Monday, May 5, 2008
The daily winner was Linda E.
Answer #1
You'll pass the New London Theatre walking from Aldwych to High Holborn
along this lane. What is Drury Lane?
Answer #2
The Boston Common fronts on this street, also the name of a nearby hill.
What is Beacon Street?
Answer #3
Columbus, Ohio's main drag is called this, more often the British term for a
city's main street. What is High Street?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The daily winner was Rosalyn P.
Answer #1
Exuma Cays land and sea park lies just south of Nassau in this country in
the West Indies. What is the Bahamas?
Answer #2
This 4,000-acre Los Angeles park is named for a mining tycoon, not for film
director D. W. . What is Griffith Park?
Answer #3
This Philadelphia national historical park contains the site of Benjamin
Franklin's home. What is Independence Park?
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The daily winner was Gwen P.
Answer #1
James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed
over to the U.S.. What is gold?
Answer #2
The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disastrous attempt to free this island, was an
early version of the Bay of Pigs. What is Cuba?
Answer #3
In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries
look down upon you". What is Egypt?
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The daily winner was Sandy O.
Answer #1
As a war correspondent, this Tarzan creator witnessed the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. Who was Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Answer #2
He began his "Goosebumps" series with 1992's "Welcome to Dead House".
Who is R. L. Stine?
Answer #3
In 1962 this "Cardinal Sins" author received the Edison Award for his
"Catholic Hour" radio broadcasts. Who is
Father Andrew M. Greeley?
Friday, May 9, 2008
The daily winner was Roland U.
Answer #1
It's the oven or furnace in which pottery is fired.
What is a kiln?
Answer #2
A mosaic needs this mortar between the pieces. What is
grout?
Answer #3
The name of this knotty craft comes from a word that means "embroidered
veil". What is macramé?
Weekend Trivia, May 10 and May 11, 2008
The weekend winner was Belenda W.
Answer #1
This country usually produces almost one-third of the world's coffee crop.
What is Brazil?
Answer #2
This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled "The Parish Boy's
Progress". What is "Oliver Twist"?
Answer #3
The "Phoenix" was the first newspaper to appear in the language of this
Native American tribe. What is the Cherokee nation?
Answer #4
William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham and she wrote of "Silas Marner".
Who was George Eliot?
Answer #5
This czar died in the Russian city he named for his patron saint February 8,
1725. Who was Peter the Great?
