12 Days of Christmas - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) The Cowsills. The Newport, Rhode Island singing group began in 1965 with the four brothers Barry, Bill, Bob, and John and later added their sister Susan, their brother Paul, and their mother Barbara.
• A2) The Netherlands. Unilever had bought a soap factory called De Duif and eventually began marketing Dove soap in the U.S. in 1957.
• A3) Sadie (Cohen). Although Youngman frequently joked about his wife ("Take my wife... please!"), they were happily married for over sixty years.
• A4) Magic Johnson. The huge rivalry, which included the 1979 NCAA Final Four Championship contest and three NBA Finals over a dozen seasons, earned them billing on the first double-sided Wheaties box.
• A5) Mount Doom. The long history of the Ring included Sauron creating it, Isildur stealing it from him, Smeagol killing his friend Deagol for it, and Bilbo Baggins finding it after Smeagol, who had turned into Gollum, lost it.
• A6) Richard. On August 6, 1988, the Hall of Famer became the second reliever, after Rollie Fingers, to record 300 career saves.
• A7) Jerry Rice. The San Francisco 49er amassed 589 yards in four games, dropping Swann's 364 into second place. Rice also owns the record for most receiving yards in a single Super Bowl, with 215 in Super Bowl XXIII; Swann's 161 in Super Bowl X was a record at the time but now ranks fourth.
• A8) Fitzwalter. Lady Marian Fitzwalter of Leaford was supposedly the daughter of the real-life Robert Fitzwalter, who had attempted to assassinate King John.
• A9) Fred Astaire. The Nebraskan born as Frederick Austerlitz would ultimately appear in 31 musical movies over a 76-year entertainment career.
• A10) Puck. The fairy had been causing trouble in the forest during Act III, Scene ii of A Midsummer Nights Dream.
• A11) Germany. Frankie Gammyfoot used his music to lure the rats from the town of Hamelin into the Weser River in 1284.
• A12) Stirrup (stapes). The hammer (malleus) and anvil (incus) also move, transferring the vibration to the cochlea, whose hairs generate nerve signals that are sent to the brain.

12 Days of Christmas - Random Trivia Questions

The Twelve Days of Christmas do not lead up to Christmas but actually run from Christmas Day (December 25) through Twelfth Night (January 5), which is the day before Epiphany. The song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" was initially published in England in 1780, but probably dates even further back in France. Since you're probably all holidayed out by now, this week's quiz uses the gifts in the song only to launch questions completely unrelated to the holidays.

12 Days of Christmas Questions

• Q1) What real life singing family was the basis for The Partridge Family television series?
• Q2) In what country did Dove soap originate?
• Q3) What was the first name of comedian Henny Youngman's wife?
• Q4) With whom did Larry Bird share the two big sides of Wheaties boxes in 1993?
• Q5) In The Lord of the Rings, into what volcano does the simple-looking gold ring known as the One Ring need to be tossed to be destroyed?
• Q6) What was Major League Baseball pitcher Goose Gossage's given first name?
• Q7) Who broke Lynn Swann's record for career receiving yards in Super Bowls?
• Q8) In the Robin Hood stories, what was Maid Marian's last name, introduced by playwright Anthony Munday in the early 17th century?
• Q9) What famous dancer first appeared on the big screen in the 1933 movie Dancing Lady, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable?
• Q10) What Shakespeare character observed, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"?
• Q11) In what country does the Pied Piper live?
• Q12) What is the smallest bone in the human body, which vibrates in reaction to the movement of the eardrum?

Baseball, Police, or Prime Time -- Quiz Quilt 154 Solution

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	OPUS	The mostly-innocent, herring-eating fowl originally appeared in a bit role as Michael Binkley's pet.
History & Government	SUN	Former peasant Sun Yat-sen was the Republic of China's first provisional president in 1912 and its unofficial leader from 1923 to 1925.
Geography & Nature	DELMARVA	The 180-mile-long peninsula meets the Chesapeake Bay on the west and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.
Sports & Games	SNEAD	"Slammin' Sammy" Snead collected 82 victories, nine more than Jack Nicklaus.
Math & Science	DIAPHRAGM	The transversus thoracis also generates the pressure for coughing, sneezing, urination, defecation, and vomiting.
Entertainment & Food	ALMONDS	The recipe must contain at least one-fourth almonds, or else the result is called almond paste instead.

