Fibonaccio! May 2007

See April posts for information about this blog and for special offers from patrickspress.com about some trivia books as well as its new fall book Fibonaccio! The Trivia Game in Book Form: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 + 89.

KNOW YOUR DATES--MONTH, DAY, AND YEAR
21) U.S. and British attack to overthrow Saddam Hussein known as Operation Iraqi Freedom
Ans: March 19, 2003.
RESTAURANTS, EATERIES, ETC.
34) Ashley Wilkes's cousin and Charles and Melanie Hamilton's aunt living in Atlanta in Gone With the Wind for whom an Atlanta restaurant dating to 1967 is named
Ans: Miss Pittypat.
GAY IS EVERYWHERE
55) French chemist and physicist who formulated the law that all gases expand by equal amounts when subjected to increments in temperature
Ans: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac.
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
TB) Building in which apartments are owned by individuals and common parts of the property are owned jointly by the unit owners
Ans: Condominium.
DRAGONS
1) 2001 animated film in which a green-skinned ogre rescues the Princess Fiona from a castle guarded by a fire breathing dragon
Ans: Shrek.
WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?
1) Fur that a cat collects in its stomach as a result of its licking its coat
Ans: Hair ball.
GOT RELIGION?
2) Practice of the Roman Catholic Church through which a person admits his sins to a priest, asks forgiveness, and does penance
Ans: Confession.
GOOD, IN THE NAME IN THE ANSWER
3) First black on the U.S. Supreme Court
Ans: Thurgood Marshall.
BAD, IN THE ANSWER
5) Comedian and actor born David Adkins known for his role as coach Walter Oakes on TV's A Different World
Ans: Sinbad.
UGLY
8) Shakespeare play in which the 3 weird sisters, or witches, are described as "secret, black, and midnight hags"
Ans: Macbeth.
DAMN, IN THE U.S.
13) U.S. President who said, "Damn the law, I want the canal built!" insisting he had a "mandate from civilization" to start building the Panama Canal
Ans: Theodore Roosevelt.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUOTATIONS
21) General who in 1993 prior to considering a run for President said, "I've been a general all my life. I've never wanted to be anything else."
Ans: Colin Powell.
JUST NAKED
34) American author who in A Streetcar Named Desire wrote, "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a . . . vulgar action."
Ans: Tennessee Williams.
U.S. FIRST LADIES
55) "Duchess," as her husband called her, who was at his side when he died in San Francisco in 1923, leading some to hint she'd poisoned him
Ans: Florence Harding.
LION IN WAITING
TB) Subject of William Manchester's biography The Last Lion, the British leader who in 1954 said, "The nation . . . had the lion's heart. I had the luck . . . to give the roar."
Ans: Winston Churchill.
NOBEL PRIZES
1) Nationality of Alfred Nobel, the chemist who invented dynamite and originated the Nobel Prizes
Ans: Swedish.
GOOD NIGHT
1) TV sitcom om which anchorman Ted Baxter on WJM-TV signed off saying, "Good night and good news!"
Ans: The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
OOH-LA-LA!, AND BEGINNING WITH LA
2) Spanish region famous for its windmills named in the title of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote de _____
Ans: La Mancha.
S-E-X IN THE ANSWER
3) Full meaning of the slang initialism OSS as used in the film industry
Ans: Obligatory sex scene.
AMERICANA
5) Latin motto meaning "from many, one" or "out of many, one" featured on a scroll held in the beak of the national bird
Ans: E Pluribus Unum.
FULL NAMES FROM U.S. PRESIDENTIAL MONOGRAMS
8) DDE
Ans: Dwight David Eisenhower.
"WHITE" PEOPLE
13) Surname of Maurice Joseph _____, the actor better known as Michael Caine
Ans: Micklewhite.
JUST TV
21) 1964-1969 series based on Grace Metalious' 1956 novel about small New England town morals, covering problems from infidelity to murder
Ans: Peyton Place.
SONG-RELATED
34) American author who wrote the young adult novel Dogsong about a 14-year-old Eskimo, Russel Susskit
Ans: Gary Paulsen.
SHIPS
55) U.S. merchant ship seized in Cambodia's Gulf of Siam on May 11-12, 1975--its crew of 39 was freed on May 14 but 15 U.S. soldiers died in the rescue operation
Ans: U.S.S. Mayaguez.
TIGER IN THE ANSWER
TB) Flower having large reddish-orange petals with purplish-black spots
Ans: Tiger lily.
TITLES BEGINNING WITH "MY"
1) 1963-1966 TV sitcom starring Ray Walston as Uncle Martin, the Martian
Ans: My Favorite Martian.
STATE QUARTERS
1) Inscription "Jamestown 1607-2007" and 3 merchant ships sent by King James I
Ans: Virginia.
THE 9 PLANETS (consider Pluto as one of the 9)
2) One whose temperatures range from 845 degrees F on its surface facing the sun to
-300 degrees F on its nighttime side since it is nearest the sun
Ans: Mercury.
THE 9 PLANETS, BUT NOT EXACTLY
3) TV series starring Kristen Bell as a young woman who tries to solve difficult mysteries in the town of Neptune
Ans: Veronica Mars.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ONLYs
5) Only one to have graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy
Ans: Jimmy Carter.
THE PRESIDENTS, NOT NOT EXACTLY
8) Hale's Ford, Virginia-born educator who founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Ans: Booker T. Washington.
AYE, AYE, "CAPTAIN"
13) Surgeon nicknamed "Hawkeye" portrayed by Alan Alda on TV's M*A*S*H and by Donald Sutherland in the film version
Ans: Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce.
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
21) Number 92, named after the planet discovered in 1781
Ans: Uranium.
"DE," NOT DUH
34) South African president from 1989 to 1994 who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela
Ans: Frederik Willem de Klerk.