XI. TRIVIAS AND GAMES

Question: Most people think these large objects originated in Holland, but actually they began in Persia around 650 A.D. What are they?

·         WINDMILLS

Question: What is the name for the science or study of plants?

·         BOTANY

Question: This one time Ivory Soap box model starred in the X-rated film, Behind the Green Door. Who is it?

·         MARILYN CHAMBERS

Question: What was the only part of the current United States invaded by the Japanese during WWII?

·         Alaska

Q: The fastest train in the United States runs between which two major cities?

·         NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON  Question: In a single-elimination sports tournament beginning with 64 teams, how many games are played altogether until only one team, the champion, remains? ·         63 - one game for each losing team Question: Left-handedness has sometimes been considered inferior to right-handedness. In fact, the words for "left" in Latin and French have negative meanings. What are these words?

·         LATIN - SINISTRA / FRENCH - GAUCHE

Question: From the Greek word for 'book' comes what name for a library?

·         BIBLIOTHECA, from Greek biblion, book. from biblos, papyrus, book / also Bible

Question: This word relates to art, architecture, painting, sculpture, and fiction: it can describe elaborate 13th-15th century architecture or grotesque, medieval fiction. What is this adjective

·         GOTHIC

Question: The word "zero," indicating "something empty," comes from what language?

·         Either ARABIC or ITALIAN [Italian, from alteration of Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic èifr, nothing]