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: 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
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: 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?
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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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: kms
Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 04/25/07 04:54 PM
you have the same cards aml?
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: 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: 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: XODUS
Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 02:49 PM
rommel?
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: 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: 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: *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.
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: Angel Eyes
Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/02/07 04:26 PM
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
And that's right out of the pool...
Posted By: Retired DQ
Re: Wednesday's Trivia - 05/03/07 10:54 AM
OMG, that was funny, boys...