Trivia
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04/19/13 08:57 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. Inducted into the U.S. Army on March 24, 1958, his serial number was US 533010761, and he was assigned as a jeep driver to Lt. Col. Henry Grimm. Who? -2. What is Wyoming's official "state mythical creature"? -3. If you practice, practice, practice, you can get to 57th and 7th in Manhattan. Where will you be? -4. What Delacroix painting is on the cover of "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay? -5. What team provided the National League with its Rookie of the Year for five straight years in the 1990s? -6. In all three "Godfather" movies, the presence of what fruit is a sign that somebody is in mortal danger -7. What non-musical object is used musically in Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and in Wagner's "Das Rheingold"? -8. When would a Muslim woman wear a burqini? -9. What is the only European mainland capital that faces the Atlantic? -10. In the comics page, what kind of animal was Pogo?
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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04/19/13 09:15 PM
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BobH
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9. Lisbon, Portugal. I traveled there some years back. I had no idea it was the only one.
Bob As I've grown older, I've found that my memory is not as good as I used to think it was.
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Re: Trivia
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04/20/13 01:24 PM
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fildil
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5. The Los Angeles Dodgers
Fil
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