Trivia Questions and Answers - Miscellaneous Trivia questions and answers, TV, History, Art, Geography and More!

 

 

Miscellaneous Trivia questions and answers, TV, History, Art, Geography and More!

What actress was featured in the TV horror films Satan's School for Girls, Killer Bees, Death Cruise and Death Scream during the 1970s?
A: Kate Jackson

How did the Red Sea get its name?
A: From the occasionally extensive blooms of algae that, upon dying, turn the Red Sea's normally intense blue-green waters red.

A: What shipboard position did John Washington, George Washington's grandfather, hold when he sailed from England to Virginia aboard the ketch Sea Horse of London in 1657?
A: He was a ship's mate. Although Washington intended to return to England with the ketch and a cargo of tobacco, the ship sank and he stayed in the colonies.

How many paintings did Flemish Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh sell during his lifetime?
A: Only one.

Who portrayed Arnold Ziffel on Green Acres, the late 1960s TV sitcom that starred Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor?
A: A pig named Arnold.

What did Dutch-born German spy Mata Hari wear to her firing squad execution in o0ctober 1917?
A: Black--black velvet, fur-trimmed cape; black silk stockings; black kid gloves; and large floppy black hat with a black silk ribbon.

What Ivy League college was the last to go coed?
A: Dartmouth, in 1972.

What country is represented by the letters SF on international license plates?
A: Finland. SF stands for Suomi Finland.

In Air Force slang, what is the meaning of the term "laundry bag"?
A: It's a parachute:

What building on Maxwell Street in Chicago should be familiar to most prime-time TV viewers?
A: The former Maxwell Street police station, now headquarters for Chicago's vice squad. It's the setting of the exterior shots of the Hill Street stationhouse on Hill Street Blues.

Where did writer Ian Fleming find the name James Bond for his hero-spy?
A: On a coffee-table book, Birds of the West Indies, by ornithologist James Bond.

Whose autobiography, published in 1977, is called Grinding It Out?
A: Ray Kroc's. He was the traveling salesman behind McDonald's franchising empire.

What California city is directly across the border from the Mexican city of Mexicali--and has a name to match it?
A: Calexico.

What Old West city was named after a biblical city that drew its name from the Hebrew word for "grassy plain."
A: Abilene, Kansas, which was entirely grassland when it was named in the mid-nineteenth century and served as the end of the famous Chisholm Trail. The biblical Abilene (from the Hebrew word abel) is mentioned in Luke 3:1 and was in ancient Syria.

What book was the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript?
A: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The year was 1876; the typewriter, a Remington.

In the Mad Magazine parody of the Archie comic book, what name was given to the teenage hero?
A: Starchie. In the "Mad" parody, which appeared in June 1954 and cost 10 cents, Starchie ended up in jail for running a high school protection racket.

What famous person was interviewed in his pajamas on Ed Murrow's Person to Person TV show in 1959?
A: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who had just seized power.

How many pushups do young female recruits have to do in two minutes to pass U.S. Army basic training? How about their male counterparts?
A: Women, a minimum of 17; men, a minimum of 40.

How little was Stuart Little, the mouse born into an otherwise human family in the E. B. White children's fantasy?
A: He was two inches high and slept in a bed made from a cigarette box and four clothespins.

What famous American writer created the Cisco Kid?
A: O. Henry, in his short story, The Caballero's Way.