Hard Trivia Questions V

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Meaning "excessively sentimental", what word comes from the Yiddish word for "chicken fat"?

       a. Klutz
       b. Schmaltz
       c. Chutzpah
       d. Schmuck


Wimbledon wild card winner Goran Ivanisevic is likely the most famous person to split from Split in what country?

       a. Slovakia
       b. Romania
       c. Croatia
       d. Poland


Who became the world's first superstar designer after providing Jackie Kennedy with the pillbox hat she wore to the presidential inauguration?

       a. Bill Blass
       b. Yves Saint Laurent
       c. Halston
       d. Oleg Cassini


As described in a Yeats poem, with what wood should a magic wand be made?

       a. Oak
       b. Yew
       c. Hazelwood
       d. Larch


This country singer met his future wife when he was working as a bouncer, when he tossed her out after she threw a punch in the ladies room. Who is he?

       a. Randy Travis
       b. Vince Gill
       c. Garth Brooks
       d. Hank Williams, Jr


From 1976 to 1984, what unlikely celebrity was married to Edith Bucket "Pie" Vonnegut, daughter of Kurt?

       a. Geraldo Rivera
       b. Carrot Top
       c. Madonna
       d. Sylvester Stallone


Jefferson Airplane sued Berkeley Systems for stealing what image from the cover of their album "30 Seconds Over Winterland"?

       a. Peace symbol
       b. Flying toaster
       c. Singing hamster
       d. Smiley face


Vladimir Nabokov is best known for writing Lolita, but he was also a lepidopterist. What does this mean?

       a. He studied butterflies
       b. He mixed drinks for a living
       c. He had an unusual fetish
       d. He treated foot problems


JFK is credited with killing off this male fashion accessory when he didn't wear it at his inauguration. In fact, he wore a silk one. What is it?

       a. Top hat
       b. Bow tie
       c. Undershirt
       d. Ascot


What was so orange about Agent Orange?

       a. The coded bands on its container
       b. It is made from oranges
       c. The gaseous form is orange
       d. It made plants taste like oranges


The USS Indianapolis was sunk on July 30, 1945, shortly after delivering parts of the atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima. In what movie does Quint describe what happened afterward?

       a. Bridge on the River Kwai
       b. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
       c. Jaws
       d. The French Connection


What we in the West call the Mao suit is actually known in China as the Zhongshan suit, which is named for what earlier Chinese leader?

       a. Sun Yat-sen
       b. Chiang Kai-Shek
       c. Kublai Khan
       d. Ming the Merciless


What did Andres Serrano infamously photograph in a container full of urine?

       a. A Star of David
       b. A picture of Martin Luther King
       c. A crucifix
       d. A Muslim prayer scroll


What "old-timey" color gets its name from the Greek word for "cuttlefish", from which they got a brownish-black fluid?

       a. Sepia
       b. Mauve
       c. Teal
       d. Azure


In what language do all the nouns end in the letter O (well ... all the singular nouns in the nominative case, anyway)?

       a. Esperanto
       b. Italian
       c. Swahili
       d. Russian




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