Five a Day Trivia Quiz

Answer: Red Nichols

Ernest "Red" Nichols was a cornetist and bandleader during the Big Band Era. Although he played with various groups and numbers of musicians he always referred to them as The Five Pennies as a play on the word "nickel" which sounded similar to his surname. His style was heavily influenced by legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke.

Answer: Baseball

Baseball is a wild card variation of Seven Card Stud in which all nines are wild, a three in the "hole" is wild and a four dealt face up entitles the player to an extra face up card. A three dealt face up stops the hand.

"Lowball" is a five card draw game in which the lowest ranking hand wins.

Answer: Frank Sinatra

"Five Minutes More" was written by the legendary team of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. They wrote it for the movie "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi". Frank Sinatra's recording reached number one on the Billboard Pop Chart on September 14, 1946 and remained there for four weeks.

Answer: touch

The word "tactile" is derived from the Latin word "tactilis" which literally translates to "tangible". Dictionary.com defines it as "pertaining to, endowed with or affecting the sense of touch with a secondary definition of perceptible or tangible to the touch". A tactile map, for example, would have raised landmarks to enable the blind to find their way.

Answer: Lake Michigan

The first person to reach the bottom of Lake Michigan was a scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee named J. Val Klump in 1985. The lake is widely used for the transport of bulk goods. Seven major rivers flow into the lake. It has an average depth of 279 feet.

Answer: Paul Desmond

At just 52, Paul Desmond passed away from lung cancer in 1977. Bis father was a musician, composer and arranger. He began playing the clarinet at age twelve, but picked up the alto saxophone while a freshman at San Francisco State College.

Answer: K

There are 100 tiles in a Scrabble set, 98 of which are letters with varying point values. The other two are blanks and can be used in place of any letter but have no point value. Although the letter "S" is worth only one point it is highly valuable as it can be added to an existing word on the board to pluralize it and enable all the letters in the word to be counted again.

Answer: 3

Idaho, Maine and Texas are the only state names with five letters.

The origin of Idaho's name is undetermined. Many history books say it came from the Shoshone language. A lobbyist named George Willing used that story to promote the name, then later said he made it up. The origin of Maine's name is also uncertain, but it was likely named for the French province of Maine. The name "Texas" comes from the Native American language, Caddo. "Tejas" means friend.

Answer: Five Second Rule

The popularity of the game "Five Second Rule" soared when Ellen Degeneres began featuring it on her show. With her DJ "Twitch" acting as moderator she has played it with such diverse celebrities as Bradley Cooper, Will Smith and Cardi B. The game was invented by Michael Sistrunk.

Answer: V

As the name suggests, the Roman numeral system originated in ancient Rome. The system was adopted and used throughout Europe well into the Middle Ages. The letter "L" stands for 50, "C" stands for 100 and "X" stands for ten. The system has remained in use for various things, such as identifying monarchs, popes, the year a movie or TV show was made, etc.