Stop on a Dime Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1010

"The Tale of Genji" is considered by many to be the world's first novel. "Beowulf" is a poem written in Old English, but is a story based in Scandinavia.

Answer: 1930

Made popular as sung by Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee and featured in the 1932 musical "Americana", "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" is closely identified with the 1930s and the Great Depression. It was written by E.Y. Harburg with music by Jay Gorney.

Answer: biathlon, triathlon, and pentathlon

The biathlon is generally a winter Olympic event which combines cross-country skiing and shooting. The best-known modern triathlons combine swimming, bicycling, and running. The pentathlon is a combination of five events, with the "modern pentathlon" consisting of fencing, swimming, show jumping, and a combination of shooting and a cross-country run. Thus two plus three plus five equals ten, which is the number of events of the decathlon.

A heptathlon consists of seven events.

Answer: American football

In the US, high school, college, and professional football fields are 100 yards long with two ten-yard end zones. Some high schools play eight-man and six-man teams, in which cases the field is only 80 yards long. There are also several indoor football or arena football leagues in which the field is 50 yards long.

Answer: figure skating

Judges in figure skating rate the athletes' performances on a scale of one to six. Olympic figure skating judging has often in the past been quite controversial, especially in the discipline of ice dancing.

Answer: Sherman Alexie

"Ten Little Indians" was published in 2004. Alexie has written short stories, poetry, and films. His Wikipedia entry lists a wide variety of 15 awards, from the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1992 to Native Writers Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

Answer: Alfonso X

Known as Alfonso the Wise, he became King of Castile, Leon, and Galicia in 1252 and ruled until his death in 1284. Alfonso established Castilian as the language of higher education in Spain and it has remained as the standard Spanish on radio and television.

Answer: tithe

The word "tithe" comes from Old English and, according to "TheFreeDictionary" online, the word was used for the ordinal number "tenth" in England long ago. "Donation" comes from the Middle English "donare", meaning to give or present. In Latin, the word "taxare" meant to estimate or evaluate, while the word "duty" comes from the Middle English "duete", meaning due.

Answer: discipline in the Roman army

When members of a Roman legion deserted or when a legion was deemed to have failed its duty, ten soldiers would be singled out, one of whom would be chosen by lot to be beaten to death by the other nine. This provided an extreme form of what we might today call peer pressure and resulted in great discipline. Today, however, we think if something is decimated, a much larger proportion than just ten percent is destroyed.

Answer: slow pitch softball

Besides the pitching differences from fast pitch softball, which are many and varied, slow pitch adds a tenth player defensively called a rover, who commonly is used as a fourth outfielder. A basic pitching difference between slow pitch and fast pitch is that in the former, the pitch must include an arc, generally required to be between three and ten feet. Recreational slow pitch leagues are often coed, with a multitude of rule variations.