General Trivia Answers #589-594

Answer 589: Entertainment & Food -- Shore Thing

c) Inventor of the tuning fork

The musician created the vibrating, two-pronged metal fork to tune his trumpet and his lute.

Answer 590: History & Government -- Tax Loophole

b) Fly

Publius Vergilius Maro honored a different insect with his poem "Culex" ("the mosquito") around A.D. 1.

Answer 591: Math & Science -- Source Tree

c) Oak

The lightweight, impermeable material comes from the cork oak tree.

Answer 592: Geography & Nature -- Awash in Water

c) Michigan

The Great Lakes State could fit the entire state of Indiana into its almost 40,000 square miles of water. Alaska ranks first.

Answer 593: Literature & Arts -- Super Titian

b) Vecellio

The painter of St. John the Baptist, The Venus of Urbino, and Emperor Charles V was born as Tiziano Vecellio in 1490.

Answer 594: Sports & Games -- Hockey's Harvey

b) Defenseman

The Hall of Famer won six Stanley Cups with his hometown Canadiens, earned seven Norris trophies, and helped organize hockey's first players' union.