General Knowledge for Experts Trivia

1. Which three letter word was named, by the American Dialect Society, America's most useful word in 1996?

From Quiz Ten Completely Random Questions About All Sorts

Answer: Dot

Determined by a vote of independent linguists, the choice of the word dot reflected the increasing popularity of the internet in the late 1990s and its use when verbalising URLs and email addresses.

From Quiz World of Facts No. 1

Answer: 4.6 billion years old

Our sun is a middle-aged star, halfway through its expected lifespan of nine billion years. At the end of its life, its hydrogen supply will run out and it will collapse with no energy pushing out. It will then form a white dwarf, creating a nebula where future stars are made.

From Quiz How Updated Are You?

Answer: Madrid

The Reina Sofia is a must-see on the list of Museums in Spain. It was inaugurated in 1992 by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia and houses works of art by Dali, Velazquez and Picasso.

From Quiz Random Information

Answer: Pearl Prynne

Pearl was the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale was the town's minister and he hid his connection to Pearl until the end of the novel. Chillingworth was Hester's former husband and tried to make Dimmesdale confess his adultery with Hester.

From Quiz Variety Bag

Answer: Greece

Both the first match and the last match of the tournament were between Portugal and Greece, and in both cases, Greece won. It was the first time Greece had ever won a major football tournament.

From Quiz A Test of Knowledge!

Answer: Bern

Bonn is a city in Germany, Geneva is in Switzerland but not the capital. Geneva is also where Calvinism started. Vienna is the capital of Austria.

From Quiz This Could Be Quite Easy

Answer: rugby

The name is a nickname for Twickenham Rugby Ground. The site, which was a market garden, was bought by Billy Williams in 1907.

From Quiz Useless Trivia Indeed 2

Answer: California

Tom Hanks was born in Concord, California on July 9, 1956.

From Quiz Useless Trivia in Ten Categories II

Answer: The title's play on words includes a mispronunciation.

The name 'Moog' is pronounced 'mo-gue'(rhymes with Vogue), not 'moooo-g.' The title assumes the pronunciation of 'moooo-g,' so it is incorrect.

From Quiz Compendium of Questions, Part 2

Answer: Dahomey

Benin was a former member of the French West Africa (collective name of former French colonies encompassing present-day Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal). When the country gained its independence in 1960, it retained "Dahomey" as its name. It wasn't until 1975 when the country adopted the name "Benin."

From Quiz Aivirt Pu Dexim

Answer: B

Originally I thought it was C but I learned from my Transitions class that it is B. B is used 40% of the time, C 30%, A 20% and D 10%.

From Quiz How Much Do You Know?

Answer: Leave it to Beaver

In 1957, 'Leave It To Beaver' was the first show that a toilet was ever seen on television. It spawned some very angry letters from mothers who thought that it was vulgar to show it on TV.

From Quiz Trivia Stew No. 3

Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace

In the same way that Darwin went to the Galapagos Islands to develop his theory, Wallace (1823-1913) travelled to the Malay Archipelago where, in 1858 he came to the realisation that some individuals from each species survive because they have adapted better to their environment. ("Survival of the fittest".) Darwin's theory had been written out in manuscript form in 1844, but never published. He was nervous about public reaction and originally intended to have his work published posthumously. Darwin then received something of a rude shock when he received from Wallace a paper entitled "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" which mirrored Darwin's earlier manuscript.

From Quiz Random Trivia 3

Answer: Florida Marlins

The Florida Marlins won the 2003 world series agains the New York Yankees. The Angels won the series in 2002 and the Diamondbacks won it in 2001.

From Quiz Knowledge Master #2

Answer: Agnew & Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew was Vice-President under Richard Nixon when he resigned. After Agnew's resignation, Gerald Ford was appointed to Vice-President. Ford later became the only President and Vice-President never elected after Nixon resigned.

From Quiz Nothing Is Hard 32

Answer: 1198

Innocent III was a great medieval pope. He was born in or near Agnani, Italy. His real name was Lothar of Segni. He died in 1216.

From Quiz Trivia Extreme 4

Answer: Curtis Hanson & Hanson

Curtis Hanson was born March 24, 1945, in Reno, Nevada, USA. He also directed 'The Bedroom Window', 'Sweet Kill', '8 Mile', among many others. He was named the first chairman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

From Quiz Generalia I

Answer: 8848 metres

That's right, Mt Everest is 29,028 feet high. That's quite a way up. As an aside, did you know Mt Everest had no native name? It seems that the Sherpas were surrounded by so many huge mountains that Everest was nothing special to them. The Tibetans to the north had a number of names but they are quite involved so as to defy simple translation into English.

From Quiz A Quiz About Nothing

Answer: Chillicothe

Ohio's capital is now Columbus, Ohio. The seal of Ohio came from a mountain scene in Chillicothe; which is now called the Great Seal State Park. Chillicothe remained the capital until 1810. 1816 is when Columbus became the permanent capital of Ohio.

From Quiz Tough General Knowledge

Answer: 14 grams

Not much, is it? The source for this information was the 21st of December 2002 issue of New Scientist. The magazine also said that global helium reserves are due to run out within 50 years, a cause for concern as more and more potential uses are being found for the unusual gas.

From Quiz More Completely Useless Random Trivia

Answer: 73%

Scary, isn't it. Most of your brain is just liquid. The human body as a whole is 75% water.

From Quiz A Little Bit of Everything

Answer: Huntington Beach

There are always waves and they have a lot of surf competitions.

From Quiz Miscellaneous Madness X

Answer: The Hillbilly Cats

It is said that Elvis developed a following due "in equal parts" to his voice, rhythmic movements---and tight pants. RCA bought the singles that Elvis had recorded at Sun Records for $35,000. Some say RCA put "Colonel" Tom Parker in charge of making Elvis a star.

From Quiz Incredibly Random Questions

Answer: Harry Bosch

Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch is the LA Homicide Detective whose prostitute mother and cop girlfriend were murdered and who has had more warnings and suspensions than the average high school. He is, of course, a good man though...

From Quiz Mixed Bag

Answer: 1990-91

He played one NHL game for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1990-91 season. He then played in the minors for two years before returning to the NHL.

From Quiz Knowledge That You Need to Know

Answer: Result Set

Result set is the set of records which displays the result set in rows and columns format in the data plane in Microsoft Excel.

From Quiz Things You Should Know

Answer: Granada

The Alcazaba is the fortress portion of the Islamic architectural masterpiece, the Alhambra, which also features a palace, sultan-worthy patios and gardens beautiful enough to give Martha Stewart a nervous breakdown. The Spanish word 'alcabaza' is derived from the same Arabic word that gave us the term 'kasbah'.

From Quiz Generally Random 2

Answer: Solving the 'longitude problem'

In the 18th century, John Harrison solved a major problem of sea navigation by providing an accurate way of measuring longitude. A clock maker, Harrison's developed clocks that weren't disrupted by the motion of the ship in the ocean, and thus could be used at sea. One clock could be set to the time of day where the ship was and compared to a second clock that displayed the time in Greenwich England (location of the first meridian). Navigators were thereby able to calculate (with some tricky (for me anyway) mathematical formulas) their longitudinal position. Harrison's clocks can be viewed at the Greenwich Observatory, London. John Harrison's story can be read in an intriguing book called "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, 1996.

From Quiz Nothing is Hard 17

Answer: three

He became the King of Iraq when his father, Ghazi I, was killed in a car accident. Since he become King at such a young age, Prince Abdul Ilah ruled Iraq as a regent during Faisal's youth.

From Quiz Nothing is Hard 15

Answer: French

Benin is a country on the west coast of Africa.

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