QUESTIONS:
1 What business/company has the largest number of Bay Area employees, over 46,000? Can you name a few others in the top five?
2 VISUAL: Name two extinct elephant-like animals whose names begin with “M.”
3 Located about 630 miles from the Bay Area, what is known as The City of Roses?
4 VISUAL: The 2005 Broadway musical and 2014 movie about the life of the music group The Four Seasons, had what geographical title?
5 Who were the three longest-reigning British queens, in order?
6 Name the year that all these events occurred: Oscar-winning picture Driving Miss Daisy was released, massacre in Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall came down.
7 VISUAL: Former Oregon State basketball coach and current Executive Director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Craig Robinson, has a very famous sister named what?
8 What Scottish author created Never-Never Land, in what 1904 play?
9 It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is what?
10 Algebra students, this one’s for you: Reggie weighs 124 pounds, plus one-third of his total weight. How much does he weigh?
BONUS QUESTION: In 1888, what was the last country in the Western hemisphere to officially prohibit slavery?
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ANSWERS:
1 Kaiser Permanente, followed by Sutter Health, Facebook, Safeway and Tesla.
2 Mammoth, Mastodon (shown in photo)
3 Portland, Oregon
4 Jersey Boys
5 #1. Current Elizabeth II, almost 70 years
#2. Victoria, almost 64 years
#3. Elizabeth I, 44 years
6 1989
7 Michelle Obama
8 J.M. Barrie, in the theater play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
9 Mary (Maria)
10 He weighs 186 pounds = (124 + 62 (=1/3 of 186)
BONUS ANSWER: Brazil
