Quiz Night Questions and Answers

So this week, the cash jackpot was something like $960 or so.  We did not win =(.  Some other team did!  This is quite a feat, with moments of 'just' guessing correctly (i.e. guessing lower on a 9 and it turned out to be an 8!).  So now the pot starts all over again.  Next week if we win the cash ball, we'd have to split something like $50 amongst the team.  Oh well.

So this week's questions and answers below!  Don't scroll too far down if you're trying to answer the questions, as I have included the answers for this week.

QUESTIONS:

1. Was the world's first hot air balloon flight in France or USA?
2. What was the first hit single for Simon and Garfunkel? Bridge over Troubled Waters or The Sound of Silence
3. What is the name of the first man to sail around the world?  Name any year he was alive.
4. How is Joe Ratzinger better known?
5. Addis Ababa is the capital of which country?
6. What was the name of the organization that preceded the United Nations?
7. What is the name of the world's deepest lake?  What country is it in?
8. In which sport are competitors not allowed to participate left-handed?
9. What is the maximum score for a single game of 10-pin bowling?
10. In men's fencing competitions, how many hits are required to win?
11. The Olympic Games has a three world motto.  Name two of those words.
12. What city is Michael Jackson born in?
13. What is the longest river in Africa?
14. What is the Japanese beverage sake made from?
15. When East and West Germany were split, what were the capitals of each?
16. Detective Kojak had a favourite sweet.  What was it?
17. What is Thor's homeland called? 
18. Auckland is situated in which gulf?
19. What did Edmund Hilary say he ate while climbing Mt. Everest; Marmite, Weet-Bix, or a boiled egg?

and answers below...

ANSWERS:

1. France
2. The Sound of Silence
3. Ferdinand Magellan, 1480-1521
4. Pope Benedict XVI
5. Ethiopia
6. League of Nations
7. Lake Baikal; Russia
8. Polo
9. 300
10. 5
11. Faster.  Higher.  Stronger.
12. Gary
13. Nile
14. Rice
15. East: Berlin; West: Bonn
16. Lollipop
17. Asgard
18. Hauraki Gulf
19. Weet-Bix