Weekly Trivia Show - May 16, 2022
This week's "best of," featuring a variety of questions from our newly published games.
16 questions · Published May 16, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 16)
- Multiple Choice
1. What consumer electronics retailer was once known as Sound of Music?
Founded in 1966 in St. Paul Minnesota, Sound of Music changed its name to Best Buy Company Inc. in 1983 and added VCRs and home appliances to their retail inventory.
- Multiple Choice
2. The United States, Liberia, and ___________ are the only countries that have NOT officially converted to the metric system.
As of 2022, only three countries in the world do not use the metric system: the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.
- Multiple Choice
3. What common household item, when given as a gift, is said to bring bad luck?
Superstition suggests that giving a knife as a present will sever the relationship between the giver and recipient. Attaching a coin to the knife, which should immediately be "paid back" to the gift giver, prevents any bad luck.
- Multiple Choice
4. What breakfast food should be rubbed on the skin and then buried in the backyard as means of wart removal according to one old wives tale?
Legend has it that rubbing warts with bacon, then tying up the bacon with a string and burying it, is an effective system of removal. Of course it just makes you smell like bacon.
- Multiple Choice
5. What popular brand of instant cake mix bears the name of a traveling salesman and restaurant critic from the 1930s?
Duncan Hines, a traveling salesman who drove around 60,000 miles a year, began writing weekly food columns featuring recipes and recommendations he'd amassed during his travels. His columns were featured in newspapers across the country and he sold the right to use his name for food-related products in 1953.
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