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Trivia of the World, Unite!

written by: shimonbentzvi

A series of trivia questions on a wide variety of topics. I hope you find them interesting.

Question 1:

This United States Army lieutenant general was in command of the American army at the beginning of the American Civil War. He developed the Union strategy popular as the Anaconda Plan, that would be used to defeat the Confederacy.

Robert E. Lee
Winfield Scott
U.S. Grant
Joseph Longstreet

Question 2:

This song, composed by George Harrison, one of the members of the Beatles, caused a plagiarism trial.

"Woman"
"Love Me Do"
"My Sweet Lord"
"Michelle"

Question 3:

The name of this company, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889, roughly translates as "leave luck to heaven".

Nokia
Subaru
Toshiba
Nintendo

Question 4:

It is generally accepted that this term, whose usage was reported by Newsweek in 1951, first appeared in Dr. Seuss's book "If I Ran the Zoo," where it names one of the comical, imaginary animals.

Bluetooth
Spam
Nerd
Yahoo

Question 5:

This country was formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta. On August 4, 1984, President Thomas Sankara gave it a new name which means "the land of upright people".

Djibouti
Burkina Faso
Kyrgyzstan
Burundi

Question 6:

This small agricultural town, whose motto is "solidarity in work," is located in Quebec, Canada, near the St. Lawrence River.

Cape Circumcision
Broken Back Springs
Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!
Readymoney Cove

Question 7:

Chuck Berry recorded this song in 1972 and used to call it "My Alma Mater". Mary Whitehouse, a British morality campaigner, made an unsuccessful attempt to get the song banned.

Maybelline
Johnny B. Goode
My Ding-a-Ling
Roll Over Beethoven

Question 8:

This ABC TV series showed the events in an American History class at the fictional Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles.

Gloria
704 Hauser
Maude
Room 222

Question 9:

This popular African-American group was founded in 1954. Its original members -- O'Kelly, Rudolph, Ronald and Vernon were from Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Who
The Allman Brothers
The Walers
The Isley Brothers

Question 10:

This scale is used to measure the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado, when passing over man-made structures.

Scoville
Mercalli
Fujita
Hamilton

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