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Trivia #912807
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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. An Italian, Andrea Bargnani, became the first European drafted No. 1 by the NBA, when he was picked up by what team in 2006?
-2. What country's modern 1-euro coin features one of its ancient drachma coins?
-3. Farrokh Bulsara was born in Zanzibar, but he was Parsi, so he is called "Britain's first Asian rock star." By what name do we know him?
-4. A toy telephone at the Pokey Oaks Kindergarten connects you to what unusual group of crimefighters?
-5. Who would most likely head for the planet Mongo to foil Ming the Merciless and his evil plans?
-6. Whose former estate, Hacienda Napoles in Colombia, is now overrun with the feral descendents of the hippos that escaped from his zoo?
-7. What presidential candidate was beaten most badly in the electoral college, losing 525 to 13, carrying only Minnesota and Washington, D.C.?
-8. What cult movie ends with Bruce Campbell, saying, "Hail to the king, baby"?
-9. Which of these adjectives is not typically used postpositively: galore, akimbo, emeritus, uncouth?
-10. When Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, she did it with a concerto based on what comic strip?



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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #912810
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #912820
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #912829
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #912841
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #912851
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #912856
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Re: Trivia [Re: Pandora] #913017
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