Trivia Tuesday: 5 New Trivia Questions from “Page-A-Day”

Every Tuesday is a Trivia Tuesday on AmericaJR. Look for five new trivia questions and answers from the “365 Amazing Trivia Facts for 2017” calendar.

This week’s questions:

1. What Canadian entertainment group was originally known as Les Echassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul?
2. The first section of what German highway, linking Cologne and Bonn, opened in 1932?
3. National Lampoon was started in 1970 by graduates of what college?
4. In what country was the world’s tallest chocolate Easter egg made?
5. What did the Revenue Act of 1861 do?

This week’s answers:

1. Cirque du Soleil. The group has performed in over 40 countries on six continents.
2. The Autobahn, which now totals 6,800 miles.
3. Harvard. The magazine was modeled after Harvard’s campus humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon.
4. Italy. The egg measured 34 feet and 1.05 inches tall, and weighed more than 15,000 pounds.
5. Established the income tax in the United States, when money was badly needed to pay for the war effort.