365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

Witchcraft. Of the 20 people executed during the notorious Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials in 1692, the five women were the last to be officially exonerated.



Saturday, November 1, 2014

What Academy Award winner defeated her ex-husband when she won the Oscar for Best Director of 2009?​
 
Kathryn Bigelow, who was the first woman to take home a statuette for Best Director. She won for the Oscar-winning Best Picture The Hurt Locker. Her ex, James Cameron, had been nominated for his 3-D sci-fi spectacular Avatar.



Sunday, November 2, 2014

What was the first transportation-related job held by famed Italian racecar designer Enzio Ferrari?​
 
Ten. The three states that didn't participate in electing the nation's first president were New York, whose legislature failed to appoint electors on time, and North Carolina and Rhode Island, which had not yet ratified the Constitution.



Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Where in the human body is cerumen found?​
 
O. Henry, in his 1904 book of shorts stories Cabbages and Kings, which he wrote after living in Honduras. The term refers to a small politically unstable country dependent on a single export. O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter.



Monday, November 10, 2014

How did the captured Allied servicemen repurpose the powdered milk cans the Red Cross sent to them at Stalag Luft III, the German prison camp immortalized in the movie The Great Escape?​
 
In the U.S. Army. During World War I, while stationed in Europe as a second lieutenant in the artillery, Berkeley designed and directed large-scale parades and drills for the U.S. and French armies. After the ceasefire in late 1918, he was transferred to the Third Army of the Occupation in Germany, where he served as an entertainment officer in charge of staging camp shows to boost troop morale.



Monday, November 17, 2014

In Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition, a contemporary version of the classic board game, what utilities fill the spaces once occupied by Water Works and Electric Company?​
 
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