TRIVIA TIME
Trivia Time by Walter Branch

1. What future U.S. state saw the death of the explorer Captain James Cook in 1779?

2. What color food did ancient Greeks have a taboo against eating?

3. Who did his famous paintings from birds he shot, before a society devoted to bird preservation was named in his honor?

4. What imprisoned drug lord was miffed to learn his brother's million-dollar horse had been abducted and returned castrated?

5. What singer-producer was the biggest box-office actress of the 1970s?

6. What space shuttle was the first to land on wheels like an airplane?

7. What nation's flag was referred to in World War II as a “meatball?”

8. What make of 1964 convertible did Nick Nolte drive in “48 Hours?”

9. What industrialist regarded cows as inefficient and unsanitary, vowing in 1921: “The cow must go?”

10. What upscale mineral water outfit had to admit to artificial carbonation in 1990?

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1. Hawaii ; 2. Red; 3. John James Audubon; 4. Pablo Escobar; 5. Barbra Streisand; 6. The Columbia ; 7. Japan 's; 8. A Cadillac; 9. Henry Ford; 10. Perrier