Totally Miscellaneous Trivia! IV Quiz

Answer: Fog line.

It keeps you in the lane during fog, I suppose.

Answer: Nipper.

Nipper was a fox terrier and was inspired by a painting called "His Master's Voice" by Francis Barraud. Interestingly the original painting included the casket of Barraud's brother, who had owned Nipper.

Answer: A brothel.

For example, in Spanish "barrio de los lupanares" is a red-light district.

Answer: To allow the maximum typing speed possible.

Original keyboards were in alphabetical order but the mechanical arms of the typewriting kept jamming. The current keyboard pattern was designed to prevent these mechanical conflicts, by placing commonly used letters at a greater distance from each other.

Answer: Chromium.

Actually, the chromium (as chromium oxide) is a coating on the surface of the steel.

Answer: W, J and V.

J and V finally appeared around 1630. Before the late 1700's, spelling was not important as long as a person could pronounce the word.

Answer: The green parts of a carrot above the root.

Apricot pits contain a chemical which turns to cyanide during digestion. Potatoes are a member of the deadly nightshade family. Rhubarb leaves are toxic only if eaten in large quantities and are corrosive to the stomach!

Answer: Iraq.

The Iraqis claim he committed "suicide" by pumping four well-aimed shots into himself. What a guy!

Answer: 1:00, 5:00 or 9:00.

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a regular clock? Anyway, one bell is 12:30 p.m., two bells is 1:00 p.m., three bells is 1:30 p.m. etcetera every half hour until 8 bells indicates that it is 4:00 p.m. then we start all over again!

This use of bells for time keeping orginated when one of the ship's boys would have the duty of watching an hourglass taking half an hour and the turning it when the sand had run out. When he turned the glass, he struck the bell as a signal that he turned the hourglass. This evolved into the tradition of ringing the bells one through 8 through a four hour "watch".

Answer: 2.

They are David, Viscount Linley (b. 1961) and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (b. 1964) both children of her sister Princess Margaret (1930-2002).

Answer: William R. King.

Vice President King served under President Franklin Pierce.

Answer: American Girl Guides.

The name was changed in 1913.

Answer: Charles Russell.

Originally incorporated as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania in 1884, the name was changed to Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931.

Answer: They each won an Oscar for best director.

Curtiz in 1943 for "Casablanca". Schlesinger in 1969 for "Midnight Cowboy" and Schaffner in 1970 for "Patton".

Answer: 5,033.

I am not sure how many flights per day make that run!

Answer: MARS

Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation; Scuba = Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus; Radar = RAdio Detection And Ranging.

Answer: 1939.

The flight took place August 27, 1939 in Germany. The aircraft was a Heinkel He 178.

Answer: Eero Saarinen.

Eero Saarinen designed the Gateway Arch and the Trans World Flight Center in New York City.

Answer: They are well known cartoonists.

Hokinson (1900 - 1949) = "The New Yorker"; Judge (b. 1962) = "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill"; Oliphant (b. 1935) = Political cartoons.

Answer: San Diego Register.

The San Diego "Daily Transcript" is the business and legal newspaper, the San Diego "Union Tribune" is the major San Diego newspaper and the "North County Times" covers most of the nothern county and southern Riverside County.