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Trivia Quiz #8
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1.  What is the only US state that grows coffee?

2.  What do the words: month, orange, silver, and purple have in common?

3.  What is the largest body of fresh water in the world?

4.  Who was once arrested for brandishing a shotgun in his office building
while demanding to know who had used his private toilet?

5.  What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?

6.  Who is listed in 'The Guiness Book of Records' as holding the record for mass murders?
He was responsible for at least 40 million deaths and perhaps 80 million more between 1949 and 1971.
He believed that the more women he slept with, the longer he would live.
He sometimes had three, four or five bed partners at one time.
His teeth turned green because he refused to brush them.
He preferred rinsing his mouth with tea and then chewing the tea leaves.
 

7.  What phrase is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your
wife with anything wider than your thumb?

8.  What were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum?
They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.

9.  Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly how many feathers?
 
 

10.  What do "Rhythm" and "syzygy" have in common?

12.  Canada is an Indian word meaning what?

13.  Wild Bill Hickok was killed playing poker, what cards was he holding?

14.  What is the correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," ?

15.  What is made from the root of the blue agave cactus?

16.  What do Elephants, Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros have in common?

17.  Who couldn't speak fluently when he was nine, so his parents thought he might be retarded?
In 1898, he applied for admission to the Munich Technical Institute,
but was turned down on the grounds that he "showed no promise" as a student.
He was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.

18.  The first kind is a sighting, the second kind is physical evidence and the third
kind is physical contact what are they?

 
 

19.  REINDEER do not belong to the DEER species, but belong to what family? 

20.  According to both FRENCH and PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH tradition, who is BELLS NICHOLS ?

 
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