Q 01/05

Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline plays in the middle of the eighth inning at which baseball venue?

A) Wrigley Field

B) Fenway Park

C) Yankee Stadium

D) Dodger Stadium

Answer · why

B) Fenway Park

Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, has kept up the ritual since 2002. Diamond led the crowd in the song there in person days after the 2013 Bost...

Q 02/05

Neil deGrasse Tyson got hate mail from children when his planetarium stopped calling what a planet?

A) Mercury

B) Neptune

C) Uranus

D) Pluto

Answer · why

D) Pluto

Pluto was grouped with like objects instead of the planets at New York's Hayden Planetarium, where Tyson became director in 1996. In 2006 astronomers ...

Q 03/05

Which two-word greeting did Neil Papworth send as the world's first text message in December 1992?

A) Season's Greetings

B) Happy Birthday

C) Merry Christmas

D) Good Morning

Answer · why

C) Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas was typed on a computer and sent to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis, who was at his office party. Papworth was 22 at the time.

Q 04/05

Neil Patrick Harris found fame as a teenage doctor who kept a computer diary in which TV series?

A) Doogie Howser, M.D.

B) Trapper John, M.D.

C) Marcus Welby, M.D.

D) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Answer · why

A) Doogie Howser, M.D.

Doogie Howser, M.D. ran on ABC from 1989 to 1993. Network executives opposed casting Harris, though he was the first actor the staff found who could c...

Q 05/05

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the Moon in July 1969 in a lunar module called what?

A) Columbia

B) Falcon

C) Eagle

D) Intrepid

Answer · why

C) Eagle

Eagle carried the pair to the Sea of Tranquility while Michael Collins orbited in the command module Columbia. Eagle's descent stage is still on the l...