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Triviality Hodgepodge Trivia Quiz

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A multiple-choice quiz by TheLowSpark. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
TheLowSpark

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
1,737

Updated
Jul 09 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
3005

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What American Company was the first to advertise 'Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back'? Hint

Montgomery Ward

J.C.Penney

Sears, Roebuck, Co.

Kmart Corp.

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Question 2 of 10

2. What was the name of the cable TV skit that Tim Allen's sitcom 'Home Improvement' was based on? Hint

Let's Build Together

The Shopkeeper's Friend

Men Are Pigs

Tool Time Tim

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Question 3 of 10

3. What celebrity's real name is Harvey Lee Yeary, II ? Hint

Lee J. Cobb

Lee Majors

Gregory Hines

Benny Hill

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Question 4 of 10

4. What Watergate figure appeared as a drug dealer in an episode of tv's Miami Vice? Hint

G.Gordon Liddy

John Dean

Tip O'Neill

John Mitchell

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Question 5 of 10

5. What famous actor, as a teenager, did time on a Georgia chain gang? Hint

William Holden

James Dean

Robert Mitchum

Mickey Rourke

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Question 6 of 10

6. From where did Christopher Columbus leave on his first voyage in 1492? Hint

Dominica

Trinidad

Honduras

Spain

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who was the 21st President of the United States? Hint

Grover Cleveland

Chester Alan Arthur

Benjamin Harrison

Willliam Howard Taft

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'The Cat in the Hat' is to Dr. Seuss as Rikki Tikki Tavi is to... Hint

Kipling

Burgess

Brown

Kachur

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943? Hint

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Frost

Walt Whitman

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Question 10 of 10

10. Before they were the Beach Boys, what did the band call themselves? Hint

The BCD Brothers

The Deuce Coupes

Kenny and The Cadets

The Surfer Guys

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What American Company was the first to advertise 'Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back'?

Answer: Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward, in 1874----two years after company founder, Aaron Montgomery Ward, launched his mail-order catalog.

2. What was the name of the cable TV skit that Tim Allen's sitcom 'Home Improvement' was based on?

Answer: Men Are Pigs

Men Are Pigs----The skit aired on Showtime in 1990. The sitcom was launched in 1991.

3. What celebrity's real name is Harvey Lee Yeary, II ?

Answer: Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar ex husband of Farrah Fawcett.

4. What Watergate figure appeared as a drug dealer in an episode of tv's Miami Vice?

Answer: G.Gordon Liddy

5. What famous actor, as a teenager, did time on a Georgia chain gang?

Answer: Robert Mitchum

After being arrested for vagrancy, he escaped the chain gang after 6 days.

6. From where did Christopher Columbus leave on his first voyage in 1492?

Answer: Spain

He left Palos, Spain, on Aug. 3, 1492, with 88 men and a fleet of three vessels.

7. Who was the 21st President of the United States?

Answer: Chester Alan Arthur

8. 'The Cat in the Hat' is to Dr. Seuss as Rikki Tikki Tavi is to...

Answer: Kipling

Dr. Seuss wrote the famous children's book The Cat in the Hat. Rudyard Kipling wrote the famous Rikki Tikki Tavi (along with the Jungle Book and other favorites).

9. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943?

Answer: Robert Frost

Robert Frost died in the early 1960's, but not without four Pulitzer Prizes and being twice recognized by the U.S. Senate. He even read one of his works at the inauguration of Pres. John Kennedy.

10. Before they were the Beach Boys, what did the band call themselves?

Answer: Kenny and The Cadets

Source: Author TheLowSpark

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