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Survey #3 results are in, and there was a tie for the most correct answers given. Chris Grant and Marco Pallotta correctly
answered 80% of the trivia questions. Below is a list of how everyone who responded to the survey did. Also, the
correct answers to each question along with submitter's answers are shown below. I am hoping that the winners will get together to make a
trivia questionaire for the future in this section. A future trivia questionaire will be compiled from all the suggested
trivia questions I received from the submitters.
All in all, thanks for submitting, check out the results, and try this month's "Complete the Quote".
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Submitter Performance:
- Chris - 80%
- Marco - 80%
- Jesse - 60%
- Tony P.- 60%
- Charity - 50%
- Laura - 50%
- Priscilla - 50%
- Rosie - 50%
- Mike - 40%
- Kathy - 30%
- Tony T. - 20%
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Which of the Great Lakes is deepest?
Correct: Superior - It is 1332 ft/ 406 m. deep, thus the name
Lake Superior. Lake Michigan is the second deepest with 925 ft./ 282 m.
Survey Results
- Lake Superior - 5
- Lake Michigan - 2
- Lake Ontario - 2
- Lake Huron - 2
- Lake Erie
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How tall was the tallest recorded human (according to Guinness)?
Correct: 8'11" - Robert Wadlow lived from 1918-1940 in the United
States and remains the tallest human ever. See pictures and read about him at Altonweb.com.
Survey Results
- 8'11" - 5
- 8'4" - 4
- 9'2" - 2
- 7'8"
- 10'1"
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How do you say "to speak" in Spanish?
Correct: hablar - Living in Spain,
this is the first word I learned so that I could say "No hablo espanol." I had to go with a Spanish question
to see how well everyone would do.
Survey Results
- hablar - 11
- communicar
- correr
- decir
- callar
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What is "The New England Revolution"?
Correct: The Professional New England soccer team -
The New England Revolution play throughout the summertime at Foxboro Stadium. You can learn more about them
at MLS - Revolution
Survey Results
- The Professional New England soccer team - 7
- Term used for pre-U.S. revolution events in N.E.(i.e., Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre) - 3
- General term used for N.E.'s change from conservative to liberal presidential voting - 1
- A popular Massachusetts beer
- Movie made about N.E. in 1975
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What Disney movie has grossed the most box-office money?
Correct: The Lion King -
The Lion King is the 7th all-time box-office grossing movie.
It grossed $313 million for its release in 1994.
Survey Results
- The Lion King - 6
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 2
- Aladdin - 1
- The Little Mermaid - 1
- Fantasia - 1
- Peter Pan
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Which of the following is Thomas Edison, the great American inventor, credited for inventing?
Correct: Typewriter -
Edison invented and patented the typewriter in 1871. This was one of his 1093 patented inventions. For those of you who argue
electricity, only the control of electricity was invented; electricity, itself, has been around for milleniums. Edison had
over 300 patents in the field of electricity.
Survey Results
- Electricity - 5
- Typewriter - 3
- Audio Tapes - 2
- TV - 1
- Automobile Engine
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Which fast food chain ran a promotion for "The Big Extra"?
Correct: McDonalds -
McDonalds ran a promotion for "The Big Extra" for about a year. The strange thing about the promotion is that
it was not carried at all restaurants. The Big Extra was missing in Massachusetts and NH, but it was available
everywhere in Vermont.
Survey Results
- McDonalds - 8
- Wendys - 2
- Burger King - 1
- Taco Bell
- Subway
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Who is the all-time leading NBA scorer?
Correct: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Kareem played from 1969 to 1989 for the Milwaukee Bucks and LA Lakers of the NBA scoring 38,387 points, many of them
with his famous "hook shot".
Survey Results
- Michael Jordan - 4
- Wilt Chamberlain - 4
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 3
- Julius "Dr. J." Erving
- Karl Malone
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Which of the authors has won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Correct: Gabriel Marquez -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Columbia won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is most notably known for his book
One Hundred Years of Solitude which Laura Fuentes wrote a review for in the Book Review section of this web page.
Survey Results
- Gabriel Marquez - 6
- A. Manette Ansay - 2
- Frank Miller - 2
- Howard Frank Mosher - 1
- Bill Bryson
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What famous event occurred on Oct 16th?
Correct: First Baboon Heart Transplant -
In 1984, the first baboon heart transplant was completed with a 15 day old baby baboon. The transplant ended fatally after
patient "Baby Fae" died a month later. Learn what happened in History on your birthday at the
History Channel
Survey Results
- Lincoln was killed - 4
- First Baboon Heart Transplant - 3
- The ENIAC (first computer) did its first computation - 2
- USSR tested its first nuclear weapons - 1
- Barbara Streisand was born - 1
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