Question: Neil Armstrong was a pilot in which war?
Answer: Korean

Question: Nickelodeon was founded in 1979 by which company?
Answer: Warner Amex

Question: Which element along with polonium did the Curies discover?
Answer: Radium

Question: In The Banana Splits what sort of animal was Snorky?
Answer: Elephant

Question: Who had an 80s No 1 hit with Can't Fight This Feeling?
Answer: REO Speedwagon

Question: Which parallel was the truce line in the Korean War?
Answer: 38th Parallel

Question: On a computer keyboard which letter is between A and D?
Answer: S

Question: What was Hitchcock's first sound movie?
Answer: Blackmail

Question: Which newspaper did Jackie Kennedy work for just before her marriage?
Answer: Washington Times Herald

Question: What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Turkey?
Answer: Tr

Question: Which American nuclear submarine was the first to sail across the North Pole under the ice cap?
Answer: Nautilus

Question: What was John Glenn/'s first spacecraft called?
Answer: Friendship 7

Question: Which branch of medicine is concerned with disorders of the blood?
Answer: Haematology

Question: Where was Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead?
Answer: Underground car park

Question: Where was The Iron Triangle?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: What is Reba McEntire's best of album called?
Answer: Moments and Memories

Question: In which decade was Kirstie Alley born?
Answer: 1950s

Question: What is the distance between bases on a little league baseball field?
Answer: 60 feet

Question: What college once had 22 members of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society on its football team?
Answer: Dartmouth, in 1925

Question: What was the first sport in which women were invited to compete at the Olympics?
Answer: Tennis, at the 1900 games in Paris. Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain was the first gold medalist

Question: What sport was the first to be filmed---and who filmed it?
Answer: The sport was boxing; the man who did the filming, Thomas A. Edison; the year, 1894. Edison filmed a boxing match between Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard in a studio on the grounds of his laboratory complex in West Orange, New Jersey

Question: How many home runs did baseball great Ty Cobb hit in the three world series in which he played?
Answer: None

Question: In cross-country bike racing, what do the initials BMX represent?
Answer: Bicycle moto x (cross)

Question: Under what name did Dr. Joshua Pim of Great Britain enter and win the Wimbledon tennis tournament in 1893?
Answer: Mr. X. Because he feared that revealing his true identity would hurt his medical practice, Pim entered under the mystery name

Question: In 1939, what famous American athlete starred on UCLA's undefeated football team and was the top scorer in the Pacific Coast Conference for Basketball?
Answer: Jackie Robinson, who later gained national fame playing professional baseball. At UCLA, he earned letters in baseball, basketball, football and track

Question: What popular sport did Joe Sobek invent at the Greenwich, Connecticut, MCA in 1950?
Answer: Racquetball. Sobek designed a strung paddle racquet and handle, and combined the rules of squash and handball, to create the game he called paddle rackets

Question: What sports activity was originally known in England as "plank-gliding"?
Answer: Waterskiing. The first recorded mention of the sport in England was in 1914

Question: Which was the first sport to have its top players named to an All-American team?
Answer: Football, in 1889. The idea originated with famed football authority Walter Camp, who picked 36 All-American teams until his death in 1925

Question: How many world records did swimmer Mark Spitz set when he won seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics?
Answer: Seven--one in each of the races in which he competed

Question: After retiring as a player, with what team did baseball great Babe Ruth spend one year as a coach?
Answer: The Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938

Question: What is the maximum weight permitted for calves in rodeo calf-roping competition?
Answer: 350 pounds. The minimum is 200 pounds

Question: What Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher hit a home run in his first major league at-bat--and never hit another?
Answer: New York Giant knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm, in 1952

Question: What baseball player hit the only home run of his 212-year major league career off his own brother?
Answer: Joe Nickro in 1976. Nickro, a pitcher with the Houston Astros, hit a four-bagger off his brother Phil, who was pitching fro the Atlanta Braves. Houston won the game, 4-3

Question: What 1921 sporting event took up all of the first 13 pages of The New York Times --except for a little space on the front page devoted to the formal end of World War I?
Answer: The July 2nd heavyweight championship bout between Jack Dempsey and George Carpenter, the first fight to gross over $1 million in gate receipts. Dempsey won in a fourth-round knockout

Question: In the National Football League, how many footballs is the home team required to provide for each game?
Answer: 24--although from 8 to 12 are usually used

Question: Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski hold the major league baseball record for playing the greatest number of seasons with the same team. How many years did they play-- and with what teams?
Answer: 23 years. Third baseman Robinson played with the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 1977; Carl Yastrzemski, outfielder/first baseman, played with the Boston Red Sox from 1961 to 1983

Question: How long is the average pool cue?
Answer: $85,000

Question: Under the rules outlined in the charter of the International Olympic Committee, how much pure gold must there be in each gold medal awarded to first-place winners?
Answer: At least 6 grams. Silver medals must be at least .925 sterling silver

Question: What professional ice hockey star didn't hang up his skates until he was 52?
Answer: Gordie Howe, who played in 1,687 games in the National Hockey League

Question: Who was the first athlete to hit a major league home run and make a professional football touchdown in the same week?
Answer: Jim Thorpe, in 1917. He did it a second time in 1919. Deion Sanders was the second athlete to accomplish the feat---70 years later in 1989

Question: Who was the famous great-great-grandfather of San Francisco 49er quarterback Steve Young?
Answer: Mormon leader Brigham Young

Question: Who was the first professional athlete to win championship rings in two major sports?
Answer: Gene Conley. He pitched for the Milwaukee Braves team that won the 1957 World Series, and was on the Boston Celtic teams that won National Basketball Association championships in 1959,1960 and 1961

Question: How long and wide is the balance beam used in Olympic gymnastic competition?
Answer: Length, 16 feet 3 inches; width, 4 inches

Question: How much did a one-minute TV spot cost advertisers on the first Super Bowl broadcast in 1967?
Answer: $85,000

Question: How many of the four Grand Slam trophies in tennis are gold; how many are silver?
Answer: Only the Wimbledon trophy is gold; the others--for the U.S. Open, the French Open and the Australian Open--are sliver

Question: How did pound cake get its name?
Answer: From the one-pound quantities of the key ingredients (sugar, butter, eggs, and flour) in the original recipe

Question: What breakfast food gets its name from the German word for "stirrup"?
Answer: The Bagel

Question: What animal is the source of the milk used in making Roquefort cheese?
Answer: The ewe, or female sheep

Question: How did the manufacturers of Old Grand-Dad bourbon get away with producing their whisky during Prohibition?
Answer: The marked the bottles for medicinal purposes

Question: What popular drink did a Dutch medical professor produce in his laboratory while trying to come up with a blood cleanser that could be sold in drugstores?
Answer: Gin

Question: In wine making, what is the must?
Answer: The juice drawn from the grapes but not yet fermented into wine