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Trivia #1026758
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Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.

-1. What is the name of Dr. Seuss’s egg-hatching elephant?
-2. What souvenir did New York Giant linebacker Lawrence Taylor request from a referee after he played his last game in January 1994?
-3. What organization has the motto, “Peace is our Profession”?
-4. What actress was the high-school girlfriend of Judge Joseph A. Wapner of TV’s The People’s Court?
-5. What Scottish innkeeper’s son invented the thermos bottle in 1892?
-6. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale?
-7. In what year did motor vehicle registrations in the US pass the million mark? (1913, 1932, 1941)
-8. In 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe with five ships and 250 men. How many ships and men were left when the expedition ended in 1522?
-9. What is the word “laser” an acronym for?
-10. How did manufacturers of Old Grand-Dad bourbon get away with producing their whiskey during Prohibition?


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1026760
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1026761
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1026766
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1026788
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Spot on, michele! wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1026793
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Yes, and he heard a Who! lol


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1026803
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rotfl Dr. Seuss rocks thumbsup


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Yes, the yellow flag. He felt it had been thrown at him often enough. wave


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10. Was produced as medicinal whiskey for the sick (mmmm..... the Baldwin sisters come to mind lol )

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Good answer! Magellan himself did not survive the trip. wave


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Absholulely! crazy


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Originally Posted By: Pandora
Absholulely! crazy


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