Every Tuesday is a Trivia Tuesday on AmericaJR. Look for five new trivia questions and answers from the “365 Amazing Trivia Facts for 2017” trivia calendar.
This week’s questions:
- The Houston Astros were one of the first professional sports teams to start doing what?
- Who is the band Fleetwood Mac named for?
- There’s one actor who has voiced a role in every Pixar movie, from Toy Story to Cars to Inside Out. Who is he?
- When Ben & Jerry’s began, its founders originally planned on making another food product before they opted for ice cream. What was it?
- Advertising executive Julian Koenig claims to have invented Earth Day. According to him, why did it end up with the date that it did?
This week’s answers:
- Using AstroTurf–they adopted it during the 1966 season.
- Mick Fleetwood, the band’s drummer, and John McVie, the bassist.
- John Ratzenberger. He plays Hamm in the Toy Story films as well as smaller roles in the rest of the Pixar movies.
- Bagels. It turned out that the equipment required to make bagels was more expensive than what they would need for ice cream, so they went with that instead.
- It was Koenig’s birthday.
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