Other Trivia

8

In the final months of 1992, the first MacDonald's restaurant in Africa opened in an exotic city bordering the Atlantic Ocean - the largest city in its country. What city was it?

1

When students graduate from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, they can join the Navy as officers at which rank?

5

For thousands of years the Chinese have extolled the virtues of this herb. Recent experiments concur that it can generally rejuvenate and heal the body, and is even considered to be an aphrodisiac. What is it?

5

What is the Lone Ranger's cry to his horse?

2

A certain style of facial hair was named for a Major General in the American Civil War, who sported such a style. What's the name of this style, and what was the name of the General?

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?

19

For more than 40 years, the Empire State building was the tallest building in the world, until 1972, when "what" was built?

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?

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?