Hard Trivia Questions VI

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The 7th Earl of Cardigan served under Field Marshall Lord Raglan, both of whom have outerwear named for them. With what military event are they both associated?

       a. Charge of the Light Brigade
       b. Custer's Last Stand
       c. Bataan Death March
       d. Battle of Waterloo


Ann Turner Cook became a mystery novelist and English teacher. But what was her other claim to fame?

       a. She was the model for the Gerber baby
       b. She finked on John Dillinger
       c. She was the first non-celebrity centerfold in Playboy
       d. She was Bill Clinton's adoptive mother


Arctophiles would love to get their hands on 55 PB, the lost originals of what item, Invented in Germany by Margaret Steiff (or, perhaps, her nephew Richard)?

       a. Stamps
       b. Teddy bears
       c. Postcards
       d. Plates


Cher, Jimi Hendrix, Waylon Jennings and Burt Reynolds all have what Indian nation's blood flowing through their veins?

       a. Osage
       b. Cherokee
       c. Blackfoot
       d. Seminole


Born in 1932, Roy Frowick was voted the healthiest baby at the Iowa State Fair. Who did he grow up to become?

       a. Puff Daddy
       b. Bill Blass
       c. Halston
       d. Ralph Lauren


According to the Mormons, the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Missouri, near what city?

       a. Lincoln
       b. St Louis
       c. Kansas City
       d. Omaha


To protect its three notes struck on chimes, what TV network was the first entity to trademark a sound in the US?

       a. CBS
       b. NBC
       c. PBS
       d. ABC


Strictly speaking, who was the FBI's only Public Enemy #1, so dubbed after a fiasco in which the bureau failed to catch him at a lodge in Little Bohemia, Wisconsin?

       a. Al Capone
       b. John Dillinger
       c. DB Cooper
       d. Osama bin Laden


After Tennessee Williams worked a summer job with a real Stanley Kowalski at his father's St Louis shoe company, he wrote a Kowalski into what play?

       a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
       b. A Streetcar Named Desire
       c. The Glass Menagerie
       d. Death of a Salesman


Arjumand Banu Begum was later renamed Mumtaz Mahal, meaning "Elect of the Palace". In what building is she entombed?

       a. Great Wall of China
       b. Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
       c. Taj Mahal
       d. Angkor Wat


Found at the front of many dictionaries, and really handy in Scrabble, aa is a Hawaiian word. What does it mean?

       a. An alcoholic drink
       b. A moist western wind
       c. A form of lava
       d. A type of fly


If Brazil never rakes the lawn and plays its music too loud, Argentina could take its case to the International Court of Justice in what city?

       a. The Hague
       b. Strasbourg
       c. Geneva
       d. Rome


What "second-hand furniture dealer" worked out of the Four Deuces at 2222 South Wabash and the Metropole and Lexington hotels on South Michigan Avenue?

       a. Richard J. Daley
       b. Al Capone
       c. William Wrigley, Jr
       d. J. Edgar Hoover


If mid-life crises hit all these politicians and they became writers, who would not qualify for the Booker Prize?

       a. Canadian PM Paul Martin
       b. US President George W Bush
       c. Australian PM John Howard
       d. UK PM Tony Blair


What Nobel Prize-winner wrote screenplays for such Bogart movies as "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep"?

       a. Ernest Hemingway
       b. F. Scott Fitzgerald
       c. William Faulkner
       d. Raymond Chandler


Although it can mean "fear of water", hydrophobia usually refers to what disease, since sufferers have a hard time swallowing liquids?

       a. Rabies
       b. Lockjaw
       c. Malaria
       d. Leprosy




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