Friday, March 27, 2009

General Trivia Answers #3,487-3,492

Answer 3,487: Entertainment & Food -- MTV Music Mass

d) Rod Stewart

His "Tonight's the Night" ends with, "Ain't nobody gonna stop us now", an appropriate comment on the fledgling music station.

Answer 3,488: History & Government -- Light Site

b) Cleveland, Ohio

A quarter century earlier, the city had also become the first to be lit by electricity.

Answer 3,489: Math & Science -- Basis Booster

c) David Hilbert

The German was born in 1862 in Konigsberg, which is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

Answer 3,490: Geography & Nature -- Tippecanoe Territory

b) Indiana

Future President William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians there in 1811. He used the campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" to win the 1840 election.

Answer 3,491: Literature & Arts -- Swift Source

b) Henry Ford

Stratemeyer produced 40 titles about the inventive lad in the first series from 1910 through 1941.

Answer 3,492: Sports & Games -- Lap Romance

d) Summer Sanders

Later in the year the Stanford graduate began a second career on television as a co-host of NBA Inside Stuff and later became the host of The Sports List.

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