General Trivia Answers #769-774

Answer 769: Entertainment & Food -- Play Anything

d) Regis Philbin

Big Daddy became the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 1999, almost a quarter century after his debut on The Neighbors.

Answer 770: History & Government -- National Treasure

d) Salmon Chase

The banking system opened its vaults in February 1863.

Answer 771: Math & Science -- Seemed Small

b) A comet

The German-born Englishman found the planet in 1781 then discovered two of its moons six years later.

Answer 772: Geography & Nature -- Big Eye

c) Ostrich

Their eyes are about two inches in diameter.

Answer 773: Literature & Arts -- Ailing Author

d) Tuberculosis

The disease afflicted the novelist and poet during childhood but did not contribute to his death by brain hemorrhage at age 44.

Answer 774: Sports & Games -- Tough Sledding

b) Diphtheria

The annual dog sled race, named for a ghost town on the route, began in 1967 near Anchorage and is now contested every March.