New Trivia Questions from “Page-A-Day” 11/3

This week’s questions:

1. Which two bodies of water are linked by Europe’s Kiel Canal?
2. Which familiar features on the face of the Man in the Moon are created by the Sea of Showers and the Sea of Serenity on the lunar surface?
3. What U.S. magazine has the largest circulation in the world?
4. Who were the five celebrity cohosts on the daytime TV talk show The View when it first aired in 1997?
5. What would you be served if you ordered pastillus botello fartum from a menu written in Latin?

This week’s answers:

1. The North Sea and the Baltic. The busy 61-mile-long canal cuts across northern Germany, saving chips a long detour around Denmark’s Jutland Peninsula.
2. The eyes. The Sea of Showers or Sea of Rains (Mare Imbrium, in Latin) is the left eye; the Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis) is the right eye.
3. AARP The Magazine
4. Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Meredeith Viera, Star Jones, and Debbie Matenopoulos, with Walters and Behar initially alternating appearances.
5. A hot dog, according to a modern lexicon published by the Vatican Latin Foundation.

Source: Workman Publishing/”Page-A-Day”