Wednesday, December 24, 2008

General Trivia Answers #3,085-3,090

Answer 3,085: Entertainment & Food -- Drum Role

c) Paul McCartney

Paul also played drums on "Dear Prudence". Ringo was usually the drummer.

Answer 3,086: History & Government -- Bi-Polar

b) Richard Byrd

The Navy pilot had learned to fly during World War I.

Answer 3,087: Math & Science -- Key Bone

b) Clavicle

The collarbone, which was thought to fasten the shoulder, is the most frequently broken bone in the body, especially among teenage boys.

Answer 3,088: Geography & Nature -- Biosphere Bubble

a) Arizona

The scientific experiment attempted to create a viable closed ecosystem in 3.15 acres in Oracle from 1991 to 1993. Biosphere 1 refers to the Earth itself.

Answer 3,089: Literature & Arts -- East Is East

c) Rudyard Kipling

"The Ballad of East and West", about the theft of a horse bridging cultural differences, was published in 1889, a year before his first novel, The Light That Failed.

Answer 3,090: Sports & Games -- Surpassed by Sampras

d) Roy Emerson

The Australian righty captured twelve majors from 1961 to 1967.

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