Hodge Podge 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nicole Kidman

Tom Cruise first married actress Mimi Rogers in 1987 and they divorced in 1990. Actress Nicole Kidman was his second wife; they were married for eleven years. Katie Holmes was married to Cruise from 2006 to 2012.

Answer: Kindergarten

Kindergarten comes from the German language. Kinder means "children" and garten means "garden. Now when you pronounce the name of the grade that typically five year olds begin school, it can sound like "kinder - garden".

Answer: Cruise

Many cars come with cruise control. It's a feature that allows the driver to set a certain speed and the vehicle will maintain that steady speed without having to hold down the gas pedal.

Some prefer not to drive themselves on vacation but go for a luxury cruise. On a giant ship, you are taken to different ports for excursions or enjoy the cruise amenities like all-you-can-eat buffets, giant pools, and music entertainment.

Answer: It's an independent district

The White House's address is 1600 Pennsylvania Blvd in Washington D.C. It is not part of any U.S. state so it doesn't belong to any state's county. The District of Columbia is an independent federal district.

Answer: Scott Glenn

The 1983 film, "The Right Stuff", told the story of the seven military pilots who were chosen for the Project Mercury space mission. The film had an all-star cast including Scott Glenn as Alan Sheppard, the first American to travel into space. Other major initial astronauts and their acting counterparts in the film included Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard), John Glenn (Ed Harris), Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), and Gus Grissom (Fred Ward).

Answer: Elton John

Neil Sedaka was a popular singer in the late 1950s and early 1960s but his career waned for over an decade. Elton John signed Neil Sedaka to his Rocket Record Label in 1974 and they released the album, "Sedaka's Back". Sales of the record boomed after the release of the song "Bad Blood" written by Neil but featuring back up vocals by Elton.

Other singles on the release were "Laughter In The Rain" and "Love Will Keep Us Together".

Answer: Mexico

US patent 2296019 was awarded on September 15, 1942, for a "chromscopic adapter for television equipment", a fancy name for the first color television system, to Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena. He was a Mexican engineer and made his monumental discovery at the age of 23.

While others have played a role in color television advances, Camarena's allowed black and white televisions to be adapted to be retrofitted with the new technology. Sadly, Camarena passed away at the age of 48 in Mexico.

Answer: Charlotte Bobcats

In 2004, the Charlotte Bobcats became the 30th team in the National Basketball Association. They became a team after the Charlotte Hornets moved from North Carolina to New Orleans in 2002 and this left a vacancy in Charlotte. In a twist of fate, the Charlotte Bobcats took back the name of the Charlotte Hornets in 2014, ten years after their expansion team began.

In 2026, the NBA awarded the cities of Seattle and Las Vegas future franchise rights.

Answer: The Boys

"The Boys" premiered in 2019 on Amazon Prime. The series was based on a comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The graphic television show ran for five seasons and featured super heroes known as "supes" who were not the good guys to save the world but actually narcissistic, evil, or used their powers to harm others.

The lead character was a Superman prototype named Homelander. A-Train was a character with lightning speed. Butcher and Starlight also had super human powers but worked to stop the "supes" from taking advantage of their evil plans.

Answer: Barbados

Barbados has fully accepted the title of the "Land of Flying Fish" by incorporating the image on their tourism advertisements and placing the logo on their one-dollar coin. The Caribbean Island's national meal is called Cou-Cou and Flying Fish. While the flying fish don't actually fly, they are able to leap out of the water like a torpedo and spread their large fins and glide over the waves up to 40 meters high (43.7 yards).