Trivia Quiz
05 April 2004
TEAM NAME
Rules:
1. No reference materials or assistance from anyone not on your team.
2. Ask the quizmaster if you need clarification on the questions. The visual clue sheet,
if needed, is attached after the last page.
3. Apparently, you need to drink more beer.
4. The Quiz Master is always right. Get over it.
1. What modern rock icon was found dead on this day in 1994, having committed suicide three days
earlier?
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2. April 5 seems to be a bad day for the rich and famous. What wealthy recluse died on this date in
1976 after decades of mysterious seclusion?
Answer:_____________________________________
3. Who reportedly surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the world’s wealthiest man?
Answer:_____________________________________
4. Bible Grove, Enough, Frankenstein, Humansville, Licking, Mexico, Nevada, Paris, Peculiar, Roach,
and Tightwad are all located in what State?
Answer:_____________________________________
5. Match the celebrity with his/her real name:
1._____
Lauren Bacall
a. Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
2.____
Kirk Douglas
b. John Elroy Sanford
3._____
Gerald R. Ford
c. Caryn Johnson
4._____
Red Foxx
d. William Board
5._____
Whoopi Goldberg
e. Michael Shalhoub
6._____
Hulk Hogan
f. Betty Joan Perske
7._____
Billy Idol
g. Terry Jean Bollette
8._____
Omar Sharif
h. Issur Danielovitch Demsky
6. What US President pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known as “Tokyo Rose” for her wartime
radio propaganda, in January 1977?
Answer:_____________________________________
7. What two teams are competing tonight for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship?
Answer:_____________________________________
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8. What team defeated Ohio State on March 27, 1939 to win the first NCAA Division I Men’s
Basketball Championship?
Answer:_____________________________________
9. Alistair Cooke died last week at age 95. He hosted the world’s longest running radio program,
BBC’s Letter From America, until a few weeks before his death. The weekly program was originally
planned for 13 weeks. How many weekly programs did he eventually host?
a) About 1500
b) About 2000
c) About 2500
d) About 3000
a) About 3500
10. On this date in 1955 Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister. Who replaced him?
Answer:_____________________________________
11. Tony Blair is the current Prime Minister. Who is the current Deputy Prime Minister?
Answer: ____________________________________
12. What famous couple were sentenced to death on this date in 1951 for conspiracy to commit
espionage?
Answer: ____________________________________
13. Name the conservative politician whose wife authored the historical romance “Sisters”, first
published 25 years ago. The racy subplots included lesbian romance, attempted rape and brothel
scenes.
Answer: _____________________________________
14. Which country does not observe Daylight Savings Time?
a) Canada
b) Greenland
c) Russia
d) Japan
15. Which state does not observe Daylight Savings Time?
a) Minnesota
b) Maine
c) Arizona
d) Hawaii
16. China has how many time zones?
Answer: _____________________________________
17. Obligatory Shakespeare question: “Beware the Ides of March” comes from what play?
a) Julius Caesar
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) Richard III
18. Today is Colin Powell’s birthday. In what year was he born?
Answer:_____________________________________
19. Which is the birthstone of April?
a) Aquamarine
b) Peridot
c) Diamond
d) Beryl
20. The phrase “April is the cruelest month” is contained in a poem by whom?
a) W.H Auden
b) e.e. cummings
c) T.S. Elliot
d) R.F. Delderfield
21. NH3 is the formula for what chemical?
Answer:_____________________________________
22. The Turks and Caicos Islands are an Overseas Territory of what nation?
Answer:_____________________________________
23. What is the internet country code for Cambodia?
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24. What rock star was born Patricia Andrzejewski?
Answer:_____________________________________
25. What nation won the Triple Crown in the recent RBS Six Nations Rugby Tournament?
Answer:_____________________________________
26. Now we have somebody to ridicule besides Rush. What is the name of the liberal radio network
launched last week?
Answer:_____________________________________
27. Which is the flower of April?
a) Ranuncula
b) Sweet Pea
c) Poppy
d) Primrose
28. The New Kwanza is the currency of what nation?
Answer:_____________________________________
29. What state contains the highest and lowest elevations in the continental United States?
Answer:_____________________________________
30. What time are tornadoes most likely to occur?
a) 3PM to 9PM
b) 4AM to 8AM
c) 11AM to 3PM
d) 8PM to midnight
31. With an average elevation of only 330 meters, what is the lowest continent in the world?
Answer:_____________________________________
32. Who is the latest movie star to be featured on a US postage stamp, as part of the USPS “Legends
of Hollywood” series?
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33. Major League Baseball opened its 2004 season last week in what city?
Answer:_____________________________________
34. Who was the first Negro League player to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Answer:_____________________________________
35. Tin foil was replaced by Aluminum foil in what year?
a) 1910
b) 1920
c) 1930
d) 1940
36. True or false: The bikini, created by two French designers in 1946, was named after the Bikini
Atoll in the Marshall Islands, home of the first Atomic Bomb testing??
Answer:_____________________________________
37. “Flemish” is the collective term for the Dutch dialects spoken in what country?
Answer:_____________________________________