French folks really didn’t like Cardinal Richelieu

Questions:

1. Name the four most eaten birds on Earth.

2. What was the name of St. Petersburg, Russia, before 1991?

3. What are the five most populous cities in South America?

4. Harry Potter is on screen for 540 minutes in the entire movie series. Ron Weasley (211) is next, and Hermione Granger (205) is third. Who ranks 4 through 7?

5. Which days of the week are named for objects in the Solar System?

Fun Facts:

In 1985, Indonesia offered a $1,300 prize for a song encouraging people to plant and grow soybeans. Soybean production more than doubled over the next five years.

Children’s author Shel Silverstein (known for Where the Sidewalk Ends) wrote the Johnny Cash hit “A Boy Named Sue.”

Just months after the War of 1812, the U.S. went to war with Algiers. President James Madison sent a squadron of 10 warships to the Mediterranean, where they captured Algerian ships and threatened Algiers until its ruler agreed to stop attacks on American vessels.

Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.

Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas on September 5, 1836.

King Charles I of England was only 5 feet, 4 inches tall before his beheading for treason. The current king, Charles III, is about 5 feet, 10 inches tall.

About 90 percent of humanity lives north of the Equator.

Oslo, Norway, is closer to Italy than it is to the northern tip of Norway.

NASA helped sell the Voyager space probe missions to President Nixon by pointing out that the last time the outer planets were so favorably aligned, Thomas Jefferson was president.

Tim Curry played Cardinal Richelieu in the 1993 movie “The Three Musketeers.” The real-life Cardinal Richelieu was so hated that bonfires were lit to celebrate his death in 1642. More than 150 years later, during the French Revolution, his tomb was opened and his corpse was beheaded.

Answers:

1. Chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese

2. Leningrad (It had originally been St. Petersburg but was renamed Leningrad after Lenin’s death in 1924.)

3. #1 São Paulo, #2 Lima, #3 Bogotá, #4 Rio de Janeiro, #5 Santiago

4. #4 Dumbledore - 76 minutes; #5 Snape - 43 minutes; #6 Voldemort - 38 minutes; #7 Draco - 32 minutes

5. Sunday (Sun); Monday (Moon); Saturday (Saturn)