Hard Trivia Questions IV

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After losing the "Toledo Wars" in the 1830s, what territory got an upper peninsula from Wisconsin … and statehood besides?

       a. Michigan
       b. Ohio
       c. Pennsylvania
       d. Wisconsin


What patron saint of travelers was ejected from the sainthood in 1969, on the technicality that he didn't actually exist?

       a. Michael
       b. Alexander
       c. Christopher
       d. Stephen


In August 1980, Lindy Chamberlain was camping near Ayers Rock when her baby Azaria vanished. What animal, also known as a warrigal, probably ate her baby?

       a. Crocodile
       b. Dingo
       c. Cougar
       d. Shark


Who would wear a white pillbox cap called the kepi blanc, perhaps as a "beau geste" or "good gesture"?

       a. French Foreign Legion
       b. Nurses
       c. Catholic nuns
       d. Baseball players


Other collectors put their stash in something that phillumenists collect. What?

       a. Match boxes
       b. Plastic bags
       c. Music boxes
       d. Beer bottles


Trader Vic claims to have invented what drink that combines rum, orange curacao and orgeat?

       a. Planter's Punch
       b. Pina Colada
       c. Mai Tai
       d. Daiquiri


When an Umingmaktormiut Eskimo talks about kaniktshaq, qanik, anijo, kanut and nahauliq, what is he talking about? (This isn't as hard as it sounds).

       a. Polar bears
       b. Snow
       c. Televisions reruns
       d. How damn cold the weather is


At the urging of Camille Pissarro, who left his career as a stockbroker at the age of 35 to pursue painting full-time?

       a. Vincent Van Gogh
       b. Paul Gauguin
       c. Norman Rockwell
       d. Andy Warhol


Which mythic figure was bound by Aeschylus, but unbound by Percy Shelley?

       a. Thanatos
       b. Pandora
       c. Prometheus
       d. Sisyphus


What is the legal term for the process by which the government takes property not claimed when somebody dies?

       a. Escheat
       b. Estrus
       c. Escrow
       d. Escargot


Which of these animals does Leviticus 11 permit a Jew to eat?

       a. Grasshopper
       b. Rabbit
       c. Chameleon
       d. Hawk


Count the syllables ... in a Japanese haiku … and reap the reward.

       a. 17
       b. 21
       c. 12
       d. 15


What writer armed a cabin cruiser so that he could hunt Nazi subs in the Caribbean … although it may have been a ruse to get gas for fishing trips?

       a. James Jones
       b. Ernest Hemingway
       c. Norman Mailer
       d. Dashiell Hammett


If, in a singles bar, somebody says to a woman, "Hey, babe ... Love those zygomatic bones", what part of her body is he appreciating?

       a. Her legs
       b. Her hips
       c. Her cheeks
       d. Her hands


In the 1970s, college students played a famous drinking game while watching "The Bob Newhart Show". When did they chug?

       a. Whenever somebody said "Hi Bob"
       b. Whenever somebody smacked their forehead
       c. Whenever Newhart stammered
       d. Whenever a celebrity cameo appeared




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