TREC 2002 Questions


1394 In what country did the game of croquet originate?
1395 Who is Tom Cruise married to?
1396 What is the name of the volcano that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii?
1397 What was the largest crowd to ever come see Michael Jordan?
1398 What year was Alaska purchased?
1399 What mythical Scottish town appears for one day every 100 years?
1400 When was the telegraph invented?
1401 What is the democratic party symbol?
1402 What year did Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points?
1403 When was the internal combustion engine invented?
1404 How many chromosomes does a human zygote have?
1405 How many ounces are in a gallon?
1406 When did the story of Romeo and Juliet take place?
1407 When did the shootings at Columbine happen?
1408 Which political party is Lionel Jospin a member of?
1409 Which vintage rock and roll singer was known as 'The Killer'?
1410 What lays blue eggs?
1411 What Spanish explorer discovered the Mississippi River?
1412 Who is the governor of Colorado?
1413 What river is called 'China's Sorrow'?
1414 What was the length of the Wright brothers' first flight?
1415 Where does the vice president live when in office?
1416 When was Wendy's founded?
1417 Who was the first person to run the mile in less than four minutes?
1418 When was the Rosenberg trial?
1419 What year did Alaska become a state?
1420 How high is Mount Kinabalu?
1421 When did Mike Tyson bite Holyfield's ear?
1422 What two European countries are connected by the St. Gotthard Tunnel under the Alps?
1423 What is a peninsula in the Philippines?
1424 Who won the Oscar for best actor in 1970?
1425 What is the population of Maryland?
1426 Who is the governor of Tennessee?
1427 What was the first spaceship on the moon?
1428 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992?
