Hard Trivia Questions III

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While studying law at Oxford, who sang lead for a rock band called Ugly Rumours?

       a. Keanu Reeves
       b. Tony Blair
       c. Jimmy Swaggart
       d. Al Gore


If Hannibal the Cannibal is trying to match liver and fava beans with a good Chianti, where should he buy his wine?

       a. Tuscany
       b. Veneto
       c. Piedmont
       d. Milan


Patented in 1926 by Charles Brannock, of Syracuse, New York, a brannock device is used by whom?

       a. A car mechanic
       b. A physician
       c. A shoe salesman
       d. A chef


In Copenhagen, it's called weinerbrod, meaning Vienna bread, and in Vienna, it's called a Kopenhagen. What do we call it?

       a. Danish
       b. Bagel
       c. Croissant
       d. Jellyroll


Shania Twain's real first name is Eileen. In what language does "Shania" mean "I'm on my way"?

       a. Hebrew
       b. Ojibwa
       c. Esperanto
       d. Hindi


There isn't anything at all maternal about mummies. So why were they called that?

       a. They looked like they were coated with pitch
       b. Mumtaz Mumal, was the first to study mummies
       c. The first mummies were found in Mummia
       d. They stay quiet, or "mum"


Using a left jab to Papa's jaw, which Canadian writer knocked down Ernest Hemingway in a Paris boxing match in 1929?

       a. Robertson Davies
       b. Morley Callaghan
       c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
       d. Hugh MacLennan


What did the McCulloch Oil Corporation of Los Angeles buy in March 1968 for more than one million?

       a. London Bridge
       b. The Queen Mary cruise ship
       c. The Hope Diamond
       d. The first supersonic airplane


If Hollywood had existed in medieval Russia, which of these movies might have been made about Baba Yaga the Bony Legged?

       a. The Blair Witch Project
       b. The Wizard of Oz
       c. Nightmare on Elm Street
       d. Gone with the Wind


Indiana Jones notwithstanding, many Rastafarians say the Ark of the Covenant is in the Church of St Mary of Zion in Aksum, part of which country's Tigray province?

       a. Jamaica
       b. Ethiopia
       c. Iran
       d. Israel


What is being "numbered" in the opening chapters of Numbers?

       a. The Israelite tribes
       b. The laws of God
       c. The plagues upon Israel's enemies
       d. The prophets


The majority of which company's shareholder votes are controlled by an orphanage established by its childless founder?

       a. Hershey
       b. Ford
       c. Boeing
       d. Levi's


Where would you have found the wicked party towns of Sodom and Gomorrah?

       a. In Babylon
       b. Near the Dead Sea
       c. In Egypt
       d. In Persia


Where would you find macaques called Barbary apes, Europe's only wild monkeys?

       a. Turkey
       b. Malta
       c. Gibraltar
       d. Russia


What three Biblical books, found after the five books of the Pentateuch, gave Lyle Lovett the title for one of his albums?

       a. Joshua, Judges, Ruth
       b. Ezra, Numbers, Ezekiel
       c. Jude, Acts, Job
       d. Elijah, Chronicles, John




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