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Date Posted: 16:47:25 09/12/04 Sun
Author: Chandi
Subject: Re: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia
In reply to: Roper 's message, "Re: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia" on 15:10:31 09/12/04 Sun

Okay, time to do research!
1. What do the following have in common: New York,
Japan, Milan, my love, your party, my hat, my shirt,
my car, my cat, and THIS song?

All in the Right Said Fred song "I'm too Sexy"
(had this right!)

2. Mr. Kenneth Gorelick set a world record by
holding
something for 45 minutes. What was it?
A music note!

3. Katherine Hepburn has the most Oscars. John Wayne
had the most starring roles. Harrison Ford's movies
have made the most money. But the greatest personal
accomplishment in cinematic history belongs to the
late, great Emil Sitka. What did Emil do that NO
other actor ever managed to achieve?

I know he has something to do with the Three
Stooges... not sure beyond that!

This was pretty much right... he appeared with all six stooges
4. Brookstone commissioned a 1999 study on the
earning power of various fathers on 50 years of
sitcoms. According to the results, which TV dad makes
the most money per year, and which one earns the
least?

Hmmmm... Most = Philip Banks from Fresh Prince of Bel
Air
Least = Dan Connor from Roseanne
complete guess lol

Jed Clampett (how could I forget him??)
Al Bundy (ditto!) haha

5. Eddie Layton has been playing the organ at Yankee
Stadium for a third of a century. But he's also
performed concerts, written music, and released CDs.
What is Eddie Layton's most famous musical
composition?

The "Charge" song? lol
OMG that was right! It just seemed logical LoL

6. Every NFL football team has a different design
for its team helmet. But the looks of the Dolphins' and
the Raiders' helmets stand alone. What specific
pictoral element do those two teams' helmet designs
include, which no other team's helmet does?

players numbers on the back?

Pictures of helmets on their helmets?? I am confused about this one!

7. The first one was a Minerva. It was quickly
replaced by a Heuer. A few more intermediate switches
were made, but for the last two decades, it's always
been an Aristo. What is it?

watch?

Well, I knew they were watches, but didn't make the connection. Its the stopwatch at the beginning of 60 minutes!

8. The first Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish bands to
hit #1 on the British charts, while ALSO making the
U.S. Top Ten, each have names that begin and end with
the same one letter. Name the three acts.

ABBA
after that, I am clueless lol

Well, I had part of it!! The other two are a-ha (Take on meeeeeeee, take on me) and Aqua (I'm a Barbie Girrrrrl)

9. In January 2000, 82-yr old Inupiaq Eskimo Stanton
Katchatag of Unalakleet, Alaska became the first
person in America to be WHAT?

counted in the 2000 census

10. What reasonably common food is translated into
English as "devil fart"?

pumpernickel LoL

11. What do the following words have in common: my,
fun, girls, say, more, love, tonight, baby, mercy,
turn, bills, and bye?

Said three times in a row in a song?

Yay, got this one right too... Damn, I am smart, well sorta... don't burst my bubble!

12. During much of 1999, ESPN aired a series of
half-hour profiles of their choices for the Top 50
Athletes of the Century. Which of the 50 selections
weighed the most?

Secretariat... but I think the Frig weighed in close! ROFL

13. Why was Prince William of England born on June
21, 1982?

Because that's when Diana had him? lol

Well, my answer is correct, sorta, but the correct answer is that her labor was induced to fit the birth into Charles' schedule.

14. What are the last words John F. Kennedy heard in
his life?

"Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love
you" said by Mrs. Connelly. Go ahead, give me more
Kennedy trivia! LoL

I am quite confident in my Kennedy trivia knowledge =)

15. Words That Almost Rhyme With "Peas." What is
their significance?

Subject of the first Letterman top ten list... sheesh, I shoulda known that, disappointed in myself!
16. Name the last three Oscar-winning Best Pictures
whose titles are simply the name of the main
character.
Forrest Gump
Amadeus
Ghandi
unless Driving Miss Daisy or Schindler's List counts!

Hmph, I stand by my original answer!

17. What was the best bet that country legend Waylon
Jennings ever lost?

He flipped a coin with Ritchie Valens to see who would get the 4th and last empty seat in Buddy Holly's plane.

18. What is the only product on the U.S. market
whose brand name contains the back-to-back letters "XZ"?

Noxzema... DUH me

19. What do the dates May 30, 1982 and September 20,
1998 signify?

First and last days of Cal Ripken's consecutive games streak.

20. If you took every person who ever played major
league baseball since 1876, and listed them
alphabetically by name, which player would be first?
And, if you did the exact same thing for every man
ever to play basketball in the NBA, who would be
alphabetically first?
Hank Aaron- had that right
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - totally missed that part of the question the first time! :(

21. The 1982 world championships in Budapest were
won in a record 26 seconds. What was the competition?

Shoulda known from the 80's... *sigh* Rubik's Cube

22. According to historian Alain Corbin, as recently
as the 19th century, most French women died without
ever having experienced this. What?

orgasm?
I couldn't find the answer to this, so I am going to stick with my original answer!

23. Perhaps one of the most famous motorcycle chases
in film history was Steve McQueen's race from a World
War II prison camp in "The Great Escape." While
we know McQueen went on to other movies.... whatever happened to the motorcycle?

Very cool answer - It became Fonzie's on "Happy Days."

24. What is the first music video to have a sequel?

I am probably wrong, but I am going to say "Don't Cry"
by Guns and Roses
and alas, I was wrong... ZZTop Gimme All Your Lovin'

25. Nelson Mandela was quoted in November 1997 as
saying, "This is one of the greatest moments of my
life." What?
seeing the Spice Girls (its something silly like
that, I think that's it) lol
And, indeed it was!

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Replies:

Re: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia (answers) -- Roper, 18:50:30 09/12/04 Sun
- Re: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia (answers) -- Mojo, 21:28:06 09/12/04 Sun
  - That was fun, I love trivia! (NT) -- Chandi, 12:14:04 09/13/04 Mon