Trivial Pursuit Questions No. 5

[Carl]

• 1. Who was the author of the book 'Fairy Tales and Stories' ?

• 2. Marie Antoinette was married to which French King ?

• 3. What Los Angeles community is noted for celebrities and mansions ?

• 4. What sixties Broadway musical advocated wearing "it down to there" ?

• 5. What does a vulcanologist study ?

• 6. Which two oceans does the Panama Canal connect ?

• 7. Mercury and Venus are known as what type of planets ?

• 8. Who published Handbook of the Birds of Australia in 1865 ?

• 9. According to Greek mythology who was the Queen of the Gods ?

• 10. What kind of flooring is made by cementing small pieces of marble together and then polishing them ?

• 11. In sport, which female German tennis player announced her retirement in 1999 after winning twenty-two Grand Slam titles ?

• 12. In geometry, what is the side of a right triangle this is directly opposite the right angle?

• 13. In television, what '70s cops were played by David Soul and Paul Michael Glazer ?

• 14. What medical term for the digestive tract was the name originally selected for the now-failed energy company Enron ?

• 15. The Arrhenius theory describes the sequence wherein atomic orbitals get filled up with electrons. True or False ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

5 Volcanic activity
6 Pacific and Atlantic

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Who was the author of the book 'Fairy Tales and Stories' ? Hans Christian Andersen

• 2. Marie Antoinette was married to which French King ? King Louis XVI

• 3. What Los Angeles community is noted for celebrities and mansions ? Beverly Hills

• 4. What sixties Broadway musical advocated wearing "it down to there" ? Hair

• 5. What does a vulcanologist study ? Volcanoes

• 6. Which two oceans does the Panama Canal connect ? Atlantic and Pacific

• 7. Mercury and Venus are known as what type of planets ? Inferior planets

• 8. Who published Handbook of the Birds of Australia in 1865 ? John Gould

• 9. According to Greek mythology who was the Queen of the Gods ? Hera

• 10. What kind of flooring is made by cementing small pieces of marble together and then polishing them ? Terrazzo flooring

• 11. In sport, which female German tennis player announced her retirement in 1999 after winning twenty-two Grand Slam titles ? Steffi Graf

• 12. In geometry, what is the side of a right triangle this is directly opposite the right angle? Hypotenuse

• 13. In television, what '70s cops were played by David Soul and Paul Michael Glazer ? Starsky and Hutch

• 14. What medical term for the digestive tract was the name originally selected for the now-failed energy company Enron ? Enteron

• 15. The Arrhenius theory describes the sequence wherein atomic orbitals get filled up with electrons. True or False ? False