Google Pass Trivia Quiz

Answer: Simon and Garfunkel

Paul Simon first heard the melody performed by an Andean native group called Urubamba. Robles' version of the melody was declared part of the Peruvian national cultural heritage by the government of Peru in 2004.

Answer: Western

"Breakheart Pass" was based on a book by Scottish novelist Alistair McLean. Several of his novels, such as "The Guns of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra", and "Where Eagles Dare", were made into successful films. "Breakheart Pass" was his only foray into the Western genre. "Susanna Pass" was a Roy Rogers vehicle.

Answer: Pop Warner

In Jim Thorpe's first season on the Carlisle team, Warner's Indians completed a 7-0 season with a 26-6 win over a previously undefeated and unscored-upon University of Pennsylvania eleven. The forward pass was one of Carlisle's best weapons, even though the rules of the day awarded the ball to the defensive team when a forward pass fell incomplete without being touched. Nonetheless, it is true that the Fighting Irish probably would not have beaten the Cadets in 1913 without the forward pass. Rockne, who coached the Irish from 1920 to 1930, caught one of the three scoring aerials that helped key the win.

Answer: pawn

"En passant", which means "in passing" in French, is a move that was added to European chess in the 1400s when pawns were also first allowed to move two spaces on their initial move. The en passant rule enabled a pawn to capture its enemy pawn on a neighboring file in a situation when the enemy could have otherwise used its two-space initial move to avoid endangering itself with an initial one-space move.

Answer: passe-partout

Passe partout is also a technique for matting and framing pictures. It makes use of placing a sheet of glass over the picture and fastening it there.

Answer: passing the buck

To show that he was going to take responsibility for anything that happened "on his watch", so to speak, Missouri-born President Harry S Truman had a plaque on his White House desk that said "The Buck Stops Here".

Answer: Deception Pass

Deception Pass connects the Strait of Juan de Fuca with Skagit Bay, which is part of Puget Sound. There is also a bridge spanning Deception Pass. The other choices are all passes in the Rocky Mountains, with Donner Pass being in California, Bozeman Pass being in Montana, and Bridger Pass being in Wyoming. Unfortunately for my question, there is also a Deception Pass in Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, but hopefully it did not cause a problem for our Canadian trivialists.

Answer: Kasserine Pass

Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox", and his Afrika Korps initially overwhelmed American and Allied forces, who were forced backward over fifty miles in the Atlas Mountains position. But Allied adjustments over the next week or ten days eventually allowed the Americans to gain the upper hand in subsequent engagements in North Africa. Passchendaele was a World War I battle in Belgium, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres. Dukla Pass was a 1944 battle on the border between what is today Poland and Slovakia, between German and Soviet troops. Khyber Pass is an historic invasion route between Europe and Asia, as well as an historic trade route connecting modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Answer: John Keats

Keats is the only Romantic poet in the choices. Originating in the late 1700s, the Romantic Movement also included English poets like Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth. Among the characteristics of the movement was an interest in the mystic and supernatural, as well as an affection for stories of the long-ago and far-away.

Answer: lawyers

Each US state has its own bar exam, of which California's (which takes three days) has often been rated the most difficult to pass, largely because it has had the lowest pass rate. But some in the law field do not see the pass rate as being the truest test of ease or difficulty, so the question of which state's is the hardest still has no clear-cut answer.