Friday, December 28, 2007

General Trivia Answers #1,543-1,548

Answer 1,543: Entertainment & Food -- Ketchup Connoissieurs

c) Sweden

Italians consume a lot of the condiment because they put ketchup on their pasta.

Answer 1,544: History & Government -- 19

c) Rutherford Hayes

Tilden was prematurely announced as the winner when he was still one vote shy of victory. Three Republican-controlled states then gave their votes and the election to Hayes.

Answer 1,545: Math & Science -- Haber Harvest

a) Ammonia

German chemist Fritz Haber developed the technique for producing ammonia from nitrogen, hydrogen, iron as a catalyst, and heavy pressure in 1909.

Answer 1,546: Geography & Nature -- Free First Farce

d) North Carolina

The Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775 claimed that the town's citizens were independent from England immediately following the Battle of Lexington.

Answer 1,547: Literature & Arts -- Magazine Monsters

c) The New Yorker

His morbidly humorous cartoons became popular in the 1930s.

Answer 1,548: Sports & Games -- Torch Takeoff

b) Berlin, Germany

20-year-old track athlete Fritz Schilgen lit the torch at the 11th Olympiad in 1936.

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