Friday, January 12, 2007

General Trivia Answers #55-60

Answer 55: Entertainment & Food -- Anagram: "Next Day Ethics"

d) New York

HBO broadcast the show from 1998 until 2004, when TBS began showing an edited version.

Answer 56: History & Government -- President James Brown

b) James Monroe

The Republicans were especially feeling good because they convincingly captured the election over the Federalist Party, which soon dissolved.

Answer 57: Math & Science -- Sunrise, Sunset

d) Venus

Each rotation takes 243 days, over eighteen days longer than the love planet's revolution around the Sun.

Answer 58: Geography & Nature -- Plus the Prime Meridian

c) Equator and both Tropics

Africa is the only continent that spans the northern, southern, eastern, and western hemispheres.

Answer 59: Literature & Arts -- Lion Around

b) A filing cabinet labeled "O - Z"

The land was nameless until a neighborhood child asked, and the office equipment provided the storyteller's off-the-cuff answer.

Answer 60: Sports & Games -- Rang His Bell

d) Muhammad Ali

The "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" fighter scored a 14th round TKO of Frazier in the Philippines to take the rubber match of their three bouts.

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