stripe on an American flag is red, what color is the bottom stripe?
RED
4. What unit of measurement is used to measure the 'hotness' of hot peppers?
SCOVILLE UNIT
5. What former major league baseball player has the record for most triples, lifetime?
SAM CRAWFORD
6. In what U.S. city would you find 'The Alamo'?
SAN ANTONIO
7. Before he was Chancellor of Germany, what was Hitler's trade?
WALLPAPER HANGER
8. In horse racing, what do they call a 'Maiden'?
HORSE THAT HAS NEVER WON A RACE
9. What type of bass guitar did Paul McCartney popularize during his tenure with the Beatles?
HOFNER
10. Who was the artist of the famous painting of a farmer with a pitchfork and his daughter, known as 'American Gothic'?
GRANT WOOD
11. How many members were in the 70s' disco group 'The Village People'?
6
12. Why was the greek god 'Prometheus' sentenced to suffer for all eternity?
FOR BRINGING FIRE TO MORTALS
13. What Oscar winning actor murdered his wife and killed himself in 1978?
GIG YOUNG
14. What did Johnny B. Goode carry his guitar in?
A GUNNY SACK
15. What happened to the stolen millions at the end of the Rat Pack movie 'Ocean's Eleven'?
IT WAS CREMATED
16. In surfing terminology, what is a 'Booger'?
A BODY BOARDERr
17. What was the word spoken repeatedly by Poe's Raven?
NEVERMORE
18. What former First Lady does Marge Simpson share her maiden name with?
JACKIE KENNEDY
19. How did Spiderman acquire his powers?
BITTEN BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER
20. During World War II, General Anthony McAuliffe was surrounded and ordered by the Nazis to surrender. What was his one word response?
NUTS
21. Which of the following was 'not' one of the players banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series known as the 'Black Sox Scandal'?
A Lou Chiozza B Charles Risberg C Fred McMullin D Claude Williams
A LOU CHIOZZA
22. What U.S. state was once inadvertently left out of a Rand McNally atlas of the 50 states?
NORTH DAKOTA
23. Before he was famous, what guitarist played backup on Frank Sinatra's hit 'Strangers in the Night'?
GLEN CAMPBELL
24. Swede Momsen was a well known pioneer in what field?
SCUBA DIVING
25. What civil war general later went on to participate in the formation of the Ku Klux Klan?
NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST