Dive Bar Divas Pub Quiz #5 - General Trivia

Sometimes, general trivia is more fun than a theme. One really annoying source for this is the random button on Wikipedia. As you can see I included a few news items as well.

General Trivia 1

1. Blues Pianist Pinetop Perkins died in March at age 97. He is the oldest winner of what award?
    The Grammy (Best Traditional Blues Album, 2011), Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 2005, 1st Grammy was in 2007,

2. BBC radio has quit broadcasting which 65 year old service earlier this year due to budget cuts?
    Russian Language

3. When was the first portable MP3 player introduced in North America? Extra point if you know the product name.
    MPMan F10 was the first portable solid state digital audio player sold in the North American Market, developed by SaeHan Information Systems which is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and imported by Eiger Labs, Inc. The MPMan was the first of its kind in what would become a new era in portable audio. It was put in the market in March 1998.

4. Where is the Red-crowned Amazon, (Amazona viridigenalis) also known as Red-crowned Parrot, Green-cheeked Amazon, or Mexican Red-headed Parrot native to?
    Northeastern Mexico

5. How many master game editions of Trivial Pursuit have been released in the U.S.? This does not include supplemental card sets, multimedia or Australia only editions.
    45 (plus or minus 3, so 42-48)

6. According to the Society for American Baseball Research what was the most common nickname in pro baseball from 1871-1968?
    Lefty (153), second was Red (120) and third was Doc (61)

7. According to 2010 census bureau data, what state has the largest percentage growth rate among whites?
    Utah 16.7 percent

8. How many language editions (or language versions) of Wikipedia are there?
    279

9. When is the Nobel Peace Prize Awarded each year? Extra point for the date and month.
    December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death

10. What was the first living creature ever ejected from a supersonic aircraft?
    A bear, in 1962.  The Air Force was testing an escape capsule designed for installation on the B-58 bomber. The bear was ejected at 35,000 feet from a B-58 flying at 870 mph, and returned to Earth unharmed 7 minutes and 49 seconds later.