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Trivia Challenge

  1. On Oct. 13, 1675, the Mass. Council ordered that all Christian Indians be removed to what island (now a peninsula in Boston) during King Philip’s War?
  2. The creator of the Mars candy bar was inspired by what candy bar created by his father?
  3. What is Africa’s largest lake?
  4. On Oct. 14, 2002, 14 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants were walked across what local bridge to test it?
  5. What song is based on the 1893 Kentucky schoolteachers’ song “Good Morning to All”?
  6. In what decade was instant ramen created: 1920s, 1930s or 1950s?
  7. On Oct. 15, 1972, who attended a World Series game including a 25th anniversary commemoration of his breaking the baseball “color line”?
  8. According to Guinness World Records, in August 2023, a father-daughter pair traveled in France to create the world’s largest GPS drawing of a heart by what transport method?
  9. What activity that starts with a B will be a new sport at the 2024 Olympics in Paris?
  10. On Oct. 16, 1847, what author (with the pseudonym Currer Bell and a real name that includes a double dot) published “Jane Eyre”?
  11. What “king” bird breed at the Edinburgh Zoo was named Major General Sir Nils Olav III?
  12. Exeter Cathedral in England has a 16th-century door hole thought to be for what?
  13. On Oct. 17, 1979, what Roman Catholic female was awarded the Nobel Prize?
  14. How are “The Sorcerer,” “The Mikado” and “The Yeomen of the Guard” similar?
  15. Where is the UN’s international court of justice?
  16. What is known as REM sleep?
  17. On Oct. 18, 1926, what American who had hits with “Maybellene,” “Roll Over Beethoven” and “Johhny B. Goode” was born?
  18. What does the “octo” in octothorpe (the name of the hashtag symbol [#]) refer to?
  19. What 1968 Beatles album has the song “Birthday”?
  20. On Oct. 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its largest one-day percentage drop – what percent: 11, 23 or 30?

 

  1. Deer Island
  2. Milky Way
  3. Victoria
  4. Zakim Bridge
  5. “Happy Birthday to You”
  6. 1950s (1958)
  7. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson
  8. Bicycle (1,343 miles)
  9. Breakdancing
  10. Charlotte Brontë
  11. King penguin
  12. Cats
  13. Mother Teresa
  14. They are Gilbert & Sullivan operas
  15. The Hague in the Netherlands
  16. Rapid Eye Movement (more brain activity)
  17. Chuck Berry
  18. The eight points of the lines in the symbol.
  19. “The Beatles”
  20. 23

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