Quiz Quilt Answer: LINEUP (Second letters going up)

The quilt solution follows each of the terms in the clue: baseball lineup, police lineup, or prime time lineup.

Baseball, Police, or Prime Time -- Quiz Quilt 154 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What penguin starred in the comic strip Bloom County?
History & Government	What Chinese statesman is known as the Father of the Revolution and has a large mausoleum in his honor in Nanking?
Geography & Nature	What peninsula between Chesapeake and Delaware Bays is made up of parts of Virginia and Maryland and all of Delaware?
Sports & Games	What American golfer holds the record for most career PGA tournament wins?
Math & Science	What is the chief muscle used in normal, shallow breathing?
Entertainment & Food	What type of nuts are needed to make marzipan?

Season's Seconds - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) "Joy to the World". Isaac Watts's hymn, to which Lowell Mason added a Handel melody in the early 1800s, continues, "Let men their songs employ".
• A2) "Deck the Halls". The traditional Welsh melody continues with the giveaway, "Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la".
• A3) "We Three Kings of Orient Are". John Hopkins's 1857 Christmas carol continues, "King forever, ceasing never, over us all to reign". Verses two, three, and four are told by Melchior, Caspar (frankincense), and Bathazar (myrrh) respectively, while verses one and five are sung by everyone.
• A4) "Away in a Manger". The German folk song continues, "But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes".
• A5) "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear". Edmund Sears's Christmas poem, to which Richard Storrs Willis added music in 1850, continues, "And still their heavenly music floats o'er all the weary world".
• A6) "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Charles Wesley's 1739 hymn, which was grafted onto part of a 1840 cantata by Felix Mendelssohn, continues, "Late in time behold Him come, offspring of the favored one".
• A7) "O Little Town of Bethlehem". Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks's hymn, for which his organist Lewis Redner provided a melody, continues, "While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wond'ring love."
• A8) "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen". The traditional English melody continues, "And unto certain shepherd brought tidings of the same".
• A9) "What Child Is This?". William Chatterton Dix's 1865 hymn, later set to the tune of "Greensleeves", continues, "Good Christian, fear; for sinners here the silent Word is pleading".
• A10) "O Come, All Ye Faithful". Frederick Oakeley's English translation of John Francis Wade's "Adeste Fideles" continues, "Sing, all ye citizens of heav'n above; glory to God in the highest".
• A11) "The First Noel". The traditional English melody continues, "And to the earth it gave great light, And so it continued both day and night. Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel".
• A12) "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, written on Christmas Day in 1863 when he heard that his son Charles had been wounded in the Civil War, continues, "Had rolled along th'unbroken song of peace on earth, good will to men". Among others, J. Baptiste Calkin set the piece to music seven years later.

Season's Seconds - Random Trivia Questions

Unless you're a serious caroler, you may not be very familiar with the second verses of these popular traditional holiday songs. But sometimes you may be able to figure things out by the rhythm, so don't give up too easily.

Season's Seconds Questions

• Q1) "Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns..."
• Q2) "See the blazing Yule before us..."
• Q3) "Born a King on Bethlehem's plain, gold I bring, to crown Him again..."
• Q4) "The cattle are lowing, the poor Baby wakes..."
• Q5) "Still through the coven skies they come, with peaceful wings unfurled..."
• Q6) "Christ, by highest heav'n adored..."
• Q7) "For Christ is born of Mary; and gather'd all above..."
• Q8) "From God, our Heavenly Father, a blessed angel came..."
• Q9) "Why lies He in such mean estate, where ox and ass are feeding?..."
• Q10) "Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation..."
• Q11) "They looked up and saw a star shining in the East, beyond them far..."
• Q12) "I thought how, as the day had come, the belfries of all Christendom..."

