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Telephone Trivia - hints added #1001228
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See if you can answer one of these telephone trivia questions.

-1. Today, nearly everyone answers the phone with "Hello?" But in the earliest days, what other word was used?
-2. Who was the first President to have a phone on his desk? [March 1929]
3. Place the following in chronological order: princess phones, outdoor phone booths, area codes, touch-tone (push button) phones, hold buttons, picturephones (first public display), pay phones [1st: pay phones 1889, 2nd: hold buttons 1933, ...]
-4. What song titles that feature telephone numbers are associated with:
-a.) Glenn Miller
-b.) The Marvelettes [Be.....]
-c.) Tommy Tutone?
-5. Name the songs that feature these telephone lines:
-a.) "A telephone that rings, but who's to answer?"
-b.) "No phone, no pool, no pets..."
-c.) "When I call you up, your line's engaged..."
-6. What's the punchline to the prank call to a housewife that starts with, "Is your refrigerator running?"
-7. What fictional characters are associated with the following: a.) "One ringy dingy" b.) the shoe phone c.) "Phone home"?
-8. What 1948 film starred James Stewart as a Chicago newspaper reporter who helps a scrubwoman prove her son's innocence in the death of a policeman?
-9. In what 1960 film did Liz Taylor portray a call girl and win her first Oscar for her performance?
10. It's easy to remember the number for Dial-A-Prayer (787-3837) because the numbers correspond to the letters STPETER. What names correspond to the following numbers?
-a.) Dial-a-Joke 262-4073
-b.) Dial-a-Hint 435-6473
-c.) Dial-a-Poem 873-5468
-d.) Dial-a-Painting 354-7326
-e.) Dial-a-Review 739-7333
-f.) Dial-a-Hussy 623-9378
-g.) Dial-a-Dictator 434-2646




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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001233
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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001234
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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001237
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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001244
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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001246
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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001311
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Re: Telephone Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1001319
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As I've grown older, I've found that my memory is not as good as I used to think it was.
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Re: Telephone Trivia - hints added [Re: Pandora] #1001479
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