G is for... Trivia Quiz

Answer: University of Florida

Developed by scientists at the University of Florida in 1965, the drink was designed to help replenish the water, carbohydrates and electrolytes the school's athletes lost through sweat while playing. After losing to the Florida Gators' football team in the 1967 Orange Bowl, Georgia Tech coach Bud Carson said the reason his team lost was because "We didn't have Gatorade. That made the difference".

Answer: False

In Roman numerals, an M represents 1000. Developed in the Middle Ages, medieval abbreviations use most of the letters in the English language as symbols for common numbers, which took too long to write out in standard Roman numerals. The G was used for 400, as well was P.

Answer: War of 1812

The Treaty of Ghent was signed on Christmas Eve, 1814. The agreement was signed by the US and the UK, ultimately ending the war. Due to slow communications of the signing, the war waged on in the US sunbelt. The Battle of New Orleans, began on January 8, 1815. Over 400 died and 2000 were injured in that battle, and it is estimated that over 15,000 died during the war.

The US government approved the treaty on February 16, 1815 once word reached North America.

Answer: Explorer

General Motors purchased the brand in 1909 from Max Grabowsky, who had established it on December 22, 1901 as the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company. The General Motors Truck Company became shortened to "GMC Truck". GMC introduced a motorhome model in 1973, but was discontinued five years later. During World War II, the company also produced military vehicles.

Answer: Jeopardy!

In 2003, "Jeopardy!" changed the rules to allow contestants to remain on the show until they lost a game, instead of allowing a maximum of five appearances. Jennings' debut episode aired June 2, 2004. Over the next 182 calendar days, Jennings won 75 consecutive matches, having his streak paused for "Kids Week" and "Jeopardy!"'s annual "College Tournament". Jennings lost to Nancy Zerg, who ended up losing on the next episode. Jennings won $2,522,700 on the show, and has appeared as a guest on many other game shows since.

Answer: Edelweiss

Edelweiss is a relatively new variety of grape developed to bear the winters of the higher latitudes. It is a popular grape of the Midwestern regions that have slowly converted some of their topsoil to vineyards. The other three choices (Bosc, Bartlett and Anjou) are types of pears.

Answer: Gravity is a relatively weak force, and other forces like friction are counteracting it

Gravity is one four fundamental forces of nature (the others are the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces), and is by far the weakest such force. Scientists are also busy searching for the hypothetical "graviton," the particle that would mediate the gravitational force, but they haven't found it yet.

Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation provides for all objects in the universe to attract one another. The magnitude of the gravitational force is given by GMm/r^2, where M and m are the masses of the object in question, r is the distance between them, and G is a proportionality constant. The reason that you're not feeling your monitor's gravitational attraction is that that proportionality constant is very small: about 6.67*10^-11 m^3/kg*s^2. A one hundred kilogram person would be attracted to a one-kilogram computer monitor 1 meter away with less than a billionth of a newton of force, which you just can't feel. Air resistance and friction would prevent that collision from happening any time soon. On the other hand, with very large masses, like the Earth itself, the magnitude of gravity is big enough to make you feel its force, directed downward toward the Earth's center.

Answer: Japan

Jonathan Swift's best-known work is probably "Gulliver's Travels," about Lemuel Gulliver's voyages to unbelievable lands. Each locale satirizes a different part of humanity and society, while still managing to be riotously funny. Gulliver goes to Lilliput, land of tiny men, who are feuding with a neighboring island Blefuscu over the proper way to crack an egg.

Then he goes to Brobdingnag, where the tables are turned: the inhabitants there are giants. On his third voyage, Gulliver visits the flying island of Laputa, which consists of philosophers and scientists, but no real practical thought.

He island-hops around, eventually landing in Japan, with the aforementioned anti-Christian sentiment, and transiting from there to England. Finally, on his last trip, Gulliver goes to Houyhnhnms, which is inhabited by intelligent horses and their dull humanoid servants, the Yahoos.

When Gulliver makes it back to England, he's understandably fed up with human society, and prefers the company of horses instead.

Answer: South Guinea

All three Guinea countries are located in Africa. And that is pretty much all they have in common! Guinea is a French-speaking country on the Atlantic Coast, and the largest of the three Guineas. The capital is Conakry, and it had 9.4 million people in the country in 2012. Guinea-Bissau borders Guinea to the northwest, and has an Atlantic Ocean border.

A Portuguese-speaking country, it is the middle of the Guinea's in size. Then there is Equatorial Guinea, farther south on the African continent, located on the--yep you guessed it--Gulf of Guinea.

The capital is Malabo, and French, Spanish and Portuguese are the official languages.

Answer: Film and Television

The first ever Golden Globes were handed out in 1944. The Golden Globes are commonly a buildup to the Academy Awards later in the Awards season. Funds raised from the events go to various entertainment-based children's charities, and fund scholarships for television and film careers. Ricky Gervais was the first host of the awards show in 2010, in its 62nd year. Before, one of the presenters introduced the show.