77 Stock Shares -- Quiz Quilt 153 Solution

Category Answers:

Math & Science	TITO	Multimillionaire Dennis Tito founded the Wilshire Associates investment management firm in 1972.
Sports & Games	WILD	The Columbus Blue Jackets debuted at the same time.
Entertainment & Food	GOODSON	Mark Goodson's 39,312 episodes could be strung together into a nonstop marathon running almost 2½ years.
Literature & Arts	MILLIARD	A U.S. trillion was a U.K. billion, and a quintillion was a trillion. The U.S. definitions are now standard on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
History & Government	JACOBINS	The Club Breton was nicknamed for its house on the Rue St. Jacques.
Geography & Nature	AUSTRALIA	At just under three million square miles, the continental commonwealth is by far the largest, almost three times bigger than Argentina.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ODDLOT (Fourth letters)

In stock trading, an odd lot is any number of shares that is not an even multiple of a base amount, usually 100.

77 Stock Shares -- Quiz Quilt 153 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Math & Science	What American businessman paid $20 million to take a flight to the space station in May 2001?
Sports & Games	What is the nickname of the Minnesota franchise that joined the NHL in the 2000-01 season?
Entertainment & Food	What game show producer is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific producer in TV history?
Literature & Arts	Until the late 20th-century, what was the British equivalent of the American word "billion"?
History & Government	What political group was responsible for France's Reign of Terror in which over 20,000 people were executed from September 1793 to July 1794?
Geography & Nature	What is the largest country in area that is completely south of the equator?

Ouch! - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Touch of Evil. Charlton Heston played the hero Mike Vargas, a Mexican narcotics official who uncovers Quinlan's wrongdoings.
• A2) Oscar the Grouch. The trash lover, voiced by Carroll Spinney, became dull green the following year.
• A3) The Official Couch Potato Handbook. Tom Iacino, who helped write the 100-page guide but does not share co-authoring credit, owns the trademark for the term "couch potato".
• A4) Touch Gold. The thoroughbred had skipped the Kentucky Derby but finished a respectable fourth at the Preakness after stumbling out of the gate.
• A5) La Bouche. "Sweet Dreams", the title track from their debut album, actually came out in 1994 and topped the Italian charts but wasn't released in the U.S. initially.
• A6) Brian Boucher. The Phoenix Coyotes netminder kept the puck out of his net for 332 minutes and 1 second over five and a half games from December 27, 2003 to January 9, 2004.
• A7) The Untouchables. A second TV show with the same name that ran from 1993 to 1994 could only scrape up a single, unsuccessful Emmy nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series.
• A8) Khalid Khannouchi. Not surprisingly, he set a new American record of 2:07:01 at the 2000 Chicago Marathon.
• A9) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. The literal translation of Li Mu Bai's sword's name is "Green Dark World Sword" and refers to a destination of the dead.
• A10) Groucho Marx. The gimmes served as one hundred dollar consolation questions for losing contestants on You Bet Your Life.
• A11) Tim Couch. The Cleveland Browns selected the 6'4", 220-pound junior instead of Donovan McNabb, who fell to the Philadelphia Eagles at #2.
• A12) Mike Souchak. A final-round 4-over-par 75 dropped him into a six-way tie for third place, with Jack Nicklaus, then an amateur, alone in second. Souchak had become the first PGA golfer to shoot a 27 over nine holes at the 1955 Texas Open.

Ouch! - Random Trivia Questions

I stepped on someone's foot yesterday playing basketball, and all I can say is, "Ouch"! Even though it's my oft-injured bad ankle (having never sprained the other one), I seem to have survived mostly intact. But this week, I'm going to share the pain, as all of the answers below contain the string "ouch" somewhere.

