This quiz may interest some of you trivia experts. This is truly a “Miscellaneous” selection from many and varied categories of trivia. As always, the answers will be posted below.

• How large was the fund bequeathed in 1896 by Alfred Nobel to establish the annual Nobel Prizes?

• What philosophy was expounded by the American League for Physical Culture, established in 1929?

• What was the first word that the blind Helen Keller learned in sign language from her teacher, Annie Sullivan?

• How much weight is saved by an airline if it doesn’t paint a Jumbo Jet?

• What was used to erase lead pencil marks before the rubber eraser was invented?

• What did Nippon Airways do to keep birds from being sucked into their plane’s engines?

• Who was described in Playboy magazine as “Mary Poppins in Joan Collins’ clothing?

• What did Lizzie Borden, Napolean, and Titian have in common?

• How big is a cord of wood?

• Where are the islands of Langerhans?

Answers

$9.2 million, Nudism, Water, 300 lbs., Pieces of Bread, They painted large eyes on engine intake manifolds, Vanna White, They were red heads, 4’X4’X8′ long, In the human body – Pancreas.