General Trivia Answers #3,175-3,180

Answer 3,175: Entertainment & Food -- Partridge Pretender

a) Brian

The other siblings were Keith and Danny.

Answer 3,176: History & Government -- Rare Bird

b) Calamity Jane

The supposed wife of Wild Bill Hickok earned her nickname in 1872 by rescuing Captain Egan from an ambush in Wyoming.

Answer 3,177: Math & Science -- Compound Cousins

b) Isomers

In 1825, German chemist Friedrich Wohler discovered that cyanic and fulminic acids had different properties but the same composition. Jons Jacob Berzelius coined the term.

Answer 3,178: Geography & Nature -- Washington Waterway

b) Potomac River

The 413-mile river flows from southwest Maryland to the Chesapeake Bay.

Answer 3,179: Literature & Arts -- Me-Moi-rs

b) Katharine Hepburn

Her book The Making of the African Queen was published four years earlier.

Answer 3,180: Sports & Games -- Used in Euchre

c) Nine

Some variations also include the sevens and eights.