A Miscellany of Trivia Trivia Quiz

Answer: 42

Roosevelt became president in 1901 at the age of 42 after the assassination of President McKinley at the hands of Leon Czolgosz.
Kennedy was elected president in 1961 at the age of 43, making him the youngest elected president at that time. Roosevelt was president for two terms. Kennedy was famously assassinated in Dallas on Friday, November 22, 1963 at the age of 46.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marxist, was arrested for this crime, but was never brought to trial because he in turn was murdered by Jack Ruby two days later. Ruby was sentenced to death, but died during the course of appeal proceedings.

Answer: Ghana

Lake Volta is retained by the Akosombo Dam constructed on the Volta River. Lake Victoria is a natural lake divided between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Zambia and Zimbabwe are home to Lake Kariba, which is an artificial lake retained by the Kariba dam. The Akosombo Dam was constructed between 1961 and 1965.

Answer: Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous urban area of Scandinavia. It comprises 14 islands joined together by more than 50 bridges. It is situated on Sweden's east coast where the freshwater Lake Mälaren drains into the Baltic Sea.

Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist who designed and built the first version of the World Wide Web at CERN in Geneva. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Twitter is the brainchild of Jack Dorsey. Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple.

Answer: Jurassic

The three time periods in the Mesozoic Era are the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous in that order. The Carboniferous and Permian periods occurred in the Paleozoic Era just before the Triassic Era. The Jurassic period started 145 million years ago and lasted more than 56 million years. The Jurassic was the golden age of the sauropods, which were large herbivorous dinosaurs.

Answer: Irish

Abraham "Bram" Stoker, famed for his 1897 Gothic novel 'Dracula', was born in Dublin in 1847. He visited the Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby in 1890 and that experience is thought to be part of the inspiration for his best known work. It is in Whitby that Count Dracula's ship runs aground near the start of the story.

Answer: Drums

Karen Carpenter was a talented drummer with a beautiful contralto voice. She and her brother Richard made up the duo known as the Carpenters. Sadly, she suffered from anorexia nervosa and died at the age of 32 from complications of this illness.

Answer: Earth

In our solar system, there are four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). The terrestrial planets are also called the 'inner planets'. The Jovian planets are also called the 'outer planets' or 'gas giants'.

The order of the planets in terms of density (from most to least dense) is: Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn.

Answer: Chamonix, France

The Winter Olympics were hosted by Chamonix in 1924, by St Moritz in 1928 and 1948 and by Innsbruck in 1964 and 1976. Chamonix is situated in the Haute-Savoie region of southeastern France at the base of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps. It is near the border between France, Switzerland and Italy.

Answer: Guyana

Demerara is a light brown partially refined sugar that comes in the form of quite large crunchy crystals. It has its origins in Guyana, but is now produced in other countries, including Mexico and India. Guyana's capital and largest seaport Georgetown is situated on the Demerara river where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.