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Trivia #844519
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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. How much water does a ten-gallon hat hold?
-2. Who wrote scripts for his own films under pseudonyms that included Otis T. Criblecoblis and Mahatma Kane Jeeves?
-3. If seedless oranges don't have seeds, how are they propagated?
-4. What role did Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk play in Elvis Presley's life?
-5. In wine making, what is the must?
-6. Why did the English call their gold coins guineas?
-7. Columbus had three ships on his first exploration of America. How many were under his command on his second expedition?
-8. For whom was the Mercedes automobile named?
-9. Where did M*A*S*H army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce hail from?
-10. What sport was originally known in England as "plank-gliding"?



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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #844543
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9. Iowa? wink

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1. I will guess 2.5??


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #844558
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8.From an Austrian girl wave


I change all my passwords to "incorrect". So whenever I forget, it says, "your password is incorrect".

Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #844583
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Sherlock lol

curly, try again. That's too much. smile

Haroula, that's right. The daughter of race-car driver Emil Jellinek. wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #844637
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10. water skiing ?


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If that was a guess, it was a good one! smile


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #844657
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2. W. C. Fields


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4. He was aka Major Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager

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Good answers, ladies! wave

(Except I think he was Colonel)


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6.From Guinea, in West Africa. wave


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Correct! That's where the gold was mined. wave


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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #845299
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5. The pulp (Mmmmmmm...Wine)

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Try again, Koala. smile


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7.17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men wave


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1. wild guess...1 gallon


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Good answer, Haroula!

And zook, that's close enough. The answer is 3/4 gallon, or 3 quarts.

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Crab Apple Cove, to be exact. smile


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Nice try, but nope. smile


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5. pulp


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5. grapes wink


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Koala said the same thing as Gail, but it's not quite correct. Soot, of course grapes, but in what form? smile


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5. grape juice containing the skin, seeds and stems smile


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