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Trivia5/31
DID YOU KNOW...
The University of Oxford took many steps to study the worst aroma on earth with an interesting biological connection. What smell was rated as the absolute worst??
Not skunk spray, which came in second... First place ; foot odor !
1. Donald Trump's wife Melania Trump immigrated to the US from which country?
a. Romania
b. Slovenia
c. Bulgaria
d. Slovakia
2. Three of these answers can refer to a scarlet pimpernel. Which one doesn't?
a. Cocktail
b. Flower
c. Bird
d. Novel
3. Which humanitarian organization has the distinction of being the first to win three Nobel Prizes?
a. International Committee of the Red Cross
b. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
c. World Health Organization
d. World Vision International
4. Fill in the Blank ;
A poker hand with three of a kind of one rank and a pair of another rank is called a full house or a full _____ .
5. What is 54 in Roman numerals?
6. On 1 May 1960, an American Lockheed U-2C aircraft was shot down by a Soviet SAM over the Soviet Union and the pilot charged with spying. Who was that pilot?
7. Senescence - Choose the true meaning.
a. - Scientists have for years studied SENESCENCE, looking for the secrets that will unlock the mysteries of gravitational waves.
b. - SENESCENCE is of concern to everyone on the planet. It simply means growing old.
c. - A SENESCENCE, as most people are no doubt aware, is the term given to a meeting of the senior members of a Spiritualist Church.
d. - The concentrated musk of Mink and other small mammals, is referred to as their SENESCENCE.
8. Of these for sets of brothers, which set hit the most all-time home runs in MLB combined?
a. - Henry and Tommy Aaron
b. - Joe, Dom and Vince DiMaggio
c. - Cloyd, Clete and Ken Boyer
d. - Lee and Carlos May
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Rudyard Kipling, David Bowie, Albert Finney, and Stephen Hawking have one thing in common ; they all turned declined a British knighthood
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1. - b
2. - c
3. - a
4. Boat
5. LIV
6. Francis Gary Powers
7. - b
8. - a (BTW - Tommy hit 11, Henry hit 768 !) )
TRUTH !!
Rudyard Kipling declined a knighthood on several occasions, although he accepted a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Albert Finney turned down a knighthood in 2000, stating that he thought "the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery". In 2003, David Bowie declined the honor, stating "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for". Stephen Hawking turned down a knighthood some time in the late 1990s and again in 2008 because he disagreed with the UK government's management policies for science funding.
DID YOU KNOW...
The University of Oxford took many steps to study the worst aroma on earth with an interesting biological connection. What smell was rated as the absolute worst??
Not skunk spray, which came in second... First place ; foot odor !
1. Donald Trump's wife Melania Trump immigrated to the US from which country?
a. Romania
b. Slovenia
c. Bulgaria
d. Slovakia
2. Three of these answers can refer to a scarlet pimpernel. Which one doesn't?
a. Cocktail
b. Flower
c. Bird
d. Novel
3. Which humanitarian organization has the distinction of being the first to win three Nobel Prizes?
a. International Committee of the Red Cross
b. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
c. World Health Organization
d. World Vision International
4. Fill in the Blank ;
A poker hand with three of a kind of one rank and a pair of another rank is called a full house or a full _____ .
5. What is 54 in Roman numerals?
6. On 1 May 1960, an American Lockheed U-2C aircraft was shot down by a Soviet SAM over the Soviet Union and the pilot charged with spying. Who was that pilot?
7. Senescence - Choose the true meaning.
a. - Scientists have for years studied SENESCENCE, looking for the secrets that will unlock the mysteries of gravitational waves.
b. - SENESCENCE is of concern to everyone on the planet. It simply means growing old.
c. - A SENESCENCE, as most people are no doubt aware, is the term given to a meeting of the senior members of a Spiritualist Church.
d. - The concentrated musk of Mink and other small mammals, is referred to as their SENESCENCE.
8. Of these for sets of brothers, which set hit the most all-time home runs in MLB combined?
a. - Henry and Tommy Aaron
b. - Joe, Dom and Vince DiMaggio
c. - Cloyd, Clete and Ken Boyer
d. - Lee and Carlos May
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Rudyard Kipling, David Bowie, Albert Finney, and Stephen Hawking have one thing in common ; they all turned declined a British knighthood
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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1. - b
2. - c
3. - a
4. Boat
5. LIV
6. Francis Gary Powers
7. - b
8. - a (BTW - Tommy hit 11, Henry hit 768 !) )
TRUTH !!
Rudyard Kipling declined a knighthood on several occasions, although he accepted a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Albert Finney turned down a knighthood in 2000, stating that he thought "the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery". In 2003, David Bowie declined the honor, stating "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for". Stephen Hawking turned down a knighthood some time in the late 1990s and again in 2008 because he disagreed with the UK government's management policies for science funding.
