What is Wyoming’s highest pass?

Questions:

1. What is the highest paved highway mountain pass in Wyoming?

2. Who are the subjects of the five best-selling biographies since 2020?

3. Why does the Eiffel Tower weigh 700 tons more than it did 130 years ago?

4. Name as many of the eight European capital cities with five letters or fewer as you can.

5. Which movie contains the line, “I’ve gotta go, Julia. We’ve got cows!!”

Fun Facts:

About 3 percent of Californians live in the northernmost third of the state. Thirty-two percent live in the middle third, and 65 percent live in the southernmost third.

Before hibernation, bears often eat grasses, leaves, bark and other fibrous plants. As their digestive system shuts down, this indigestible material forms a “fecal plug,” allowing the bear to spend the winter without eating, drinking or going to the bathroom.

O.J. Simpson was one of the first choices for the role that would become Arnold Schwarzenegger’s in “The Terminator,” but director James Cameron thought Simpson was too nice a guy to play the role.

Scott County, Tennessee, declared itself a “Free and Independent State” in 1861 after Tennessee joined the Confederacy. The self-proclaimed State of Scott remained fiercely pro-Union throughout the Civil War. Scott County did not formally rescind its “secession” until 1986.

The Latin word for lead is plumbum, which is why the chemical symbol for lead is Pb. Since water pipes were originally made from lead, plumbers were experts in working with it.

In 1995, a curator at a Vermont museum buried a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy in his local cemetery rather than having it cremated. The gravestone gives a death date of 1883 BC.

The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium meaning “the place where three roads meet.” In ancient times, these crossroads were gathering places where travelers exchanged news, stories and gossip.

In January 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes on consecutive days while on safari in East Africa. The first crash occurred when a small plane struck a utility pole while landing. The next day, the rescue plane crashed during takeoff and caught fire, forcing Hemingway to escape through a jammed door. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year.

Answers:

1. The 10,947-foot Beartooth Pass between Red Lodge and Cooke City, Montana, where the Beartooth Highway briefly enters Wyoming

2. Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Britney Spears, Matthew McConaughey and Jennette McCurdy

3. About 130 years of layers of thick paint applied to protect the steel from rust

4. Minsk, Belarus; Paris, France; Kyiv, Ukraine; Bern, Switzerland; Oslo, Norway; Riga, Latvia; Rome, Italy; and Sofia, Bulgaria

5. Twister (In the movie scene, cows fly by.)