Saturday, October 11, 2008

Notable Notes - Random Trivia Questions

If you know that Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge describes the G-clef's lines and that FACE enumerates its spaces, then you should have no trouble with this week's quiz, the main part of whose answers can be spelled using just the musical letters 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', and 'G'. Even if you can't carry a tune, you can always hum along.

Notable Notes Questions

  • Q1) What brand of playing cards features the number 92 on its trademarked ace of spades?
  • Q2) What Golden Globe Award-winning movie shares its name with a number one song written by Dennis DeYoung?
  • Q3) What type of patch are Debbie Morehead and Xavier Roberts best associated with?
  • Q4) What was the Wendy's fast food chain searching for in its 1984 television ads?
  • Q5) What composer's 1951 song "Imaginary landscape" is played on twelve randomly tuned radios?
  • Q6) In the sequels to The Wizard of Oz, what food is Ruggedo, the Nome King (later spelled Gnome), deathly afraid of?
  • Q7) What band's albums include Voulez-Vous, Super Trouper, and The Visitors?
  • Q8) What name is shared by an Earth goddess in the Marvel Universe, an impact crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea, and a John Varley sci-fi trilogy?
  • Q9) What singer's "Mambo #5" hit the charts all over the world in 1999?
  • Q10) Who was the first Major League Baseball outfielder to win a Gold Glove in both the American League and National League?
  • Q11) What English mathematician's Difference Engines were a big step along the way toward modern computers?
  • Q12) What Cream song, cowritten by Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr for the Goodbye album, climbed the charts in April 1969?

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