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Perspective | My Christmas gift to you: A head-scratching D.C. trivia quiz
It’s time once more for my annual Fiendishly Tough Washington Trivia Quiz! And I’m delighted to say that this 12 months, it’s each additional fiendish and further trivial.
Query 1 of 11
For many years, a malodorous scent hung over Georgetown, courtesy of the Hopfenmaier rendering plant. What did the plant’s operators as soon as add to the method to attempt to masks the noisome odor?
It didn’t work. In line with one nose-witness, it simply produced a scent like “rancid chocolate.”
Query 2 of 11
Crystal Metropolis in Arlington County, Va., takes its title from what?
In 1963, three-bedroom flats in Crystal Home 1 at 1900 S. Eads St. began at $290 a month.
Query 3 of 11
Generally, what does it imply if a Metrobus line is designated by a quantity, comparable to 30, versus a letter and a quantity, like S2?
Buses began changing streetcar traces within the Twenties.
Query 4 of 11
In June 1868, two diplomats — Baron Von Kusserow, Prussian envoy to Washington, and Gen. A. Gallatin Lawrence, U.S. minister to Costa Rica — misplaced their jobs. Why?
The duel is believed to have taken place in Bladensburg, Md. It violated anti-dueling laws handed in 1839.
Query 5 of 11
In October of 1910, The Washington Publish promised it might pay Englishman Claude Grahame-White $10,000 if he may accomplish one thing. What was it?
The day earlier than his try, Grahame-White crashed each his predominant aircraft and his backup aircraft.
Query 6 of 11
In March of 1911, The Washington Publish reported that 500 cats had been delivered to an exposition middle at North Capitol and M streets. What have been the cats for?
At the least one cat was carried in a mannequin that flew for 37 minutes earlier than crashing into an iron pillar. There was no phrase on whether or not the cat was injured.
Query 7 of 11
A bunch of English girls who had been banned from showing in Canada entered Washington’s American League ballpark on Oct. 8, 1922. What have been they there to do?
Dick, Kerr Girls F.C. — named after the English munitions firm they labored at throughout World Battle I — performed to a 4-4 tie in opposition to a crew of male D.C. all-stars. Following the lead of England’s Soccer Affiliation — which sought to “shield” the ladies — Canada’s league had banned the membership from enjoying.
Query 8 of 11
In 1892, Virginia beer baron Robert Portner put in one thing in his Manassas house that he’d invented for his Alexandria brewery. What was it?
In 1880, Portner and B.E.J. Eils obtained a patent to chill and purify air utilizing liquefied ammonia.
Query 9 of 11
The statue of Freedom atop the dome of the U.S. Capitol strikes as much as 4½ inches a day. Why?
The motion of the solar heats architect Thomas U. Walter’s dome inconsistently, inflicting the motion.
Query 10 of 11
Which unlikely determine rode within the ambulance that took Washington quarterback Joe Theismann to the hospital after his horrific 1985 leg fracture?
The pair have been courting on the time, and Crosby had been watching from the proprietor’s field.