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Quiz about Assorted General Trivia I

Assorted General Trivia I Trivia Quiz


I'll give you 10 questions from various fields. You choose from the multiple choices the answer you think is correct. If you enjoy these, you would probably like my other general-trivia quizzes. You can locate them by clicking on 'root17' (my ID).

A multiple-choice quiz by root17. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
root17
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
34,965
Updated
Dec 27 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
11234
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 174 (5/10), lolleyjay (9/10), Guest 98 (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which of these was NOT a code name for a Normandy beach during the Allied invasion of Europe on D-Day (June 6, 1944)? (Hint: The answer was the name for a series of defensive bunkers and fortifications between France and Germany.) Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Elvis Presley married Priscilla Anne Beaulieu in what Las Vegas casino? (Hint: This casino was imploded in 1998 to make way for a new casino with the same name. This new casino was renamed in 2007 to Planet Hollywood Resort)? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What was the birth name of Marilyn Monroe? (Hint: Baker came later.) Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In the US version of the board game Monopoly, on what railroad does one of the Chance cards instruct players to take a ride? (Hint: This name is also the name of a town in Pennsylvania famous for its pretzels.) Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What was the former name of the island named Sri Lanka? (Hint: It was a British crown colony at the time.) Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In the political satire "Animal Farm" by English novelist George Orwell, one of the of the pigs is said to be modeled on the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. What was this pig's name? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which country attempted (and failed) to build a canal across Panama before the U.S. opened its canal there in 1914? (Hint: One canal worker from this country was a then-unknown painter named Paul Gauguin.)
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Question 8 of 10
8. The 74-mile-long stone wall built by Roman soldiers called Hadrian's Wall is located in what country? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which of these former U.S. Presidents is NOT carved on the Mt. Rushmore monument in South Dakota? (Hint: He is the latest U.S. president of those listed.) Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Which of these actors-entertainers did NOT have a career in elective politics? (Hint: His nickname was The Duke.) Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which of these was NOT a code name for a Normandy beach during the Allied invasion of Europe on D-Day (June 6, 1944)? (Hint: The answer was the name for a series of defensive bunkers and fortifications between France and Germany.)

Answer: Maginot

The five D-Day beaches and the Allied force who invaded there were: Omaha (American), Utah (American), Juno (Canadian), Sword (British) and Gold (British). The defensive bunkers and fortifications between France and Germany were built between 1929 and 1940 and were called the "Maginot Line" in honor of France's World War I hero André Maginot.
2. Elvis Presley married Priscilla Anne Beaulieu in what Las Vegas casino? (Hint: This casino was imploded in 1998 to make way for a new casino with the same name. This new casino was renamed in 2007 to Planet Hollywood Resort)?

Answer: Aladdin

They were married on May 2, 1967. The Aladdin was imploded in April 1998 to make room for a new Aladdin. The Sands is where the Rat Pack performed.
3. What was the birth name of Marilyn Monroe? (Hint: Baker came later.)

Answer: Norma Jeane Mortenson

Marilyn's name at birth was Norma Jeane Mortenson (Mortenson was a misspelling of her mother's separated name at the time), but she later used the name Norma Jeane Baker (Baker was her mother's earlier married name). She chose her stage name after her mother's maiden name of Monroe and Marilyn Miller, a popular Broadway musical star of the 1920s. Marilyn was married three times: to James Dougherty on June 19, 1942, to baseball star Joe DiMaggio on January 14, 1954 (elopement), and to playwright Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony on June 29, 1956.
4. In the US version of the board game Monopoly, on what railroad does one of the Chance cards instruct players to take a ride? (Hint: This name is also the name of a town in Pennsylvania famous for its pretzels.)

Answer: Reading

Monopoly was invented during the Great Depression era (1930) by an out-of-work Charles Darrow of Germantown, PA (outside Philadelphia), with the property names based on street names of one of his family's former favorite vacation towns (Atlantic City, NJ). The royalties from this game's sales made him a millionaire.

There is some credible evidence that the game Monopoly actually evolved from an earlier board game called The Landlord's Game. This game was created by Lizzie Magie and was patented by her in 1904 (US748626). Her objective was demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro), distributors of Monopoly, eventually bought this patent in 1935 for $500 to avoid any patent fight over the game Monopoly.
5. What was the former name of the island named Sri Lanka? (Hint: It was a British crown colony at the time.)

Answer: Ceylon

The former British crown colony Ceylon became independent in 1948 and changed its name to Sri Lanka in 1972. This island country is strategically located just off the southern tip of India.
6. In the political satire "Animal Farm" by English novelist George Orwell, one of the of the pigs is said to be modeled on the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. What was this pig's name?

Answer: Napoleon

Orwell's two most famous books were "Animal Farm" published in 1945 and "Nineteen Eighty-four" (also written "1984") published in 1949. His theme in "Animal Farm" was the betrayal of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Stalin forbade the book to circulate in the Soviet Union.
7. Which country attempted (and failed) to build a canal across Panama before the U.S. opened its canal there in 1914? (Hint: One canal worker from this country was a then-unknown painter named Paul Gauguin.)

Answer: France

The main French designer, Ferdinand de Lesseps, had previously built the Suez Canal in Egypt. After scandal, corruption, disease and the jungle took their toll, the French company went bankrupt.
8. The 74-mile-long stone wall built by Roman soldiers called Hadrian's Wall is located in what country?

Answer: England

Hadrian's Wall was ordered built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian around the time of his visit to England in 122 A.D. The stonewall built by Roman soldiers stretches approximately 74 miles over the hills and valleys of northern England. Although it had some towers and troop barracks, most historians think it was more a permanent demarcation and less a defensive barrier.

The northernmost country the Romans occupied was Scotland, where they built the approximately 39-mile Antoine Wall.
9. Which of these former U.S. Presidents is NOT carved on the Mt. Rushmore monument in South Dakota? (Hint: He is the latest U.S. president of those listed.)

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sculptor Gutzom Borglum began the project (blasting the granite mountain with well-placed charges of dynamite) in 1927. When Borglum died in March 1941, his son Lincoln continued. It finally opened to the public in 1941.
10. Which of these actors-entertainers did NOT have a career in elective politics? (Hint: His nickname was The Duke.)

Answer: John Wayne

Bono (of Sonny and Cher) was a U.S. Congressman from California from 1995 until his untimely death in 1998 in a skiing accident. Fred Grandy (Love Boat) was a U.S. Congressman from Iowa from 1987 to 1995. Eastwood (Dirty Harry and many other movie roles) was mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA from 1986 to 1988.

Although Wayne had strong political views (he was a conservative Republican), he was never in elective politics. He did play a former Congressman (Davy Crockett) in the movie 'The Alamo'. Although Crockett is probably best known as a frontiersman, he was also a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, during 1827-31 and 1833-35.
Source: Author root17

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