NOVember NOVelty - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) LiFEBuoy. Although no longer manufactured for sale in the U.S., the soap remains popular in India.
• A2) JULienne. Of course, the most popular deep-fried Julienned items are French Fries.
• A3) Jennifer CAPRiati. The former prodigy went on to win the tournament, capping a remarkable comeback from drug problems, overeating, and a shoplifting arrest.
• A4) OCTopussy. The 1983 film was Roger Moore's second to last in the role. He made one final appearance at age 58 in A View to a Kill before moving on.
• A5) William MAYo. The practice has been informally known as the Mayo Clinic since 1905.
• A6) HaNOVer, New Hampshire. A Connecticut Puritan minister founded the university in 1769 to train Native Americans as ministers.
• A7) Stevie Ray VAUGhan. The Texan was honored with top ten appearances on both Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (#7 in 2003) and Classic Rock magazine's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes" (#3 in 2007).
• A8) Elizabeth SMARt. Her abductees, Brian Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, had unsuccessfully attempted to disguise the teenager with a red wig, sunglasses, and a veil.
• A9) HorSEPower. Electrical horsepower (746 watts), mechanical horsepower (745.7 watts), and metric horsepower (735.5 watts) all work out to nearly the same value, but boiler horsepower (9,809.5 watts) is very different and hydraulic horsepower is measured in entirely different units.
• A10) Sebastian JUNger. The Belmont, Massachusetts native won a National Magazine Award for his 1999 Vanity Fair article "The Forensics of War".
• A11) UnDEClared. Despite guest appearances by Adam Sandler, Will Farrell, and Ben Stiller and a high rating at IMDB, the series was canned after only sixteen episodes.
• A12) LjublJANa. The country's most populous city holds 270,000 residents in 106 square miles.

NOVember NOVelty - Random Trivia Questions

NOVember and the other eleven months of the year are this week's theme. Each answer will include one of their three-letter abbreviations. Don't disMAY if you can't figure them all out.

NOVember NOVelty Questions

• Q1) What soap's ads introduced the term B.O. for body odor in 1928?
• Q2) What cooking term describes carrots cut into long, thin rectangles?
• Q3) In 2001, what tennis player returned to the French Open semifinals, eleven years after last reaching that far?
• Q4) In what James Bond movie does he try to stop a Russian general from launching a nuclear attack on NATO in Europe?
• Q5) What doctor founded the St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota in 1889 with his two sons?
• Q6) In what town is Dartmouth College located?
• Q7) What singer's albums include Texas Flood, The Sky Is Crying, In Step, and Couldn't Stand the Weather?
• Q8) What 14-year-old was kidnapped at knife-point on June 5, 2002 and finally freed over nine months later?
• Q9) What unit of measure is equal to about 746 watts?
• Q10) What author's book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea was turned into a movie in 2000?
• Q11) What 2001 Fox comedy starred Timm Sharp and Jay Baruchel as college freshmen?
• Q12) What is the capital of Slovenia?

State Abbreviation Words - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Concorde (CO+NC+OR+DE). Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde manufactured only twenty of the jets and could not survive the negative publicity and subsequent reduction in flights following the September 11, 2001 attacks, ceasing operation in October 2003.
  
• A2) Mandarin (MA+ND+AR+IN). It is the most popular primary language in the world.
  
• A3) Alpaca (AL+PA+CA). Because of their smaller size, alpacas are not used as beasts of burden like their larger relatives are.
  
• A4) Pascal (PA+SC+AL). The procedural programming language, named for French mathematician Blaise Pascal, was still popular in the mid-1980's, serving as the primary higher language for early Macintosh software development.
  
• A5) Calamine (CA+LA+MI+NE). Calamine lotion helps prevent itching, prevents infections, and dries oozing wounds.
  
• A6) Coma (CO+MA). Michael Crichton turned the story into a hit film with Michael Douglas the following year.
  
• A7) Inky (IN+KY). "Inky" and his video game buddies Shadow ("Blinky"), Speedy ("Pinky"), and Pokey ("Clyde") have been chasing Pac-Man since 1980.
  
• A8) Dwyane Wade (WA+DE). The Miami Heat guard stepped it up during the playoffs, capturing the Finals MVP award as his team won the championship.
  
• A9) Ganymede (GA+NY+ME+DE). In Greek mythology, Zeus kidnapped the Trojan prince for being the handsomest man on the Earth and made him serve as a cupbearer.
  
• A10) Condor (CO+ND+OR). The Andean condor and California Condor are the largest birds in the Americas.
  
• A11) Scar (SC+AR). Simba's uncle causes Mufasa's death and scares the young lion into running away from his pride.
  
• A12) Almond (AL+MO+ND). The cheap stuff used in most candy bars consists mostly of whipped sucrose and corn syrup.

State Abbreviation Words - Random Trivia Questions

Like the random quiz from a couple of weeks ago, the following twelve answers are all built from a set of building blocks. Instead of just seven letters though, you have fifty U.S. state postal abbreviations to work from. Concatenate the two-letter pairs to form each of the required four-, six-, or eight-letter words. Can you survive this OR+DE+AL?

State Abbreviation Words Questions

• Q1) What type of jet crashed for the first time in its history on July 25, 2000?
  
• Q2) What is the primary northern dialect and the official dialect of China?
  
• Q3) What domesticated member of the camel family lives high up in the Andes like the llama but is a foot or two shorter?
  
• Q4) What computer language did Niklaus Wirth develop from ALGOL in the late 1960's?
  
• Q5) What is the pink, odorless powder of zinc oxide and ferric oxide dissolved in mineral oils that is used in skin ointments?
  
• Q6) What Robin Cook novel was a best seller in 1977 and was named thriller of the year by the New York Times?
  
• Q7) What is the commonly used nickname of the light blue ghost named Bashful?
  
• Q8) What athlete was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine in 2006 despite finishing only ninth in the NBA MVP vote?
  
• Q9) What is Jupiter's largest moon?
  
• Q10) What bird's two main species have the scientific names Vultur gryphus and Gymnogyps californianus?
  
• Q11) What villain did Jeremy Irons lend his voice to in a popular 1994 movie?
  
• Q12) What type of nut is now used to make real nougat such as the Spanish turron and the Italian torrone?