Trivia
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11/07/12 12:26 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. What is the name of the poem that appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? (bonus points awarded for the name of the author) -2. In blackjack, players try to get cards that add up to 21, and no higher. What is the count sought in baccarat? -3. How did Napoleon Bonaparte finance his invasion of Russia in 1812? -4. What great American tried to stump the celebrity panel on TV's Masquerade Party by showing up in a penguin costume? -5. In which U.S. state can you visit Athens, Carthage, Damascus, Egypt, England, Formosa, Hamburg, Havana, Holland, Jerusalem, London, Manila, Melbourne, Oxford, Palestine, Paris, Scotland, and Stuttgart? -6. What did Chinese businessmen in the third century B.C. use as their personal seals on documents? -7. In the world of gardening, what is a clairvoyee? -8. What is the largest member of the dolphin family? -9. Which actress changed her name from Edda van Heemstra for Hollywood? -10. Superstition holds the four-leaf clover as lucky. What about the even more rare five-leaf clover?
Netflix needs to stop asking if I'm still watching and start asking if I've switched the laundry over yet
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Re: Trivia
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#847641
11/07/12 12:44 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 7,186 Long Island, N.Y.
fildil
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BAAG Specialist
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Long Island, N.Y.
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The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
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Re: Trivia
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#847796
11/08/12 01:37 AM
11/08/12 01:37 AM
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Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 11,626 The Garden State
LadyKestrel
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The Garden State
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5. I'm going to guess Maine, just because I know it has a few of them.
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