Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 90
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Play today’s sevenIn July 1969, who became the first person to walk on the Moon?
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✓Neil Armstrong, whose boot prints are probably still there, with no wind to blow them away.
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Which ‘King of Rock and Roll’ lived at Graceland, his mansion in Memphis?
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✓Elvis Presley, who bought Graceland in 1957 when he was just 22.
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“Kindergarten”, meaning “children’s garden”, was borrowed from which language?
- German
- Dutch
- Swedish
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✓German, coined by Friedrich Fröbel, who opened the first one in 1837 and named it ‘Kindergarten’ in 1840.
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Which 1972 film opens with “I believe in America” and features a horse’s head in a bed?
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✓The Godfather, and the horse’s head was real, sourced from a dog-food plant.
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Which Spanish surrealist painted the melting clocks of “The Persistence of Memory”?
- Salvador Dalí
- Joan Miró
- Pablo Picasso
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✓Salvador Dalí, who said the clocks were inspired by Camembert melting in the sun.
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Which Italian dessert’s name translates as “pick me up”?
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✓Tiramisu, a nod to the jolt from its espresso-soaked ladyfingers.
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Which country is thought to hold more lakes than the rest of the world combined?
- Canada
- Russia
- Finland
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✓Canada, home to well over half the world’s lakes, most carved out by Ice Age glaciers.
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