Imagine If.... Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sacramento, California

That's right, you'd go to the capital of California, Sacramento. For travelers it was an important location between the California gold fields and San Francisco. The fort has been carefully reconstructed, and visitors are most welcome. The fort is on the National Register of Historic Places, a U.S. National Landmark, and a California Historic Landmark.

Answer: Nevada

Highway 50 in Nevada became known as "The Loneliest Road in America" when "Life" magazine described it as such in 1986. We know it is pretty bare of humans, but it's very scenic and historic. The Pony Express, the Overland Trail and the historic Lincoln Highway followed these 287 miles. It runs E/W through Central Nevada to Carson City in the west.

Answer: A. Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn was afraid if he went to Sweden to accept the prize "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature", that he wouldn't be let back in the Soviet Union. He was able to accept the honor in 1974 because he had been deported from the Soviet Union.

Some of his notable works are "Cancer Ward", "The First Circle", and "The Gulag Archipelago".

Quotation: "Nobel Prize in Literature 1970". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 17 October 2008.

Answer: Wildair

Wildair was said to be a magnificent steed, the favorite of Jefferson during his presidential years and most suited to a President of the US. He was purchased by Jefferson in 1801. Jefferson was President 1801-09.

A previous favorite mount was named Caractacus, purchased in 1775 and last mentioned by Jefferson in a letter of 1790.

Answer: Women in the U.S. Navy

"Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services" was the name given to the new branch of the Navy in 1942. For the first time, some of the women in the service were commissioned officers who would oversee the lower ranked women. It was just one of the many interesting changes that WWII brought worldwide.

Answer: Careless Tom

Maybe Masaccio was a messy painter or maybe it was a way to tell him from Masolino, "delicate tom". The real name of Masaccio was Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone--too much to sign on a painting, don't you agree?

He was known for his realism in figures and his perspective. Among his many important paintings is "The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden".

Answer: Paper Dolls

It was a lot of fun to play. Many times the paper doll books were with movie stars or they could be dancers or just about anything a girl was interested in. Being fragile, they didn't last long, so sometimes the children would cut out figures from catalogs. (And they probably never said, "I'm bored").

Answer: Orb

Orb was a true champion that day, winning in spite of one of the muddiest tracks ever. A horse that likes to run in the mud is called a 'mudder'. Two horses with 'Golden' in their names ran; Golden Soul was second, and a favorite, Goldencents, usually a contender, was far back.

Answer: The Earth

Earth is the third planet (or rock) in closeness to the sun. I had a professor once who taught us the planets in order from the sun: Mary's Violet Eyes Make Johnny Stay Up Nights...then he'd pause and wait for it, someone would always say, "What about Pluto"? He'd forcibly say, "Phooey"! Everybody laughed - of course that's when Pluto was a planet. It worked; I never forgot it.

Answer: A support for a wall

Buttresses were used in Gothic cathedrals in Europe. Usually they were pillars that stood a little way from the cathedral wall. They were joined to the cathedral by other buttresses, the topmost called a flying buttress. Below that were groined arches and other, smaller pillars. One of the best examples of this type of architecture is Chartes Cathedral in France.