Since I've been writing quizzes about
as often as there's a major solar eclipse in the United States, I
thought my first quiz in a blue moon should be themed around the
eclipse coming to America next Monday. I hope that'll be worth your
while even if this quiz isn't:
questions involving cities in the path of totality of the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse
(the number after each indicates how long it will experience total solar eclipse)
1. What two state capitols named for
Presidents are in the path of totality?
2. Fairview, Kentucky (2:40) is the
birth place of what American president named after another president?
3. Which former terminal of the Pony
Express is in the path
of totality?
4. The campuses of which current NCAA
(Division I) champions in football and basketball are in the path of
totality?
5. Chester, Illinois (2:40) is the
birthplace of cartoonist Elzie Segar. What Segar character debuted in
the funny pages in 1929 with the line, “Ja think I'm a cowboy?”
6. What author had a home in Ketchum,
Idaho (1:04) from 1939 until his self-inflicted death there in 1961?
7. Hermitage, Tennessee (2:17) and
Hillsboro, Missouri (2:39) are named after the homes of which two
Presidents?
8. What Missouri city is named for the
patron saint of Paris?
9. What Tennessee city is named for
America's longest-serving Treasury Secretary?
10. What lead actress of the Alfred
Hitchock film Lifeboat got
her name from a Georgia city in the path of totality?
ECLIPSES
1.
Which automaker produced a 2-door compact car called the Eclipse from
1989 – 2011?
2.
What Welsh singer hit #1 on the Billboard pop chart with “Total
Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983?
3.
Which of the following is not the name of a visual effect of a solar
eclipse?
a)
shadow bands
b)
umbrella effect
c)
Baily's beads
d)
diamond ring
4. In
what novel does main character Hank Morgan avoid being burned at the
stake by predicting a solar eclipse?
5. The
next total solar eclipse in North America will occur in the same year
Paris is scheduled to next host the Summer Olympics. What year will
that be?
“SUN” SONGS
Name the song (or songs), given the artist, year
and that the word or syllable “sun” is in the title
1. Soundgarden, 1994
2. Katrina and the Waves, 1985
3. Donovan, 1966
4. Bobby Hebb, 1976
5. The Beatles, 1964, 1966, 1969
“MOON” TITLES
Name the title of the work, given the
year, author or lead actor, and that “moon” is somewhere in the
title
1. novel, Stephenie Meyer, 2006
2. movie, Roger Moore, 1979
3. movie, Nicolas Cage, 1992
4. album, Ozzy Osborne, 1984
5. movie, Jim Carrey, 1999
Should I ever make it back over here to
write a quiz again, it's likeliest to be in this format, 20-25
questions in 4-5 different categories.
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