Ouch! Questions

• Q1) What 1958 movie did Orson Welles write, direct, and even co-star in, appearing as policeman Hank Quinlan?
• Q2) What Sesame Street character debuted as a furry, orange monster in 1969?
• Q3) What humorous 1983 book written by Jack Mingo and illustrated by cartoonist Robert Armstrong added the subtitle "A Guide to Prolonged Television Viewing" for its 1987 paperback edition?
• Q4) What horse denied Silver Charm the Triple Crown by only three-quarters of a length in the 1997 Belmont Stakes?
• Q5) By what name are Melanie Thornton and Lane McCray, who hit the U.S. charts with "Be My Lover" in 1995 and "Sweet Dreams" in 1996, better known?
• Q6) What NHL goalie holds the modern record for consecutive shutout minutes?
• Q7) What 1987 movie, which earned Sean Connery a Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar, was based on a television show that earned Robert Stack an Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series Emmy in 1960?
• Q8) What Moroccan became the first runner to break 2:06 in a marathon with a world record 2:05:42 in the Chicago Marathon on October 24, 1999, half a year before becoming a U.S. citizen?
• Q9) What 2000 movie revolves around the search for a jade sword called the Green Destiny?
• Q10) What game show host was famous for asking questions like, "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?", "What year did the War of 1812 start?", "How long do you cook a three-minute egg?", and "What color is an orange?"
• Q11) What University of Kentucky quarterback was the first pick of the 1999 NFL Draft?
• Q12) What golfer led going into the final round of the 1960 U.S. Open Golf Championship but struggled and saw Arnold Palmer come from seven strokes back to win?

G-Clef, G-Clef, G-Clef -- Quiz Quilt 152 Solution

Category Answers:

Math & Science	PREMARIN	In 2004, the National Institutes of Health declared the drug, named for its source of pregnant mares' urine, to be useless against heart disease.
Literature & Arts	SELDEN	Connecticut author George Selden, who dropped his last name Thompson, was inspired by the chirping of a real cricket in Times Square Station.
Sports & Games	ROBINSON	Center David Robinson put up 71 points against the Los Angeles Clippers on April 24, 1994 to clinch the season scoring title.
Geography & Nature	JOEY	The term can also refer to the related wallabies.
Entertainment & Food	HIRAM	The high school dropout was born in Mount Olive, Alabama on September 17, 1923 as Hiram King Williams.
History & Government	ASTOR	Lady Astor, the former Nancy Witcher Langhorne, joined the British House of Commons on December 1, 1919.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TREBLE (Third letters going up)

The commonly used G-clef is also known as the treble clef, and treble means three times.

G-Clef, G-Clef, G-Clef -- Quiz Quilt 152 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Math & Science	What hormone replacement therapy pill was first available in 1942 and was the most prescribed drug from 1990 to 1995?
Literature & Arts	What author penned The Cricket in Times Square in 1960?
Sports & Games	What NBA player scored the most points in a game in the 1990s?
Geography & Nature	What is the generic name for a baby kangaroo?
Entertainment & Food	What was singer Hank Williams's given first name?
History & Government	Who was the first female member of the British Parliament?

Trivia Train 2 - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Walter Camp. The Father of American Football had also won at least one of the various national titles in three seasons as a player a decade earlier.
• A2) Camp Rock. Kevin and Nick Jonas are the other members of the band but play minor roles in the movie.
• A3) Rock Hudson. The Golden Globe World Film Favorite Male Actor in 1959, 1960, and 1963 was one of the first famous casualties of AIDS, passing away on October 2, 1985.
• A4) Hudson River. The river's mouth was the original target destination of the Mayflower when it left England in September 1620.
• A5) River Phoenix. His eight-year career was cut short when he overdosed at age 23 outside Johnny Depp's Viper Room in Los Angeles on Halloween in 1993.
• A6) Phoenix Mercury. The team edged the Detroit Shock 3-2 in the 2007 Finals, becoming the first WNBA team to clinch a title on the road, and the Indiana Fever by the same score in 2009.
• A7) Mercury Morris. The surviving members of his undefeated team celebrate annually when the last undefeated NFL team loses, but in 2007, the celebration had to wait until the New York Giants upset the heavily favored Patriots in the Super Bowl, barely saving the running back from eating his words.
• A8) Morris the Cat. The orange tabby is best known as the spokesfeline of 9Lives cat food.
• A9) Cat Stevens. The British musician, born in London on July 21, 1948 as Steven Demetre Georgiou, reached the Top 40 eleven times and the Top 10 thrice.
• A10) Stevens Point. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's radio station, WWSP-FM, asked over 11,000 players on 417 teams an average of eight trivia questions per hour for 54 straight hours during the 2009 contest.
• A11) Point Guard. Cousy was a three-time All-American who took Holy Cross to the Final Four tournament from 1948 to 1950. Lieberman led Old Dominion to a Women's National Invitational Tournament title in 1978 and AIAW National Championships in 1979 and 1980.
• A12) Guard Squeeze. In general, a squeeze play compels a player to discard a useful card because a single hand cannot cover suits in two hands.

