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Date Posted: 18:50:30 09/12/04 Sun
Author: Roper
Subject: Re: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia (answers)
In reply to: Chandi 's message, "Re: Sorta silly, yet interesting, trivia" on 16:47:25 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!)

YES
>
>2. Mr. Kenneth Gorelick set a world record by
>holding
>something for 45 minutes. What was it?
>A music note!
YES (AKA KENNY G)
>
>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

YUP

>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

CORRECT
>
>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

YUP
>
>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!

PICS OF HELMETS IS CORRECT
>
>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!

YUP
>
>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)
YUP
>
>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

YUP
>
>10. What reasonably common food is translated into
>English as "devil fart"?
>
>pumpernickel LoL
YUP
>
>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!
YUP
>
>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
YUP
>
>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.

YUP
>
>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 =)
YUP
>
>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!

YUP
>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!

Forrest Gump, Amadeus, and Dances With Wolves
>
>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.
>

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

YUP
>
>19. What do the dates May 30, 1982 and September 20,
>1998 signify?
>
>First and last days of Cal Ripken's consecutive games
>streak.

YUP
>
>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! :(

YUP
>
>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
>
YUP
>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!

TAKING A BATH
>
>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."

YUP
>
>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'

YUP
>
>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!

YUP. GOOD JOB!

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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