Fun Free Trivia Questions with the Answers.

Fun Free trivia questions with the answers.

What is the standard width of a bowling alley--gutters not included?
A: 41-1/2 inches, with a tolerance of plus or minus a half-inch permitted.

Whose statue stand in front of the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.?
A: Queen Isabella I, who financed Christopher Columbus's expedition to America. The statue was a gift from Spain.

A hundredweight is 100 pounds in the U.S. How much is it in England?
A: It's 112 pounds.

What famous American composer has had two of his songs adopted as official state anthems?
A: Stephen Foster. His "My Old Kentucky Home" is the state song of Kentucky, and his "Old Folks at Home" is the state song of Florida.

What fuel did Stuart Perry of New York City use in the engine he invented in 1844--the very first gasoline engine patented in the United States?
A: Turpentine.

What two umbrella-carrying characters are featured in Walt Disney movies?
A: Mary Poppins, in the film of the same name; and Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio.

What was the name of the sly fox in the Disney film version of Pinocchio?
A: Worthington Foulfellow.

In the poem Jabberwocky in the Alice in Wonderland sequel Through the Looking Glass, what words did author Lewis Carroll combine to create the nonsense word slithy?
A: Slimy and lithe.

The title of what film classic was used in he Variety headline reporting the stock market crash of October 29, 1987--a day now known as Black Monday?
A: Gone With the Wind. The headline was Bull Market gone With the Wind.

What is par on the longest golf hole in the world--the 909 yard 7th hole at Japan's Sano Course at the Satsui Golf Club?
A: Seven.

What was the only movie about the Vietnam conflict to be filmed while the war was going on?
A :The 1968 film The Green Berets, starring John Wayne.

What country music star appeared in three teen movies n 1960--Sex Kittens Go To College, Platinum High School and College Confidential?
A: Conway Twitty.

As a child, what famous opera singer was featured as an orphan--a singing orphan, of course--on a radio soap opera?
A: Beverly Sills, who was known as the Nightingale of the Mountains on the radio serial Our Gal Sunday.

What happened to Captain William Bligh when he was governor of New South Wales in 1808--almost 20 years after he was set adrift in the famous mutiny on the Bounty?
A: Another mutiny. British Army officers rebelled, captured him and forced him to resign--for stifling the colony's rum trade.

How much of the currency in circulation in the United States was believed to be counterfeit in 1865, when the Secret Service was established to combat counterfeiting?
A: One-third.

Free Fun Trivia Questions with the Answers

Fun Free trivia questions with the answers.