Popular Trivia Questions

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Name the U.S. President whose encouragement of business speculation lead the stock market from boom to bust in 1929?

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Which two people signed the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, and later became U.S. Presidents?

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Actress and political activist Jane Fonda said, "It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was thoughtless." What 1972 event was she aplogizing for?

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What product uses the advertising slogan 'The Breakfast of Champions'?

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Carol Channing won the Tony award as Best Actress for her role in one of Broadway's longest running shows. What was the title?

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This Academy-award winning actor played the 1980 film role of a boxer. Name the actor, the athlete, and the film title.

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Paul Newman won his only Best Actor Oscar for his role in which 1986 film somehow related to a sport?

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Can you name the author and main character of the popular 1950s novel about a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school, The Catcher in the Rye ?

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This television personality, born in 1957 in South Carolina, has a photographic memory, and was champion speller in her high school, which comes in handy in her TV role. Who is she?

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Who was the first black manager of a Major League baseball team?

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This question, according to its grouping or parentheses, can have different answers. What is the largest possible answer to the problem: "What is half of ten plus two times six."

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Which British novelist experienced a great deal of success in 1933 and 1934, when he wrote the books Lost Horizon, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ?

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Since it became a city in 1991, this southern California city of 11,000 population has been victim of floods, mudslides, earthquake, and wildfires. What city is it?

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Which author first wrote, "Parting is such sweet sorrow"?

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Four of the children of which composer of classical music also became noted musicians?