Potpourri Trivia - July / CNT Trivia Tuesdays

In what city was it illegal for women to wear trousers in public without a permit until 2013?

What was the first major highway constructed & funded by the US government?

What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write in 1851 to call for abolishing slavery?

What state has the most strip clubs per capita because full nudity & lap dances were ruled protected speech?

What do Leonard Bernstein, Count Basie, Walt Disney, Betty Grable and Ayn Rand have in common?

1950s trivia: What did you have to send in to receive a Captain Midnight decoder ring?

What is the World’s busiest bridge?

We’ve all heard of suicide and homicide, but a much rarer occurrence is pseudocide. What is it?

Who else was murdered in 1978 with openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk?

1980 Boston Marathon: Rosie Ruiz ran one of the fastest times for a woman. How did she do it?

Which invention by John Deere is said to have been inspired by the tough prairie soil of Illinois?

Of the following, who was not one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence?

What is today?

In 2022, New York has 40M people and food supply is short so Soylent corp makes synthetic food from:

“While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping!” Who wrote The Raven?

Who is the only player to get 3,000 hits while on the New York Yankees?

What does the ‘RMS’ mean in RMS Titanic?

Which state is home to both the hottest and one of the snowiest places in the United States?

Who was ‘Time’ magazine’s ‘Man Of The Year’ in 1938?

His pen name was Dr. Seuss. Who was he?

Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl was actually NOT written about his wife Christie Brinkley. Who was it then?

What is NYC’s busiest subway station?

1950s trivia: What is Ipana?

First reported in 1915, where might you see mysterious “Sailing Stones”?

What did George Sand and George Eliot have in common?

What is the name of the all-powerful computer network of the future in the ‘Terminator’ movies?

This 1980s item was discontinued because it’s edges proved violent enough to draw blood:

How many colors are in a rainbow?

What substance is added to yellow-gold to make rose-gold?

Back in the sixties, which laundry detergent claimed to be “stronger than dirt”?

Olympic flag rings are blue, yellow, black, green, & red. What is the background color?

What was the term used by WWII pilots for UFOs that were seen while in battle?

What is the longest running play in the history of Broadway?

What is the smallest sized iceberg called?

What actually spread the Black Death?

JFK and LBJ. What did the “F” and “B” stand for respectively?

Which of the following is NOT the name of a Belgian chocolate manufacturer?

On the original ‘Star Trek’, what material is the source of a starship’s power?

Who envisioned a world in which the working class ran production so government would be unnecessary?

Who is the only U.S. President born in Connecticut?

Who was nicknamed “Father of the U.S. Constitution”?

What icon of American cuisine was banned from French elementary schools in 2011 for “cultural reasons”?

What country produces the most olive oil in the world?

Who hit the last home run at Yankee Stadium in 2008?

What European country produces the SECOND MOST number of cars?

Mount Kosciuszko is the tallest mountain in this country:

In 1924, the first winter Olympics were held in:

It’s 1997. Who announces that its membership has reached 10 million people?

Who coined the phrase that refers to “fifteen minutes of fame”?

Which entertainer was born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz?