Ep 77: General Trivia

Annie and David are back with 20 new questions from video games to art! Can you answer the following questions: What 1978 arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado was one of the first fixed shooter games and helped popularize the concept of achieving a high score? Boolean algebra, which was introduced by George Boole in 1854, is credited with laying the foundation of what age? Which painter's household is the setting for Tracy Chevalier's novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring?" In the 1994 Football World Cup held in the United States who was the first person to miss a penalty? Apparently there ain't no goal that's wide enough. Which fashion designer is credited with the creation of American sportswear? This 2002 film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton, is a prequel to “Silence of the Lambs.” This was the one with the naked Ralph Fiennes in it. Who was the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Japan? Music Hot Swing, Fast Talkin, Bass Walker, Dances and Dames, Ambush by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Don't forget to follow us on social media for more trivia at home: Patreon - patreon.com/quizbang - Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Check out our fun extras for patrons and help us keep this podcast going. We appreciate any level of support! Website - quizbangpod.com Check out our website, it will have all the links for social media that you need and while you're there, why not go to the contact us page and submit a question! Facebook - @quizbangpodcast - we post episode links and silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess. Instagram - Quiz Quiz Bang Bang (quizquizbangbang), we post silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess. Twitter - @quizbangpod We want to start a fun community for our fellow trivia lovers. If you hear/think of a fun or challenging trivia question, post it to our twitter feed and we will repost it so everyone can take a stab it. Come for the trivia - stay for the trivia. Ko-Fi - ko-fi.com/quizbangpod - Keep that sweet caffeine running through our body with a Ko-Fi, power us through a late night of fact checking and editing!