Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #142 - Free US and World Trivia Quiz

Historical trivia questions and answers.

1. What country was Adolf Hitler born in?
    
2. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
    
3. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of
   combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
    
4. What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join
   the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?
    
5. What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of
   history you can't get out"?
    
6. What name has been shared by the most popes?
    
7. What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to
   central Italy at the onset of the ninth century?
    
8. What did Hirohito refer to as a "tragic interlude," during a 1975
   U.S. visit?
    
9. What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by
   assassinating Archduke Ferdinand?
    
10. What 17th century English Lord Protector's severed head was
    finally buried after 300 years?
     
11. What country did the U.S. invade in 1989 in what George Will
    dubbed "an act of hemispheric hygiene"?
     
12. What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
    threaten to reclaim, in 1995?
     
13. What 1964 coin did many Americans tend to save rather than spend?
     
14. What British prime minister shared breakfast in bed with a parrot
    named Toby?
     
15. What war was raging when isolationists adopted the motto "America
    first"?
     
16. Who did Henry VIII have beheaded for witchcraft and adultery,
    along with her wolfhound?
     
17. What airline started out as the first crop-dusting outfit to
    battle boll weevils?
     
18. Who wrote a 35,000-word manifesto the New York Times and
    Washington Post published on September 18, 1995?
     
19. What civil rights leader was near death after being stabbed in
    Harlem with a seven-inch letter opener in 1958?
     
20. What future saint was originally taken to Ireland as a slave in
    405 A.D.?
     
21. What Nantucket shipwreck killed more divers exploring it than the
    52 people it sank with?
     
22. What do an average of 20 people do each year while staring at a
    Goodyear blimp?
     
23. Who was the first U.N. secretary general to have both African and
    Arab roots?
     
24. Who did former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski defeat in a 1995
    Eastern European presidential election?
     
25. Who told the House Un-American Activities Committee that
    communist cartoonists might be using Mickey Mouse to spread
    propaganda?
     
26. Who wore a suit instead of his usual military fatigues to
    celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.N.?
     
27. What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?
     
28. What nation started giving gas masks to its citizens before the
    Persian Gulf War?
     
29. What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem
    boasting the Temple of Solomon?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 142

1. Austria.
2. Dayton.
3. Norman Schwarzkopf.
4. Ronald Reagan.
5. Richard Nixon.
6. John.
7. Charlemagne.
8. World War II.
9. Serbian.
10. Oliver Cromwell's.
11. Panama.
12. Alaska.
13. The Kennedy half-dollar.
14. Winston Churchill.
15. World War I.
16. Anne Boleyn.
17. Delta Airlines.
18. The Unabomber.
19. Martin Luther King Jr.
20. St. Patrick.
21. The Andrea Doria.
22. Shoot at it.
23. Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
24. Lech Walesa.
25. Walt Disney.
26. Fidel Castro.
27. Woodrow Wilson's.
28. Israel.
29. Zionism.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #141 - History and Historical Events, People, Places, and Things!

History Trivia Questions -  Scroll Down for Answers

1. What was a ship called the Ancon the first to travel through, on
   August 15, 1914?
    
2. What fighter pilot flew World War I missions with his Great Dane
   "Moritz" next to him in the cockpit?
    
3. What country lost 17.2 percent of its population in World War II?
    
4. What deranged Roman emperor had a name that meant "little boot"?
    
5. What Pakistani was the first head of state in the 20th century to
   give birth in office?
    
6. What two-word term describes the period between the fall of the
   Roman Empire and the beginning f the Renaissance?
    
7. What newspaper won a Pulitzer for its Watergate coverage?
    
8. Who described the impending Persian Gulf ground war as "the
   mother of all battles"?
    
9. What ship's lookout was miffed when his request for binoculars
   was denied in 1912?
    
10. What big-league baseball prospect was jailed in Cuba from 1953 to
    1955 before going on to bigger things?
     
11. Who saw the turtleneck he wore at cease-fire talks in Bosnia
    fetch $5,000 at auction?
     
12. What brave-hearted Scottish patriot led soldiers to a defeat of
    the English at the Battle of Cambuskenneth in 1297?
     
13. What nation issued the five-dollar bill found in Abraham
    Lincoln's pocket when he was shot?
     
14. What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the
    pseudonym Maria Maggi?
     
15. What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John Paul
    II in the 1980s?
     
16. What war lasted from June5, 1967 to June 10, 1967?
     
17. Who was the longest-reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?
     
18. What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had known, 
    I would have become a watchmaker"?
     
19. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American States
    in 1962?
     
20. What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as to
    Palestinians?
     
21. Who was the first president of the National Organization for
    Women, in 1966?
     
22. Who tooled around Chicago during Prohibition in a car bearing the
    license plate "EN-1"?
     
23. Who cross-examined the victims in the trial against Long Island
    Railroad shooter Colin Ferguson?
     
24. What beating victim's 23-lawyer defense team handed the city of
    Los Angeles a bill for $4.4 million?
     
25. What can Germans publicly deny the existence of to earn five
    years in prison?
     
26. What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent two
    years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?
     
27. Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a
    tombstone marked with the letter "P"?
     
28. What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call "the
    greatest living American"?
     
29. What cavalryman's bonehead moves included leaving four Gatling
    guns behind, in 1876?
     
30. Who wrote in 1774 that "no thinking man" in America wanted
    independence from England?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 140 - Historical People, Places, and Things

1. The Panama Canal.
2. Monfred von Richthofen, or " The Red Baron".
3. Poland.
4. Caligula.
5. Benazir Bhutto.
6. Middle Ages.
7. The Washington Post.
8. Saddam Hussein.
9. The Titanic's.
10. Fidel Castro.
11. Jimmy Carter.
12. William Wallace.
13. The Confederate States of America.
14. Eva Peron.
15. Solidarity.
16. The Six-Day War.
17. King Hussein of Jordan.
18. Albert Einstein.
19. Cuba.
20. Hamas.
21. Betty Freidan.
22. Eliot Ness.
23. Colin Ferguson.
24. Rodney King's.
25. The Holocaust.
26. Robert La Salle.
27. St. Patrick.
28. J. Edgar Hoover.
29. George Armstrong Custer's.
30. George Washington.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #140 - Famous Historical People and Places

Historical trivia questions -  Scroll Down for Answers

A collection of trivia questions about famous people, places, and
things for you to have fun with.

1. How many swings of the ax did Sir Walter Raleigh's executioner
   require?
    
2. What Soviet made the cover of Time 14 times between 1985 and
   1991?
    
3. What outfit has troops known as Blue Helmets?
    
4. What Reign of Terror innovation was hyped: "My victim will feel
   nothing but a slight sense of refreshing coolness in the neck"?
    
5. What European leader caused a row in 1967 when he veiled before a
   French Canadian crowd: "Vive le Quebec libre"?
    
6. What U.S. president advised: "If you can't stand the heat, get
   out of the kitchen"?
    
7. What U.S. president did African-American editor Monroe Trotter
   claim to be a direct descendent of?
    
8. What Bruce Springsteen song was quoted by both Ronald Reagan and
   Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential campaign?
    
