Tuesday, January 9, 2007

General Trivia Answers #37-42

Answer 37: Entertainment & Food -- That Sixties Sound

a) Detroit, Michigan

Berry Gordy, Jr. created the Motor City company as Tamla Records on December 14, 1959 and signed up the Matadors, who would make it big as the Miracles.

Answer 38: History & Government -- S'mores, Anyone?

d) William Tecumseh Sherman

His Civil War strategy was to destroy anything that might be useful to the Confederate army.

Answer 39: Math & Science -- With a Really Tiny Bathroom Scale

a) Carbon

Carbon-12, with six protons and six neutrons, was given an atomic weight of exactly twelve in 1961. Chemists and physicists had each been using different oxygen-based scales.

Answer 40: Geography & Nature -- Scared Trees

a) Arizona

The 342-square-mile desert area contains many colorful, rock-hard logs formed from the mineralization of wood by the silica in volcanic ash.

Answer 41: Literature & Arts -- Macdeath

b) Duncan

The real king ruled Scotland from 1034 to 1040.

Answer 42: Sports & Games -- Superb Subpar

c) Eagle

The extremely rare albatross, also called a double-eagle, means three under, such as a hole-in-one on a par 4.

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