20 QUESTIONS TRIVIA 80 YEARS AGO PAGE 82
These trivia questions are
from the 1930's.
There are 98 different pages.
Index at bottom of the page.
1. What three ex-Presidents of
the United States died on
July 4?
2. When, where, and by whom
was the society of Friends
(the Quakers) organized?
3. What is the proper way to
dispose of an American flag
when it becomes too raged
for use?
4. What causes a rainbow?
5. What is a railway beetle?
6. How did a tiara get
its name?
7. A perron is what?
8. How did the term "doubting
Thomas" originate?
9. Felo de se means what?
10. What is an Olympiad?
11. From what is mace
obtained?
12. "Publicola" was the nom de
plume of what great American?
13. What is the origin of the
name Istambol?
14. What is the hardest
wood known?
15. What name is shared in common by a fabled nymph who lived in a tree, a large venomous cobralike snake of the East Indies, and a baboon found in Arabia and Abyssinia?
16. What is the difference
between an administrator and
an executor?
17. What English Protestant
clergyman ultimately became a
cardinal of the Roman
Catholic Church?
18. Does the Constitution of
the United States set the
minimum legal voting age
at twenty-one?
19. A child born in the United
States whose parents are
unnaturalized aliens of
different nationalities takes
what nationality?
20. By what accident did
Charles Goodyear discover
how to vulcanize rubber?