June 24 Trivia: Sample Questions

Pirates

Name the pirate who captained the Queen Anne’s Revenge and was said to fight with lit cannon fuses in his hair to intimidate opponents.

Name the pirate knighted by Queen Elizabeth who later went on to serve as second-in-command in the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Name the two US Presidents to have fought declared wars against the Barbary Pirates.

In pirate lingo, what is a hogshead? 

In pirate lingo, what is “Davy Jones’s locker”?  

 

Jeans

The word “jeans” comes from the French word for the town of the Italian sailors who were known for wearing them.  What town?  

What denim dye was imported from India to Europe as early as the Greco-Roman era? 

What innovation did Levi Strauss and his partner Jacob Davis add to jeans and receive a patent for?  

From what language does the word “dungarees” come into English?

Why did the US Navy introduce bell-bottom trousers in 1817? 

Advertising Catchphrases

What “Tastes Good Like a Cigarette Should”? 

What is a relief when it goes “plop, plop, fizz, fizz”? 

“We’re number two; we try harder” 

"With a name like ________, it has to be good."

And a historical favorite: what company's slogan was once “Born in fire, blown by mouth”?

 

Answers: Blackbeard, Francis Drake, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, a keg, the bottom of the sea (death by drowning, etc.); Genoa, indigo, copper rivets, Hindi, to roll them up while washing decks or to take them off quickly if thrown overboard; Winston, Alka-Seltzer, Avis, Smuckers, Waterford Glass.