August 2015 - Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

Around The Kitchen Trivia

This company put its Mixmaster on the market in 1930 & sold 60,000 of them the first year

Answer: Sunbeam

Chance Trivia

The 2 main types of object whose danger is gauged on the Torino scale; a 3 means a 1% chance of destructive impact

Answer: comets & asteroids

Philadelphia Trivia

In early 1976 this was removed from Independence Hall & moved across the street

Answer: the Liberty Bell

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Someone who lives shamelessly on someone else’s generosity

Answer: a freeloader

Philadelphia Trivia

Kelly Drive is named for this princess’ brother & father, both Olympic rowing medalists

Answer: Grace Kelly

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During the Amer. Revolution, both the British & Colonial armies had traveling field lodges of this society

Answer: the Freemasons

Philadelphia Trivia

The Curtis Center houses a museum devoted to this Saturday Evening Post illustrator

Answer: Norman Rockwell

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Thanks to this act of Congress, you can request & read the files the FBI has on you

Answer: the Freedom of Information Act

Philadelphia Trivia

Built in 1895, the original Quadrangle of this university was based on Oxford & Cambridge

Answer: the University of Pennsylvania

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(Hi, I’m Paula Zahn.) Interviewing everyone from diplomats to soldiers’ families, I anchored CNN’s coverage of this 2003 U.S. military “operation”

Answer: Iraqi Freedom

Philadelphia Trivia

William Penn’s plan for the city covered a strip of land between the Schuylkill & this river

Answer: the Delaware River

"free" Parking Trivia

It’s the capital & largest city in the nation of Sierra Leone

Answer: Freetown

Animal House Trivia

This bear that lives in frigid regions is also called the ice bear

Answer: the polar bear

19th Century Africa Trivia

In the 1830s this group began its “Great Trek” north from Cape Colony to gain freedom from British rule

Answer: the Boers

Animal House Trivia

Eagles & ferrets are enemies of these “canine” rodents of the Great Plains

Answer: prairie dogs