Answers to Fins Triva - Wednesday 10/24/07

Below are the answers to the Fins Trivia questions - If you want to play - don't spoil it, go to post made yesterday on 10/25/07.

So, How'd you do on the questions? Did you get them all right? Here are the answers:

1. Put the following cities in order - from city with most to city with least - number of buildings over 1000 feet in height A) Chicago B) Seattle C) Houston D) New York
Answer - Houston, Chicago, New York and Seattle

2. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common: navy auburn brown
Answer - They are all colleges/universities

3. Anagram - rearrange the letters in the below word to come up with a famous musician Mr Mojo Risin
Answer - Jim Morrison

4. This may be true still but at least up until 2006 Name the 7 NFL Football teams who do not have cheerleaders
Answer - Pittsburgh Steelers (Go Steelers!!), Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, New York Jets and New York Giants

5. True or False - We all know carrots come in orange - Is the statement they also come in a variety of other colors - purple, white, red, true or false?
Answer - True

6. What is the name of the chocolate cookie with cream filling that came before the Oreo?
Answer - Hydrox

7. Which country has the most natural born red-heads? A) Ireland B) Sweden C) Scotland D) Australia
Answer - Scotland

8. Three'ser - What do these three things have in common Siamese Cats Hugh Grant's Mickey Frank Sinatra
Answer - Blue Eyes

9. What country has the highest number of bowlers (in a year) A) US B) Canada C) Russia D) United Kingdom
Answer - The US

10. True or False - It's the male starfish who becomes pregnant and carries the baby?
Answer - True

11. Name the categories from the original Trivial Pursuit game - Genus 1.
Answer - Geography, Entertainment, Arts & Literature, History, Science & Nature and Sports & Leisure

Bonus - Name the color of the pie/hub for each category ?



Answer- Geography - Blue; Entertainment - Pink; Arts & Literature - Brown; History - Yellow; Science & Nature - Green; Sports & Leisure - Orange

More next week - from Fins - Wednesday, Oct 31 - Halloween Themed Trivia - post on 11/1 Questions and on 11/2 Answers