9. Who became leader of the opposition after the 1990 Nicaraguan
   elections?
    
10. Who was the first democratically -elected president of Russia?
     
11. What explorer introduced Italians to spaghetti in the 14th
    century?
     
12. What president had to read a news ticker to discover that his
    daughter Luci was engaged?
     
13. What did JFK refer to in noting: "This is a new ocean, and I
    believe the U.S. should sail it"?
     
14. What British royal was dubbed "Fish Face" by his wife?
     
15. Who, after anchoring off Hawaii in 1779, was mistaken for the god
    Lono?
     
16. What physicist's last words were not understood because his nurse
    did not speak German?
     
17. What nation was miffed when Hubert Humphrey declined its secret
    offer to help finance his 1968 presidential campaign?
     
18. What Irish political movement is named after a phrase meaning "we
    ourselves"?
     
19. What organization elects the 15 judges of the World Court?
     
20. What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down another?
     
21. What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the
    Japanese attacked?
     
22. What two continents have never been the site of a major military
    conflict?
     
23. What country maintained an official state of emergency from 1933
    to 1945?
     
24. What group of Pacific islands did Japan attack the day after
    Pearl Harbor?
     
25. What English king introduced death by boiling and legalized the
    killing of gypsies?
     
26. What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 140 - Historical People, Places, and Things

1. Three.
2. Mikhail Gorbachev.
3. The United Nations.
4. The guillotine.
5. Charles de Gaulle.
6. Harry S. Truman.
7. Thomas Jefferson.
8. Born in the USA.
9. Daniel Ortega.
10. Boris Yeltsin.
11. Marco Polo.
12. Lyndon B. Johnson.
13. Space.
14. Prince Charles.
15. Captain James Cook.
16. Albert Einstein's.
17. The Soviet Union.
18. Sinn Fein.
19. The United Nations.
20. The Korean War.
21. The Star-Spangled Banner.
22. Antarctica and Australia.
23. Germany.
24. The Philippines.
25. Henry VIII.
26. The Flying Fortress.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #139 - World History Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

World and US History trivia quiz questions with the answers.

1. What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?
    
2. What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to
   appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
    
3. What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to
   stop fighting, in 1974?
    
4. What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the
   1992 Republican convention?
    
5. Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named
   the National Civil Rights Museum?
    
6. What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the
   one to liberate it for me"?
    
7. What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
    
8. What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
    
9. What Nazi propagandist said: "Think of the press as a great
   keyboard on which the government can play"?
    
10. What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish,
    Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
     
11. What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the
    casualty list of the World War"?
     
12. What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in
    annual earnings, in 1995?
     
13. What Uganda city's airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue
    103 hostages in 1976?
     
14. What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?
     
15. What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in
    1930?
     
16. What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in
    the thirteen British colonies?
     
17. What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in
    1986?
     
18. What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
     
19. What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and
    on the land?
     
20. Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point
    to the British?
     
21. What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest
    military and naval disaster in our nation's history"?
     
22. Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's
    note of surrender?
     
23. What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World
    War II slogan?
     
24. What city had North America's first medical school, bank and
    city-paid police force.
     
25. What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly".
     
26. What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill
    Hickok?
     
27. Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
     
28. What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the
    Mani Pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s?
     
29. What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September
    of 1915, and April of 1918?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 139 -  US and World History

1. Princess Diana.
2. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
3. World War II.
4. Shannen Doherty.
5. Martin Luther King Jr's.
6. Yasir Arafat.
7. Josephine.
8. Ireland.
9. Joseph Goebbels.
10. Pope John Paul II.
11. Al Capone.
12. General Motors.
13. Entebbe's.
14. The Korean War.
15. Unemployment.
16. Boston.
17. The Iran-Contra affair.
18. Imelda Marcos.
19. Hammer and sickle.
20. Benedict Arnold.
21. The attack on Pearl Harbor.
22. Ulysses S. Grant's.
23. "Sink Ships".
24. Philadelphia.
25. Imelda Marcos.
26. His Horse.
27. Francois Mitterrand.
28. Italy's.
29. Manfred von Richthofen, or "The Red Barron".

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #138 - US and World History Trivia

World and US History trivia questions and answers.

1. What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of
   religion, speech and the press?
    
2. Who was dubbed "Lenin's left leg" during the early stages of
   Russia's Marxist movement?
    
3. What doctor came to court dressed as Thomas Jefferson, who was
   also thought to favor helping the terminally ill commit suicide?
    
4. What country was ruled from 827 until 860 by Egbert, Ethelwulf
   and Ethelbald?
    
5. What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair
   thinned and her cheeks hollowed?
    
6. What historic structure was saved from a real estate syndicate by
   a donation from a Texas cattle heiress?
    
7. Who's letter to Ronald Reagan read: "I'm very sorry...I thank God
   no one died"?
    
8. How many people were killed in 1979 at the Three Mile Island
   nuclear disaster?
    
9. What British prime minister defined a fanatic as "one who can't
   change his mind and won't change the subject"?
    
10. What Japanese war cry meant "May you live forever"?
     
11. Who distanced herself from politics by changing her last name to
    Davis at 22?
     
12. Who piloted the first airplane to suffer a passenger fatality, in
    1908?
     
13. What river was Hernando De Soto the first white man to see and be
    buried in?
     
14. Who was known as "Tanya" after a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery?
     
15. What seventh king of Israel shares his name with a Herman
    Melville literary character?
     
16. What U.S. president died 79 days after being shot?
     
17. What outfit's National Intelligence Daily has a circulation of
    about 200?
     
18. What leader said in 1942: "Never before have we had so little
    time in which to do so much"?
     
19. What child name's plunge in U.S. popularity was attributed to a
    famous 1974 scandal?
     
20. What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing
    the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy?
     
21. What awards, founded in 1901, are funded wit the help of the Bank
    of Sweden?
     
22. What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of
    1979?
     
23. What spa town headquartered the French who collaborated with the
    Nazis in World War II?
     
24. What seductive World War I spy had a daughter named Banda who was
    also a spy?
     
25. What color were the "black boxes" on TWA  Flight 800?
     
26. Where in Beijing did Chinese students build a Goddess of
    Democracy in May, 1989?
     
27. What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was
    issued a death threat?
     
28. What Connecticut resident was the first woman in U.S. history to
    be elected a U.S. governor without inheriting the office from a
    hubbie?
     
29. What secretary of defense admitted the Vietnam War was a
    "mistake" in 1995?
     
30. What nation's 90-man army is the world's oldest, dating back to
    1506?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 138 -  US and World History

1. The First Amendment.
2. Joseph Stalin.
3. Jack Kevorkian.
4. England.
5. Mirrors.
6. The Alamo.
7. John Hinckley Jr.
8. Zero.
9. Winston Churchill.
10. Banzai.
11. Patti Reagan.
12. Orville Wright.
13. The Mississippi River.
14. Patti Hearst.
15. Ahab.
16. James Garfield.
17. The Central Intelligence Agency's.
18. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
19. Richard's.
20. M*A*S*H
21. The Nobel Prizes.
22. Vietnam.
23. Vichy.
24. Mata Hari.
25. Orange.
26. Tiananmen Square.
27. Salman Rushdie.
28. Ella Grasso.
29. Robert McNamara.
30. Vatican City's.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #137 - World and US History Trivia

History trivia questions and answers.

