Thursday, February 5, 2009

General Trivia Answers #3,271-3,276

Answer 3,271: Entertainment & Food -- Fruit Roots

d) Strawberry

Settlers brought the fruit over from Europe.

Answer 3,272: History & Government -- Balaclava Battle

a) Crimean War

During the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854, British soldiers kept warm by wearing the knitted masks covering everything but their eyes and mouth.

Answer 3,273: Math & Science -- Vital Vitamin

d) Thiamine

Japanese researcher Umetaro Suzuki discovered the vitamin when he tried to determine why rice bran cured beriberi.

Answer 3,274: Geography & Nature -- Indian Inception

c) 25

Most of the names refer to geographical features or Indian tribe names.

Answer 3,275: Literature & Arts -- Fence Sense

d) Robert Frost

The line is from his 1915 poem "Mending Wall".

Answer 3,276: Sports & Games -- Madden's Men

c) Oakland Raiders

His tenure included winning Super Bowl XI in 1976. The aviophobe has avoided airplanes since 1960, when he missed a team flight that crashed fatally in Ohio.

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