20 QUESTIONS TRIVIA 80 YEARS AGO PAGE 84
These trivia questions are
from the 1930's.
There are 98 different pages.
Index at bottom of the page.
1. Where and by whom were
dahlias discovered?
2. What do the letters P.R.N.
on a prescription mean?
3. Where and when was William
Shakespeare buried?
4. After what famous Indian
was Brantford, Ontario, named?
5. What country once required that every automobile be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and that its speed should be no more than four miles an hour?
6. A siffleur is what?
7. Which states first passed
laws making eight hours the
legal workday "unless
otherwise agreed"?
8. Where was the late Sir
Charles Tupper, former
Canadian Prime Minister, born?
9. What do the letters N, X,
or C in combination with a
number on an airplane mean?
10. What is a spasmodic
inspiration suddenly arrested
by an involuntary closure of
the glottis called?
11. Who said "When the wind is
southerly I know a hawk from
a handsaw"?
12. When and where was alfalfa
introduced into the
United States?
13. Who is Jagannath?
14. Who is William Maxwell
Aitken?
15. Who said "Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof"?
16. What is the name given by
upholsterers to a strip of
ornamental flexible material
hanging from a window,
doorway, or mantelpiece as a
decorative drapery?
17. What is the general term
used to describe all types of
lighter-than-air aircraft?
18. By what name is the
Canadian clergyman the Rev.
Charles William Gordon
better known?
19. Who wrote "And those that
were good shall be happy; and
they shall sit in
a golden chair"?
20. Where is the first record
of a burial in potter's field?