RHS '59ers October 2022 Trivia

 

1. Cartoonist Al Capp, creator of "Li'l Abner," also had a comic parody detective, "Fearless Fosdick," usually pictured with several bullet holes in his hat and himself. "Fearless Fosdick," also appeared in comic advertisements for what hair product originally manufactured in Buffalo, NY?

Wildroot Cream Oil

2. What oil company, founded in 1916 originally as a New York Corporation, but reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976, has a dinosaur on its logo?

 

Sinclair Oil Company

3. The first significant settlement by Europeans in West Jersey was made in 1678 by European settlers who arrived on the ship KENT in 1677 in Salem [NJ] and who canoed up the Delaware River to the Rancocas Creek then settling in Burlington and Rancocas. Why were they being persecuted in England?

Because they were Quakers  [Fall, 1677— The ship Kent arrives in Delaware with Quaker settlers fleeing oppression in England, disembarking in Salem and canoeing and walking up the Delaware River to the Rancocas Creek, and then to Burlington, New Jersey. ... the first important settlement in West Jersey was made in 1678, when two hundred and thirty people sailed up the Delaware and founded Burlington, and within two years several hundred more had made their homes in the vicinity.

4. Why don't maps depict the Islands of Langerhans?

Because they are found on the pancreas of vertebrates

5. Who or [what job did the person do] who is usually regarded as the creator of shorthand?

Tiro, a learned freedman in the household of Marcus Tullius Cicero

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RHS '59ers September 2022 Trivia

 

 

 

 

1. Why were there only 19 Days in September 1752 in England and the American colonies?

Converting from the Julian to Gregorian calendars

2. The region between 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees south of the equator is called what?

The Tropics

3. Who was Philip Mountbatten?

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark

4. An off-Broadway musical ran continuously for a record forty-two years until 2002 (17,1662 performances).  What was it?

The Fantasticks

5.Which women's tennis star has the most all-time Wimbledon singles titles?

Martina Navratilova

 

RHS '59ers August 2022 Trivia

 

1. Which European country is still formally a Grand Duchy?

Luxembourg

2. When did the Korean War officially end?

It hasn't yet.

3. Who was the first runner to officially run a "four minute mile"?

Roger Bannister

4. What is the capital of Australia?

Canberra

5. Who founded the American Red Cross?

Clara Barton

RHS '59ers July 2022 Trivia

 

1. The name "Korea" comes the name of which dynasty that ruled the Korean peninsula from 935-1392 CE?

 

Koryŏ  or Goryeo

2. Which empire did the Romanov dynasty rule?

 

Russian Empire

3. What Princeton-born, Rutgers-educated class valedictorian and two times consensus All American football player who also earned a law degree from Columbia University while playing in the NFL later became a famous singer and actor of the stage and film but was later denied a U.S. passport and blacklisted for a time due to his political activism?

 

Paul Robeson

4. On which continent were potatoes first domesticated and cultivated?

South America

5. What were the given names of the rock duo the Everly brothers?

 Don and Phil

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

 

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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