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Luckytrim

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trivia 2/7
DID YOU KNOW...
The only number whose letters are in alphabetical order is 40 (f-o-r-t-y).

1. During the eighties, three films with One-Word titles won the Academy
Award for best Picture ; name two of them ...
2. In bowling, what is the term for bowling three consecutive strikes ?
3. In 2004, ________ became the first of the Fifty to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples .....
a. - Vermont
b. - New Jersey
c. - Massachusetts
d. - California
4. Which Nazi war criminal was known as 'The Angel of Death'?
a. - Adolf Eichmann
b. - Martin Bormann
c. - Josef Mengele
d. - Klaus Barbie
5. Which man-made fabric was designed to be artificial silk?
6. What singer and actor starred in the 1960s beach movies "Beach Party" (1963) and "Beach Blanket Bingo" (1965)?
7. What was the name of the dog in the "Peter Pan" story ?
8. What's the eighth planet from the sun ?

TRUTH OR CRAP ??
During WWII, when Paris was occupied by German troops, when Germans visited
the Eiffel Tower, they had to use the stairs, because the Resistance had cut
the elevator cables.
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1. "Amadeus", "Gandhi" and "Platoon"
2. a Turkey
3. - c
4. - c
5. Rayon
6. Frankie Avalon
7. Nana
8. Neptune

TRUTH !!
When Paris fell to German occupation on June 14, 1940, French resistance
fighters allegedly cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant
that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, a soldier would have to
climb the roughly 1710 stairs to the summit platform.

As Allies neared Paris in August 1944, a Frenchman scaled the tower and hung
the French flag. When it became obvious that the Germans would lose Paris,
Hitler ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz, the military governor of
Paris, to turn the city into rubble – including the Eiffel Tower. General
von Choltitz did not carry out the command. Reportedly, within hours of the
Liberation of Paris, the Tower’s lifts worked again .
 
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Doc

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When I was in school we were taught Uranus was the 8th planet ...and Pluto was the 9th. Were my teachers wrong, or did Neptune's orbit take it further away from the sun than it once was?
 

Luckytrim

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"Thank you for your support "

I must be getting senile.. I automatically assumed I was wrong......:yuk::confused::sad:
 
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