Today's Trivia Questions

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In a single-elimination sports tournament beginning with 64 teams, how many games are played altogether until only one team, the champion, remains?

8

They were teacher and student, and lived around 300 B.C. in Greece. One was possibly the greatest soldier of ancient times, the other was possibly the greatest thinker. Who were they?

11

After the stabbing death of two teenagers by another teenager in 1959, some radio stations banned this Bobby Darin hit record from "The Threepenny Opera." What was the song title?

16

The framework of the Statue of Liberty was designed by which well-known European engineer?

8

The Mayan Indian empire flourished in this particular country for over 1,000 years before the Spanish arrived. Even today, more than half the population are Mayans. What country is this?

11

In 1988, after the US Congress passed the National FIlm Preservation Act, 25 films were selected as "culturally, historically, or esthetically significant." All these films were made before 1977, except which one?

9

What is the date setting of the original "Call of Duty"?

8

Considered the social and academic equivalent of the Ivy League colleges, the Seven Sisters Colleges, set up in 1915, were among the pioneers in higher education for women in the United States. Four of these colleges are Mount Holyoke, Barnard, Bryn Mawr,

19

Which is the world's most populated country containing a predominantly Moslem population?

4

Which three colleges hold the record of having won the most national championships

15

What religion follows the teachings of the Guru Granth Sahib?

11

As heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 to 1948, which boxer won 25 consecutive championship fights?

19

In 1947 the Norwegian ethnologist and author Thor Heyerdahl confirmed that ancient Indians could have sailed from Peru to Polynesia, and in 1970, he confirmed that ancient Egyptians could have settled the West Indies. What were the names of the two boats

17

What is the two word name for the moment around September 21 of each year when day and night are approximately equal in length?

19

Advertising slogans: a. Which product used the slogan, "The quality goes in before the name goes on" b. Which toothpaste had an ingredient called "hexachlorophene" ?