General Trivia Answers #3,079-3,084

Answer 3,079: Entertainment & Food -- Ma's Mastery

a) Cello

As an 8-year-old prodigy, the future Juilliard and Harvard student performed in a televised Leonard Bernstein concert.

Answer 3,080: History & Government -- Trade Trump

b) Opium

The imbalance led to the Opium War, which ended with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842.

Answer 3,081: Math & Science -- Body Breakdown

d) Oxygen

Two-thirds of each person is oxygen, mostly bound in water molecules.

Answer 3,082: Geography & Nature -- Simpson's Subway?

d) San Francisco, California

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system, including the historic transbay tunnel, was proposed in 1946, begun in 1964, and opened to the public on September 11, 1972.

Answer 3,083: Literature & Arts -- Uncas Uncut

c) The Last of the Mohicans

Uncas was a real Indian chief who was born a member of the Mashantucket Pequots but left to form the Mohican tribe in 1634.

Answer 3,084: Sports & Games -- Stretch Stroke

d) Freestyle

Officially, freestyle means that the swimmer can use any stroke. The stroke of choice has been the American crawl since Charles Daniels developed it in the early 1900s.