April 2017 - Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

Jazz Nicknames Trivia

The Aristocrat of Swing, or The Duke

Answer: Duke Ellington

College Basketball Trivia

The NCAA has trademarked this alliterative nickname for the semifinals of its championship tournament

Answer: the final four

Jazz Nicknames Trivia

Yardbird

Answer: Charlie Parker

College Basketball Trivia

In one of college basketball’s biggest upsets, Villanova beat this Patrick Ewing-led D.C. school for the 1985 men’s title

Answer: Georgetown

Jazz Nicknames Trivia

Sassy

Answer: Sarah Vaughan

College Basketball Trivia

The Lady Bears of this Texas school went 40-0 en route to winning the 2012 women’s champtionship

Answer: Baylor

Jazz Nicknames Trivia

The First Lady of Jazz

Answer: Ella Fitzgerald

College Basketball Trivia

In the 1957 men’s final, N. Carolina sent 5’11” Tommy Kearns to jump center against this 7′ Kansas “stilt”– & won the game

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

Jazz Nicknames Trivia

The Empress of the Blues

Answer: Bessie Smith

College Basketball Trivia

The NCAA has trademarked this alliterative nickname for the semifinals of its championship tournament

Answer: the final four

The Human Body Trivia

For most right-handed people, speech area is located on this side of the brain

Answer: left side

College Basketball Trivia

In one of college basketball’s biggest upsets, Villanova beat this Patrick Ewing-led D.C. school for the 1985 men’s title

Answer: Georgetown

The Human Body Trivia

The lacrimal glands secrete these, espcially at the end of a 3-hanky movie

Answer: tears

College Basketball Trivia

The Lady Bears of this Texas school went 40-0 en route to winning the 2012 women’s champtionship

Answer: Baylor

The Human Body Trivia

Of 57,000, 107,000, or 700,000, approximate # of gallons of blood the heart pumps in a year

Answer: 700,000