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 was Clark Kent’s high school sweetheart? -2. What sport was the first to be filmed, and who filmed it? -3. What was the only U.S. battleship to be present at both the attack at Pearl Harbor and at the D-Day invasion? -4. What was the name of Edgar Bergen’s female dummy? -5. According to Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer who introduced streamlining to packaging, what are the two most perfectly designed containers? -6. Can you name the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne – the nine Muses of Greek mythology? -7. What does Separation Creek in Oregon separate? -8. Where is Rock English spoken? -9. What is the measurement “one foot” based on? -10. How did pound cake get its name?
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Re: Trivia
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10. I think it had one pound of butter in the recipe
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Zook, that's a good start. CCb Bob, try again.
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6.Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomeni, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope.
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9. If I remember right, it's the length of an average human foot.
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Re: Trivia
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10. Years ago I thing the ingredients added up to a pound?
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Re: Trivia
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niteowl, Haroula, Bernie and Marie Cue, the answer has to do with a king. Gail, try again.
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11/21/14 04:56 PM
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I'll take a shot at #9. I have an errant brain cell that seems to remember it was an attempt by Charlemagne to standardize the measurement of a foot by using the length of his own foot.
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