Tuesday, December 11, 2007

General Trivia Answers #1,465-1,470

Answer 1,465: Entertainment & Food -- Tiny Tube

a) 10-inch diagonal

Color televisions were still three years away.

Answer 1,466: History & Government -- Farm Trade

d) Zimbabwe

White farmers retaliated by going on strike, disrupting the country's entire agricultural economy.

Answer 1,467: Math & Science -- A Star Isn't Born

b) Brown dwarf

They can generate energy from deuterium but do not fuse hydrogen into helium like stars do.

Answer 1,468: Geography & Nature -- Instead of Stalingrad

d) Volgograd

The name was changed after 36 years in 1961 as Nikita Khrushchev worked to remove all vestiges of Stalin's influence from the country.

Answer 1,469: Literature & Arts -- Yankee Hanky Panky

b) Mechanic

Hank Morgan falls asleep in 19th-century Hartford and wakes up in medieval England.

Answer 1,470: Sports & Games -- U.S. Nay

d) Norway

The U.S. shut out Brazil 1-0 in the semifinals, but fell to Norway 3-2 in overtime in the final.

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