1. What was the first country to recognize Mexico's independence, in
   1836?
    
2. What encyclopedia's first edition, in 1771, described California as
   "a large country of the West Indies?
    
3. Who was the only American to become vice president and president
   after resignations?
    
4. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every how many inhabitants.
   
5. 1 What year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average break both the
   4000 and 5000 marks?
    
6. Who saw his crew dine on wormy biscuits and rats on his fourth
   voyage to the New World?
    
7. What disgraced vice president's high school yearbook quote read;
   "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
    
8. Who was the youngest man to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
    
9. Which of Henry VIII's wives gave birth to Elizabeth I?
    
10. What 19th-century president erroneously noted: "The ballot is
    stronger than the bullet"?
     
11. What country led all Arab nations in the number of troops
    participating in Operation Desert Storm?
     
12. Who did George Bush accuse of being "a card-carrying member" of
    the American Civil Liberties Union, in 1988?
     
13. What presidential election year saw Republicans dub Democrats the
    party of "Communism, Corruption and Korea"?
     
14. What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a
    space shuttle mission?
     
15. What were the Viet Minh called when they crossed into South
    Vietnam?
     
16. What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on
    December 30, 1916?
     
17. Who led the Million Man March on Washington?
     
18. What country suffered the worst two earthquakes in history,
    killing 830,000 in 1556 and 750,000 in 1976?
     
19. What Eastern European city was the last city to be liberated in
    World War II?
     
20. What country used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against its Kurdish
    minority in the 1990s?
     
21. What general did GI's nickname "Top Gun" in the Persian Gulf War?
     
22. What trade union was finally legalized in Poland in 1989?
     
23. What symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870
    cartoon by Thomas Nast?
     
24. What Harry Callahan line did Ronald Reagan invoke to "tax
    increasers"?
     
25. What explorer of North Carolina never got to finish his "History
    of the World" while banished to the Tower of London?
     
26. Who was president of the U.S. when Uncle Sam first got a beard?
     
27. Who did Adolf Hitler dictate Mein Kampf to while in prison?
     
28. What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?
     
29. What sport sparked a war between El Salvador and Honduras, after
    an unpopular referee's call in 1969?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quizzes   # 137
-  US and World History

1. The U.S.
2. Encyclopedia Britannica's.
3. Gerald Ford.
4. Eight.
5. 1995.
6. Christopher Columbus.
7. Spiro Agnew.
8. Colin Powell.
9. Anne Boleyn.
10. Abraham Lincoln.
11. Saudi Arabia.
12. Michael Dukakis.
13. 1952.
14. Captain.
15. The Viet Cong.
16. Rasputin.
17. Louis Farrakhan.
18. China.
19. Prague.
20. Iraq.
21. Colin Powell.
22. Solidarity.
23. A donkey.
24. "Go ahead, make my day".
25. Sir Walter Raleigh.
26. Abraham Lincoln.
27. Rudolf Hess.
28. The Berlin Wall.
29. Soccer.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #136 - World Trivia Questions and Answers from Around the World

Fun world trivia questions and facts with answers.

1. What European country delights the Pope with the lowest divorce rate in the western world?
    
2. What Las Vegas hotel claims to display the world's largest hunk of gold?
    
3. What's the only New England state without a seacoast?
    
4. What foreign language do Norwegians study for seven years, beginning in the second grade?
    
5. What U.S. state has only 113 divorces for every 1,000 marriages?
6. What two seas flank the Caucasus Mountains?
    
7. What South American capital's name means "I saw the mountain"?
    
8. What nation's culinary wizards gave the world Stuffed Calf's Eyes and Cow Brain
   Frittters?
    
9. What's the largest country in the Commonwealth of Independent States?
    
10. What was the final destination of the first U.S. paddle wheel steamboat, which
    departed from Pittsburgh?
     
11. What southern city does Federal Express channel all its packages through?
     
12. What country sends the most tourists to Australia?
     
13. What Spanish ethnic group do geneticists consider the most direct descendants of 
    Cro-Magnons?
     
14. What U.S. state is the eighth largest economic power in the world?
     
15. What southeast Asian nation's shoppers began flashing new American Express cards
    in 1994?
     
16. What bridge, celebrated in a Bobbie Gentry song, collapsed in 1972?
     
17. What do English-speaking tourists usually call France's Cote d' Azur?
     
18. What U.S. city is across the Rio Grande from Juarez?
     
19. What European capital used to be called Lutetia?
     
20. What high-stakes city has the most unlisted phone numbers per capita in the
    U.S.?
     
21. What South American archipelago has a name meaning "land of fire"?
     
22. What country has the highest teen pregnancy rate of all the western industrial
    nations?
     
23. How many ngwee equal a kwacha when you're paying for gods in Zambia?
     
24. What Jerusalem site is the only surviving part of the Second Temple?
     
25. What city did environmental writer Edward Abbey call "the blob that ate
    Arizona"?
     
26. What nation in the Western Hemisphere is the world's largest exporter of forest
    products?
     
27. What sea laps shores of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan?
    
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 136 - World
Trivia Answers

1. Italy
2. The Golden Nugget
3. Vermont
4. English
5. Nevada.
6. The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
7. Montevideo's
8. France's
9. Russia
10. New Orleans
11. Memphis
12. Japan
13. Basques
14. California
15. Vietnam's
16. The Tallahatchie Bridge.
17. The Riviera
18. El Paso
19. Paris
20. Las Vegas
21. Terra del Fuego
22. The U.S.
23. One hundred
24. The Wailing Wall
25. Phoenix
26. Canada
27. The Caspian

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #135 - Math Trivia Questions and Answers

Math trivia questions and answers.

1. What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann
   determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
    
2. What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than
   180 degrees?
    
3. What's the top number of a fraction called?
    
4. What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening
   star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
    
5. What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?
    
6. What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
    
7. What number does "giga" stand for?
    
8. What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the
   West around 800 B/B.?
    
9. What word describes a number system with a base of two?
    
10. How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
     
11. What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight
    sides?
     
12. What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line
    that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?
     
13. What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen
    wrench?
     
14. What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
     
15. What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
     
16. What's short for "binary digit"?
     
17. What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus
    signs?
     
18. What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by
    nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
     
19. What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when
    the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 135 - Math
Trivia Answers

1. Pi.
2. Obtuse.
3. The numerator.
4. Pythagoras.
5. A quadrilateral.
6. A hologram.
7. One billion.
8. Zero.
9. Binary.
10. Twenty.
11. An octagon.
12. Tangent.
13. The hexagon. 
14. One.
15. K and M.
16. Bit.
17. The sixteenth.
18. Googol.
19. The Slide rule's.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #134 - Science Trivia About Physics

Physics science trivia questions and answers.

1. What method of arranging elements into related groups was
   invented by Dimitri Mendeleyev?
    
2. What physicist remarked: "God is subtle, but he is not
   malicious"?
    
3. What M-word defines anything that occupies space?
    
4. What do you call a substance containing only one kind of atom?
    
5. What teenager began studying physics after he noticed a
   chandelier swinging during a 1581 earthquake?
    
6. What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?
    
7. What element comes last alphabetically?
    
8. What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and
   pitchblende?
    
9. What American physicist pioneered the theory of "black
   holes" in 1939?
    
10. What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and
    protons?
     
11. What theory of physics proposes that energy is not
    transferred continuously but in discrete amounts>
     
12. What element was converted to plutonium in the first
    nuclear reactors?
     
13. What acronyms for "Weakly Interacting Massive Particles " and
    "Massive Compact Halo Objects" do physicists use to explain dark
    matter?
     
