TRIVIA CHALLENGE #2

Okay.........ready for Round Two? Same as before, ten questions each worth 10 points. There's also a bonus question that is worth 50 points. Everyone should play!! The contest will end at 6pm on Sunday, December 6th. The FIVE (5) people with the most points will be entered in the name drawing. In the event that more than five people (unlikely but possible) answer all the questions, (including the bonus question) correctly, all names will be entered in the drawing. Everyone should participate! Please put your answers in the same format (numbered) in your comment.

Good Luck, everyone!


1. Which famed New York hospital is the site of countless milestones in the history of medicine, from the first ambulance service and the first maternity ward, to the development of the Polio vaccine and also to a Nobel Prize winning work?

2. What is the correct term for the act of collecting leftover crops from farmer's fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest?

3. Alfred E Neuman is the fictional mascot of what magazine?

4. What famous "house" is located at 10236 Charing Cross Road in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California?

5. Who is the architect of the famous glass pyramid that serves as the main entrance to the Louvre museum and has become a landmark for the city of Paris?

6. In 1991, two men named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley revealed they had been making these in England since 1978 using planks, ropes, hats and wires as their only tools and thus exposed which major phenomenon as a hoax?

7. In 1994 Bill Gates bought "The Codex Hammer" at an auction for $30.8 million, making it the most expensive book ever. Whose writing does it contain?

8. What is the curved, single edged Japanese sword traditionally used by samurai called?

9. What were the names of the famous conjoined twin brothers who lived between 1811 and 1874 and whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins"?

10. On July 25, 1956, while bound for New York City, which transatlantic ocean liner sank in what was to become one of history's most famous maritime disasters?

Bonus Question: Where am I?



Clues: You can find the "Big Top" here
This is not what Dorothy meant when she said "there's no
place like home"
One of our relatives lived here in the 1940's
Women may visit here but they are not invited to stay


HAVE FUN!!