Q:WHAT MAN WAS THE FIRST CAR MAKER IN DETROIT, AND THE FIRST TO BUILD A FACTORY TO USE AN ASSEMBLY LINE MANUFACTURING PROCESS – RANSOM OLDS, HENRY FORD OR WALTER CHRYSLER?
A:THE AUTOMAKER WAS RANSOM OLDS.
7 a.m.
Q:WHAT IS THE NONMETALLIC ELEMENT ALSO KNOWN AS BRIMSTONE?
A:BRIMSTONE IS ANOTHER NAME FOR SULFUR.
8 a.m.
Q:WHAT IS A FENDER STRATOCASTER?IT WENT INTO PRODUCTION IN THE 50’S WITH A REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN THAT MADE IT MORE COMFORTABLE TO HOLD AND USE?
A:USED BY MUSICIANS LIKE ERIC CLAPTON, BUDDY GUY AND BOB DYLAN, THE STRATOCASTER IS A GUITAR
9 a.m.
Q:CREATED BY CHARLES ADDAMS, IN HIS CARTOONS FEATURING THE ADDAMS FAMILY, WHAT WAS THE NAME OF GOMEZ’SWIFE?
A:GOMEZ’S WIFE’S NAME WAS MORTICIA.
Tuesday, June 16
6 a.m.
Q:WHAT VITAMIN AIDS THE BODY IN ABSORBING CALCIUM HELPING THE FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF STRONG BONES AND TEETH?
A:IT IS VITAMIN D.
7 a.m.
Q:WHAT ARE THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST PARTS OF A WAVE CALLED?
A:THE HIGHEST PART IS THE CREST AND THE LOWEST IS THE TROUGH.
8 a.m.
Q:WHAT IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHOSE NATIONAL FLAG IS NOT RECTANGULAR?SOMALIA, NEPAL OR SRI LANKA?
A:IT IS NEPAL.THE FLAG IS A SIMPLIFIED COMBINATION OF A TWO SINGLE PENNANTS.
9 a.m.
Q:WHERE IN A MUSICAL PIECE IS THE SECTION CALLED THE CODA FOUND?
A:THE CODA IS THE DISTINCT CONCLUDING SECTION OF A PIECE OF MUSIC.IT IS ITALIAN FOR ‘TAIL’.
Wednesday, June, 17
6 a.m.
Q:WHAT ARE THE THREE NAMES FOR THE THREE BODY SEGMENTS OF AN ADULT INSECT?
A:THE ADULT INSECT’S THREE BODY SEGMENTS ARE HEAD, THORAX, AND ABDOMEN
7 a.m.
Q:WHAT AMERICAN POET WROTE THE POEM ABOUT THE GALLANT KNIGHT WHO SEARCHED HIS WHOLE LIFE FOR THE LAND CALLED EL DORADO?
A:THE POEM ENTITLED ‘EL DORADO’ WAS WRITTEN BY EDGAR ALLEN POE.
8 a.m.
Q:WHAT FLOWER COMES IN TYPES CALLED FIESTA, ALASKA, AFRICAN, SNOWCAP AND BECKY?
A:THOSE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE TYPES OF DAISIES.
9 a.m.
Q:WHAT WORD CAN MEAN THE POINTED BLADES ON AN ANCHOR, THE HORIZONTAL TAILFINS ON WHALES, A TYPE OF FLAT FISH OR A STROKE OF LUCK?
A:THE WORD IS FLUKE.
Thursday, June 18
6 a.m.
Q:WHAT CHARACTER’S LAST LINE IN WHAT MOVIE WAS ‘I DO WISH WE COULD CHAT LONGER, BUT I’M HAVING AN OLD FRIEND FOR DINNER’?
A:IT WAS THE LAST LINE OF HANNIBAL LECTER IN ‘THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.’
7 a.m.
Q:WHAT NUT IS THE FRUIT OF AN EVERGREEN TREE THAT IS FOUND ON THE BANKS OF THE ORINOCORIVER?
A:ALSO FOUND ALONG THE AMAZONRIVER, IT IS THE BRAZIL NUT.
8 a.m.
Q:THE DOLOMITE MOUNTAIN RANGE IS IN WHAT EUROPEAN COUNTRY?
A:THE DOLOMITES ARE IN ITALY
9 a.m.
Q:WHAT WAS LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S ONLY NUMBER ONE POP HIT IN THE UNITED STATES?
A:HIS NUMBER ONE HIT WAS ‘HELLO, DOLLY’.
Friday, June 19
6 a.m.
Q:WHAT WORD CAN MEAN A RAPID RHYTHMIC RAPPING, AN INDELIBLE MARK ON A BODY, OR AN EVENING OUTDOOR EXERCISE GIVEN BY TROOPS AS ENTERTAINMENT?
A:THE WORD IS TATTOO.
7 a.m.
Q:WHAT FOUNDING FATHER WAS THE ONLY ONE TO SIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE FRENCH ALLIANCE TREATY, THE PEACE TREATY WITH BRITAIN, AND THE CONSTITUTION?
A:HE WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
8 a.m.
Q:WHAT OCEAN PHENOMENON IS PRODUCED BY UNDERWATER EARTH MOVEMENT, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, AND EVEN METEORITE IMPACT, AND OFTEN CALLED MISTAKENLY A TIDAL WAVE?
A:FROM THE JAPANESE WORD MEANING ‘HARBOR WAVE’, IT IS A TSUNAMI.
9 a.m.
