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Trivia Quiz # 14 - 28 November 2002

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Trivia Quiz # 14 - 28 November 2002
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 1.  What is the most populated city in the world?Shangai in China

 2.  What last appeared on TV December 31, 1970 ?a cigarette commercial

 3.  What were the first words spoken on the first film sound track?You ain't heard nothin yet, folks

 4.  What word begins thirteen Beatles song titles?I

 5.  What's the dumbest domesticated animal?Turkey

6.  Nov 28 2002 - What did Canada buy 10,000,000 of today?Smallpox vaccine to counter an anticipated terrorist attack

7.  Ancient religious wisdom: Nov 24 1326 - The gay lover of King Edward II, Hugh le Despenser the Younger, is hanged after his penis and testicles are burned in front of him --
Why did the church do this to him ?
because he was a heretic and a sodomite
 

 8.  Modern religious wisdom - November 2002 - The Miss World Beauty Pageant objected to the public stoning to death of a teenage girl in the host islamic country of Nigeria. Why was this teenage girl condemned to death?
for having a baby out of wedlock.
 

 9.  More Modern religious wisdom - November 2002 The Miss World Beauty Pageant is moved from islamic Nigeria to London after riots and deaths in the streets, muslims hunting and killing non-muslims and burning down non-muslims houses; what caused these riots?
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 10.  Name the only state in the United States where a foreign flag
has never flown.
Idaho
 
 
 

 11.  What ancient Greek slave wrote fables?Aesop
 
 12.  The act of providing selfless service to others is what?Altruism
 
13.  Nov 25 1987 - Secretarial bimbo Fawn Hall, removes documents from sealed National Security Council offices inside the White House by hiding them inside her skirt. -- Whos assistant was she?
Oliver North's assistant

14.  In Chester, England, what you can only legally shoot with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
a Welsh person
 
15. In what song is this lyric "City girls just seem to find out early" ?Lyin' Eyes -- Eagles

16.  What was the first video to premire on MTV on August 1, 1981? It was also the millionth video to air on MTV aired on MTV February 27, 2000. It's also the 3rd most aired video in MTV history.
the Buggles 'Video Killed the Radio Star'

17.  What is most aired video in MTV history?Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' is #1.

18.  If the "black boxes" used on aircraft to record cockpit conversation and flight data are so indestructible, why can't they make the whole airplane out of the same material?
a plane built to black box standards would be to heavy  
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_001.html

19. What can travel 100,000 miles per second, carry 100 million volts of electricity and reach a temperature of 55,000 degrees F. Five times hotter than the surface of the sun?
A bolt of lightning
 

20.  In astronomy, what is a nova?Brilliant star explosion
 

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-tie breaker - What nickname was given to the Model T Ford?Tin Lizzy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

9.  More Modern religious wisdom - November 2002 The Miss World Beauty Pageant is moved from islamic Nigeria to London after riots and deaths in the streets, muslims hunting and killing non-muslims and burning down non-muslims houses; what caused these riots?

 an author (Isioma Daniel) wrote that if the prophet mohamed was alive he might want one of the beauty queens as a wife. ((the author had to flee the country because the islamic government placed a fatwa (death sentence) on her)) read more about this story at http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/11/25/3de1a08e37d1c

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