Another Round of Triva

It's time to exercise our brains again. I rate these questions at 6 out of 10 in degree of difficulty.

1. How is the date of Easter Sunday calculated?

2. The song And the Band Played On is associated with what disaster?

3. What did Leon Czolgosz and Gavrilo Princip have in common?

4. According to Greek mythology, how many Fates were there?

5. Who was John Scopes?

6. Who was the only major league baseball player mentioned by name in either a book or a short story by Ernest Hemingway?

7. What was the crime that sent Chicago gangster Al Capone to prison?

8. What four figures are consigned to the 9^th (deepest) circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno?

9. In The Who's rock opera Tommy, what was Tommy's last name?

10. In the original version of the movie Godzilla, what was the name of the American reporter who "narrates" the story? (Extra credit: what actor played the role?)

Answers

1. Easter Sunday is the Sunday immediately following the first full moon to occur after the vernal equinox (the first day of Spring).

2. The sinking of the Titanic.

3. They were both assassins (Czolgosz killed President William McKinley in 1901 and Princep killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary in 1914).

4. Three (Clotho, Atropos, and Lachesis).

5. The schoolteacher who was charged with the "crime" of teaching the theory of evolution in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925 and thus became the defendant in the "Great Monkey Trail."

6. Joe DiMaggio, in The Old Man and the Sea.

7. Tax evasion (Capone died before he could be appointed an assistant secretary of the treasury by his fellow Chicagoan, Barak Obama).

8. Lucifer, Brutus, Cassius, and Judas

9. Walker

10. Steve Martin (Raymond Burr)