1429 What was Andrew Jackson's wife's name?
1430 How old do you have to be to get married in South Carolina?
1431 Who starred in 'The Poseidon Adventure'?
1432 Where is Devil's Tower?
1433 What is the height of the tallest redwood?
1434 What site did Lindbergh begin his flight from in 1927?
1435 What nation is home to the Kaaba?
1436 What was the name of Stonewall Jackson's horse?
1437 How many states were still united after the southern states seceded?
1438 What body of water does the Colorado River flow into?
1439 How deep is Crater Lake?
1440 Who was the lead singer for the Commodores?
1441 What is the coldest place on earth?
1442 What is the chemical formula for sulphur dioxide?
1443 When did Bob Marley die?
1444 What female leader succeeded Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines?
1445 When is Snoop Dog's birthday?
1446 How did Mahatma Gandhi die?
1447 What is the capital of Syria?
1448 What is the fear of lightning called?
1449 What college did Magic Johnson attend?
1450 Which U.S. state is the leading corn producer?
1451 Where was the first McDonalds built?
1452 What is the name given to a collection of poetry?1
1453 Where was the first J.C. Penney store opened?
1454 How much money does the U.S. supreme court make?
1455 The Hindenburg disaster took place in 1937 in which New Jersey town?
1456 What is the Keystone State?
1457 Who succeeded Ferdinand Marcos?
1458 What was the name of the high school in 'Grease'?
1459 What is one national park in Indiana?
1460 What was the name of the dog in the Thin Man movies?
1461 What country's leader was awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?
1462 Where is the oldest synagogue in the United States?
1463 What is the North Korean national anthem?
1464 Who is the detective on 'Diagnosis Murder'?
1465 What company makes Bentley cars?
1466 How tall is Allen Iverson?
1467 What year did South Dakota become a state?
1468 If something has petrified, what has it turned into?
1469 When did Alexandra Graham Bell invent the telephone?
1470 When did president Herbert Hoover die?
1471 How fast does a cheetah run?
1472 How do you say 'house' in Spanish?
1473 When was Lyndon B. Johnson born?
1474 What is the lowest point on earth?
1475 Who was the first person to reach the south pole?
1476 Who was the Roman god of the sea?
1477 What are wavelengths measured in?
1478 What is the name of the heroine in 'Gone with the Wind'?
1479 Who composed 'The Messiah'?
1480 What is the principle port in Ecuador?
1481 What is the capital city of Algeria?
1482 What county is Wilmington, Delaware in?
1483 Where is the highest point on earth?
1484 What college did Allen Iverson attend?
1485 What is slang for a 'five dollar bill'?
1486 Where did Roger Williams, pianist, grow up?
1487 How much are tickets to Disney World?
1488 What is the name of the professional baseball team in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina?
1489 What continent is India on?
1490 What is the Boston Strangler's name?
1491 What was the name of Sherlock Holmes' brother?
1492 How old was Nolan Ryan when he retired?
1493 When was Davy Crockett born?
1494 Who wrote 'East is east, west is west and never the twain shall meet'?
1495 How did Molly Shannon's mother die?
1496 What country is Berlin in?
1497 What was the original name before 'The Star Spangled Banner'?
1498 What school did Emmitt Smith go to?
1499 Which African country's major export is coffee?
1500 Where is Georgetown University?
1501 How much of U.S. power is from nuclear energy?
1502 What year was President Kennedy killed?
1503 What is the world's second largest island?
1504 Where is the Salton Sea?
1505 What is the currency used in China?
1506 What's the name of King Arthur's sword?
1507 What is the national anthem in England?
1508 What was Dale Evans' horse's name?
1509 What is Frank Sinatra's nickname?
1510 Where is Anne Frank's diary?
1511 Who said 'Music hath charm to soothe the savage beast'?
1512 What is the age of our solar system?
1513 What is the current population in Bombay, India?
1514 What is Canada's most populous city?
1515 What was Dr. Seuss' real name?
1516 What does CPR stand for?
1517 What is the state bird of Alaska?
1518 What year did Marco Polo travel to Asia?
1519 Where was Hans Christian Anderson born?
1520 What is the capital of Kentucky?
1521 What year did Ellis Island open its doors to immigrants?
1522 What are the headpieces called that the Saudi Arabians wear?
1523 What percent of the U.S. is African American?
1524 What is the name of the ballpark that the Milwaukee Brewers play at?
1525 What university did Thomas Jefferson found?
1526 What is the city of brotherly love?
1527 When did the 6-day war begin?
1528 Where did Kublai Khan live?
1529 What is the oldest college bowl game?
1530 What is the capital city of New Zealand?
1531 What does NASDAQ stand for?
1532 What is the literacy rate in Cuba?
1533 Who directed the film 'Fail Safe'?
1534 The sun is mostly made up of what two gasses?
1535 Who painted 'Sunflowers'?
1536 What city is Lake Washington by?
1537 How many electoral college votes in Tennessee?
1538 Who is the evil H.R. Director in 'Dilbert'?
1539 What is Ronald Reagan's favorite candy?
1540 What is the deepest lake in America?
1541 What president is on a quarter?
1542 Where is Hill Air Force Base?
1543 How tall was Judy Garland?
1544 What is the most populated country in the world?
1545 What is a female rabbit called?
1546 What year was the movie 'Ole Yeller' made?
1547 What is the atomic number of uranium?
1548 What was the first name of the Gehrig who played for the New York Yankees?
