Totally Miscellaneous Trivia I Quiz

Answer: The Fuwalda

Tarzan's parents were put ashore in Africa and that is where Tarzan was born. Tarzan's parents died and Tarzan was raised by the apes.

Answer: William F. Buckley, Jr.

William F. Buckley, Jr. was the founder of the National Review magazine and wrote "God & Man at Yale" in 1951.

Answer: A marriage and family counsellor

Gary Smalley has taught seminars throughout North America on marriage and the family. He has written such books as "If Only He Knew", "Joy That Lasts" and "For Better Or Best".

Answer: Walter Sickert

Ms. Cornwell writes a most convincing book on the subject called "Portrait of a Kill; Jack the Ripper Case Closed."

Answer: Aurora Borealis

The Aurora Borealis is a broad display of rather faint light in the northern skies at night. The sun produces a stream of charged particles, called the solar wind. Some of these particles are trapped by the Earth's magnetic field and form along the lines of magnetic flux.

These lines all converge at the north and south poles which concentrate the particles. At that point, collisions between these particles and the atoms in the atmosphere result in the glow we call the Northern Lights. The same thing occurs at the south pole which is called the Aurora Australis.

Answer: True

Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She lectures throughout the US and abroad and is Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina since 1981.

She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration.

Information from http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/maya/maya1.htm.

Answer: A beet (beetroot)

Beets (beetroots) are a summer vegetable that are good eaten cold and hot.

Answer: Saxophone

The Selmer "Cigar Cutter" was first introduced in 1930. It had a bigger bore than earlier models and a more comfortable key lay out. There is a flat plate on the saxophone which reminds some of a cigar tip cutter.

Answer: Insurance companies selling each other parts of a large risk policy.

Reinsurance is a form of insurance that insurance companies purchase from other insurance companies. This is done to reduce the possible maximum loss on a risk. Reinsurance guarantees that one insurance company will not be finanacially impacted by a large loss.

Answer: Indiana

Hungary is not a large country. In fact, South Korea, Iceland and Cuba are larger. Hungary consists of 35,650 square miles while Indiana is 36,420 square miles.