Please Don't Call It Trivia: World traveling cat returned in 2005

Questions:

1. What are the two counties in Wyoming that begin with a vowel?

2. Who played the male and female leads in the movie “When Harry Met Sally?”

3. The sun is the largest object in the Solar System, and Jupiter is second. What are the 6th, 7th and 8th largest?

4. Name as many of the University of California campuses as you can. (There are 10.)

5. What is the smallest whole number that is spelled with an A in English? What about B and C? 

Fun Facts:

In 2005, a family cat was accidentally sealed inside a shipping container in Milwaukee and spent nearly a month traveling across the country and the Atlantic before being discovered in France. A veterinarian treated the cat and used its tags to track down the owners. In a happy ending, a shipping company representative personally flew the cat home first class to its relieved family.

India has sent athletes to the Winter Olympics since 1964 and has never won a medal.

The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau is made up of about 340 islands and is home to roughly 18,000 people. Its land area is about half the size of New York City, but its surrounding ocean territory is about the size of Texas and protected as a shark sanctuary. Palau became independent in 1994.

Wyoming has more people than pronghorn antelope. But just barely. Humans surpassed the antelope number around 1990.

After water and tea, the world’s most popular drinks are coffee, beer and milk.

A chimpanzee at a zoo in Sweden became known for stockpiling rocks in advance to throw at human visitors. Researchers said it showed the ability to plan ahead and use objects as tools.

Roughly one-third of Pedialyte sold in the U.S. is used by adults as a hangover remedy.

A month ago officials disqualified 20 camels from a Saudi Arabian animal beauty contest after discovering they had been given Botox and fillers.

Answers:

1. Albany and Uinta (Largest cities: Laramie and Evanston)

2. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan (Directed by Rob Reiner)

3. #6 Earth, #7 Venus, #8 Mars (#3 Saturn, #4 Uranus, #5 Neptune)

4. Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles (UCLA), Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz

5. One thousand (smallest with a B: one billion, smallest with a C: one octillion.)