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Trivia #1073980
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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. When wine has gone through the "fining" process, what has happened?
-2. What actor portrayed the evil Egghead on the 1960's Batman television show?
-3. What building did Roosevelt have built on “Hell’s Bottom”?
-4. If Simon says "walk widdershins," how should you walk?
-5. NBC aired the first television commercial in 1941. Which company paid $4 for the spot?
-6. Fasces, the source for the word "fascism," are what?
-7. What financial institution was created by the Buttonwood Agreement?
-8. Frank Sinatra sang only two Beatles songs. What were they?
-9. According to a Gallup poll, what percentage of Americans believe the Apollo moon landing was fake? (1%, 6%, or 12%)
-10. Whose skull does Hamlet hold in the gravedigger scene?



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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073981
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10. Yorick wave

Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073984
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073986
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073988
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Marian shoots, Marian scores! curly and LadyK, try again. wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073993
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073994
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Hmm - I'd go with Lady K. (And not just because she's a superb Squiggle judge!). Always understood it to be a Yorkshire word meaning anticlockwise think


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I wonder what's on television...?
Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073995
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I have consulted the internet (a very contradictory place) and found that "counterclockwise" and "anticlockwise" are both good answers for #4. My source claimed it meant "backwards". Thanks, Rog, and well done LadyK! wave

michele, good answer! wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1073998
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Originally Posted By: Pandora
I have consulted the internet (a very contradictory place)...

"There are lies, d*** lies, and the Internet" lol


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074010
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074017
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6. It's an axe surrounded by a bundle of rods. Used as a symbol of a judges authority in ancient Rome.

wave

Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074043
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Good answers! wave

Rog lol


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074072
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Eggsactly! smile


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074150
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074192
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Great find, Cue! wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074196
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Yes, manxman! wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #1074317
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1.the larger particles are filtered out wink


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birthday Sherlock (you have birthday greetings in Mixed Bag, as well).

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That's right, Sherlock. Sediment is removed by chemical reaction. grin


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#5 if only NBC knew what they could really charge wink


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Re: Trivia [Re: soot] #1074367
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Thanks, Marian! wink


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