Memolink Lotto / LuckySurf Trivia - June 2007

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What was the first company to use a moving assembly line to create its lare complex product?

Ford Motor Company

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What is the only mammal that can fly?

The Bat

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Which person was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 to 1973, then later became President of the United States?

George H. Bush

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Which river rises in the mountains of West Virginia and flows eastward along the Virginia-Maryland border into Chesapeake Bay?

Potomac River

I will mis my Old Bay crab cakes, etc. when I leave Maryland!

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One of the greatest celebrations ever seen in New York City occurred in May, 1883, when millions celebrated the completion of what engineering marvel?

Brooklyn Bridge

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In 1936, Hialeah in Florida was the world's first horse race track to make use of what new innovation?

Photo Finish

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Which 15-year old American figure skater became Olympic champion in 1998, the youngest winner since Sonja Henie in 1928?

Tara Lipinsky

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The films The Bridges at Toko-Ri, the Manchurian Candidate, and M*A*S*H were all related to which war?

Korean War

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Which company produced the first color photographic film?

Kodak

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Dick Cheney served in what position on the cabinet of President George H. Bush?

Secretary of Defense

Careful, not Dubya!

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What is the clear, colorless fluid that fills the tissue spaces of the body?

Lymph

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Who coined the proverb "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"?

Thomas Edison

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What ancient Greek historian is often called the father of history?

Herodotus

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Which automobile company was established in 1899 in Torino, Italy?

Fiat

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America's first transcontinental airmail route connected New York to what city?

San Francisco