Thursday, January 31, 2008

General Trivia Answers #1,681-1,686

Answer 1,681: Entertainment & Food -- Bonn Sired

d) Ludwig van Beethoven

The composer was also greatly influenced by his music teacher Haydn.

Answer 1,682: History & Government -- Slave Saver

c) Pennsylvania

A 1780 law stated that newborns were not slaves.

Answer 1,683: Math & Science -- Ignoble Element

b) Boron

It is a semimetallic semiconductor like silicon.

Answer 1,684: Geography & Nature -- Southern Rhodesia Renamed

d) Zimbabwe

Rhodesia was created in 1895 and split into northern and southern halves in 1911.

Answer 1,685: Literature & Arts -- Acclaimed American Author

d) Toni Morrison

The Ohio native became the first African-American female to win in 1993. She had won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Beloved five years earlier.

Answer 1,686: Sports & Games -- Bradshaw's Bride

b) Jo Jo Starbuck

Born as Alicia Starbuck in Birmingham, Alabama in 1951, she won the U.S. Figure Skating Pairs championship with Kenneth Shelley each year from 1970 to 1972.

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