#13  Boston Common

#14 The Mystery of Edwin Drood

#3 Mobile art

Correct answers for Andie, Bubble, and will allow  Radiomans's answer for #3 although that was not the answer I had. (but close enough})
Narrowing down Trivia:


2. What is a plessor?

7. The bald eagle is a powerful flier, and soars on what?

2. A plessor is a rubber headed hammer.

7. The Bald Eagle soars on thermals which are currents of warm air.

Junee's correct answers have now ended the current Trivia Quiz with these results:

1. What three terms are represented in Newton's second law of motion F = ma?..ANSWER.. FORCE, MASS, ACCELERATION..BY RAMMEL

2. What is a plessor?..ANSWER..DOCTOR'S REFLEX HAMMER..BY JUNEE

3. Philadelphia-born Alexander Calder worked in which branch of the arts?..ANSWER..SCULPTURE..BY RADIOMAN

4. Where was Dame Kiri Te Kanawa born?..ANSWER..NEW ZEALAND..BY MARILYNE

5. Where was Mary Jo Kopechne found drowned?..ANSWER..CHAPPAQUIDDICK..BY RAMMEL

6. Why were Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "like Webster's Dictionary?"..ANSWER..MOROCCO BOUND..BY MARILYNE

7. The bald eagle is a powerful flier, and soars on what?..ANSWER..THERMAL CONVECTION CURRENTS..BY JUNEE

8. Who played Ruth Etting in the movie, Love Me Or Leave Me?.ANSWER..DORIS DAY..BY ANGEL    (THE MOST UNDER-RATED ACTRESS AND SINGER IN MY OPINION)

9. What flatulent New Zealand creatures did geophysicist David Lowe say were contributing to the gradual warming of Earth's atmosphere?..ANSWER..SHEEP..BY BUBBLE

10.What biblical figure was California's 4,700-year-old bristlecone pine tree named after?..ANSWER..MATHUSALEH..BY RADIOMAN

11. What disorder's name is derived from the Greek for "without appetite"?..ANSWER..ANOREXIA..BY BUBBLE

12. What did George Bernard Shaw describe as, "a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire?"..ANSWER..DANCING..BY ANGEL

13, What Boston green space, founded in 1634, is the oldest park in the U.S.?..ANSWER..THE BOSTON COMMON..BY ANDIE

14.Charles Dickens last unfinished novel was what?..ANSWER..MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD..BY ANDIE

Thanks all of you again for using your smarts...

Good quiz Chia - Thank You!  

you are welcome, Marilyne

Thank you, Chia!

Great quiz; Thank you Chya

you are both welcome, Angel and Radioman

I loved this one, thanks Chia!

You're welcome Bubble 

I just made it to last two questions.  Thank you again Chia.

Junee...I am glad you made it..

Marilyne: Peter, Paul and Mary - that is so far back in time, that I almost feel it is my other previous life!
Unfortunately, the tunes were favorite and familiar, but the words were not, English was still a very foreign language!

bubble - I often feel that way as well . . . like I'm looking back at a previous life, or that it was a story I read way back in time.  That young woman couldn't have been me??

This is the last Trivia Quiz I will present for this year soon to end...Everyone welcome to join in..And here we go:

The following 3 questions happened in1992...

1. George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in what country?
2. Dow Corning announces that it will stop manufacturing what?

3. The acquittal of 4 police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers what?

4. Who was eaten by dogs in the Old Testament?

5. Rhapsody, Aromel, Tamella Cambridge favorite types of what?

6. A hen of the woods is what?

7. What two ingredients make the dish 'angels on horseback '?

8. The Aria, Largo Al Factotum is from what Opera?

9.What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?

10. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another, until what?


11. A Paris to Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid does what?

12. Petroselinum crispum is the Latin for which herb?

13. Myosotis is Latin for what blue flower?

14. Shaddock is another term for what?

15. What is the more common term for Sildenafil Citrate?

12. Parsley,  in Hebrew it is Petrozilia - apparently from a common root!

13. Myosotis or forget me not.  I learned it Greek lesson that it means "mouse ear" for the shape of its petals. Lovely descriptive name!

#1: George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in what country? >>> Japan

#2. Dow Corning announces that it will stop manufacturing what? >>> Silicone breast implants

#4  "When Ahab took possession of Naboth's vineyard, he was again confronted by Elijah, who prophesied that, owing to the way Ahab and Jezebel had plotted to have Naboth killed, Ahab would die, his royal line would be obliterated, and Jezebel would be eaten by dogs."

#15    What is the more common term for Sildenafil Citrate?  Viagra

All answers are correct...Continuing..


Question 3 happened in1992...

3. The acquittal of 4 police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers what?

5. Rhapsody, Aromel, Tamella Cambridge favorite types of what?

6. A hen of the woods is what?

7. What two ingredients make the dish 'angels on horseback '?

8. The Aria, Largo Al Factotum is from what Opera?

9.What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?

10. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another, until what?

11. A Paris to Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid does what?

14. Shaddock is another term for what?

6. Hen of the woods is a polypore mushroom.

7. Angels on horseback are oysters wrapped in bacon. 

Junee's answers are correct...continuing:



Question 3 happened in1992...

3. The acquittal of 4 police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers what?

5. Rhapsody, Aromel, Tamella Cambridge favorite types of what?

8. The Aria, Largo Al Factotum is from what Opera?

9.What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?

10. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another general until what?

11. A Paris to Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid does what?
14. Shaddock is another word for what?

8. The Aria, Largo Al Factotum is from what Opera?
   The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
14. Shaddock is another word for what?

Being a peaceful person, I will use the peaceful definition: a fruit (Citrus maxima, or Pomelo)

Rutumi's answers are correct  and I will give a qualified correct for #14 although that is not the answer I had...Continuing:


Question 3 happened in1992...

3. The acquittal of 4 police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers what?

5. Rhapsody, Aromel, Tamella Cambridge favorite types of what?

9.What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?

10. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another general until what?

11. A Paris to Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid does what?

To One and All..Please feel free to name as many as desired of the remaining Quiz questions.....


Question 3 happened in1992...

3. The acquittal of 4 police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers what?

5. Rhapsody, Aromel, Tamella Cambridge favorite types of what?

9.What North American country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?

10. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another general (Grant) until what?

11. A Paris to Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid does what?

#3: The acquittal of 4 police officers in the Rodney King beating trial triggers what? >>> Riots?

#11:  a British man, Richard Colvin Reid, attempted to detonate explosives packed into the shoes he was wearing, while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami.

#9:    Canada

Marilyne and Angel both correct with your answers...Down to last 2 questions:

5. Rhapsody, Aromel, Tamella Cambridge favorite types of what?

10. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another general (Grant) until what?