FunTrivia General Knowledge Mix: Vol 28 Quiz

Answer: Lunch boxes

Metal lunch boxes were first produced in the 1940s, and slowly changed their look to vinyl and plastic. The square vinyl and plastic lunch boxes in the 1950s and 1960s became popular with students because they featured pictures of their favorite superheroes, movie actors and music legends, including The Monkees and The Beatles. Vintage lunch boxes continue to appeal to many collectors.

Question by player milliesmall

Answer: An island located in Southeast Asia

Borneo, being the largest island in the Asian region, contains Kalimantan, which is under the administration of Indonesia. It also contains the small nation of Brunei, a state rich in petroleum. With them are Sabah and Sarawak, states which belong to Malaysia. The shape of Borneo is similar to the fictional dinosaur-like, Godzilla.

Question by player romeo4u

Answer: Jack

Jack can also be used as a verb. Most commonly, it is to lift something with a jack (the tool).

Question by player hotdogPi

Answer: 50 years

If you had been married for 20 years, you would be celebrating your china wedding anniversary; 30 years is celebrated with pearl; and 40 years is a ruby anniversary.

Question by player TheLastEnemy

Answer: Lucky

Lucky is the slave of Pozzo in "Waiting for Godot." Pozzo leads him about by a rope. The Lucky Strike brand of tobacco was introduced in 1871. The motto L.S.M.F.T. (meaning Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco) was added in 1945. Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) earned the nickname "Lucky Lindy" by flying across the Atlantic Ocean solo non-stop. The press also called him "the Lone Eagle."



Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: castle

The modern English word "castle" derives from the late Old English "castel" meaning village, which derived from the Old North French meaning "stronghold." English placenames ending in -caster and -chester use those endings to refer to a castle, fort or citadel in that place.

In "Castle", novelist Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion) cures his writer's block by tagging along with NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (played by Stana Katic). The series premiered in 2009. In situations where one's king has not moved nor the involved rook ever moved, and the king is not in check, the king may move to an unoccupied square in the first rank, two squares toward the rook, which then moves to the square over which the king crossed. To do this is to "castle" the king.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: The Salvation Army

Booth established his association in 1865. Giving up the comfort of his pulpit, he took God's message into the streets. Regular churchgoers were appalled by the unwashed and shabbily dressed converts joining them in their worship. Booth found a church and named it the East London Christian Mission.

By the 1900s, the Salvation Army had spread around the world. It is now a well-organized mission today, all because one man gave up his own comforts to help others who had none.

Question by player Lilady

Answer: Three

"Three Little Words" is a 1930 song by Harry Ruby (music) and Bert Kalmar (lyrics). "Three Little Words" is also a 1950 film biography of Ruby and Kalmar, starring Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Red Skelton, and Arlene Dahl. Besides the title number, other songs include "Thinking of You," "Who's Sorry Now," "I Wanna Be Loved By You," and "Nevertheless." "Three Faces Of Eve" is a 1957 film closely based on a 1957 published study of that name by psychiatrists Corbett Thigpen and Hervey Cleckley who detailed their experiences with a woman, called Eve White, who had three different personalities, and her struggle to become one person.

The film stars Joanne Woodward (who won the Oscar for Best Actress), Lee J. Cobb as the psychiatrist Dr. Curtis Luther, and David Wayne as Eve's husband, Ralph White.

Question by player lowtechmaster

Answer: Coins

Clipping was the act of removing small slivers of precious metal from the edges of gold and silver coins. This practice has existed since ancient times; many Roman coins are found heavily clipped. The ridges, or reeding, found on the edges of modern coins were originally designed as a measure to combat clipping.

A similar crime was called "sweating," in which coins were shaken inside a bag made of coarse cloth. Bits of metal would wear off which could be recovered when the bag was later burned.

Question by player daver852

Answer: Sea hazards

In Greek mythology, Scylla was rationalized as a rock and Charybdis as a whirlpool. Odysseus had to choose which of them to pass closest to in order to go through the Strait of Messina. He chose the rock and risked the loss of a few men rather than the loss of the ship by passing the whirlpool.

Question by player Pam1239