Category: Trivia
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Trivia: April Fools in Scotland
Question: In Scotland, April Fools is a two-day event. When and what are the names of each day? Answer: April 1 is Hunt-the-Gowk (“cuckoo”) Day and April 2 is Taily Day. The first day, people play pranks and tell lies to catch others in embarrassment. On the second day, people tack paper tails on […]
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Trivia: What’s the Oldest Sandhill Crane on Record?
Question: How old was the oldest Sandhill Crane on record? Answer: At least 36 years old. According to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, it was originally banded in Wyoming in 1973 and was found in New Mexico in 2010.
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Question: Who edited Michael Jackson’s 1988 autobiography Moonwalk? Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Sturgeon Bay Breakfast Rotary Club Announces Trivia Night
The Sturgeon Bay Breakfast Rotary Club presents the 13th annual Trivia Night on March 19 at the Jaycee Clubhouse in Sturgeon Bay. Teams of up to eight people will compete in 10 categories (100 questions). Registration is at 6:30 pm and trivia will be from 7 to 10 pm. There will also be door prizes […]
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Q: What are the original seven wonders of the world, as declared by the ancient Greeks? A: The Colossus of Rhodes; The Great Pyramid of Giza; The Hanging Gardens of Babylon; The Lighthouse of Alexandria; The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; The Statue of Zeus at Olympia; and The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
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Q: At what speed does the average snowflake fall? A: 3 mph
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Q: What were the year, location and competing teams of the first ever AFL-NFL World Championship? A: 1967. Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Q: Who was Captain Morgan? A: A Welsh pirate and, later, the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
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Who penned Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue?” Children’s author Shel Silverstein
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Question: How many human body parts are only three letters long, and what are they? Answer: 10. Eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip and gum.
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This week’s question: According to the United States Postal Service, what are the five most common street names in the country? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: What was the first American brewery to sell beer in cans? Answer: G. Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, New Jersey in 1935.
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This week’s question: What was the first American brewery to sell beer in cans? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: What classic holiday movie was the inspiration for Santa’s workshop and the elf uniforms in the 2003 Christmas movie Elf, starring Will Ferrell? Answer: The original Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
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This week’s question: What classic holiday movie was the inspiration for Santa’s workshop and the elf uniforms in the 2003 Christmas movie Elf, starring Will Ferrell? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: On average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow? Answer: 10
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This week’s question: On average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: What was Frank Sinatra’s cocktail of choice? Answer: A mix of four ice cubes, two fingers of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, and a splash of water, what he referred to […]
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This week’s question: What was Frank Sinatra’s cocktail of choice? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: How tall was the largest recorded snowman ever built? Answer: 122’ 1” built in Bethel, Maine in 2008
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This week’s question: How tall was the largest recorded snowman ever built? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: What are auroras in the southern hemisphere called? Answer: Aurora australis
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This week’s question: What are auroras in the southern hemisphere called? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: Brett Favre will be the sixth Packer to have his number retired at Lambeau Field. Who are the other five? Answer: Tony Canadeo, Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke and Reggie White.
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This week’s question: Brett Favre will be the sixth Packer to have his number retired at Lambeau Field. Who are the other five? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: If it were up to Ben Franklin, what would America’s national bird be? Answer: The turkey. According to CNN.com, in a letter […]
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Trivia: What Did Ben Franklin Want the National Bird to Be?
This week’s question: If it were up to Ben Franklin, what would America’s national bird be? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: What is a Norzwich and where do you get one? Answer: A sandwich from the Fish Creek Market, formerly the Fish Creek General Store owned by Ann and Geri Norz.
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This week’s question: What is a Norzwich and where do you get one? Answer: In next week’s issue. Last week’s question: Approximately how many stop-motion moves had to be made per one second of film in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas? Answer: 12. It took a group of about 100 people three years to […]