1549 What year was the PC invented?
1550 What is the southwestern-most tip of England?
1551 What does DNA stand for?
1552 What did Charles Babbage invent?
1553 Who makes Magic Chef refrigerators?
1554 What is the scientific name for tobacco?
1555 When was the Tet offensive in Vietnam?
1556 What cemetery is Thurgood Marshall buried in?
1557 What was the first satellite in space?
1558 How much does it cost to register a car in New Hampshire?
1559 Where did Dr. King give his speech in Washington?
1560 What was Denzel Washington's first television series?
1561 When was the first patent filed on the ice cream cone?
1562 Where did the U.S. Civil War begin?
1563 Who started the Protestant reformation?
1564 When did Led Zeppelin appear on BBC?
1565 What is Karl Malone's nickname?
1566 What famous Spanish poet died in Spain's Civil War?
1567 When did the Black Panther party start in California?
1568 How old was George Washington when he died?
1569 When did the Vietnam War end?
1570 What is the legal age to vote in Argentina?
1571 How much copper is in a penny?
1572 For whom was the state of Pennsylvania named?
1573 Who is the head of the FBI?
1574 When did 'The Simpsons' first appear on television?
1575 What is the degree of tilt of Earth?
1576 What galaxy is closest to the milky way?
1577 What Burns poem does 'the best laid plans of mice and men' come from?
1578 How tall is the Sphinx?
1579 Which country exports the most tea?
1580 What name is given to the science of map-making?
1581 What anniversary is the 20th?
1582 How high is a hand?
1583 What is the text of an opera called?
1584 When did George W. Bush get elected as the governor of Texas?
1585 What is the chief religion for Peru?
1586 When did the Golden Gate Bridge get finished?
1587 What did Sherlock Holmes call the street gang that helped him crack cases?
1588 When was Apollo 11 launched?
1589 Who was the only golfer to win the U.S. and British Opens and amateurs in the same year?
1590 What do grasshoppers eat?
1591 What percentage of the population is left handed?
1592 When was the Reichstag burned down?
1593 What percent of Egypt's population lives in Cairo?
1594 Which long Lewis Carroll poem was turned into a musical on the London stage?
1595 What person developed COBOL?
1596 What year did Mussolini seize power in Italy?
1597 Where is the French consulate in New York?
1598 Who was the baseball player given the nickname 'Mr. October'?
1599 What is South Africa's total population?
1600 What automobile company makes the Spider?
1601 When did Einstein die?
1602 Who holds the record as the highest paid child performer?
1603 When did Robert E. Lee surrender in the Civil War?
1604 What does R&B stand for?
1605 How far would you run if you participate in a marathon?
1606 What is the boiling point of water?
1607 What is the normal blood sugar range for people?
1608 What is the appropriate gift for a 10th anniversary?
1609 What is the currency of Bolivia called?
1610 Who signed the Declaration of Independence from Vermont?
1611 What is the lifespan of a house fly?
1612 When was the U.S. invasion of Haiti?
1613 When was Benjamin Disraeli prime minister?
1614 What is the capital of Victoria?
1615 What is Africa's largest country?
1616 When is Gerald Ford's birthday?
1617 When did the Klondike gold rush occur?
1618 Where is bile produced?
1619 Which baseball star stole 130 bases in 1982?
1620 What year was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held?
1621 What is the name of the country in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain?
1622 Who was Woodrow Wilson's First Lady?
1623 What is the active ingredient in Tylenol?
1624 What year did 'New Coke' come out?
1625 What is the deepest lake in the world?
1626 What is Buzz Aldrin's real first name?
1627 What is written on the U.S. tomb of the unknown soldier?
1628 How much area does the Everglades cover?
1629 Where is Mae West buried?
1630 When was the dog domesticated?
1631 What's the capacity of the Superdome?
1632 How much protein is in tofu?
1633 What roller coaster is the fastest in the world?
1634 What is the area of Venezuela?
1635 What is the name of the famous dogsledding race held each year in Alaska?
1636 When was the battle of Chancellorsville fought?
1637 What is the name of the five pointed star commonly used by Satanists?
1638 What city in Australia has rain forests?
1639 What is the profession of John Cusack's character in the 1999 film 'Pushing Tin'?
1640 Who founded Taoism?
1641 Where did 'N Sync get their name?
1642 What do you call a baby sloth?
1643 Who founded Rhode Island?
1644 How far away from the sun is Saturn?
1645 How much is the international space stations expected to cost?
1646 When was the first atomic bomb dropped?
1647 What continent is Scotland in?
1648 What does TB stand for in baseball stats?
1649 What year did the shuttle Challenger explode?
1650 What county is Elmira, NY in?
1651 What is another name for the North Star?
1652 When did the United States enter World War II?
1653 How do you say 'French fries' in French?
1654 Where is Prairie View A&M University?
1655 Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
1656 How fast does an Iguana travel (mph)?
1657 What do the French call the English Channel?
1658 What year was Robert Frost born?
1659 Where was Bob Dylan born?
1660 What is Elvis Presley's middle name?
1661 What does 'E Pluribus Unum' mean?
1662 When was Jerusalem invaded by the general Titus?
1663 What are the people who make fireworks called?
1664 Who was the first person to make the helicopter?
