Trivia
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09/16/15 07:44 PM
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Pandora
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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 the poem which appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? -2. How high and wide are the netted goals in ice hockey? How about field hockey? -3. Which of the U.S. service academies was the first to admit women? -4. Two members of TV’s A Team had names with initials – B.A. Baracus and H.M. Murdock. What do the initials represent? -5. What do the initials S.O.S. stand for in the brand of steel-wool soap pads marketed under that name? -6. If you live as long as Methuselah, how old will you get? -7. Where did Samuel McPherson Hunt, gangster Al Capone’s feared hitman, carry his submachine gun when he went out on a job? -8. Which European country has two elements named after it on the Periodic Table? What are the two elements? -9. A milligram is a thousandth of a gram. What is a picogram? -10. What animal’s milk is used in Roquefort cheese?
Netflix needs to stop asking if I'm still watching and start asking if I've switched the laundry over yet
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Re: Trivia
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09/16/15 09:14 PM
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BobH
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9. a trillionth (US) added: and UK as I have learned. I always thought UK was one of the countries that would have called this a billionth. Many countries do but not the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#English-speaking
Last edited by BobH; 09/16/15 09:23 PM. Reason: An opinion is just a fact I haven't met yet.
Bob 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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