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 2021” calendar…

This Week’s Questions:

1. What does it mean if the word andante appears on a piece of sheet music?
2. The national flag of Malawi featured a red half-sun that appears to be rising or setting. What is the significance of the sun?
3. Where did Stevie Nicks first meet her longtime collaborator and fellow Fleetwood Mac member Lindsay Buckingham?
4. Where in the world was the largest snowman on record built in 2008?
5. If you are celebrating Hanukkah by lighting a menorah each day, how many candles will you light in total for Hanukkah?

This Week’s Answers:

1. The music should be played moderately slowly. Like the majority of musical terms, andante is Italian in origin.
2. The sun is an ode to the way the setting sun lights up the waters of Lake Nyasa.
3. Nicks met Buckingham when they were both students at Menlo Atherton High School in Palo Alto, California, in the 1960s.
4. Bethel, Maine. The town used 13 million pounds of snow to build a 122-foot-tall snowwoman named Olympia.
5. You’ll light 44. A menorah has nine candles; each day they are lit in increasing numbers–two on the first day, three on the second day, and so on, for eight days.

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

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