1665 When did Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial?
1666 What is the name of the US military base in Cuba?
1667 What is the abbreviation for the London stock exchange?
1668 What is the oldest national park in the U.S.?
1669 How tall is Mount McKinley?
1670 Who was the Union general in the Battle of Winchester?
1671 Where is Big Ben?
1672 What Latin American country is the leading exporter of sugar cane?
1673 What time of year does the peregrine falcon breed?
1674 What day did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?
1675 What group sang the song 'Happy Together'?
1676 When was water found on Mars?
1677 How did Micky Mantle die?
1678 Who was the U.S. president in 1929?
1679 What is the diameter of the moon?
1680 What country was ruled by King Arthur?
1681 When did Houdini die?
1682 When was Martin Luther King Jr. born?
1683 What name is horror actor William Henry Pratt better known by?
1684 What card game uses only 48 cards?
1685 What is the most populous city in the United States?
1686 Who defeated the Spanish armada?
1687 What president declared Mothers' Day?
1688 What year was the gateway arch built?
1689 What war is connected with the book 'Charge of the Light Brigade'?
1690 What does DEA stand for?
1691 Where was the movie 'Somewhere in Time' filmed?
1692 How tall is the Eiffel Tower in France?
1693 When was Jackie Robinson born?
1694 What year did California become a territory?
1695 What breed was Roy Rogers' horse Trigger?
1696 When was the pencil first invented?
1697 Where is the Statue of Liberty?
1698 When was Julius Caesar born?
1699 What city is Purdue University in?
1700 Where is America's Stonehenge?
1701 Where was President Lincoln buried?
1702 Whose business slogan is 'Quality is job 1'?
1703 What award did Sterling North's book 'Rascal' win in 1963?
1704 What is the normal pulse rate?
1705 What is rum made out of?
1706 What is the beginning date for the Hershey foods company?
1707 What is the ranger's name in Yogi Bear cartoons?
1708 When was the Exxon Valdez Oil spill?
1709 What is the August birthstone?
1710 What are the colors of the Italian flag?
1711 When was the first jet invented?
1712 Who invented the fishing reel?
1713 What is the phobia for number 13?
1714 What province in Canada is Niagara Falls located in?
1715 How much vitamin C should you take in a day?
1716 Who was the first Triple Crown Winner?
1717 What city was the first in the world to have a population over one million?
1718 When was the White House built?
1719 What is the distance from Jupiter to the sun?
1720 When a game of baseball is forfeited, what is the score?
1721 How far is the pitchers mound from home plate in softball?
1722 What year did poet Emily Dickinson die?
1723 What is Madonna's last name?
1724 Who was one of the Egyptian gods?
1725 Where did David Ogden Stiers get his undergraduate degree?
1726 What is the name of the canopy at a Jewish wedding?
1727 What does the abbreviation WASP mean?
1728 When did Yankee Stadium first open?
1729 What is the name of the airport in Amsterdam?
1730 What is Mark Twain's real name?
1731 How often does the United States government conduct an official population census?
1732 What are the opening words of the Declaration of Independence?
1733 Who is the president pro tempore of the US Senate?
1734 How do you say 'pig' in Spanish?
1735 What city is Southwestern University in?
1736 Where on the body would you find the jowls?
1737 How much sleep should a child get at night?
1738 Where was the F Troop stationed?
1739 What is the full name of conductor Seiji?
1740 What is the Stanley Cup made of?
1741 What author wrote under the pen name 'Boz'?
1742 When did the Mesozoic period end?
1743 Which state has the longest coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?
1744 What car company invented the Edsel?
1745 What are hiccups caused by?
1746 Who stabbed Monica Seles?
1747 Where is the national hurricane center located?
1748 When were the Los Angeles riots?
1749 When was Sputnik launched?
1750 What is Mexico's population?
1751 Where is Mesa Verde National park?
1752 When was the Oklahoma City bombing?
1753 When was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. built?
1754 When did the Persian Gulf War occur?
1755 What was the profession of American patriot Paul Revere?
1756 When is Fashion week in NYC?
1757 When did the battle of Iwo Jima take place?
1758 What is the 'Sunflower State'?
1759 Who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof?'
1760 Where was C.S. Lewis born?
1761 How many black keys are on the piano?
1762 What is the name of Scarlett O'Hara's house?
1763 How old is the universe?
1764 What Cuban dictator did Fidel Castro force out of power in 1958?
1765 What airport is LCY?
1766 What is Australia's national blossom?
1767 When was the first Ford Mustang made?
1768 What TV series did Pierce Brosnan play in?
1769 Who is the owner of the St. Petersburg Times?
1770 What is the highest recorded temperature in San Antonio, TX?
1771 When was D-Day?
1772 Who invented the cotton gin?
1773 What was Aaron Copland's most famous piece of music?
1774 What does HTML stand for?
1775 What is a group of antelope called?
1776 What year did the first American lighthouse open?
1777 Who did Scott Bakula play in 'American Beauty'?
1778 When did Walt Disney die?
1779 What is Australia's oldest city?
1780 Who has the most no hitters in major league baseball?
1781 What year did 'Snow White' come out?
1782 Who was the first woman to run for president?
1783 What country are Volvo automobiles made in?
