Other Trivia

13

Disneyland in California, and Disney World in Florida, are both located in counties with the same name. What is it?

2

Some people called them adorable, others called them ugly. These children's play things took the country by storm in 1983. What were they?

19

Which fast-food chain lost more than $29 million after their hamburgers were linked to deadly bacterial outbreaks in 1993?

2

St. Valentine's Day originated as a festival clebrated by which of these groups: the Romans, the Greeks, or the Irish?

1

In August, 1995, in the second-largest takeover in U.S. business history, American Broadcasting Company was acquired by what major entertainment corporation?

12

In which body of water would you find the island group French Polynesia, and what is the principal island of that group?

11

What language, now extinct, was spoken by the Goths, the tribe that invaded the Roman Empire?

19

In 1973, which company produced the first successful computer arcade game, Pong?

9

MISCELLANEOUS One of the most famous hairstyle for women in the 1960's contained the name of an animal. What was it?

4

Every day worldwide, over 500 million people travel on very short rides, in what type of moving vehicle?

9

How many independent countries share a land border with France?

12

In 1775 the Spanish named this island in the San Francisco Bay Alcatraz, which meant what?

15

That little thing called a "bandage" or "band-aid" in American English is known by what seven-letter name in British English?

2

What sporting event is named for a fifth century B.C. military battle in which the Greeks defeated a much larger Persian army, and sent a messenger who collapsed and died upon delivering his message?

15

The first European visitor to this place was British Captain Cook, in 1778, and one of the interesting things he observed was people surfing over the waves on wooden boards. What place was this?