14. What astronomical term gradually replaced the cumbersome
    "gravitationally completely collapsed object"?
     
15. What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission
    of radiation"?
     
16. What's a single unit of quanta called?
     
17. What did scientists build in a squash court under a
    football stadium at the University of Chicago in 1942?
     
18. What's the atomic number of hydrogen?
     
19. What element begins with the letter "k"?
     
20. What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in
    which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei"?
     
21. What E-word was the first elementary particle to be
    discovered?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 134 - Physics
Trivia Answers

1. The periodic table.
2. Albert Einstein.
3. Matter.
4. An element.
5. Galileo.
6. The electron.
7. Zirconium.
8. Uranium.
9. J. Robert Oppenheimer.
10. An Ion.
11. The quantum theory.
12. Uranium.
13. Wimps and Machos.
14. Black Hole.
15. Laser.
16. A quantum.
17. A nuclear reactor.
18. One.
19. Krypton.
20. Fusion.
21. The electron.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #133 - Medical, Medicine, Health, Disease, Virus, Prostate, Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Stroke and more!

Medical and Medicine trivia questions and answers.

1. What's the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men?
    
2. What does "CPR" stand for in medical emergencies?
    
3. What, along with heart disease and cancer, accounts for 64
   percent of U.S. deaths?
    
4. What virus did the World Health Organization say would infect
   40 million people by the year 2000?
    
5. What do cosmetic surgeons remove 200,00 pounds of from
   Americans per year?
    
6. What do doctors look at through an ophthalmoscope?
    
7. What disease accounts for two of every three cases of dementia?
    
8. What S-word is defined as "a lateral curvature of the spine"?
    
9. What substance produced by the body is counteracted by
   antihistamine drugs?
    
10. What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
     
11. What's most likely to occur when your diaphragm goes
    into spasms?
     
12. What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known
    as?
     
13. How many times a day must you take medication if your
    prescription reads "q.i.d."?
     
14. What part of the eye may be obscured by cataracts?
     
15. What arthritic disorder occurs due t increased uric acid the
    the blood?
     
16. What hereditary blood defect is known as "the royal disease"?
     
17. What organ is inflamed when one has encephalitis?
     
18. Where does the embryo implant itself in a tubal pregnancy?
     
19. How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will
    die in two days?
     
20. What brain operation was tried first on a confused 63-yuar-old
    female at George Washington Hospital in 1956?
     
21. What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?
     
22. What was bovine spongiform encephalopathy called by the
    British press in 1996?
     
23. What's the medical term for low blood sugar?
     
24. What's the tranquilizer diazepam better known as?
     
25. What's the common term for a cerebrovascular accident?
     
26. What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were
    sorry they came into contact with?
     
27. What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from
    opium and use as a pain reliever?
     
28. What was the most widely prescribe antideppressant in
    the U.S. in the 1990s?
     
29. What syndrome does SIDS mean to child care experts?
     
30. What disease is the focus of oncology?
     
31. Where is liver bile stopped before being released into the
    small intestine?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 133 -
Medicine and Medical Trivia.

1. Prostate cancer.
2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
3. Stroke.
4. HIV.
5. Fat.
6. The eye.
7. Alzheimer's. 
8. Scoliosis.
9. Histamine.
10. White blood cells, or leukocytes. 
11. Hiccups.
12. Athlete's foot. 
13. Four.
14. The lens.
15. Gout.
16. Hemophilia.
17. The brain.
18. A Fallopian tube.
19. Nine.
20. A lobotomy.
21. Muscle. 
22. Mad cow disease.
23. Hypoglycemia.
24. Valium.
25. Stroke.
26. Poison Ivy.
27. Morphine.
28. Prozac.
29. Sudden infant death syndrome.
30. Cancer.
31. The gall bladder.
     

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #132 - Fun Food Trivia Quiz - Salads, Fruits, Vegetables, Diets, Meals, and More!

Food trivia questions and answers.

1. What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?
    
2. What company first condensed soup in 1898?
    
3. What nutty legume accounts for one sixth of the world's
   vegetable oil production?
    
4. What country saw the cultivation of the first potato, in 200
   A.D.?
    
5. What type of lettuce was called Crisphead until the 1920s?
    
6. What tree gives us prunes?
    
7. What type of chocolate was first developed for public
   consumption in Vevey, Switzerland in 1875?
    
8. What added ingredient keeps confectioners' sugar from
   clumping?
    
9. What edible comes in crimmini, morel, oyster and wood
   ear varieties?
    
10. What newly-imported substance caused the first major outbreak
    of tooth decay in Europe, in the1500's?
     
11. What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack
    foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
     
12. What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by
    bacteria, causing the sour taste?
     
13. What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a
    home in?
     
14. What baking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, did the U.S.
    Air Force replace its toxic paint stripper with?
     
15. What staple is laced with up to 16 additives including plaster
    of paris, to stay fresh?
     
16. What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write
    the laws of gravity?
     
17. What method of preserving food did the Incas first use,
    on potatoes?
     
18. What deli sandwich topped Dateline NBC's list for total fat
    content - a Reuben, BLT  or tuna salad with mayo?
     
19. What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by
    law to eat?
     
20. What hit the market alongside spinach as the first frozen
    veggies?
     
21. How many sizes of chicken eggs does the USDA recognize,
    including peewee?
     
22. What are de-headed, de-veined an sorted by size in a
    laitram machine?
     
23. What's the only fish that produces real caviar,
    according to the FDA?
     
24. What type of egg will yield 11 and one-half average-size
    omelettes?
     
25. What's the groundnut better known as?
     
26. What crystalline salt is frequently used to enhance the flavor
    to TV dinners?
     
27. What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an
    antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
     
28. What should your diet be high in to lessen the chance of
    colon cancer, according to a 1990 study?
     
29. What nut do two-thirds of its U. S. producers sell through
    Blue Diamond?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 132 - Food and Eating Trivia.

1. Chicken.
2. Campbell's.
3. The peanut.
4. South America.
5. Iceberg lettuce.
6. The plum tree.
7. Milk Chocolate.
8. Corn starch.
9. Mushrooms.
10. Sugar.
11. Olestra.
12. Lactose.
13. Pork. 
14. Baking soda.
15. Bread.
16. An Apple.
17. Freeze-drying.
18. Tuna salad with mayo.
19. The coconut. 
20. Peas. 
21. Six. 
22. Shrimp. 
23. Sturgeon. 
24. An Ostrich egg.
25. The peanut. 
26. Monosodium glutamate. 
27. Honey.
28. Fiber.
29. The Almond.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #131 - Fun Science Trivia Quiz

General science trivia questions and answers.

