ABChain Gang - C Trivia Quiz

Answer: Colleen Corby

Born in 1947 in Pennsylvania, Colleen Corby was a famous model in the 1960s and 1970s. She was "Seventeen" magazine's most popular model ever and she also appeared in "Glamour", "Mademoiselle" and in store catalogs for Sears and JCPenney.

Colleen Dewhurst is Canadian actress, Colleen McCullough is an Australian author and Colleen Atwood is a costume designer.

~AnneBonney

Answer: A cipher replaces letters; a code replaces a whole word.

A code replaces a word or a phrase with a word, number or symbol. Secret agents, for example, sometimes have code names to conceal their identities. Tricycle was an agent in World War II, for example. Operation Overlord was the code name for the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944. It referred to an entire operation containing hundreds of different actions. On the other hand, the Enigma machine was a German cipher machine which mechanically replaced letters in plain text with other letters in cipher text. This cipher was decrypted by the allies at a place called Bletchley in southern England. The code breakers (more correctly they were cipher breakers) included people who were crossword puzzle aficionados as well as mathematicians. Some may well have been trivia addicts.

~Magicpete

Answer: Cilantro

Coriander is the plant in which we get both cilantro and coriander seeds. Cilantro is sometimes also called coriander leaves. Coriander usually means the lemony seeds, as opposed to the entire plant itself, when cooking.

~brodiggty66

Answer: A multiple candlestick holder.

A candelabrum (plural candelabra) is a candlestick holder with multiple arms attached to a single pedestal. An example of a candelabrum is the Jewish Menorah.
The cake originating from the town of Eccles is actually called; wait for it, an Eccles cake! This cake is a small round butter pastry filled with currants and topped with sugar.
A laborer who works in a candle factory would be a candlemaker, and the a zebra-horse hybrid is actually called a zorse.

-crazycube

Answer: Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola (caramel-colored from the start) made its first appearance in Atlanta, Georgia, when its creator, Dr. John Stith Pemberton, introduced it to Jacobs' Pharmacy. The scripted name "Coca-Cola" was the brainchild of bookkeeper Frank Robinson. The new, carbonated soft drink enjoyed a modest success in its early years at the soda fountain, selling about nine glasses a day at a nickel a pop. Once it was acquired by Asa Griggs Candler in 1888, Coca-Cola really began to take off; now, about 1.4 billion Cokes are purchased each day. The "green Coke" rumor, though entirely untrue, may have been started because of the green contour bottle Coke was once packaged in.

~darthrevan89

Answer: Cortex

The first "Crash" game, called simply "Crash Bandicoot", was introduced in 1996. "Crash" games were made by Naughty Dog from 1996-9. Crash Bandicoot is the main protagonist in the game series, and, for most games, his enemy is the evil Dr. Neo Cortex. Cortex originally created Crash, and now wants to destroy him and his sister, Coco. Crunch was made in hopes to defeat Crash and Coco, but Crunch, too, another bandicoot, also turned to the good side.

~salami_swami

Answer: Dodge County, Minnesota

The Cedar River starts in Minnesota and joins the Iowa River in Columbus Junction, Iowa.

In 2008, the Cedar River suffered major flooding, causing millions of dollars of damage. Heavy flooding was reported in Waterloo, Iowa and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Interstates 380 and 80 were closed due to the flooding.

Source: Wikipedia

~Qmel

Answer: Chromium

Chromium oxide (Cr2O3) is used to make green pigments. Chromia, the pigment, was once called viridian. Cobalt is used to make blue pigments. Carbon is used for black pigments. Cadmium produces a range of pigments from yellow to red. Pigments are then added to various mediums from acrylic to egg yolk (for tempera) to produce paints. They are also added to a variety of other products to produce coloring.

The dingy "institutional green" hallways you may have encountered no doubt derived their color from Chromium!

~simontheodore

Answer: King Arthur

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are associated with Camelot, the mythical castle and court. It first appeared in French romances in the 12th century. Its exact location was never told, only that it was somewhere in Britain. The stories describe the city as standing along a river, surrounded by forests and plains. It contained a great cathedral, named St. Stephen's. That was where Arthur and Guinevere were married and where Arthur's Knights of the Round Table held council.

~Rawhide13

Answer: Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, educator and author, who was well known for his superb skills in popularizing scientific topics, thus reaching and fascinating millions of people worldwide. "Cosmos" was the best-selling science book ever published in English, and the PBS-series of the same name became one of the most watched series in public television history.

Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist and best known for his book "A Brief History of Time".

Erich von Däniken is a Swiss author well known for his theories concerning extraterrestrial influences on human cultural development.

Johannes von Buttlar is a German author best known for books about astrophysics and gerontology, but also for esoteric themes like UFOs and the Knights Templar.

~Genoveva