c) William Taft

William McKinley appointed him to the role in 1900, nine years before he became President.

Which U.S. President was also the first civilian governor of the Philippines?

a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) William McKinley
c) William Taft
d) Woodrow Wilson

a) Berlin, Germany

The film about an angel who falls in love with a human is also known by its German title, Der Himmel uber Berlin.

In what city does the 1987 movie Wings of Desire take place?

a) Berlin, Germany
b) Budapest, Hungary
c) Moscow, Russia
d) Palermo, Italy

• A1) 19. Narrator Peter Thomas's voice was borrowed from the 1984 television documentary Vietnam Requiem.
• A2) 9. Dvorak composed the symphony during a lengthy visit to the United States in 1893.
• A3) 7. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack seven cats, and each cat seven kittens.
• A4) 14. Eight stone make a hundredweight.
• A5) 9. There is one candle for each of the eight days in Hanukkah plus an additional candle for lighting them.
• A6) 6. This was lowered by one to speed up the game. Each team can also take a 20-second timeout in each half.
• A7) 9. The Scout is the only piece that can travel multiple squares in a single turn.
• A8) 3. When the guide began rating restaurants in 1926, a single star was granted for good cooking. A few years later, two stars were awarded for "excellent cooking, worth a detour" and three stars for "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey".
• A9) 1. The compilation includes all 27 Beatles songs that reached #1 in either the U.S. or U.K. between 1962 and 1970 (except "For You Blue", which might technically also have belonged).
• A10) 14. The record was tied by Titanic almost half a century later. The film also had a record four females nominated, two for Best Actress and two for Best Supporting Actress.
• A11) 3. Every state has two senators and every state gets at least one representative regardless of how low its population drops.
• A12) 5. Here is the complete table of Morse code digits:

  0 -----	5 .....
  1 .----	6 -....
  2 ..---	7 --...
  3 ...--	8 ---..
  4 ....-	9 ----.

The correct answers (19 9 7 14 9 6 9 3 1 14 3 5) can be mapped to the position of the letters in the alphabet to give the bonus answer SIGNIFICANCE. One of my goals in this blog is to raise trivia's significance and magnificance from minutiae to entertainment and edification.