THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION FOR DIEHARD TRIVIA BUFFS
(AND THE REST OF US WHO THINK WE KNOW A THING OR TWO).
Language / Art , Comics & Literature / Presidential Trivia / The World / Television & Radio / Sports & Games / War & the Military / America--Past & Present / Religion, the Bible & Mythology / Music & Theater / Science / Nature & Medicine / The Cinema / Food / Business, Advertising & Inventions / Miscellaneous
Including:
What Oscar-winning film featured a scene with an estimated 300,000 extras? --GHANDI. The scene in the 1982 film was a recreation of the Indian leader's massive funeral in New Delhi on January 31, 1948.
What country once was plagued by a murderous religious sect whose members were called thugs? --INDIA. The group was wiped out by the British in the 19th century, but its name is still used to describe criminals.
What singer, as a teenager, ended up in juvenile detention center for shoplifting a Kiss T-shirt? --COURTNEY LOVE
In the late 1920s, who arranged 200 golf balls in neat rows in the hollow of a fallen tree at a public golf course in Winnnipeg, Canada? --A GOPHER, in the mistaken belief that they were eggs and would make appetizing wintertime eating.
