Trivia 6/26 Wednesday.

Appalamma wrote:These questions are part of World Quizzing Championship. Do not google! 


8
Lifestyle:
1. Turkey’s defeat in September 1683 outside which city is often credited with inspiring the croissant, the bagel and the coffee house?

CONSTANTINOPLE


Sports & Games:
1. The U.S., Iran and Cuba have become unlikely allies in efforts to reinstate what sport, dropped from the Olympics in 2013, for the 2020 games?

WRESTLING

1. Which American architectural style is exemplified by the low-lying houses, such as the Robie House, built mostly in the Midwest between 1900 and 1917 by Frank Lloyd Wright? 

Prairie style.

History:
1. Pregnant at the time, Sunandha Kumariratana and her two-year-old daughter Princess Karnabhorn Bejraratana both drowned in 1880 when her royal boat capsized—even though another boat-full of servants was just meters away—because her subjects were forbidden on pain of death from touching her. One of Chulalongkorn’s four consorts, she was queen of which country?

Thailand

Lifestyle:
1. Turkey’s defeat in September 1683 outside which city is often credited with inspiring the croissant, the bagel and the coffee house?

Warsaw

Media:
1. “The Running Man” (1982) and “Thinner” (1984) are among the seven books published under the pen name Richard Bachman, by which prolific author?

Stephen King

Sports & Games:
1. The U.S., Iran and Cuba have become unlikely allies in efforts to reinstate what sport, dropped from the Olympics in 2013, for the 2020 games?

Squash?

b_A wrote:

Appalamma wrote:These questions are part of World Quizzing Championship. Do not google! 


8
Lifestyle:
1. Turkey’s defeat in September 1683 outside which city is often credited with inspiring the croissant, the bagel and the coffee house?

CONSTANTINOPLE

No.


Sports & Games:
1. The U.S., Iran and Cuba have become unlikely allies in efforts to reinstate what sport, dropped from the Olympics in 2013, for the 2020 games?

WRESTLING

Yes.

Hellsangel wrote:History - Sounds like Thailand.

Kris wrote:



Lifestyle:
1. Turkey’s defeat in September 1683 outside which city is often credited with inspiring the croissant, the bagel and the coffee house?

>>>>Vienna

Yes.


Sports & Games:
1. The U.S., Iran and Cuba have become unlikely allies in efforts to reinstate what sport, dropped from the Olympics in 2013, for the 2020 games?

>>>baseball?
No

World:
1. Ginza is an upscale district in Tokyo famed for its glitzy shops etc. Site of the 2010 G20 summit and with a name meaning “south of the (Han) River,” [b]what is its prosperous and trendy counterpart in Seoul

>>>gangnam
Yes.

goodcitizn wrote:

1. Which American architectural style is exemplified by the low-lying houses, such as the Robie House, built mostly in the Midwest between 1900 and 1917 by Frank Lloyd Wright? 

Prairie style.

Yes.

History:
1. Pregnant at the time, Sunandha Kumariratana and her two-year-old daughter Princess Karnabhorn Bejraratana both drowned in 1880 when her royal boat capsized—even though another boat-full of servants was just meters away—because her subjects were forbidden on pain of death from touching her. One of Chulalongkorn’s four consorts, she was queen of which country?

Thailand

Yes.

Lifestyle:
1. Turkey’s defeat in September 1683 outside which city is often credited with inspiring the croissant, the bagel and the coffee house?

Warsaw
No.

Media:
1. “The Running Man” (1982) and “Thinner” (1984) are among the seven books published under the pen name Richard Bachman, by which prolific author?

Stephen King
Yes.

Sports & Games:
1. The U.S., Iran and Cuba have become unlikely allies in efforts to reinstate what sport, dropped from the Olympics in 2013, for the 2020 games?

Squash?
No.

indophile wrote:Culture ---------------- Rambler - No
History ---------------- Thailand - Yes
Science ---------------- Louise Brown - Yes
Sports & Games ------ Boxing - No

Appalamma wrote:Only one remaining.

Entertainment:
1. Originally composed as an interlude to the now almost-forgotten opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan,” which famous piece is played after the magic Swan-Bird changes the Tsar’s son into an insect so he can visit his father more easily?