January 2017 - Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

Pop Music Trivia

This Irish group’s “Rattle and Hum” album topped both the U.S. & U.K. album charts

Answer: U2

Botany Trivia

(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a tree in Cambodia.) The banyan tree, common in Asia, sends out roots that become new trees; botanically, it’s a fig tree & it’s part of this genus whose American versions are a little tamer

Answer: Ficus

Double "d"s Trivia

If someone wishes you “zay gezundt”, he’s blessing you in this language

Answer: Yiddish

Pop Music Trivia

In 1983 this group from down under hit it big with “Down Under”

Answer: Men At Work

Botany Trivia

The duke is a hybrid of the sweet & sour varieties of this fruit tree

Answer: a cherry tree

Double "d"s Trivia

In golf, before hitting the ball you do this to it, in preparation

Answer: address it

Pop Music Trivia

Prior to the Beatles, he was the drummer for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes

Answer: Ringo Starr

Botany Trivia

This lovely flower is from the Greek for “water vessel”

Answer: hydrangea

Double "d"s Trivia

These circular currents that move against the main current occur in wind as well as water

Answer: eddies

Pop Music Trivia

This American rocker’s 1st Top Ten hit in the United Kingdom was “Dancing in the Dark” in 1985

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

Botany Trivia

The pileus is the cap seen on many varieties of these chlorophyll-lacking organisms

Answer: mushrooms

Double "d"s Trivia

Considered her masterpiece, this novel by George Eliot is subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life”

Answer: Middlemarch

Pop Music Trivia

Prince’s #1 hit, “Let’s Go Crazy”, was from this 1984 film

Answer: “Purple Rain”

Botany Trivia

This flower in the primrose family comes in red, blue & white varieties as well as “the scarlet” one

Answer: a pimpernel

Double "d"s Trivia

A toy bear all alone on a store shelf inspired this character seen here

Answer: Paddington Bear