Moving Day - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) The Jeffersons. Actress Ja'net Du Bois, who played neighbor Willona Woods, performed the theme song with a gospel choir.
• A2) Twyla Tharp. The title track's Anthony and many other Long Islanders appear in the loosely connected plot. One unusual feature of this "musical" is that the actors don't sing and the singers don't act.
• A3) Douglas MacArthur. Mac did not disappoint his mom, graduating first out of 93 people in his class in 1903.
• A4) Illinois. The Great Communicator debuted as Andy McCaine in Love Is in the Air the same year.
• A5) Teflon. Polytetrafluoroethylene, abbreviated PTFE, has the lowest coefficient of friction of any known solid. The fluoropolymer is used to coat non-stick cookware but scratches and wears out fairly easily.
• A6) 40 miles per hour. The momentum of an object is its mass times its velocity, and the principle of conservation of momentum states that the sum of the incoming momentums equals the sum of the outgoing momentums (10*20 + 5*0 = 10*0 + 5*40).
• A7) Lagos. The decision to move the capital had been made fifteen years earlier, with the intervening time used to build the new city.
• A8) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city housed the First and Second Continental Congresses and served as the U.S. capital under the Articles of Confederation from March 1, 1781 to June 21, 1783 and under the Constitution from December 6, 1790 to May 14, 1800.
• A9) Lithuania. The story about 19th-century Chicago publicized the horrible working conditions and helped spur the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act that created the Food and Drug Administration.
• A10) California. The Joad family escapes the Dust Bowl only to find life just as difficult as sharecroppers.
• A11) Quebec. The Nordiques joined the WHA in 1972 and the NHL in 1979. The team won the Avco Cup in 1977 but never reached the Stanley Cup finals before moving.
• A12) Oakland Raiders. The team moved to Los Angeles in 1982, after owner Al Davis successfully sued the NFL to allow the relocation, but came back to Oakland in 1994. The franchise has won three Super Bowls, twice during its first stay in Oakland and once while in Los Angeles.