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Monthly Archives: December 2012

QUESTIONS

  1. Which Japanese Technology Company’s named was inspired by the English phrase, Service and Games?
  2. Which color flame burns hottest, red, white, or blue?
  3. Which U.S. state’s official song comes from a Broadway musical?
  4. In 1498, the Chinese invented a product that lead to a great improvement in personal hygiene and appearance.  Today you can easily buy one of these things for about a dollar.  What was it?
  5. Reviewers considered this 1978 film one of the best rock-concert documentaries of all time.  The subject was the farewell concert of the musical group The Band, in November, 1976, and co-starred Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and Eric Clapton.  What was the film title?

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. Sega
  2. Blue followed by white, yellow, orange, red (coolest)
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Toothbrush
  5. The Last Waltz

QUESTIONS

  1. Which country has a bill of rights for cows?
  2. In which 1992 film did Tom Hanks play the role of a overweight, obnoxious baseball coach?
  3. He was the victim of a disease that left him so grotesquely deformed that he spent most of his life as a carnival show freak.  His name was John Merrick, and a 1980 film about his life was nominated for eight Academy Awards.  What was the name of the film?
  4. During the reign of King Francis I in the 16th century it was the palace of the king, but today it’s a famous museum.  What is it called?
  5. Which Protestant sect was founded in England in the early 18th century, based on the principles of John and Charles Wesley?  (Not Wesleyan)

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. India
  2. A League of Their Own
  3. Elephant man
  4. Louvre
  5. Methodist

QUESTIONS

  1. What 1945 film won best picture, actor and director Oscars?
  2. In the Beverly Hillbillies what was the name of Ellie’s Chimp?
  3. When did the last dinosaurs roam earth? A. Over 100 million years ago B. Around 20 million years ago C. Around 65 million years ago.
  4. This Pittsburgh radio station is considered to be the first to broadcast in the U.S. Do you know its call letters?
  5. What game would you be playing if you were placing bombs and a flag on a field?

 

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. The Lost Weekend
  2. Cousin Bessie
  3. C. Around 65 million years ago; A Triceratops may have been the last dinosaur standing, according to a new study that determined a fossil from Montana
  4. KDKA – Pittsburgh
  5. Stratego

QUESTIONS

  1. What links Kelly, Highway, Block and Wales?
  2. Marilyn Monroe was the model for which Disney Character?
  3. If the population of a city grows at 10% per year, it will double in approximately how many years? (to nearest year)
  4. What do the initials GUI stand for?
  5. In which sport would you hear the terms side pushers, driver and G-Force?

 

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. Clint Eastwood character Names
  2. Tinker Bell
  3. Seven
  4. Graphical User Interface
  5. Bobsled

QUESTIONS

  1. Cheers exterior shots featured a real bar, what was its name?
  2. Who are Mickey Mouse’s nephews?
  3. What is the word for people who worship more than one god? Those than worship only one?
  4. Which two people, in 1976, sold their VW van for $1,300 in order to raise money to build the first Apple Computer in their garage?
  5. What is the fastest known traveling object?

 

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. Bull & Finch
  2. Mortie and Ferdie
  3. Polytheism and Monotheism.
  4. Steve Jobs / Steve Wozniak
  5. Light or Space. Light – traditionally, but some scientists now say that space is expanding or moving faster than the speed of light.

QUESTIONS

  1. On television what was Flipper?
  2. What kind of creature was Sam, on the Muppet Show?
  3. This 19th century American frontierswoman was a companion of Wild Bill Hickok. She dressed like a man and frequented bars in the Dakota Territory where she told stories of her adventures. By what name do we know her?
  4. Where was Aristotle born?
  5. If you were eating escargots in France, what would you actually be consuming?

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. Dolphin
  2. Eagle
  3. Calamity Jane
  4. Greece
  5. Snails

QUESTIONS

  1. Armand Tamzarian is the ‘real’ name of which cartoon character?
  2. In the film ‘Gremlins’ what is the true name for Gizmos race?
  3. What organ, in humans, never changes size from our birth until our death?
  4. What is the basic, general difference between libel and slander?
  5. How many players are on the ice during a hockey game? (Both sides)

 

 

 

ANSWERS

  1. Principal Skinner
  2. Mogwi
  3. Eye balls
  4. Libel is written or printed or broadcast. Slander is only spoken.
  5. 12

A New Zealand man who went blind after drinking vodka had his sight saved – by a bottle of whisky.

Denis Duthie, 65, suddenly went blind when vodka he had been drinking reacted with his diabetes medication, reports the New Zealand Herald.

Mr Duthie, a catering tutor, had been celebrating his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary by having a few vodkas from a bottle his students had given him as a present.

But when he walked into a bedroom in his home everything suddenly went black.

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Whiskey is the answer

Vodka-blinded man saved by whisky | Orange UK.

 

a woman

Cop sues for cost of exs boob job | Orange UK.