General Trivia Answers #2,305-2,310

Answer 2,305: Entertainment & Food -- Popeye's Pep

d) Spinach

Although the Popeye's fast food restaurant once used the sailor in its ads, the chain was named for Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, Gene Hackman's character in The French Connection.

Answer 2,306: History & Government -- Returnin' to Vernon

b) George Washington

His residence and plantation of the same name were in Virginia.

Answer 2,307: Math & Science -- Time Tamer

a) Benjamin Franklin

The jack-of-all-trades was actually just joking in his letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris.

Answer 2,308: Geography & Nature -- L.L. Bean Scene

b) Freeport, Maine

The store, named for its founder Leon Leonwood Bean, started by selling waterproof boots in 1911.

Answer 2,309: Literature & Arts -- Direst Disaster

a) "Birth"

Ambrose Bierce started the entries as a weekly newspaper column in 1881 and collected them into The Cynic's Word Book in 1906.

Answer 2,310: Sports & Games -- Ten-Pin Tale

c) 9-pin was an illegal gambling game

9-pin skittles, arranged in a diamond shape, is still popular in pubs in the U.K.