1. What process involves treating rubber with sulfur to harden it?
    
2. What scale of zero to 14 is used to measure acidity or
   alkalinity?
    
3. What O-word describes oxygen with molecules that have three
   atoms instead of two?
    
4. What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per
   second?
    
5. What planet is closest in size to our moon?
    
6. What's the common name for a cubic decimeter?
    
7. What measure of energy comes from the Latin word meaning
   "heat"?
    
8. What's removed from water in the process of desalination?
    
9. What species Amazonian electric variety packs a 650 volt
   wallop?
    
10. What C word defines a substance that speeds a chemical
    reaction without being consumed?
     
11. What's the base unit of mass in the metric system?
     
12. What cooking fuel is produced by heating wood without
    oxygen?
     
13. What's the only metal that's not a solid at room temperature?
     
14. Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a
    pound of coal or a gallon of gasoline?
     
15. What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to
    inches?
     
16. What method of underwater detection is short for "sound
    navigation and ranging"?
     
17. What hazardous substance is euphemistically referred to
    as "mineral fiber"?
     
18. What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid?
     
19. What process involves heating an ore to obtain a metal?
     
20. What's the U. S. equivalent of 0.45 kilograms?
     
21. What's defined as the distance between a lens and its focal
    point?
     
22. What energy unit is defined as the heat required to
    raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius?
     
23. What founding father was knocked unconscious while
    attempting to electrocute a turkey?
     
24. What continent is subjected to the world's largest ozone hole?
     
25. What sea creature can have an eye measuring 16 inches across,
    the largest in the animal kingdom?
     
26. What explosive cosmic event was seen with the naked eye in
    1987, for the first time in 383 years?
     
27. What three terms are represented in Newton's second law
    of motion F = ma?
     
28. How many of the nine planets have moons/
     
29. What were exterminated from Harvard's bio labs when they were
    found to be carrying radioactive chemicals into the walls?
     
30. What type of trees yield the resin used to produce turpentine?
     
31. What's the most malleable metal?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 131 - Science Trivia.

1. Vulcanizing.
2. The pH scale.
3. Ozone.
4. The Watt.
5. Mercury.
6. A liter.
7. The calorie.
8. Salt.
9. The eel's.
10. Catalyst.
11. The kilogram.
12. Charcoal. 
13. Mercury. 
14. A gallon of oil.
15. Centimeters.
16. Sonar.
17. Asbestos.
18. Pink.
19. Smelting.
20. One pound. 
21. It's focal length. 
22. One Calorie. 
23. Benjamin Franklin..
24. Antarctica.
25. A squid.
26. A supernova.
27. Force, mass, acceleration. 
28. Seven. 
29. Ants.
30. Pine trees. 
31. Gold. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #130 - Inventions, Inventors, and Inventing Trivia Quiz Questions

Inventing and inventions trivia questions and answers.

1. What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp
   in the second century?
    
2. What did "Art Fry invent after scraps of paper to mark tunes
   in his hymnal kept falling out?
    
3. What did Leonardo invent to check humidity while he worked on
   the Last Supper fresco?
    
4. What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?
    
5. What "foot doctor" held over 300 patents?
    
6. What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned
   pocket-sized radios?
    
7. What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr. Jonas Salk to
   come out of retirement in 1987?
    
8. What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor
   William James Morrison?
    
9. What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in
   1592?
    
10. What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire
    performers bouncing on safety nets?
     
11. What century saw the invention of the shoelace?
     
12. What name did George Eastman invent in 1888 because it
    was easy to memorize, pronounce, and spell?
     
13. What innovative inventor's Dymaaxion car could carry eleven
    passengers, exceed 120 mph and get 30 miles per gallon in 1934?
     
14. What type of structure did R. Buckminster Fuller patent in
    1954?
     
15. What century saw Alexander Cummings issued the first
    patent for a flush toilet?
     
16. What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using
    a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape?
     
17. What landmark invention eased farming chores for
    Sumerians in 3500 B.C.?
     
18. What food product did Hyppolyte Merge-mouries invent in
    1868 by treating oils with hydrogen?
     
19. What British second lieutenant got the idea to fill a canister
    shell with musket balls and a charge of gunpowder?
     
20. Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his
    life?
     
21. What kitchen invention took the top prize at the 1893 Chicago
    World's Fair?
     
22. What company gave the world the first electric
    toothbrush?
     
23. What Edwin Budding invention began changing the face of
    English landscapes in the 1820s?
     
24. What invention for keeping cold air out of buildings in winter
    was patented by Theophilus Van Kannel in 1888?
     
25. What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 130 -
Invention Trivia.

1. Paper.
2. Post-it Notes.
3. The hygrometer.
4. Briton.
5. Dr. Scholl.
6. The transistor.
7. AIDS.
8. Dentist.
9. Galileo.
10. The trampoline.
11. The eighteenth. 
12. Kodak. 
13. Buckminster Fuller's.
14. The geodesic dome.
15. The eighteenth.
16. The vacuum cleaner.
17. The plow.
18. Margarine.
19. Sir Henry Shrapnel.
20. Thomas Edison. 
21. The dishwasher.
22. Interplak.
23. The lawn mower.
24. The revolving door.
25. The Tractor.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #129 - International Trivia Quiz Questions

International trivia questions and answers.

1. What organization elects the 15 judges of the World Court?
    
2. What Irish political movement is named after a phrase meaning
   "we ourselves:?
    
3. What nation was miffed when Hubert Humphrey declined its
   secret offer to help finance his 1968 presidential campaign?
    
4. What physicist's last words were not understood because his
   nurse did not speak German?
    
5. What dictator is affectionately dubbed EL Maximo by fans?
    
6. What 10-year old began earning his bad reputation by throwing
   puppies off the Kremlin walls in 1540?
    
7. What country used weather-born balloons to drop more than a
   hundred bombs on North America during World War II.
    
8. What socialist writer's last words were: "Last words are for
   fools who haven't said enough"?
    
9. What former Soviet newspaper had to depend on cash from
   the Greek Communist Party to stay alive in the 1990s?
    
10. What strategic group of islands did Portugal allow Britain to
    access during World War II?
     
11. What country was disputed in the largest sea-air battle
    in history, from October 22-27, 1944?
     
12. What did four million prisoners die mining for in
    Stalin's Kolyma forced labor camp?
     
13. What 1938 pact caused Winston Churchill to utter: "We have
    sustained a defeat without a war"?
     
14. Who's believed by many to be buried in Downpatrick under a
    tombstone marked with the letter "F"?
     
15. What French explorer was murdered by his crew after he spent
    two  years failing to locate the mouth of the Mississippi?
     
16. What can Germans publicly deny the existence of the earn five
    years in prison?
     
17. What's the Islamic Resistance Movement better known as
    to Palestinians?
     
18. What nation was bounced from the Organization of American
    States in 1962?
     
19. What political system was gradually dismantled in South
    Africa, stating in 1989?
     
20. What famous Swiss citizen said of nuclear bombs: "If I had
    known, I would have become a watchmaker"?
     
21. Who did Yigal Amir assassinate in 1995?
     
22. Who was the longest reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?
     
23. What royal briefly banished Sir Walter Raleigh to the
    Tower of London after hearing of his secret marriage to her maid of
    honor?
     
24. What war lasted from June5, 1967 to June 10, 1967?
     
25. What Polish political movement got the support of Pope John
    Paul II in the 1980s?
     
26. What Argentinean was buried in a Milan cemetery under the
    pseudonym Maria Maggi?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 129 - International Trivia.

