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A: Manny Pacquiao
A: Ninoy Aquino
A: Blue
A: Sampaguita
A: Balut
A: Lupang Hinirang
A: Bagumbayan
A: Manuel L. Quezon
What are the provinces that consist the acronym CALABARZON (Name them)
What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand
jury?
A: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974?
A: World War II.
What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
A: Shannen Doherty.
Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?
A: Martin Luther King Jrs.
What Arab intoned: I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me?
A: Yasir Arafat.
What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
A: Josephine.
What Nazi propagandist said: Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can
play?
A: Joseph Goebbels.
What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
A: Pope John Paul II.
What mobster sighed: Ive been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War?
A: Al Capone.
What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
A: General Motors.
What Uganda citys airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
A: Entebbes.
What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
A: Unemployment.
What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
A: Boston.
What were the Soviet Unions symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
A: Hammer and sickle.
Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
A: Benedict Arnold.
What did an official U.S. investigation call the greatest military and naval disaster in our nations
history?
A: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lees note of surrender?
A: Ulysses S. Grants.
What did loose lips do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
A: Sink Ships.
What city had North Americas first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
A: Philadelphia.
What countrys rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or Clean Hands, of the
1990s?
A: Italys.
What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
A: Manfred von Richthofen, or The Red Barron.
Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in
530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.
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Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with
crossing it?
A: Tangent.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
A: One.
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.
Q: What handy mathematical instruments days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the
scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rules.
Q: How many of Carl Lewis Olympic gold medals were won in long jump competitions?
A: Three.
Q: What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the only event in the earl years of
the ancient Olympics?
A: Hercules.
Sports trivia for the massesright on this site.
Q: What U.S. athlete was about a week pregnant when she broke the world 200-meter record at the
1984 Olympics?
A: Evelyn Ashford
Q: What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
A: Peggy Fleming.
Q: What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.
Q: What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during the 1996 Olympics,
according to an ESPN poll?
A: The Dream Team.
Q: What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the first black man from South Africa to
win a gold medal, in 1996?
A: The Marathon.
Q: What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, in
1900?
A: Golf.
Q: What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in under a minute, in 1922?
A: Johnny Weissmuller.
Q: What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play Jeffery in 1993?
A: Greg Louganis.
Q: What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give u during the 1996 Olympics?
A: Sex.
Q: What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?
A: Insbruck.
Q: What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
A: The U.S..
Q: What L.A. Laker stars height was listed as two meters in 1996 Olympic programs?
A: Sahquille ONealss.
Q: What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a balance beam?
A: Olga Korbut.
Q: What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth Olympic team in 1996?
A: Mary Slaney.
Q: What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
A: Tug of War.
Q: What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
A: Synchronized swimming
Q: How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: One
Q: What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlantas 1996 Olympic festivities?
A: Muhammad Ali.
And yet even more sports trivia below this point
Q: What event earned Norways Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating.
Q: What new womens team sport was played on sand at the 1996 summer Olympics?
A: Beach Volleyball.
Q: Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian ever?
A: Bonnie Blair.
Q: What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold Medal celebration lap through the
late night streets of Atlanta?
A: Her gold medal.
Q: What decathlon champ was the first black student body president at UCLA?
A: Rafer Johnson
What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the worlds oil in 1901?
A: Azerbaijan.
Whats the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean?
A: El Salvador.
What North American mountain range is an apt anagram for o, manski country?
A: Rocky Moutntians.
What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the Impotence Institution of America?
A:Washington, DC.
What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the worlds wheat and corn?
A: Chicago.
What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
A: California.
What was the only country still building steam locomotives in 1990?
A: China.
Which two European countries lead the world n wine consumption pr capita?
A: France and Italy.
What was the worlds highest man-made structure for 4,000 years before being passed by the central
tower of Lincoln Cathedral?
A: The Great Pyramid of Cheops.
What western state is less than thrilled to be known as the Vermin State?
A: New Mexico.
Whats the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean coast?
A: Colombia.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.
What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
A: Arizona.
What desert did David Livingstone have to cross to reach Lake Ngami?
A: The Kalahari.
What country sent out 15,000 census workers to count its homeless population, in 1990?
A: The U.S.
What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass in 1959?
A: Alaska.
What island has endured Mount Etnas wrath over 140 times?
A: Sicily.
How many months per year do residents of Tromso, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.
What U.S. presidents State of the Union address lasted a record 81 minutes?
A: Bill Clintons.
What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped: Let
every lion do his duty?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.
What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards
during a yellow fever epidemic?
A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.
What president opined: Once you get into this great stream of history you cant get out?
A: Richard Nixon.
Who was the first president to utter We shall overcome before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
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What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after
secession?
A: Andrew Jackson.
What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following
spinal surgery in 1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his
term in office?
A: The war of 1812.
What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.
Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a Playboy video?
A: Patti Davis.
Who is the only president to have survived two assassination attempts by women?
A: Gerald Ford.
What future presidents Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass under his yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnsons.
What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly radio address?
A: Saturday.
What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?
A: Ronald Regan.
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an enemies list and hush money at the
Watergate hearings?
A: John Dean.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find a tremendous rat swimming with her in the White
House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with Richard Nixon on his historic trip
to China?
A: Barbara Walters.
Who revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb in his last State of the Union speech?
A: Harry S. Truman
Which heavy metal group took the name of Dutch-born members guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex?
A: Van Halen
How many brothers were in the original Jackson family line up?
A: Five.
Q: What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of the Fouro-Rounders?
A: Butter Bean.
Q: Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight hyped as One for the Ages?
A: George Foreman.
Q: Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted like a hog wants slop?
A: Muhammad Ali
Q: Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing match that lasted 89 seconds?
A: Mike Tyson.
Q: How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest heavyweight champ in history?
A: Forty-five.
Q: What pro sport gives its participants an 87 percent chance of suffering brain damage?
A: Boxing.
Q: What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little known Frankie Randall?
A: Julio Cesar Chavez.
Q: What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in
1889?
A: A knockdown.
Q: Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by his Muslim name?
A: Howard Cosell.
Q: What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Alis last as heavyweight champ?
A:1979.
Q: What boxing promoter was indicted for filing a false insurance claim with Lloyds of London?
A: Don King.
Q: What boxer successfully defended his title against George Foreman and Larry Holmes?
A: Evander Holyfield.