General Trivia Answers #1,147-1,152

Answer 1,147: Entertainment & Food -- Veronica Venue

c) Nursing home

The single ponders a nursing home visit with his grandma, who "used to have a carefree mind of her own and a delicate look in her eye".

Answer 1,148: History & Government -- Home on a Hill

c) Theodore Roosevelt

The house in Oyster Bay, Long Island in New York is now a National Historic Site.

Answer 1,149: Math & Science -- Seeing the Light

d) William Herschel

The astronomer and composer used just a prism and a thermometer, noting a temperature increase from the invisible rays just beyond the end of the visible red light.

Answer 1,150: Geography & Nature -- Tiger Tally

a) Bengal

Between 3,000 to 5,000 are alive.

Answer 1,151: Literature & Arts -- Salesman's Spouse

b) Ezra Pound

The poem, originally written by Li Po, was published in her 1915 collection Cathay: Translations.

Answer 1,152: Sports & Games -- 2.S. Open

a) Curtis Strange

The American won in 1988 at The Country Club, becoming the first golfer to reach $1 million in prize money in a year, and repeated in 1989 at Oak Hill.