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Trivia Quiz
Updated: August 21, 2010, 3:01 AM
1. Identify the U. S. first lady noted for a bouffant hairdo and pillbox hat.
2.Who directed the movie “Babes in Arms” (1939), starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland?
3. “Contrasts” was the theme of what big band?
4. What kind of bird is the macaw?
5. What is Australia’s oldest city?
6.How many days prior to Easter Sunday is Ash Wednesday?
7. What is a typhoon?
8. What yellowish metal is an alloy of copper and zinc?
9. In what comic book did Wonder Woman first appear?
10. Colgate University is located in the community of Hamilton in which state?
ANSWERS
1. Jacqueline Kennedy.
2. Busby Berkeley.
3. Jimmy Dorsey’s.
4. A large parrot.
5. Sydney, founded well over two centuries ago. It is also Australia’s largest city and the capital of New South Wales.
6. Forty days, excluding Sundays.
7. A violent tropical cyclone originating in the western Pacific. Literally, the name means “great wind.”
8. Brass.
9. “All-Star Comics,” December 1941.
10. New York.
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