1784 What is the scientific name for leech?
1785 What body of water does the Euphrates River empty into?
1786 What were the most points Michael Jordan scored in a game?
1787 What is David Lee Roth's birthday?
1788 Who makes viagra?
1789 What is the date of the Kent State Shooting?
1790 What country is the holy city of Mecca located in?
1791 When did they put Mir down?
1792 How far is it from Buffalo, New York to Syracuse, New York?
1793 What is the world's tallest office building?
1794 What is the fastest car in the world?
1795 How far does a laser pointer shine?
1796 What year did General Montgomery lead the Allies to a victory over the Axis troops in North Africa?
1797 How did Adolf Hitler die?
1798 On what continent is Egypt located?
1799 What is the life expectancy of the average woman in Nigeria?
1800 Which president was sworn into office on an airplane?
1801 Where is the smallest bone in the body?
1802 How tall is Tom Cruise?
1803 When did Willis Haviland Carrier make the air conditioner?
1804 Which river runs through Dublin?
1805 Who was elected President of South Africa in 1994?
1806 When was the first heart transplant?
1807 What is the range for the number of passengers a Boeing 747 airplane can carry?
1808 What island did the U.S. gain after the Spanish American war?
1809 When was the Buckingham Palace built in London, England?
1810 Where are the British Crown jewels kept?
1811 When was penicillin first used?
1812 What was the name of the stage play that A. Lincoln died at?
1813 When were the first postage stamps issued in the United States?
1814 What gift is proper for a 1st anniversary?
1815 What is Nicaragua's main industry?
1816 How old must you be to become President of the United States?
1817 Who was the first president to speak on the radio?
1818 Where did Golda Meir grow up?
1819 When did Marilyn Monroe commit suicide?
1820 When is Mexico's independence?
1821 Who were the architects who designed the Empire State Building?
1822 Who was the captain of the Titanic?
1823 What number did Michael Jordan wear?
1824 Which planet did the spacecraft Magellan enable scientists to research extensively?
1825 What year did Nintendo 64 come out?
1826 Which film received the first best picture Academy Award?
1827 Where was the battle of Alamo fought?
1828 What was Thailand's original name?
1829 How tall is the CNN Tower in Toronto?
1830 What city does the Tour de France end in?
1831 What is the name of Abbott and Costello's famous routine?
1832 What did Walter Cronkite say at the end of every show?
1833 How tall is Mike Tyson?
1834 Which disciple received 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus?
1835 Who was Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy?
1836 What river runs through Rome, Italy?
1837 What year was Ebbets Field, home of Brooklyn Dodgers, built?
1838 What was the name of FDR's dog?
1839 What country was formed in 1948?
1840 What is the state song of Kansas?
1841 What's the final line in the Edgar Allen Poe poem 'The Raven?'
1842 How much did a quart of milk cost in the 1930's?
1843 In what month are the most babies born?
1844 When was the Hellenistic Age?
1845 What province is Calgary located in?
1846 What is the oldest sports trophy?
1847 What is Tina Turners real name?
1848 What was the name of the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima?
1849 What is the nickname of Oklahoma?
1850 What is Marilyn Monroe's real name?
1851 Which country colonized Hong Kong?
1852 When did Henry VIII rule England?
1853 Where was the Andersonville Prison?
1854 What was William Shakespeare's occupation before he began to write plays?
1855 How fast is the world spinning?
1856 What city is known as the rubber capital of the world?
1857 What is the length of Churchill Downs racetrack?
1858 Tell me where the DuPont company is located.
1859 What branch of the military has its academy in Annapolis?
1860 What Broadway musical is the song 'The Story is Me' from?
1861 Where was Bill Gates born?
1862 What is the GDP of China?
1863 Who said 'I have not begun to fight!'?
1864 What was the name of the first child of English parents to be born in America?
1865 What is the major crop grown in Arizona?
1866 What part of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life?
1867 Which Italian city is home to the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore or the Duomo?
1868 What capital is on the Susquehanna River?
1869 In the Bible, who was Jacob's mother?
1870 What country is Pretoria in?
1871 How much gravity exists on Mars?
1872 How did Eva Peron die?
1873 What is the motto for California?
1874 When was the battle of Shiloh?
1875 What county is St. Paul, Minnesota in?
1876 How far from the earth is the sun?
1877 What is the name of a newborn swan?
1878 What year was the phonograph invented?
1879 By what nickname was musician Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr. best known?
1880 When was King Louis XIV born?
1881 What is the scientific name for the zinnia plant?
1882 What nationality is Sean Connery?
1883 How much of the ozone layer is depleted?
1884 Where is the Sea of Tranquility?
1885 What language do they speak in New Caledonia?
1886 What are Brazil's national colors?
1887 What was the name of the first enclosed baseball park?
1888 What year was the light bulb invented?
1889 How old is the Red Pyramid?
1890 Who is the author of the poem 'The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?'
1891 Who was the first black heavyweight champion?
1892 Where does cinnamon come from?
1893 What American general is buried in Salzburg?