Friday, December 6, 2024

FACTUAL RIDDLES XLI

1. What and where is Rapa Nui?

2. Where is the world's oldest Chinatown?

3. What was the name of Amelia Earhart's plane?

4. SWAG is an acronym. What do the letters stand for?

5. What do Betty Ford and Jill Biden have in common?

6. What is the oldest, continuously-occupied city in the United States. 

7. What is the name of the small, sovereign country bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south?

8. What are the two famous ships that had mutinies - one real and one fictional - and what were the names of their captains?

Answers:

1. Rapa Nui is the native name of Easter Island, located 2,200 miles west of Chile in the southern Pacific Ocean - famous for its hundreds of enormous stone statues.

2. Manila, Philippines (1594)

3. Electra

4. Stuff We All Get

5. They were both "second ladies" (wives of vice-presidents) who became First Ladies.

6. St. Augustine, Florida

7. Andorra

8. Real - HMS Bounty - Captain Bligh (1789)
    Fictional - USS Caine. - Captain Queeg (1952 novel by Herman Wouk/movie - 1954)
    
 


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