Wednesday's Trivia

Posted By: kitten

Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 12:22 PM

Who brought the first gun, a hand cannon, to North America?
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 12:35 PM

Darwin - he forced evolution!
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 12:41 PM

Good guess, but not correct.
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 12:46 PM

Columbus - he forced immigration!
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 12:54 PM

Columbus is correct, Bailey. Nice job.

Next question:

What human body part are scientists replacing with sheets made from ground-up crab shells?
Posted By: Snowqueen

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:00 PM

the skull??
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:01 PM

Very good guess, but no.
Posted By: Skittles

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:04 PM

eyelids?
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:08 PM

Very very close, but don't be as specific.
Posted By: #12

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:10 PM

Skin
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:10 PM

the nose?
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:14 PM

Skin is correct #12. I can't imagine how it's done, but it's skin. Yuck.

Next question:

What country attacked Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia in search of guerrillas in May, 1986?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:20 PM

angola?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:23 PM

Congo
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:31 PM

Jane Goodall
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:34 PM

This isn't the correct answer but I did LMAO!!!

Congo and Angola are not correct.
Posted By: B_F

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:36 PM

South Africa
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:40 PM

Yep, I think BF is right...
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:46 PM

BF, South Africa is correct. Very nice.


Next question:

What country's right-wing coup prompted Vangelis to vamoose to England?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 01:53 PM

Greece
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:19 PM

Greece is correct! You guys are WAY smarter than the other people I play with.

Next question:

What venereal disease jumped 30 percent in the US between 1986 and 1988?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:26 PM

herpes?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:26 PM

Theoconservatism, sorry, I thought you meant 'social disease'
Posted By: Skittles

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:26 PM

chylmidia (spelling?)
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:29 PM

Herpes is not correct, KMS.

AML, you make me laugh.

Skittles, your answer is not correct. (And be thankful you don't know how to spell it!! :))
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:31 PM

congenital syphilis
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:33 PM

Syphilis is correct. AML has just pulled into the lead with 2 wedgies.

Next question:

What big city did Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describe as "permanently cruel"?
Posted By: B_F

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:43 PM

Aids
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:51 PM

crabs?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:52 PM

Los Angeles
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 02:55 PM

tee hee... AIDS and crabs are not cities...

LA is not correct.
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:04 PM

NY
Posted By: B_F

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:09 PM

Dresden?
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:09 PM

NY is correct. We now have a tie. Both AML and Bailey have 2.

Next question:

What male tennis player's first reign at number one lasted 156 weeks?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:13 PM

agassi?
Posted By: #Just Jay

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:13 PM

conners?
Posted By: B_F

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:14 PM

Federer!
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:21 PM

sampras
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:25 PM

agassi, federer, sampras, connors... no.

Think 1980's.
Posted By: Imagine

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:27 PM

Johnny McEnroe...
Posted By: mck401

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:28 PM

Bad tempered- John McEnroe.
Posted By: Becka Marr

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:35 PM

Hmmm...must be a trick question:

I think Federer did make news for having 156 consecutive weeks. (But maybe it wasn't his first reign?)

McEnroe dominated in the '80s.
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:44 PM

Lendl
Posted By: Skittles

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 03:57 PM

Bjorg
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:03 PM

Sorry. I had to go get lunch. AML is correct - Ivan Lendl is the answer I was looking for.

Next question:

What country's justice minister resigned in 1987 after the escape of spy Stig Bergling?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:06 PM

Sweden
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:11 PM

Jeepers, AML!!! You are kicking A$$!!! Two more wedgies and you will have a full pie. Sweden is correct.

Next question:

What American League baseball team's 1988 roster included the names Lemon, Nokes and Walewander?
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:12 PM

Tigers
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:14 PM

Nice, Bailey. That is correct. You have 3 wedgies now.

Next question:

Who was the third party presidential candidate in 1980?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:18 PM

linden laroush(sp)
Posted By: Imagine

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:20 PM

John Anderson
Posted By: TB 12

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:21 PM

John Anderson
Posted By: Clown Boy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:22 PM

Nader?
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:23 PM

Neo has made it to the playing field with a wedgie for John Anderson. Sorry Sox. Neo answered first.

Next question:

What Kenny Rogers hit was the first song of the '80s to make Billboard's Hot 100, Black, Country and Adult Contemporary Charts?
Posted By: Imagine

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:25 PM

Lady?
Posted By: TXBSA

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:27 PM

the Gambler
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:28 PM

Neo, you are making quite a showing. Lady is correct!!!

Next question:

What country's refugee shrimpers inspired Ku Klux Klan demonstrations on the Texas coast in 1981?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia *DELETED* - 04/25/07 04:29 PM

Post deleted by AML-Barbarian
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:30 PM

vietnam
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:32 PM

Bayou La Batre
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:33 PM

Yesterday's winner, KMS, has earned a wedgie with her correct answer.

