Brass Tacks Trivia

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1. At 9:04 in the morning on September 2, 1945, what famous American military figure affixed his signature to Japan’s Instrument of Surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri?

Answer: >General Douglas MacArthur<

2. What famous general was known as Old Blood and Guts?

Answer: >George S.  Patton<

3. What American was made a Brigadier General at the age of 23?

Answer: >George Custer<

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1. In what year did the original basketball “Dream Team” (composed of NBA players) compete?

Answer: >1992<

2. Who was the first non-referee to toss the coin at the beginning of a Super Bowl game?

Answer: >Red Grange<

3. The San Francisco Giants were slated to play what team in the 1989 World Series when an earthquake rocked the city’s Candlestick Park?

Answer: >Oakland A’s<

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1. Predicting it would be the “biggest flop in Hollywood history,” Gary Cooper turned down a lead role in what 1939 film blockbuster?

Answer: >Gone with the Wind<

2. What was the name given to the group of screenwriters and directors who refused to give testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947?

Answer: >The Hollywood Ten<

3. Who was found dead in Hollywood’s Landmark Motor Hotel on October 4, 1970?

Answer: >Janis Joplin<

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1. What are the three races that make up the Triple Crown?

Answer: >Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes<

2. What are the 4 events of tennis’ Grand Slam?

Answer: >Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open<

3. In golf, what are the four events of the majors?

Answer: >Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship<

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1. What was the name of the college in Animal House?

Answer: >Faber College<

2. Nobody puts Baby in a corner, but what was Baby’s actual name?

Answer: >Frances Hausman<

3. What song by the group Simple Minds was made popular by the movie The Breakfast Club?

Answer: >Don’t You (Forget About Me)<

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1. What does the German term “Fahrvergnuegen” mean?
Answer: >“Driving Pleasure” or “Driving Enjoyment”<

2. What famous book has a lesser-known alternate title of “Life Among the Lowly”?
Answer: >Uncle Tom’s Cabin <

3. The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. What plane dropped with bomb on Nagasaki?
Answer: >Bockscar<

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1. What poet coined the phrase “candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker?”
Answer: >Ogden Nash<

2. What is the last book of the Old Testament?
Answer: >The Books of Chronicles<

3. What is the world’s highest mountain that isn’t part of a range?
Answer: >Mount Kilimanjaro<

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1. What were the names of the 3 musketeers?
Answer: >Athos, Porthos, and Aramis <

2. According to legend, whose cow started the great Chicago fire?
Answer: >Catherine O’Leary’s<

3. “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” was originally featured in what Disney film?
Answer: >Cinderella<

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1. “Friends of Bill W.” is another name for what organization?
Answer: >Alcoholics Anonymous<

2. The first Rolling Stones song to hit the British Top-20 was what Beatles song?
Answer: >I Wanna Be Your Man<

3. What admiral of the American Revolution is considered to be the father of the U.S. Navy?
Answer: >John Paul Jones<

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1. Famous artists Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, M.C. Escher, and Bosch are all from what country of origin?
Answer: >The Netherlands<

2. After being exposed to the measles, what astronaut was scrubbed from the Apollo 13 moon mission?
Answer: >Ken Mattingly<

3. When the Lakers moved to Los Angeles, they kept their team name even though it was more appropriate to their original home, which was where?
Answer: >Minneapolis, MN<

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