Trivia Quiz
1. The first broadcasting network was the National Broadcasting Co., headed by whom?
2. The Pittsburgh Pirates have won five World Series, all of them going how many games?
3. There are 1,760 yards in what unit of measurement?
4. What is the highest point in the world?
5. What city is Utah’s capital?
6. What do the British call a diaper?
7. What was Kirstie Alley’s character name on the TV show “Cheers”?
8. Identify Psyche in Greek legend.
9. Marvin Rainwater wrote the song “Gonna Find Me a Bluebird.”Who made a hit recording of it in the mid-1950s?
10.How many stars and stripes were on the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry when Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
ANSWERS
1. David Sarnoff. NBC began in 1926.
2. Each of the five went the maximum seven games.
3. A mile.
4. Mount Everest, in Nepal, Tibet. It is just over 29,000 feet high.
5. Salt Lake City.
6. Nappy.
7. Rebecca Howe.
8. Psyche is a beautiful woman who personifies the soul purified by suffering to become worthy of true love.
9. Also Marvin Rainwater.
10. The Fort McHenry flag had 15 stars and 15 stripes.
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