1. The United Nations.
2. Sinn Fein.
3. The Soviet Union.
4. Albert Einstein's.
5. Fidel Castro.
6. Ivan the Terrible.
7. Japan.
8. Karl Marx's.
9. Pravda.
10. The Azores.
11. The Philippines. 
12. Gold. 
13. The Munich Pact. 
14. St. Patrick.
15. Robert La Salle.
16. The Holocaust.
17. Hamas.
18. Cuba.
19. Apartheid.
20. Albert Einstein.
21. Yitzhak Rabin. 
22. King Hussein of Jordan. 
23. Elizabeth I. 
24. The six day war.
25. Solidarity.
26. Eve Peron.
     

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #128 - Military Trivia Quiz Questions

Military trivia questions and answers.

1. What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S.
   accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
    
2. What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle
   against Japan?
    
3. What opportunistic country declared war on Japan five days
   before its surrender in 1945?
    
4. What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government
   first printed paper money?
    
5. What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in
   1945?
    
6. What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf Warriors
   use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
    
7. What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him
   a "believer" in the Vietnam War?
    
8. What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only
   following orders"?
    
9. What was the first war the U. S. took part in that was
   partially financed with lottery dollars?
    
10. What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union
    after the Civil War.
     
11. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in
    charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
     
12. Which two nations, constitutionally barred from military
    actions, sent money to support the Allied coalition against 
    Iraq in " 1991"?
     
13. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
     
14. What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class
    of 1829?
     
15. What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
     
16. What English King introduced death by boiling and legalized
    the killing of gypsies?
     
17. What two continents have never been the site of a major
    military conflict?
     
18. Who returned to Russia from exile in October, 1917?
     
19. What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the
    Japanese attacked?
     
20. What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down
    another/
     
21. What so called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead
    Than Red" and "Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950s?
     
22. What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench
    warfare?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 128 - Military Trivia.

1. The Persian Gulf War.
2. Okinawa.
3. The Soviet Union.
4. The Civil War.
5. Germany.
6. Slimed.
7. Dead.
8. The Nuremberg war crimes trials.
9. The Revolutionary War.
10. Georgia. 
11. Norman Schwarzkopf. 
12. Germany and Japan.
13. Dayton. 
14. Robert E. Lee
15. The Flying Fortress.
16. Henry VIII.
17. Antarctica and Australia.
18. Vladimir  Ilyich Lenin.
19. The Star-Spangled Banner.
20. The Korean War. 
21. The Cold War. 
22. The Tank. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #127 - Presidential Trivia Quiz Questions

Presidential trivia questions and answers.

1. What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against
   Japan?
    
2. Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version
   of his first name?
    
3. Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?
    
4. Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not
   going to eat any more broccoli"?
    
5. Who told Jimmy Carter in a debate: "There is no Soviet
   domination of Eastern Europe"?
    
6. How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam's civil war?
    
7. Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general of volunteers
   after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
    
8. What future U.S. president received the last rites of the
   Catholic Church after an infection  following spinal surgery in
   1954?
    
9. What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in
   1994?
    
10. What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in 1971?
     
11. What U.S. president's State of the Union address lasted
    a record 81 minutes?
     
12. What president was shot at while walking to California
    Governor Jerry Brown's office?
     
13. What U.S. vice president was once wanted for murder in New
    Jersey?
     
14. What inscription on U.S. coins did Theodore Roosevelt try in
    vain to have removed?
     
15. What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of
    placed under his head upon his burial?
     
16. Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome"
    before a joint session of Congress?
     
17. What war saw James Madison become the first U.S.
    president to command a military unit during his term in office?
     
18. What name did romantic George Bush paint on his bomber during
    World War II?
     
19. Who was the first U.S. vice president named acting president
    while his boss was under the knife?
     
20. What portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut?
     
21. What U.S. president had the shortest life?
     
22. What future president was the only U.S. senator from a
    Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
     
23. What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with
    hemorrhoids?
     
24. What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in
    1988?
     
25. What former president was on an "African hunting trip when his
    enemy J.P. Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?
     
26. What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 127 - Presidential Trivia.

1. December 8, 1941.
2. Jimmy Carter.
3. Abraham Lincoln.
4. George Bush.
5. Gerald Ford.
6. Five.
7. Ulysses S. Grant.
8. John F. Kennedy.
9. Alzheimer's disease.
10. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
11. Bill Clinton's.
12. Gerald Ford. 
13. Aaron Burr. 
14. In God We Trust.
15. The U.S. Constitution.
16. Lyndon B. Johnson.
17. The war of 1812.
18. Barbara.
19. George Bush.
20. William Howard Taft. 
21. John F. Kennedy. 
22. Andrew Johnson.
23. Jimmy Carter. 
24. "Read my lips".
25. A:  Theodore Roosevelt.
26. Bill Clinton. 
     

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #126 - Miscellaneous Trivia Quiz Questions About Sports

Miscellaneous sports trivia questions and answers.

1. What golfer made a comeback from chemotherapy and radiation
   treatment for lymphoma in 1994?
    
2. Who was the last person to win back to back World Series of
   Poker Tournament?
    
3. What golfer beat Porky Oliver at the 1946 PGA Championship to
   win his first major?
    
4. What multi-nicknamed Yankees great suggested he be called "The
   Idol of the American Boy"?
    
5. What two-time All-Big-Eight defensive back at Colorado won
   three U.S. Open golf titles?
    
6. Who topped the PGA Tour in earnings for five years in the
   1970s?
    
7. What golf tourney banned sportscaster Gary McCord for calling
   course bumps "body bags" and suggesting "bikini wax" sped the
   greens?
    
8. What dreaded golf shot occurs when the ball is hit with the
   hosel of the club?
    
9. What decade saw names first appear on the backs of NFL
   jerseys?
    
10. What Pro Football Hall of Famer was the first to get a
    second bust in the Hall, for broadcasting?
     
11. What three 49ers have earned Super Bowl MVP honors, through
    1996?
     
12. What Brooklyn Dodgers great got his nick name for what
    he called his shooter when playing marbles as a child?
     
13. What sport was popularized by Olympic swimmer Duke
    Kahanamoku?
     
14. What NBA star refuses to have the hot water turned on at his
    Chicago home because he rarely takes showers there?
     
15. What's an NBA player deemed to be if he's received the Maurice
    Podoloff Trophy?
     
16. What's the most common nickname for a major league baseball
    pitcher?
     
17. Who was the NBA Coach of the Year trophy named after?
     
18. What's the last name of NFL All Pro brothers Shannon and
    Sterling?
     
19. Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four
    grand slam events at least four times?
     
20. What position must college footballers play to receive the
    Davey O'Brien Award?
     
21. What NBA team charges $600 for a floor seal at a regular
    season game?
     
22. What's the fastest engine-powered sport?
     
23. What heavyweight was Tony "Two Ton" Galento referring to
    when he said in 1939:"I'll molder de bum"?
     
24. What Oakland Athletic hit the longest homer in Cumiskey
    Park history, and followed it the next day with one twenty feet
    longer?
     
25. Who coached the Detroit Red Wings to 62 wins in 1995-96,
    breaking Scotty Bowman's mark of 60 with Montréal in 1976-77?
     
26. What team ended 54 years of frustration by winning the Stanley
    Cup in 1994?
     
27. What Alabama-born football and baseball star was named after
    the actor who played Dr. Ben Casey on TV?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 126 -
Miscellaneous
Sports Trivia.

