Trivia
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10/07/15 08:25 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. Frederico Fellini's film "La Dolce Vita" contained an annoying photographer who gave his name to this term for such people. What is the term? -2. What Italian violin maker trained with the Amati family and brought the art of instrument making to its culmination in the 18th Century? -3. Finish this famous line from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge: "Water, Water, Everywhere... -4. What present nation was once Zaire and, before that, the Belgian Congo? -5. In 1835, who survived the first attempt to assassinate a president? -6. In the Scottish Highland games, what do the Scots call the sport of lifting huge logs and trying to hoist them the farthest away? -7. This unit of heat corresponds to that required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree fahrenheit. Name this unit, used mostly in England? -8. What future hard-boiled detective received an Academy Award nomination for a part in "Birdman of Alcatraz" and played Pontius Pilate in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"? -9. What vegetable is called tartuffo by Spaniards, kartoffel by Germans and kartofel by Russians? -10. What fabric takes its name from the Persian "shir-o-shakar", meaning milk and sugar, referring to its alternating stripes of puckered and flat cloth?
The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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Re: Trivia
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#1035410
10/07/15 08:27 PM
10/07/15 08:27 PM
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Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,167 New Zealand
shroeder
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1. No idea but I suspect it is the origins of Paparrazzi (sp?)
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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