Assorted General Trivia III Trivia Quiz

Answer: Champlain

Lake Champlain (located on the border between New York state and Vermont, with its northern portion extending into the province of Quebec, Canada) was hotly contested by British and American forces in the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Great Britain.

Answer: Happy Days

"All In The Family" was based on the British series "Till Death Do Us Part." "Sanford and Son" was based on the British series "Steptoe and Son." "Three's Company" was based on the British series "Man about the House." "Happy Days" originated as a segment on the TV series "Love, American Style." It was not a spin-off from the movie "American Graffiti," as some people erroneously believe. Fonzie's full name was Arthur Fonzarelli and he was played by actor Henry Winkler.

His trademark leather jacket is displayed at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC (one of the Smithsonian museums).

Answer: Jester

There is a difference of opinion on when and where chess originated. Some believe it originated in India, 5-7 centuries after the birth of Christ. Others believe a similar game of Chinese chess, or at least a predecessor of it, existed in China at least as far back as the 2nd century, BC.

Answer: Tet

Hue was the ancient imperial capital of Vietnam. French forces were defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The 'Tonkin Gulf Resolution' passed by the U.S. Congress in 1964 gave U.S. President Lyndon Johnson basically a blank check to use 'all necessary measures' to deal with 'aggression' in Vietnam (in response to a North Vietnamese attack on an American destroyer).

This was the authority to begin the big U.S. buildup for the American-Vietnam War.

Answer: The Crucible

Playwright Arthur Miller wrote 'The Crucible' in 1953. In it he compared the witch hunts in colonial Salem, Mass. to the congressional investigations into 'un-American' activity that U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy was leading in the early 1950s.

Answer: Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis

Manson and an aging Karpis became friends at the U.S. Penitentiary on McNeil Island, Washington in the mid 1960s. Manson wanted to be a songwriter, and one of his compositions (titled 'Never Learn Not To Love') did make it on the Beach Boys album '20-20' (it was credited to Dennis Wilson).

Answer: Vermont

Although Vermont residents fought against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the area was not considered a separate colony at the time of the war. In one notable example, Vermonters Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys and Connecticut soldier Benedict Arnold captured British Fort Ticonderoga in 1775.

After the war ended and the U.S. was formed, Vermont became the 14th state to be admitted to the union on March 4, 1791.

Answer: Vladivostok

The battle at Stalingrad was a major turning point in World War II. The entire German sixth army was encircled by the Russians and eventually surrendered in February 1943. Of the 90,000 soldiers marched off to POW camps, only about 5,000 ever returned to Germany.

At the battle of Waterloo in 1815, a French army under Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the combined forces of an English army under the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under Gebhard von Blücher. It resulted in Napoleon's second (and final) exile to the island of St.

Helena (where he died six years later). The three-day battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863 resulted in a loss for Confederate General Robert E. Lee and was a major turning point in the U.S. Civil War.

Answer: Joseph

Joseph Dawson, 23, from Ireland worked on the Titanic as a coal trimmer (a person who channeled coal to the firemen at the furnaces, all the time keeping the coal piles on a level plateau, so that no imbalances were caused to threaten the trim, or even keel, of the ship).

He perished in the sinking but his body was recovered (number 227) and he was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on May 8, 1912. His body was finally identified with his National Sailors and Firemen's union card.

Note: Some references erroneously report his name was James.

Answer: Robert Redford

Robert Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of a milkman. The Sundance Film festival he sponsors each year highlights movies made by independent producers. A few of the many stars born in Canada popular in the United States include Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, John Candy, Shania Twain, Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Carrey and Michael J. Fox.