Next question:

What digitally-recorded Dire Straights album do many critics consider the "seminal CD"?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:34 PM

money for nothing
Posted By: Imagine

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:35 PM

who the [censored] are the dire straights?
Posted By: TB 12

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:36 PM

Originally Posted By: NeophytePolitico
who the [censored] are the dire straights?


Good stuff, Neo...ever hear "sultans of swing"? AWESOME tune
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:36 PM

80's rock
Posted By: Imagine

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:36 PM

i do think i have heard that song Sox.
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:38 PM

Surely you know "I want my MTV"
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:38 PM

Work break. BRB!!
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:44 PM

I'm back. The cards I'm working from are all 80s info. I'll try to find more recent questions after this one.

Money for Nothing is not correct.
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:48 PM

Brothers in Arms
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:50 PM

Brothers in Arms is correct. AML needs one more wedgie!!!

Next question:

What Goodfellas vet turned crooner for a classic album entitled Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:52 PM

ray lioata?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:53 PM

Joe Pesci
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:54 PM

you have the same cards aml?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:55 PM

I wish.
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:56 PM

AML is correct with Joe Pesci. With 6 wedgies, AML has won today's game!!!! Nice job. Bailey was 2nd and Neo was 3rd.

I will call an end to today's game, and see you all in the morning!!!

Thanks for playing.
Posted By: #Just Jay

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:56 PM

Stick with the 80's stuff...makes you think harder....its fun stuff!
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:58 PM

Okay BBS, tomorrow's game will be all 80s stuff again.

That will make it MUCH easier for me to come up with questions!!!
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 01:45 PM

Welcome to today's game.

What 90 year old American oil and peace baron nailed down the title of Commander of Arts and Letters of France, in 1988?
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:01 PM

Armand Hammer
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:09 PM

True to form, AML-B is correct.

What daytime soap went from number four to number one during the 1988 writers' strike?
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:25 PM

guiding light
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:27 PM

KMS, that is not correct.
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:28 PM

General Hospital
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:29 PM

All my children
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:35 PM

GH and AMC are both not correct.
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:35 PM

As the world turns
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:38 PM

Sorry Xodus. No.
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:39 PM

DOOL!!!
Posted By: steven1950

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:42 PM

Here's a movie trivia question . . . .

What actor was shot and killed on the pitcher's mound at Candlestick Park and what was the name of the movie?
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:46 PM

Shoot. Bailey is correct.

What accused Nazi war criminal said is 1987: "I can't even kill a chicken"?
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:48 PM

Colonel Klink
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:49 PM

rommel?
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:56 PM

Dick Cheney
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:01 PM

I have not seen the correct answer yet.
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:14 PM

mendelssohn
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:30 PM

John Demjanjuk
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:56 PM

TICG is correct.

What US auto sloganized: "What a luxury car should be"?
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:57 PM

caddy
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:58 PM

Yugo
Posted By: Becka Marr

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 03:59 PM

lexus
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:00 PM

No correct answer yet.
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:03 PM

yo' mama!
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:05 PM

hmmm... who makes that car?
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:09 PM

Acura
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:09 PM

Lincoln
Posted By: Becka Marr

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:10 PM

Buick
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:14 PM

cadillac
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:18 PM

Studebaker
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:19 PM

Hyundai
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:19 PM

edsel
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:19 PM

Kia
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:19 PM

Suzuki
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:20 PM

Isuzu
Posted By: Angel Eyes

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:21 PM

Well, if we are just posting guesses!

Dodge,
Ford,
Chevy
Toyota,
Nissan,

Do I have to keep going?
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:21 PM

Fiat
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:21 PM

you have to post them separately.
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:22 PM

Jennifer's trying to cheat.
Posted By: *BUSTER*

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:22 PM

Nope, I got it with Lincoln, Im just having fun posting all the car brands that popped into my head.
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:24 PM

Next question...
Posted By: Angel Eyes

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:26 PM

Originally Posted By: XODUS
you have to post them separately.


Dang...I guess I didn't see the rules! I'll let you all continue playing...didn't mean to interrupt the game!
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:41 PM

no need to leave you can stay here and multipost all you want.
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 06:45 PM

Sorry - I had a meeting. Maximus did get it right with Lincoln.

How many Friday the 13th movies were released during the 80s?
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 06:52 PM

52,946
Posted By: Bailey.

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 06:53 PM

...and that was a LOOOOOOONG meeting.
Posted By: kitten

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 06:53 PM

Bailey - you are VERY close!!!
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 06:59 PM

5
Posted By: Roxy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 07:32 PM

8
Posted By: redsfan

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 07:39 PM

10
Posted By: kms

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 07:59 PM

7
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 08:02 PM

12 3/4
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 08:11 PM

braggart
Posted By: The Incredible ComplyGuy

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 08:16 PM

And that's right out of the pool...
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 08:16 PM

I repeat.....
Posted By: Retired DQ

Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/03/07 10:54 AM

OMG, that was funny, boys...