Question of the Day - May 2003

May 31, 2003: Who won the first Indianapolis 500?

May 30, 2003: Who was the first Major League baseball player to hit four home runs in one game? In what year did the feat occur?

May 29, 2003: Who filed the patent for the pop-up toaster?

May 28, 2003: Who killed Wild Bill Hickok?

May 27, 2003: When Babe Ruth retired from Major League Baseball, who was 2nd on the all-time home run list, and what team did he play for?

May 26, 2003: The Washington Senators became what team when they left the nation's capital?

May 25, 2003: What town was John Scopes from?

May 24, 2003: What does IBM, the computer and technology company, stand for?

May 23, 2003: Who invented bifocal glasses?

May 22, 2003: Paris and Rome were connected by telephone for the first time in what year?

May 21, 2003: In hours and minutes, how long did Charles Lindbergh's maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean take?

May 20, 2003: Who organized the American Red Cross? In what year was it formed?

May 19, 2003: When the United States highway system was organized in the mid-1920s, Missouri re-numbered their highways, so there would be no state roads with the same numbers as US highways in Missouri. Several exceptions that have occurred after 75 years, with the addition of new state and federal highways. What is one number that appears both as a US highway travelling through Missouri, as well as a Missouri state highway? (Made-up example: US-100 and Missouri-100)

May 18, 2003: What is the capital of Guam?

May 18, 2003: Why does Interstate-238 not fit into the commonly accepted Interstate numbering system?

May 17, 2003: MGM Studios was formed when what companies merged?

May 16, 2003: What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?

May 15, 2003: Oxford University began admitting women in what year?

May 14, 2003: In what year did Siam change its name to Thailand?

May 13, 2003: How old was Louis XIV of France when he ascended to the throne?

May 12, 2003: Who invented the first smallpox vaccine?

May 11, 2003: Who was the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest?

May 10, 2003: In what year was the first Mother's Day observed?

May 9, 2003: In what facility did the Kansas City Kings play?

May 8, 2003: The main ferry servicing Nantucket Island comes from where along the eastern seaboard?

May 7, 2003: What highway follows the large majority of the Pennsylvania Turnpike?

May 6, 2003: What are the main ethnic groups in Nigeria?

May 5, 2003: Who was the first human in space?

May 4, 2003: When did The Republic of South Africa formally install apartheid?

May 3, 2003: In what year did Great Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale, which settled all of the colonial differences between the two nations?

May 2, 2003: After Napoleon began fighting for the 2nd time after his exile on th eisland of Elba, what battle finally ended the threat to France and the rest of Europe?

May 1, 2003: In what year was the Hudson's Bay Company founded?

May Standings

Chris Anderson 13

Kara Davis 12

Luke Reven 2

Matt Haase 1

Laura Courter 1

Shauna Coleman 1

Amber Eklund-Wilks 1