Thursday, July 17, 2008

General Trivia Answers #2,401-2,406

Answer 2,401: Entertainment & Food -- Abba, Abba Too

a) Erasure

The album covered Abba's "Lay All Your Love on Me", "S.O.S.", "Take a Chance on Me", and "Voulez-Vous".

Answer 2,402: History & Government -- Keep Out of Africa

b) Ethiopia

The East African nation finally succumbed to Italy in 1936.

Answer 2,403: Math & Science -- Shaver Saver

d) Schick

Colonel Jacob Schick sold 3,000 units the first year.

Answer 2,404: Geography & Nature -- Central American Sibling

c) Guatemala

The Mayan Empire peaked between the 2nd and 9th centuries and was mostly destroyed by Spain in the first half of the 16th century.

Answer 2,405: Literature & Arts -- Nostoyevsky

c) The Gulag Archipelago

Andrei Solzhenitzyn wrote the three volumes in the 1970s.

Answer 2,406: Sports & Games -- Go Grid

c) 19 by 19

The 361 points have made the game more difficult for computers to master than chess with its 64 squares.

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