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Trivia #1032634
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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?


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1032646
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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.

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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1032647
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1032688
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Re: Trivia [Re: Space Quest Fan] #1032795
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Originally Posted By: Space Quest Fan
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1032798
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1032865
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