Trivia Train 2 - Random Trivia Questions

Now that you know how this works, here's another word chain where the last word of each answer matches the first word of the following answer.

Trivia Train 2 Questions

• Q1) Who coached Yale University to perfect 13-0 records and NCAA football championships in 1888, 1891, and 1892 before leaving for Stanford?
• Q2) What made-for-television Disney movie starred Demi Lovato as Mitchie Torres and Joe Jonas as Shane Gray, the lead singer of Connect Three?
• Q3) What actor was born as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois on November 17, 1925?
• Q4) What body of water do the Iroquois call Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan?
• Q5) What actor has a younger brother named Joaquin and three younger sisters named Rain, Liberty, and Summer?
• Q6) Which of the original WNBA teams needed eleven season to win its first championship in 2007, then only two more to win its second?
• Q7) What member of the 1972 Miami Dolphins made headlines in 2007 when he repeatedly criticized the then-undefeated New England Patriots?
• Q8) What animal did John Erwin lend his voice to in the 1973 Burt Reynolds movie Shamus and in television commercials throughout the 1970s?
• Q9) What 1970s singer returned under the name Yusuf Islam in 2006, three decades after his last hit singles?
• Q10) What Wisconsin town hosts the world's largest trivia contest at the end of every April?
• Q11) What basketball position is honored annually by the NCAA's Bob Cousy and Nancy Lieberman Awards?
• Q12) What declarer technique in bridge uses threats in both hand and dummy to force an opponent to discard a card that is not a winner by itself but keeps his partner from being finessed?

Science Sibling -- Quiz Quilt 151 Solution

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	ANGELOU	The President personally requested Maya Angelou for his 1993 ceremony.
Math & Science	JAPAN	Muses-A was launched on January 24, 1990. The Soviet Union was the first, with the unmanned Luna 2 crash landing on September 14, 1959.
Geography & Nature	ATHENS	The University of Georgia is 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, while Ohio University is 75 miles southeast of Columbus.
Sports & Games	BUBKA	Ukrainian Sergei Bubka set the historic record on March 15, 1991, six years after he was the first to break the six-meter barrier (just under 19.7 feet).
Entertainment & Food	CRAIG	Redhead Jenny Craig and her husband Sid opened their first Jenny Craig centers in Australia in 1983.
History & Government	GEORGIA	In 1732, the Peach State had been the last British colony established in North America.

Quiz Quilt Answer: NATURE (Second letters)

In early Genus editions of Trivial Pursuit, the green category was named "Science and Nature".

Science Sibling -- Quiz Quilt 151 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What African-American author read her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President Clinton's inauguration?
Math & Science	What was the third country to send a spacecraft toward the moon?
Geography & Nature	In what identically named cities are the University of Georgia and Ohio University located?
Sports & Games	What pole vaulter was the first to clear twenty feet?
Entertainment & Food	What Louisiana housewife gained 45 pounds after pregnancy, bought a health club, and created a weight loss empire?
History & Government	What southern state was the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, on January 2, 1788?