Random Trivia Questions

11

There are eight states with two-word capital cities. Can you name the three which begin with the letters B, C, & D?

2

Around the year 1851, three different inventors created a machine called the sewing machine. You should be able to name two of these people. One was Walter Hunt. Who were the other two - more well-known - people?

12

Why do children in southern Marin County have fewer cavities than children in northern Marin County?

8

Name the two most populous islands of Indonesia.

5

What animal disease, that spread through the European union in the late 1990's and early 2000's, cripples animals but does not harm humans?

10

Name the author of each of these works of literature which eventually went on to become films or stage shows: a. The Last of the Mohicans? b.the stage show Les Miserables? c. the play Glengary Glen Ross?

5

What "large" country, in 1920, was the world's first to legalize abortion?

21

In its basic form, this substance is a kind of soap, but when mixed with gasoline, it forms a deadly material used in flame throwers and incendiary bombs. What is it?

16

At the end of the cold war, many countries of eastern Europe abandoned rigid Communist Party rule. What was the last European country to do so?

19

The Sine of an angle is ....

3

On May 18, 1980, this mountain in the Pacific northwest erupted after being dormant for 123 years. Which mountain is it?

2

A high school senior said she knows all the seniors, half the juniors, 1/3 of the sophomores, and 1/4 of the freshmen. If each class has the same numbers of students, then she knows what fraction of the school?

18

Which American musician assembled the musicians who had played 50 years ago in Havana, and created the film, the "Buena Vista Social Club"?

18

What is the title of the 1953 play about the Salem Witch Trials, and who was the author?

16

Where is the human body do you find the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?