Stars, Stripes, and Smarts Trivia Quiz

Answer: Stars

First releasing as a breakfast cereal in North America in the mid-1960s, Lucky Charms consists of oat cereal and a number of colourful marshmallow bits designed to look like lucky items including hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers, blue moons, pots of gold, rainbows, and a red balloon. Alleged to be "magically delicious", the cereal brand has, since, released lists of magical powers that each marshmallow is purported to have (people who have the red balloon are said to be able to float, for example). Stars allow people to fly, according to General Mills. Maybe it's because the kids eating them are just consuming sugar for breakfast.

Answer: Stars

The quaint main setting for the WB/CW series "Gilmore Girls", Stars Hollow is the fictional Connecticut town that appears throughout all seven seasons of the show and its Netflix miniseries revival. In reality, the town's main locations were filmed in Burbank, California. Perhaps it's to the credit of the show's writers, however, that the place is steeped in history, developed over the course of the show, dating it back to the American Revolution. Over the course of the series, Lorelai (played by Lauren Graham) remains in Stars Hollow while Rory (played by Alexis Bledel) eventually graduates high school and travels between the town and her stint at Yale.

Answer: Stars

The twins of Gemini, Castor and Pollux are two of about eighty stars which make up the constellation for this Zodiac duo. The pair are nearly inseparable from one another in all of the myths and legends pertaining to them; the Greeks had them amongst the Argonauts as children of Leda (one of them having a mortal as their father and the other being the son of Zeus). The Romans, meanwhile, built a temple to them in the Forum, the ruins of which still remain today.

Pollux and Castor, respectively, are the brightest stars in Gemini, at least to the naked eye.

Answer: Stars

Part of the Raccoon City Police Department, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha and Bravo Teams are some of the first hapless groups to encounter the nightmares that emerge from the Spenser Mansion in the Arklay Mountains, and a good number of them remain the protagonists in the subsequent games in the "Resident Evil" series. Standing for Special Tactics and Rescue Service, people amongst its ranks included Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers, and others.

Their unique training allows them to up their skills for the challenges to come as the outbreak builds past the city limits.

Answer: Stars

Starting as a Western Conference NHL team in 1967, the Dallas Stars were originally brought into the league as the Minnesota North Stars, holding their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota before swapping over to Dallas in 1993. Since then, the Stars won their first Stanley Cup in 1999, managing to arrive in the finals a handful of times in their first decades. Famous Hall of Famers like Ed Belfour, Eric Lindros, and Brett Hull made Dallas their home for a time.

Answer: Stripes

A 1981 Ivan Reitman film starring both Bill Murray and Harold Ramis (a few years before "Ghostbusters"), "Stripes" was a comedy about a pair of friends who enlisted in the U.S. army, except instead of graphic and sordid violence, you had the slapstick stylings of early 1980s comedians. Also featuring early roles for John Candy and the cast of "SCTV", Bill Paxton, and John Larroquette, the movie was modestly successful at the box office (it was the fifth-highest grossing film of 1981) and was quite well-received critically.

Answer: Stripes

The traditional eight-ball rack of pool balls includes fifteen balls, and the game starts with them organized into a triangle with five balls at the base. For this, the first seven balls are solid colours, the eighth (the ol' 'eight ball') is black, and the remaining seven balls are striped.

A sixteenth ball, the white cue ball, is used to strike the other balls with the aim of getting them into the pockets of the pool table. There are a number of variant rules to the game, but often players going head-to-head try to strike one or the other-- stripes or solids.

Answer: Stripes

Members of the military in the United States (and some European nations) signify years of service through adornments that are attached to ceremonial uniforms, and these often boil down to the simple-in-concept service stripe. For U.S. Army, Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard members, a service stripe is added to the sleeve of the jacket, and each stripe is meant to indicate four years of continuous service within that division.

Other U.S. law enforcement agencies partake in similar traditions though with varying lengths of time.

Answer: Stripes

Surprisingly, while automobile racing contains a number of flag, most of them are solid colours to indicate, clearly, when a race has begun, when caution needs to be taken, when the race has to end early, etc. A rare alternative is the red-and-yellow striped flag which, when used, indicates that there is either debris or slippery material on a road course bearing attention for all drivers. Generally this flag doesn't appear all too often in modern racing.

Answer: Stripes

Stripes have long been a versatile pattern and in the world of art and design, it's not uncommon to see them recur across everything from fashion to architecture and even to scientific utility. Bengal and herringbone are just a couple variations. Bengal, for example, is a bolder stripe, usually of a single colour on white.

Herringbone, in cloth, is a pattern created by broken weaving; stitches create a repeated chevron pattern not unlike that of a fish skeleton. Other stripe patterns include tartan, argyle, madras, and gingham.