General Mixture of Questions Trivia Quiz

Answer: Keystone Cops

The Keystone Cops were fictional slapstick comedy policemen featured in silent films that started in 1912. The Keystone Cops would be associated with comedian Charlie Chaplin. In 1955, two of the original Keystone Cops, Hank Mann and Heinie Conklin would appear in "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops".

Answer: Shazam

Captain Marvel is a superhero that was republished by DC Comics in 1972. Captain Marvel's alter ego of Billy Batson would use "SHAZAM" the acronym of six immortal elders named Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury to transform.

Answer: The Nobel Peace Prize

George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Chief of Staff in 1939. Truman appointed him Secretary of State in 1947. He would finish his career as Secretary of Defense in 1951.

Answer: Dunhill

James Bond used a Dunhill lighter along with other accessories such as a Dunhill belt and gold/silver Dunhill cufflinks in "Tomorrow Never Dies". Alfred Dunhill developed the British company with a line of accessories for automobiles. The assortment would include car horns, lamps, and etc. which led to the tagline "Everything But The Motor".

Answer: Little Sure Shot

Phoebe Mozee was born 13 August 1860. She was a world-famous markswoman. She would join "Buffalo Bill" Cody Wild West Show and became known as "Miss Annie Oakley". She starred in an exhibition of rifle shooting called 'The Little Sure Shot" of the Wild West.

Answer: 3

Ants are insects, so have six legs, and each leg has three joints. Ant legs are connected to the thorax. Ants have two front legs, two middle legs, and two back legs.

Answer: Ford

Gerald Ford was target of two assassination attempts; The first attempt was by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme on 5 September 1975 in Sacramento, California. The second attempt was by Sara Jane Moore on 22 September 1975 in San Francisco, California.

Answer: Shade

The barrera is the ringside barrier seats in the shade are the most expensive. The closer to the action you are the more expensive the seat. The sun (sol) seating is the cheapest at a bullfight. The sol y sombra is mid-level priced seating which is sun and shade seating.

Answer: Common air

Joseph Priestley found that air is not an elementary substance but a composition of gases. The colorless and highly reactive gas he called "dephlogisticated air" that French chemist Antoine Lavoisier would name "oxygen". In 1774, Priestley conducted his most famous experiment. He could determine the gas emitted was five or six times as good as common air.

Answer: 3

Johann Strauss II was the Austrian composer of "The Blue Danube" waltz. His first wife Henrietta Treffz died of a heart attack in 1878. He married his second wife Angelika Dittrich in 1878 but divorced in 1882. He would marry his third wife Adele Deutsch in 1887.