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Bar Trivia

Question for American quiz enthusiasts!

Questions I

  1. Which American university, named after its first benefactor, is in Baltimore, Maryland?
  2. Which sportsman was nicknamed 'The Sultan of Swat'?
  3. Who played himself in the 1979 film Cocaine Cowboys and was played by David Bowie in the 1996 film Basquiat?
  4. Which famous historical event happened on December 16, 1773?
  5. Whose hit song "Ring Of Fire" was almost used for a hemorrhoid commercial until his family blocked it?
  6. Who is the mother of actress Mariska Hargitay, best known for her role as sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order?
  7. Ernest Hemingway's wartime experiences formed the basis for which 1929 novel?
  8. Maris is the unseen wife in which American sitcom?
  9. Which spaceflight mission landed the first men on the Moon?
  10. Who was the last to perform at the famous Woodstock festival in 1969?
  11. In which American city was Hilary Clinton born?
  12. In which American city did Ronald Regan survive an assassination attempt in 1981?
  13. By what name is singer Alecia Moore better known by
  14. The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of which mountain range?
  15. What name connects several groups of Native Americans to a twin-engine lift helicopter?
  16. Who was leader of the Soviet Union from 1955 until 1964?
  17. The Chicago Plumbers Union says its been dyeing the Chicago River what color for nearly 68 years?
  18. I Love Lucy starred Lucille Ball and her husband. What was his name?
  19. What almost doubled the nation's area in 1803?
  20. In May 1995 the New York Magazine declared her 'the definitive American woman of our time' and in 2004 she was given the nickname 'M. Diddy', who is she?
  21. In the summer of which year was the film Jaws released?
  22. The book I Heard You Paint Houses was the basis for which 2019 film?

Answers:

  1. John Hopkins University
  2. Babe Ruth
  3. Andy Warhol
  4. The Boston Tea Party
  5. Johnny Cash
  6. Jayne Mansfield
  7. A Farewell to Arms
  8. Frasier
  9. Apollo 11
  10. Jimi Hendrix
  11. Chicago
  12. Washington DC
  13. Pink
  14. Appalachian Mountains
  15. Chinook
  16. Nikita Khrushchev
  17. Green (in honor of the city's St. Patrick's Day celebrations each year)
  18. Desi Arnaz
  19. The Louisiana Purchase
  20. Martha Stewart ('M. Diddy' was her prison nickname)
  21. 1975
  22. The Irishman



Questions II

  1. Vince Lombardi is best known as the early sixties coach of which American football team?
  2. Oprah Winfrey was born in which state?
  3. Who founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates?
  4. To which American city would you be flying to if your destination had the airport code LGA?
  5. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games played in which country?
  6. Which actress is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer?
  7. Which city was the first in the world to have a population of over one million?
  8. In which city was the TV show Happy Days set?
  9. What letter in Morse code is represented by a single dash?
  10. Name the author of detective novels and crime fiction featuring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch?
  11. Who became a teen idol with the character Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana?
  12. In which wine-growing country is the Rapel region situated?
  13. What name links the CIA to the first ever aircraft carrier commissioned into the US Navy in 1922?
  14. In John Fowles' 1963 novel The Collector, the title character collects what
  15. Which cup did the Boston Bruins win in 2011 and the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016?
  16. Which American president served the shortest term in office?
  17. In which country was Elon Musk born?
  18. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in which year?
  19. Critics highly praised which movie's groundbreaking visual effects when it was released in the United States on December 18, 2009?
  20. Which American state shares its name with a former Soviet Republic?
  21. The village of Supai, which gets its mail delivered by mule, is at the bottom of where?
  22. True caviar comes from which fish?

Answers:

  1. Green Bay Packers
  2. Mississippi
  3. Paul Allen
  4. New York (LaGuardia)
  5. England (accept Britain or the UK)
  6. Liv Tyler (daughter of Steven Tyler)
  7. Rome
  8. Milwaukee
  9. T
  10. Michael Connelly
  11. Miley Cyrus
  12. Chile
  13. Langley (USS Langley and Langley, Virginia is where the CIA headquarters are based)
  14. Butterflies
  15. Stanley Cup (Ice Hockey)
  16. William Harrison
  17. South Africa
  18. 1941
  19. Avatar
  20. Georgia
  21. The Grand Canyon
  22. Wild sturgeon