Q: OF THE FOUR TOURNAMENTS THAT MAKE UP THE PROFESSIONAL TENNIS GRAND SLAM, WHICH IS THE OLDEST?
A:WIMBLEDON IS THE OLDEST TOURNAMENT.
Monday, June 22
6 a.m.
Q:WHAT TYPE OF CREATURE IS A SKINK – A LIZARD, A MOLE, OR A BIRD?
A:A SKINK IS A TYPE OF LIZARD.
7 a.m.
Q:TONY STARK, A WEALTHY INDUSTRIALIST AND GENIUS INVENTOR, FIGHTS CRIME AS WHAT SUPER HERO?
A:HE IS IRONMAN.
8 a.m.
Q:IN WHAT COUNTRY IS ANGELFALLS, THE WORLD’S HIGHEST FREE FALLING WATERFALL, LOCATED?
A:IT IS VENEZUELA.
9 a.m.
Q: STEVE AND ELYSE WERE THE LIBERAL PARENTS OF FOUR, WITH ONE STAUNCH REPUBLICAN SON ON WHAT TV SITCOM?
A:THEY WERE THE KEATONS ON FAMILY TIES.
Tuesday, June 23
6 a.m.
Q:IN MAURICE SENDAK’S ‘WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE’, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BOY WHO GETS SENT TO HIS ROOM WITH NO SUPPER – JOHN, MAX OR MICHAEL?
A:HIS NAME WAS MAX.
7 a.m.
Q:PERSIAN, TEA, CRENSHAW, WINTER AND CHRISTMAS ARE TYPES OF WHAT FRUIT?
A:THEY ARE TYPES OF MELONS.
8 a.m.
Q: WHAT BEATLES ALBUM CAME WITH A CARDBOARD MUSTACHE?
A:IT AS SGT. PEPPER’S LONLEY HEARTS CLUB BAND
9 a.m.
Q:WHAT MATURE MALE ANIMAL IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS A SILVERBACK?
A:IT IS A MALE MOUNTAIN GORILLA.
Wednesday, June 24
6 a.m.
Q:IN 1976, WHO SIGNED A 20 YEAR CONTRACT WITH COVER GIRL, WHICH IS THE LONGEST RUNNING COSMETICS ENDORSEMENT TO DATE – CINDY CRAWFORD, CHRISTIE BRINKLEY OR CHERYL TIEGS?
A:THE MODEL IS CHRISTIE BRINKLEY.
7 a.m.
Q:BUILT BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. AS PART OF A COMPLEX IN A THEN-DERELICT MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD, WHA OPENED IN 1932 AND IS STILL THE U.S.’S LARGEST INDOOR THEATER?
A:IT IS RADIOCITYMUSIC HALL.
8 a.m.
Q: FELIX SALTEN WAS AN AUSTRIAN WRITER WHOSE MOST FAMOUS WORK WAS THE BASIS FOR WHAT 1942 DISNEY ANIMAL CLASSIC?
A:SALTEN WROTE BAMBI.
9 a.m.
Q:THE EBRO RIVER DELTA LIES IN, AND IS VERY IMPORTANT TO WHAT EUROPEAN COUNTRY?
A:THE EBRORIVER IS IN SPAIN.
Friday, June 26
6 a.m.
Q:THE McCARRANINTERNATIONALAIRPORT IS LOCATED IN WHAT CITY?
A:McCARRANINTERNATIONALAIRPORT IS LOCATED IN LAS VEGAS.
7 a.m.
Q:WHAT IS THE TALLEST MAN-MADE MONUMENT IN THE U.S.?
A:AT 630 FEET IN HEIGHT, AS WELL AS 630 FEET WIDE, IT IS THE GATEWAY ARCH IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.
8 a.m.
Q:MOHANDAS GANDHI LED FOLLOWERS ON A 241 MILE MARCH TO PROTEST THE BRITISH MONOPOLY AND TAX ON WHAT SEASONING NEEDED BY THE INDIAN PEOPLE?
A:THE BRITISH PROHIBITED INDIANS FROM COLLECTING AND SELLING SALT.
9 a.m.
Q:ANDREW CARNEGIE BECAME THE RICHEST MAN OF THE TURN OF THE CENTURY ‘GUILDED AGE’ THROUGH WHAT INDUSTRY?
A:CARNEGIE MADE HIS MONEY IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY.
Monday, June 29
6 a.m.
Q:WITH MILLIONS NOW SOLD DURING HALLOWEEN WHAT PRODUCTS HAD NAMES SUCH AS ‘CHICKEN DINNER’, ‘IDAHO SPUD’ AND ‘BIG EATS’ DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION WITH ONE SLOGAN SAYING “MORE SUSTANING THAN MEAT”?
A:THE PRODUCTSARECANDYBARS.
7 a.m.
Q:ON THE EVENING OF OCTOBER 30, 1938 WHAT MERCURY THEATRE RADIO PROGRAM CAUSED PANIC WHEN THOUSANDS OF LISTENERS BELIEVED THE PROGRAM WAS REAL AND ALIENS HAD LANDED?
A:STARRING ORSON WELLS, THE PROGRAM WAS ‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’
8 a.m.
Q:WHO COMPOSED THE OPERAS’ DON GIOVANNI’, ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’ AND ‘MARRIAGE OF FIGARO?
A:THE COMPOSER WAS MOZART.
9 a.m.
Q:WHAT LATE SUMMER/FALL FLOWER CAN FEATURE BLOOMS CALLED SPIDER, BUTTON, POMPON, QUILL, SPOON OR DAISY?
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