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Advanced General Trivia Quiz #2
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shimonbentzvi
A terribly difficult general quiz. It is really, really difficult!
Question 1:
Who was the first professional athlete in baseball history to hit a home run and score a touchdown in the same week?
Bo Jackson
Deion Sanders
Mel Hubbard
Jim Thorpe
Question 2:
Which company did Clarence Saunders found in 1916?
Domino's Pizza
The Piggly Wiggly
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Burger King
Question 3:
In which category did Krishna Bhanji win an Academy Award in 1982?
Video Engineering
Best Director of a Foreign Film
Sound Direction
Best Actor
Question 4:
In this movie Robert De Niro plays a timid and artistic NYC police detective. Bill Murray plays the criminal boss and Uma Thurman is a call girl De Niro's character falls for.
Paths to Glory
Mad Dog and Glory
A Police Story
Turner and Hooch
Question 5:
Name the only player who has worn the uniforms of all these baseball teams: the New York Giants, The Brooklyn Dodgers, The New York Yankees, and the New York Mets.
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Question 6:
In Major League Baseball, who was the first pitcher to win 200 games in his career?
Babe Ruth
Walter Johnson
Cy Young
A.G.Spaulding
Question 7:
1919 saw the first general, city-wide strike in the USA. It involved about 35,000 workers. In which city did this strike occur?
Memphis, Tennessee
Chicago, Illinois
Seattle, Washington
New York, N.Y.
Question 8:
We all have learned that you can tell the age of a tree by the number of rings. Who was the first to discover this fact?
Aristotle
Leonardo Da Vinci
Charles Darwin
Luther Burbank
Question 9:
Erle Stanley Gardner created the great fictional lawyer Perry Mason. On which TV show did the lawyer Perry Mason practice law?
The Brady Bunch
The Jetsons
The Flintstones
The Stanley Show
Question 10:
In Hindu thought, how was Krishna killed?
By a knife into his heart
By poisoning by Shiva
By an arrow into his heel
By the abominations of mankind
Question 11:
Which U.S. writer of detective fiction worked for the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency?
Dashiell Hammett
Louis L'Amour
Mickey Spillane
Mary Higgins Clark
Question 12:
Which is the Sanskrit word for “union?”
shiva
sri
krishna
yoga
Question 13:
This now rarely used product for making duplicate copies was invented in 1806 by Pellegrino Turri.
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Question 14:
The poor man! He was diagnosed a bilateeral perobital hematoma. What does he have?
Two hernias
A tumor in the center of the brain
Two black eye
Halitosis
Question 15:
Select the incorrect statement.
William Wist got one electoral vote in the 1832 US Presidential Election.
The first living animal ejected from a supersonic jet was a bear.
In a survey, participants in the 1960 Olympics were asked if they were breast fed.
Pumpkin flowers are poisonous.
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