1. Paul Azinger.
2. Johnny Chan.
3. Ben Hogan.
4. Babe Ruth.
5. Hale Irwin.
6. Jack Nicklaus
7. The Masters.
8. A Shank.
9. The 1960s.
10. Frank Gifford.
11. Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Steve Young.
12. "Pee Wee" Reese.
13. Surfing. 
14. Dennis Rodman.
15. The Most Valuable Player.
16. "Lefty".
17. Red Auerbach.
18. Sharpe.
19. Steffi Graf.
20. Quarterback.
21. The Los Angeles Lakers.
22. Airplane racing. 
23. Joe Luis.
24. Mark McGwire. 
25. Scotty Bowman.
26. The New York Rangers. 
27. Vince Edward "Bo" Jackson.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #125 - General Trivia Quiz Questions About Sports

Miscellaneous sports trivia questions and answers.

1. What baseball team has a monthly newsletter called The Vineline?
    
2. What are the only three European countries to have won
   soccer's World Cup?
    
3. What heavyweight was Tony "Two Ton" Galento referring to when
   he said in 1939 "I'll molder de bum"?
    
4. What sport did Herve Filion top with a record of 14,084 wins?
    
5. What two continents fielded teams in the World League of
   American Football, in 1991?
    
6. Who was able to set NFL rushing records because of his "big
   butt," according to Chicago Bears trainer Frank Caito?
    
7. Who was the first U.S. volleyball player to win three Olympic
   gold medals?
    
8. What movie did Michael Eisner say was his "market research"
   for Disney's NHL entry?
    
9. What was the only team to win two World Series in the
   1980s?
    
10. What league was Gino Cappelletti the top scorer of in the
    1960s, with 1,100 points?
     
11. What position did Cal Ripkin Jr., start at for the first
    time since 1982, in a July, 1996 game?
     
12. What decade saw the NFL ban blocking below the waist and
    head slapping?
     
13. What Yankee pitcher holds World Series records for games won
    and games lost?
     
14. What baseball announcer's 1996 funeral was attended by Joe
    DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Phil Rizzuto?
     
15. What major leaguer hit 20 or more homers in 20 seasons?
     
16. What baseballer said of Biloxi Blues: "It reminded me of being
    in the Army, even though I was in the Navy:?
     
17. What South African has traveled more miles than any
    athlete in history?
     
18. What team had a camp so grueling it was dubbed " Fort Landry"?
     
19. What former Bruin defenseman was the first to skate on Boston's
    new Feet Center ice?
     
20. What down-under sport is a cross between soccer and rugby?
     
21. How long is the longest race on the NASCAR circuit?
     
22. What U.S. college sport honors its best player with the Hobey Baker Award?
    
     
23. What horse tied, but could not break, Citation's 16-race
    consecutive win streak?
     
24. Who was the first major leaguer to hit home runs in his teens
    and n his forties?
     
25. Who was the only soccer player to play on three World
    Cup-winning teams?
     
26. What ballplayer was dubbed " The Iron Bird"?
     
27. What does the Lindy Worm Blower allegedly enhance your chances
    of doing?
     
28. What pro sport was played by Lu Blue, Pebbly
    Jack Glasscock and Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Finger" Brown?
     
29. What pro team made it to the playoffs a record 29 straight
    times, in 1996?
     
30. What essential do track racing bicycles
    lack that a recreational rider wouldn't be caught dead without?
     
31. What weighty Japanese sport has participants known as rikishi?
     
32. What 28-year-old ice skater died of a sudden
    heart attack in November, 1995?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 125 - General
Sports Trivia.

1. The Chicago Cubs.
2. England, Italy, West Germany.
3. Joe Lewis.
4. Harness racing.
5. Europe  and North America.
6. Walter Payton.
7. Karch Kiraly.
8. The Mighty Ducks.
9. The Los Angeles Dodgers.
10. The American Football League. 
11. Third base. 
12. The 1970s. 
13. Whitey Ford. 
14. Mel Allen's..
15. Hank Aaron.
16. Yogi Berra.
17. Gary Player.
18. The Dallas Cowboys.
19. Bobby Orr.
20. Australian Rules Football. 
21. 600 miles 
22. Hockey. 
23. Cigar. 
24. Ty Cobb.
25. Pele. 
26. Cal Ripken Jr. 
27. Catching fish.
28. Baseball. 
29. The Boston Bruins.
30. Brakes. 
31. Sumo wrestling.
32. Sergei Grinkov .

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #124 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Miscellaneous Sports

General sports trivia questions and answers.

1. What racket sport can be played with four balls of differing
   bouncing qualities?
    
2. What brilliant name did the Texas Rangers choose for their
   ballpark?
    
3. What are sportsmen hoping to find in a creel?
    
4. Who wore shoes labeled "Air Uta" during her 1995 Boston
   Marathon victory?
    
5. Who usually finished last in Edmonton Oilers strength tests,
   in the 1980s?
    
6. What pro athlete is nicknamed "The Dream"?
    
7. What Giant's bone-crushing 1985 tackle ended Joe Theismann's
   career?
    
8. What sport features strikers and sweepers?
    
9. What Mariner's 15 homers in May of 1994 were more than
   the entire Montreal Expos team managed?
    
10. How many of the five boroughs does the New York City marathon
    run through?
     
11. What new pitch helped Carl Hubbell win 24 straight games
    in the 1930s?
     
12. How many holes are in the original Wiffle ball?
     
13. What sport accounted for five of the top ten highest grossing
    sports movies, through 1994?
     
14. What pro sport tries to break ties with a sudden-death
    overtime period of five minutes?
     
15. What do you call the stick you use to push a shuffleboard
    disc?
     
16. What state is allowed to compete separately from the U.S. at
    international surfing meets.?
     
17. What name did the athletic teams go by at Jack Nicklaus'
    high school?
     
18. Who was the first African-American to win the U.S. and world
    figure skating singles titles?
     
19. What U.S. track star did French writers dub La gazelle
    in 1960?
     
20. What racket sport involves bashing a bird?
     
21. How many of every ten pro athletes in the U.S. are African -
    American?
     
22. What sport features such plays as the flare, fly,
    buttonhook and post?
     
23. What Celtics announcer found he could hear much better
    after a doctor discovered a radio ear plug in his ear?
     
24. What team sport was 1995's fastest-growing sport in the U.S.,
    up 43 percent since 1994?
     
25. What nation's Black Magic I sailed away with a five-zero
    America's Cup win in 1995?
     
26. What team has the highest Stanley Cup playoff winning
    percentage?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 124 - General
Sports Trivia.

1. Squash.
2. The Ballpark.
3. Fish.
4. Uta Pippig.
5. Wayne Gretzky.
6. Hakeem Olajuwon.
7. Lawrence Taylor's.
8. Soccer.
9. Ken Griffey Jr.'s.
10. Five. 
11. The Screwball. 
12. Eight. 
13. Boxing. 
14. Hockey.
15. A cue.
16. Hawaii.
17. The Golden Bears.
18. Debi Thomas.
19. Wilma Rudoph.
20. Badminton. 
21. One.
22. Football. 
23. Johnny Most.
24. Roller Hockey.
25. New Zealand's
26. The Edmonton Oilers. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #123 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Tennis

Tennis trivia questions and answers.

