Trivia Quiz
1. A skit with Ron Howard and Anson Williams entitled “Love and the Happy Days” served as the pilot for the television show “Happy Days.” The skit was on what other TV show?
2. What was the military rank of George Armstrong Custer who, along with all participating U. S. soldiers, was killed in the 1876 battle of the Little Bighorn in the Dakota Territory?
3. The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in 1955 in what city in Illinois?
4. Name the actor who falls in love with prostitute Shirley MacLaine in the 1963 movie “Irma la Douce.”
5. Is the Mississippi River more or less than 2,000 miles in length?
6. What is the formal name of a lie detector machine?
7. Is it true or false that the ermine is a type of beaver?
8. Haifa, Israel, is at the foot of what mountain?
9. Name either U. S. senator from New Jersey.
10. Identify the tennis term “Grand Slam.”
ANSWERS 1. “Love American Style.” 2. Lieutenant colonel. Custer
was not a general as is popularly believed.
3. Des Plaines.
4. Jack Lemmon.
5. The Mississippi is 2,340 miles long.
6. Polygraph.
7. False; it’s a type of weasel.
8. Mount Carmel.
9. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, both Democrats.
10. It means victory in four major tourneys — American, British, French and Australian opens.
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