Random Trivia Questions

[Maura, this is for you.]

1. What Screen star bought $36,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies from his daughter Tallulah and her two cousins, in 2002?

2. What W-Word denotes an Australian aborigine’s spiritual stroll through the outback?

3. What prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Air Guitar World Championships?

4. What future U.S. president was known to his Duke classmates as “Gloomy Gus”?

5. What were the first two words spoken by Kool-Aid Man, when he first burst onto the scene?

6. What Internet giant aired TV ads featuring a three-note yodel by cowboy Wylie Gustafson?

7. What date keeps Las Vegas wedding parlors the busiest?

8. What comic strip character’s tie was drawn flat for a single day, shortly after he’d gotten a girlfriend?

9. What E-word do the Amish use to refer to anyone outside their community?

10. What model did Toyota name after a Keanu Reeves movie, in a bid to attract the under-30 set?

11. How many years does the U.S. Army require its “ready-to-eat” sandwiches to remain ready-to-eat?

12. Whose report card and wedding gown can be viewed at her family’s Althorp estate in Britain?

13. What architectural style is preserved in the historic hotels along Miami Beach’s Ocean Drive district?

14. Which came first Frosted Flakes, Sugar Pops or Sugar Smacks? Sugar Pops

15. What’s the only Vegas hotel to boast a lion habitat?

16. What canine crime fighter’s costume was stolen from a South Carolina police station in 1999?

17. What’s the minimum number of merit badges a Boy Scout must earn before attaining the rank of Eagle Scout?

18. What kind of wood is used to fasion the sticks for Popsicle brand ice pops?

19. What legendary pirate marooned 15 men on Dead Chest Island with only one bottle of rum?

20. What city is central to the books The Black Dahlia, The Big Sleep and Get Shorty?

21. What nation devours the most sweet potatoes?

22. What should you always follow to find Froot Loops, according to Toucan Sam?

23. What three-word slang term, popularized by Lenny Bruce, owes a recent revival to Seinfeld?

24. What folk legend’s boyhood home in Duluth, Minnesota was sold on eBay for $94600?

25. What U.S. landmark sports size-879 sandals?

26. What First Lady’s unorthodox opening day pitch at a Cubs game inspired the Atlantic Monthly article, “Throwing Like a Girl”?

27. What restored village, along with Jamestown and Yorktown makes up Virginia’s historic triangle?

28. What word for annoying knuckle rubs on the head did Merriam-Webster honchos deem dictionary-worthy in 2001?

29. Which laundry detergent keeps clothes clean in Uzbekistan – Barf, Puke or Spew?

30. What historic Texas site is across the plaza from a Ripley’s Believe It or Not and the Plaza Theater of Wax?

31. What is the only season when the Iditarod Trail is passable?

32. What untidy cartoon cat happily snacks on Gritty Kitty Litter?