June 1985
TRIVIA CORNER
by ROB DAROFF
In addition to our usual assortment of trifles, with the assistance of the Cleveland Gay History Project, this month's Trivia Corner includes a few local, rare bits of trivia about our very own community. Let's see who really knows their stuff!
1. What was the most popular
Cleveland cruising zone during the
2. How did the earliest settlers at Jamestown survive during their first month in America?
3. For potency, ancient Babylonians prayed to be sexually aroused by what animals?
4. Who played the Acid Queen in the film "Tommy"?
5. On what T.V. cartoon theme would you hear the lyric "We'll have a gay old time"?
6. United States Senator Glen Taylor sold Taylor Toppers: What were they?
7. Atop a hill in Arlington, Virginia, what was known as a military cruising spot?
8. What does mosquito netting in the back pocket mean?
9. What female insect eats the male after sexual intercourse?
10. What material were the living room draperies of gay Cleveland Press columnist Windsor French?
ANSWERS
Cleveland's first gay bar was the Club Verdone on Mt. Carmel Rd., west of Fairhill.
1. The grounds of the Cleveland Art Museum
2. Selling sex to sailors (the settlers were all male)
3. Horses
4. Tina Turner
5. "The Flintstones"
6. Hairpieces
7. The Iwo Jima Memorial
8. Outdoor sex
9. Black Widow spider 10. Pigskin
(Thanks again to the makers of The Trivia Gayme [1-800TRIVIAA] for providing many of the questions above).
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Can You Name Cleveland's First Gay Bar?? (see answers below)
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