All kinds of miscellaneous trivia questions and answers - President
Richard M. Nixon kept a music box in his Oval Office desk. What tune
did it play?
Fun trivia questions and answers.
Who were the only left-handed Presidents?
A: James Garfield, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford.
President Richard M. Nixon kept a music box in his Oval Office
desk. What tune did it play?
A: "Hail to the Chief."
Who was the only U.S. President to marry a woman from another
country?
A: John Quincy Adams, whose wife, Louisa, was born in London.
On what TV show did Robert Guillaume first portray the
sharp-witted, sharp-tongued butler Benson?
A: On Soap, in 1977, two years before the spinoff series "Benson."
Who was the host of television's first telethon which raised $1.1
million for cancer research?
A: Mr. Television, Milton Berle, in 1949.
Who was the last mystery guest on the long-running TV show What's
My Line when it went off the air in September 1967?
A: The show's moderator, John Charles Daly.
Who were the two servicemen who carried the American flag as
Jeanette MacDonald sang the national anthem at the wartime Oscar
awards ceremony in 1943?
A : Marine private Tyrone Power and Army private Alan Ladd.
What American literary classic was made into a film called I
Married a Doctor?
A: Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis. Producer Jack Warner reportedly
claimed that nobody would go to see "a picture about a street."
Who was the first American to have a monument erected in his
honor in India?
A: George Washington Carver. The monument, erected in Bombay in 1947
by the peanut growers of India, honored Carver for his contributions
in making the peanut a popular crop. India is the world's largest
peanut producing country.
For what is the telephone number 800-555-0199 reserved?
A: The movies. It's the 800 number set aside for use in films.
What innovative TV show brought us the first joint
Chinese-American television productions?
A: Sesame Street, in 1983. The show that resulted was "Big Bird in
China."
What three names were given to more than half the females
christened in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s?
A: Sarah, Elizabeth and Mary.
Who played Kato, the faithful Philippine valet-chauffeur, on the
TV show The Green Hornet?
A: Bruce Lee, before he became a kung fu movie star.
Who designed the red, yellow and dark blue Renaissance uniform
worn by the Swiss Guard at the Vatican?
A: Michelangelo. It's one of several costumes worn by the
Gendarmeria Pontifica.
How many volumes made up the Pentagon Papers, the Defense
Department's study of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?
A: Forty-seven--they included 3,000 pages of text, 4,000 pages of
documents and weighed 60 pounds.
What did Chinese businessmen in the third century B.C. use to put
their personal seals on documents?
A: Their fingerprints. Chinese tablets dating back to 200 B.C. bear
fingerprint impressions to prove their authenticity.
What group of Americans speak a dialect they call Muderschprooch?
A: The Amish. The language is Pennsylvania Dutch.
What percentage of all English surnames are derived from animal
names such as Lamb, Fox, Wolf, Hawk and Bird?
A: Three percent.
Who wrote: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more
equal than others"?
A: George Orwell in Animal Farm.
How did the MiG, the famous Soviet jet fighter, get its name?
A: From the names of the plane's designers, Artem Mikoyan and
Mikhail I. Gurevich.