TOMMY'S GALAXY OF TRIVIA

Answer U.S.S. Mayaguez

What was the 1st manned U.S. space station?

Answer SKYLAB

What was the 1st American city to host the Olympics (1904)?

Answer St.Louis

Where did Louis & Clark's expedition start from?

Answer St. Louis

Who administered the 1st smallpox vaccination (1796)?

Answer Edward Jenner

Who became King of France in 1643 at age 4?

Answer Louis XIV

Where did Douglas Corrigan's land to end his famous flight from Roosevelt Field, N.Y. to California?

Answer Dublin, Ireland (giving birth to his nickname of "Wrongway" Corrigan)

What is the #1 cause of work related deaths in the U.S.?

Answer Automobile accidents

Who invented the thermos?

Answer James Dewer

Who was the 1st victim in Bram Stoker's "Dracula"?

Answer Lucy Westenra

Who invented scissors?

Answer Leonardo DaVinci

Who discovered oxygen & invented carbonated water?

Answer Joseph Priestly

Who used the aliases Eric Starvo, Ramon George Sneyd and Paul Bridgeman?

Answer James Earl Ray

Who was President of the U.S. when the U.S. troops defeated Santa Anna?

Answer James Polk

Who was the 1st man to fly solo across Australia?

Answer Harry Houdini

Who captured Rome in 410AD without a battle?

Answer The Visogoths

What is the oldest park in the U.S.?

Answer Boston Common

Which Marx Brother never appeared in any of their movies?

Answer Gummo

Who suffered 5 nevous breakdowns before becoming U.S. President?

Answer Warren G. Harding

Where did Alexander the Great die?

Answer Babylon

What is the only nation to play in every soccer World Cup?

Answer Brazil

Who made the 1st telephone call to the moon?

Answer Richard Nixon

What country won the only Olympic gold medal for cricket(1900)?

Answer Great Britain

Where are 1 out of every 4 cans of tuna sold in the U.S. sold?

Answer New York City

Which U.S. President married his wife before she was officially divorced?

Answer Andrew Jackson

What did Paul Jones, George Smith, Omar Khayam & Tomy Lee all accomplish?

Answer Won the Kentucky Derby (all are horses)

Who created Woody Woodpecker?

Answer Walter Lantz

What group was founded by H.N. Arrowsmith Jr. in 1950?

Answer American Nazi Party

What is Italy's largest lake?

Answer Lake Maggliore

Answer Fritz Lang

Who managed the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901-1950?

Answer Connie Mack

What was Calvin Coolidge's wife's maiden name?

Answer Grace Goodhue

What were the 3 fates names in Greek mythology?

Answer Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

Who was the first Secretary of Treasury of the U.S.?

Answer Alexander Hamilton

Who pitched the most career shutouts in Major League Baseball history?

Answer Walter Johnson

What animal is Cricetus Cricetus?

Answer Hamster

What was completed in Paris in 1313, 150 years after it was begun?

Answer Notre Dame Cathedral

What French soldier & writer was born in 1740 & spent his last 11 years of life in an insane asylum?

Answer Marquis DeSade

Who was murdered at Ekaterinburg in July 1918?

Answer Czar Nicholas & Family

What was the archaologist's name who discovered Troy & Mycenae?

Answer Heinrich Schliemann

What is the longest river in Maine?
Answer Penobscot River

Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry & 1962 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer Linus Pauling

What city was founded as Yerba Buena in 1776 by the Spanish & renamed in 1847?
Answer San Francisco

Who was the 1st person to fly solo around the world(1933)?
Answer Wiley Post

What year was the F.B.I. founded?
Answer 1908

What is the largest Mediterrenean island?
Answer Sicily

What is the longest fresh water lake in the world?
Answer Lake Tanganyika

What is Hansen's Disease more commonly known as?
Answer Leprocy

What is the largest North American Desert?
Answer Chihuahuan Desert

Where is the lowest point in Europe?
Answer Caspian Sea

What is the highest mountain in Canada?
Answer Mount Logan

What caused Sandy Duncan to go blind in one eye?
Answer Brain Tumor

Where was Babe Ruth born?
Answer Baltimore

Who's birthname was Leslie Lynch King Jr.?
Answer Gerald Ford

Where is the world's largest 4-faced clock?
Answer Milwaukee, Wisconsin

What is the occupation of Charlie Brown's father?
Answer Barber

Who was the 1st president chosen under the terms of the 25th Ammendment?
Answer Gerald Ford

Who was the first British Prime Minister of Jewish ancestry?

Answer Benjamin Disraeli

Answer Mary Ann Evans

What was Warren G. Harding's middle name?

Answer Gamaliel

What was the world's first steel wire suspension bridge?

Answer Brooklyn Bridge

Who wrote "Waiting for Godot"?

Answer Samuel Barclay Beckett

Who sang "Goin Up The Country"?

Answer Canned Heat

Which river is Victoria Falls located on?

Answer Zambesi River

Name the band (besides Jefferson Airplane) that featured Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady?

Answer Hot Tuna

What name was used by all 15 Egyptian kings during the Macedonian Dynasty?

Answer Ptolemy

What is the longest name signed to the Declaration of Independence?

Answer Charles Carroll of Carollton

Who served as President in-between Grover Cleveland's terms?

Answer Benjamin Harrison

Name the four U.S. Presidents who had no Vice President?

Answer John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur

Where is the birthplace of Buddha?

Answer Lumbini, Nepal

Answer Old Bailey

Who was the 1st U.S. President born an American citizen?

Answer Martin Van Buren

What was William H. Taft's wife's maiden name?

Answer Helen Herron

What city has had the most U.S. Vice-Presidents die in it?

Answer Washington D.C.

What country is the world's #1 producer of copper?

Answer Chile

Who played James Dean's father in "Rebel Without a Cause"?

Answer Jim Backus

Who wrote "The Man Who Would Be King"?

Answer Rudyard Kipling

Who found King Tut's tomb?

Answer Howard Carter

Who played Ralphie in "A Christmas Story"?

Answer Peter Billingsley

What Spaniard landed in Tampa Bay May 30, 1539?

Answer Hernando De Soto

Who was the only U.S. President to serve as a Supreme Court Justice after serving as President?

Answer William Howard Taft