1) Why is tennis scored 15, 30, 40 rather than the more
traditional 1 point, 2 points, 3 points of offer sports?
2) What is the unusual state gem of Washington?
3) How high was the 1,340 foot long wall that gave New York's
Wall Street its name?
4) On which holiday are the greatest number of collect calls
generally made in the United States?
5) How did the Red Sea get its name?
6) What city is the southernmost national capital in the world?
7) Split is an important seaport-in what European country?
8) What is the name of the evergreen shrub from which
we get capers?
9) What is the largest fruit crop on earth?
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Trivia Answers
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1) Why is tennis scored 15, 30, 40 rather than the more
traditional 1 point, 2 points, 3 points of offer sports?
- In its early days as an indoor sport, a tennis game's score
was kept by moving the hands of a clock to 15,30, 45. Later,
for reasons now obscure, the 45 became 40.
2) ) What is the unusual state gem of Washington?
- Petrified wood.
3) How high was the 1,340 foot long wall that gave New York's Wall
Street its name?
- 12 feet. It was erected in 1653 by the Dutch colonist as
protection against their enemies.
4) On which holiday are the greatest number of collect calls generally
made in the United States?
- Father's Day
5) How did the Red Sea get its name?
- From the occasionally extensive blooms of algae that , upon dying,
turn the Red Sea's normally blue-green waters red.
6) What city is the southernmost national capital in the world?
- Wellington, New Zealand.
7) Split is an important seaport-in what European country?
- Yugoslavia. It's on the Adriatic Sea.
8) What is the name of the evergreen shrub from which we get
capers?
- The caper, or caper bush.
9) What is the largest fruit crop on earth?
- Grapes. Followed by bananas.
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