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#818340 - 06/27/12 01:20 PM Trivia
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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. Who, in November 1800, became the first president to live in the White House?
-2. The food that restaurants call a squab is actually a juvenile form of what "rat with feathers"?
-3. What is the term pH an abbreviation for?
-4. What museum was originally called the Museum of Nonobjective Painting?
-5. What colorful animal name is given to green Kentucky whiskey straight from the still?
-6. Born in Little Italy, NY, what director gave up attempting the priesthood to become a film director?
-7. An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey, it was named for the father of Theseus who, believing his son dead, hurled himself into it.
-8. His hometown of East Derry, New Hampshire was almost renamed Spacetown.
-9. For what player did the Phillies retire number 32?
-10. What were the four things that Churchill said that he only had to offer?
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#818345 - 06/27/12 01:44 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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3. Always known it as "hydrogen ion concentration" - is there an actual abbreviation using "p" and "H"? smile
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#818347 - 06/27/12 01:46 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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#818349 - 06/27/12 02:02 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Haroula]
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3. pH is the horsepower of a car in reverse! These are cryptic clues aren't they? wink wave

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#818351 - 06/27/12 02:06 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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8. Alan Shepard smile

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#818354 - 06/27/12 02:28 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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Haroula and Sondi, good answers! wave

Bernie lol

Yes Rog, and you've got the Hydrogen part right. smile
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#818358 - 06/27/12 03:08 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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10. blood, sweat, tears and toil?
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#818363 - 06/27/12 03:16 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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6. Martin Scorsese penguin
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#818388 - 06/27/12 04:46 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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1. I think I know this from watching the HBO show. John Adams.
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#818391 - 06/27/12 04:59 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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2. pigeon smile
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#818417 - 06/27/12 07:48 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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9. Steve Carlton smile
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#818429 - 06/27/12 09:18 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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Wow! All correct! wave
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#818627 - 06/28/12 03:39 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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4. Guggenheim Museum penguin
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#818636 - 06/28/12 04:31 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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3.Potential hydrogen. wave
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#818639 - 06/28/12 04:44 PM Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora]
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Both correct, ladies! wave
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