RHS '59ers June 2022 Trivia

 

1. Who is the U.S. Women's Soccer Team's all-time leading goal scorer?

Abby Wambach  (184 goals)

2. Who played Buster Moon in the animated films "Sing" & "Sing 2" and where was he born?

Matthew McConaughey, Uvalde, Tx.

3. The Incas created an Andean Empire, the largest in the pre-Columbian Americas, with over 40,000 km of roads and more than 10,000,000 people. They kept detailed records of censuses, taxes, goods, etc., using a system of knotted strings! What were these called?

khipus

4. Who wrote the 1930 detective novel "The Maltese Falcon," originally serialized in the "Black Mask" magazine, that became the basis for the Bogart, Greenstreet, Lorre screen gem?

Dashiell Hammett

5. Which U.S. President was known for his fondness of jelly beans made by the Jelly Belly Company?

Ronald Reagan

RHS '59ers May 2022 Trivia

 

1. What were the names of the three Pep Boys?

 

Manny, Moe and Jack

2. Traditionally who were the three wise men who followed the Christmas star?

 

Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar

3. Who were that "old team: of Republicans that FDR made fun of in a famous speech?

 

Martin, Barton, and Fish

4. "Baseball's Sad Lexicon"  was a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop, second baseman, and first baseman completing yet another a double play. Who were the three players immortalized in the poem?

 

Tinkers to Evers to Chance

5. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" a 1949 Technicolor musical film produced in the Arthur Freed unit of MGM, starred Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly,  and Jules Munshin as a great baseball double play combo [inspired by the 1910 poem] was directed by Busby Berkeley. Who were the double play makers whose merits were sung in the picture?

 

Ryan, O'Brien, and Goldberg

 

RHS April 2022 Trivia

 

[click on the answers for more information]

 

1. What U.S. submarine sank in WWII after being hit by its own runaway torpedo? [Hint: It shares a name with a space-age beverage]

 

USS Tang

2. Prior to the authorization and construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway Network, the largest road system in the Americas (40,000 km / 25,000 miles) was built where and by which people?

 

 South America  The Inca

3. Who was the "ghost-singer" whose singing voice was dubbed in many films for Margaret O'Brien, Jeanne Crain, Marilyn Monroe [high notes in "Some Like it Hot"], Ida Lupino, Debra Kerr ["The King and I"], Natalie Wood ["West Side Story"], Audrey Hepburn ["My Fair Lady"],and more?

 

Marni Nixon

4. Are all parakeets budgies? 

No, but all budgies are parakeets. Budgie is one species of parakeet.

5. The professional baseball franchise that became the Philadelphia Phillies was awarded in 1883. What was the original name of this team when it came to Philadelphia?

 

Philadelphia Quakers

RHS March 2022 Trivia

 

March Madness--Basketball, Oscars, and MLB

1. Which team was the last men's college basketball finish the season undefeated and win the NCAA tournament?

The 1975-76 Indiana University Hoosiers under coach Bobby Knight finished 32-0 (18-0 in Big 10), winning every game.

2. Women's college basketball had nine teams that finished the season undefeated and went on to win their NCAA Championship, but only one school won six of those nine tournaments. Which school was it?

The University of Connecticut Huskies [2015-16; 2013-14; 2009-10, 2008-9; 2001-2, 1994-95]. Three other schools did it once: University of Texas Longhorns, 1985-6; University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers, 1997-8; and Baylor University Bears, 2011-12]

3. Which actor won the most Academy Awards [Oscars]?

Katharine Hepburn, four, followed by Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep with three eack.

4. Who won the most Academy Awards all time over any category?

Walt Disney: 26 Oscars out of 59 nominations

5. Which major league baseball player holds the record for the most consecutive games played and whose record did he break?

Cal Ripken, jr., 2,632 straight; Lou Gehrig, 2,130. Gehrig's record stood for 56 years!

RHS February 2022 Trivia

 1. What poem begins:

Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death 

 Rode the six hundred. ?  Who wrote it?

 

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

 

2. Which British Prime Minister foolishly stated:

 

""My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time..."

Neville Chamberlain

3.  Who has the record for winning the most money on Jeopardy all time?

Ken Jennings with a total of $3,370,70.00

4. Where does one find the Islets of Langerhans?

In one's own body

5. Who wrote the Gothic horror story Dracula? What was this author's country of birth?

Bram Stoker 

Born:November 8, 1847, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland

RHS January 2022 Trivia

1. What is the oldest known city in all of the Americas [and one of the very oldest in the world, older than the earliest pyramid in Egypt]? 

 Caral-Supe 

2. Who perfected the first commercially viable cathode-ray tube? Then made and sold the first commercially available television sets? And then also created the first television network? 

Alan B. Dumont 

3. What is the most widely produced [in greatest quantity] food staple in the world?  

Corn [Zea mays / maize] 

4. Who was the oldest ever active NFL football player?  

 George Blanda 

5. Currently, who is the all-time "Jeopardy" money-winner?

 Ken Jennings

RHS December 2021 Trivia

 

1. The original shop of a 300+ fast food chain , based originally on a five cent hot dog and

still featuring hot dogs today was opened at the corner of Surf and Stillwell in Coney Island,

NY, in 1916. What is its iconic name?

Nathan's Famous -- my dad used to deliver fountain syrups to Nathan's in Coney Island by horse and wagon from Brooklyn from my grandfather's syrup business.

2. Another iconic fast food joint, one of the first drive-ins, first set up in Lodi, California, in 1919

with its special, home-made root beer sold in a frosty mug and delivered to your car by a carhop.

What was it called?

A&W Root Beer named for Roy Allen and Frank Wright -- first franchised restaurant chain

3. Mistletoe, a parasitic plant with evergreen foliage and berries has long been associated with

romance [fertility] and Christmas decorations, was first recorded in literature as a "danger" to

housemaids in 1820 by author Washington Irving known for which well-known scary tale of

American folklore?

"The Headless Horseman"

4. Name the four singing and dancing stars of the Christmas movie "White Christmas."

Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye, and Bing Crosby

5. Traditionally, what was a Yule log?

A large log intended to burn for the 12 days of Christmas starting on the Winter Solstice.