1. Who beat Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 40 minutes to win a sixth
   Wimbledon singles title?
    
2. What did Goran Ivanisevic refrain from doing at Wimbledon in
   1994, to win a $2,000 bet?
    
3. What Nevada-born tennis star had a ball and racquet to stare
   at above his crib?
    
4. What gonzo tennis brothers threw autographed potatoes into the
   crowd at an Idaho match?
    
5. What's Billie Jean King's maiden name?
    
6. What tennis player's last name means "she who returns" in
   Czech?
    
7. What 19-year-old became the youngest man to win the U.S. Open
   tennis title, in 1990?
    
8. Who emerged from segregated Virginia courts to win the 1968
   U.S. Open tennis title?
    
9. What Grand Slam tennis tournament is held every January?
    
10. Who was the first Russian tennis player to win a Grand Slam
    singles title, in 1996?
     
11. What Dutchman became, in 1996, the first unseeded player
    since Boris Becker to win Wimbledon?
     
12. What two players won all the U.S. Open men's singles
    tennis titles from 1978 through 1984?
     
13. Who was the first American male to win three straight
    Wimbledon titles?
     
14. What tennis star won 129 of 130 matches during one stretch in
    the 1980s?
     
15. Who broke Martina Navratilova's record of 331 weeks at number
    one?
     
16. What tennis star says "Express yourself" in camera
    commercials?
     
17. What racketeer was the first female named Athlete of the
    year by Sports illustrated, in 1972?
     
18. What tennis star was born in Montréal, raised in Florida and
    played for France in the Federation Cup?
     
19. What 17-year old tennis phenomenon beat Kevin Curren to win
    his first Wimbledon title?
     
20. What U.S. tennis star's father boxed for the Iranian Olympic
    team?
     
21. What's the last Grand Slam tennis tournament played in a
    calendar year?
     
22. What's the common term for the tennis ailment "lateral
    humeral epicondylitis"?
     
23. What senior golfer explained his respite from cigarettes
    by quipping:" I could run nine holes, I just couldn't play them:?
     
24. How many tennis players are needed for a game of Canadian
    doubles?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 123 - Tennis Trivia.

1. Billie Jean King.
2. Throwing his racket.
3. Andre Agassi.
4. Luke and Murphy Jensen.
5. Moffitt.
6. Martina Navratilova's.
7. Pete Sampras.
8. Arthur Ashe.
9. The Australian Open.
10. Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
11. Richard Krajicek .
12. Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. 
13. Pete Sampras. 
14. Martina Navratilova.
15. Steffi Graf.
16. Andre Agassi.
17. Billie Jean King.
18. Mary Pierce.
19. Boris Becker.
20. Andre Agassi's. 
21. The U.S. Open. 
22. Tennis elbow.
23. Chi Chi Rodriguez. 
24. Three.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #122 - Trivia Quiz Questions About The Olympics

Olympics trivia questions and answers

1. How many of Carl Lewis' Olympic gold medals were won in long
   jump competitions?
    
2. What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for
   the only event in the earl years of the ancient Olympics?
    
3. What U.S. athlete was "about a week" pregnant when she broke
   the world 200-meter record at the 1984 Olympics?
    
4. What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at
   the 1968 Winter Olympics?
    
5. What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and
   the Winter Games?
    
6. What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against
   during the 1996 Olympics, according to an ESPN poll?
    
7. What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the
   first black man from South Africa to win a gold medal, in 1996?
    
8. What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S.
   woman to win Olympic gold, in 1900?
    
9. What future screen star was the first person to swim 100
   meters in under a minute, in 1922?
    
10. What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the
    play "Jeffery" in 1993?
     
11. What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give
    up during the 1996 Olympics?
     
12. What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and
    1976?
     
13. What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big
    Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
    The U.S.. 
14. What L.A. Laker star's height was listed as two meters in 1996
    Olympic programs?
     
15. What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a
    balance beam?
     
16. What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her
    fourth Olympic team in 1996?
     
17. What sport is played with stones and brooms?
     
18. What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event
    from 1900 to 1920?
     
19. What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the
    Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
     
20. How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter
    Olympics?
     
21. What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta's
    1996 Olympic festivities?
     
22. What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as "the pig"?
     
23. What event earned Norway's Johann Olay Koss three golds
    at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
     
24. What new women's team sport was played on sand at the 1996
    summer Olympics?
     
25. Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S.
    Winter Olympian ever?
     
26. What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold
    Medal celebration lap through the late night streets of Atlanta?
     
27. What decathlon champ was the first black student body
    president at UCLA?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 122 - Olympic Trivia.

1. Three.
2. Hercules.
3. Evelyn Ashford
4. Peggy Fleming.
5. Avery Brundage.
6. The Dream Team.
7. The Marathon.
8. Golf.
9. Johnny Weissmuller.
10. Greg Louganis. 
11. Sex. 
12. Insbruck. 
13. The U.S.. 
14. Sahquille O'Neals's.
15. Olga Korbut.
16. Mary Slaney.
17. Curling.
18. Tug of War.
19. Synchronized swimming
20. One
21. Muhammad Ali.
22. The pommel horse. 
23. Speed skating. 
24. Beach Volleyball.
25. Bonnie Blair. 
26. Her gold medal. 
27. Rafer Johnson

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #121 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Hockey

Free Hockey trivia questions with answers.

1. What infraction is a hockey referee calling if he clasps his
   writs?
    
2. Who scored a record 10 hat tricks in an NHL season?
    
3. What coach for St. Louis, Montreal, Buffalo, Pittsburgh 
   and Detroit has the NHL's highest career winning percentage?
    
4. What NHL team plays in an arena called The Pond?
    
5. Who won the only NHL MVP award not bagged by Wayne Gretzky in
   the 1980s?
    
6. Who was the first defenseman to win the NHL point-scoring
   title?
    
7. What city hosts the annual Beanpot Tournament for its
   collegiate hockey powerhouses?
    
8. Who became the first father and son to win the NHL's most
   valuable player award?
    
9. Who's the first player to captain two different NHL
   championship teams?
    
10. What hockey position player is most likely to wear a throat
    protector?
     
11. How many NHL franchises were there in California, by
    1995?
     
12. What song did the U.S. hockey team forget the words to
    while celebrating a win over the Soviets at the 1980 Olympics?
     
13. What NHL team emerges onto the ice from the giant jaws of a
    sea beast at home games?
     
14. What was Craig McTavish the last NHL player to play without?
     
15. What do hockey wags dub the "sin bin"?
     
16. What infraction is a hockey referee calling if he waves his
    hand below his knees?
     
17. Who's the only player to average over two assists per
    game in a single NHL season?
     
18. How many designated face-off spots are there on a hockey rink?
     
19. What NHL team hoisted 24 Stanley Cup flags before its first
    game in Molson Center?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 121 - Boxing Trivia.

1. Holding.
2. Wayne Gretzky.
3. Scotty Bowman.
4. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim?
5. Mario Lemieus.
6. Bobby Orr
7. Boston.
8. Bobby and Brett Hull.
9. Mark Messier.
10. A goalie. 
11. Three. 
12. God Bless America. 
13. The San Jose Sharks. 
14. A helmet.
15. The penalty box.
16. Tripping.
17. Wayne Gretzky.
18. Nine.
19. The Montreal Canadians.