- Mary Ball Washington, mother of the first President, was very much alive at the time but did not attend George’s inauguration in 1789. He had differences with her about various things…
- Congregational minister Henry Ward Beecher–whose sister wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin–was accused of adultery with the wife of his best friend. The jury hung 9-3 in favor of Beecher. He certainly fared better than Fatty Arbuckle…
- Nietzsche is supposed to have died in an insane asylum.
- Bulgarian uses the definite article, which is a suffix to the noun, as in the Scandinavian languages.
- False. Schiller wrote “Ode to Joy,” which Beethoven used.
Some more: - What heavyweight boxer suffered from acromegaly?
- What two German states (Lander) are single cities?
- In MS Excel, what icon is used to indicate the AutoSum option?
- Which fruit is inedible except for the seeds in it?
- Which winner of the Nobel Peace Prize wound up in a Nazi concentration camp?
- In the classic movie Invaders from Mars (early 50s), who was Dr. Blake?
- What U. S. Senator was savagely beaten by a Representative, in the Senate chamber, about the start of the Civil War?
- To a railroader, what is a Johnson bar?
- Dickie Kerr, a member of the so-called “Black Sox” of 1919, provided a home for a minor-leage player who later became a major-league star. What is the player’s name?
- Hamburg and Berlin
- Pomengranate
- Is it the thing they used to switch tracks?
It’s the reversing lever in a steam locomotive, IIRC.
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Musial?
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Primera was real ugly and clumsy…WAG?
To Lurkernomore:
It was Primo Carnera. I don’t know if he was “ugly and clumsy”; he was pretty much before my time. (You can see him in the movie Mighty Joe Young, where the gorilla throws Carnera into the audience.)
And yes, it was “Stan the Man” Musial. 
Damn, Dougie, how old do you think I am? I’ve only seen him in newsreels and the like. He was champ like 65 or 70 years ago…
The Greek letter (capital) Sigma…I knew that if I waited long enough, I’d find one I knew
Oops, that’s for number 34, btw
To Lurkernomore:
Please forgive me…I wasn’t being rude or snide. :o
I had bought a book titled Very Special People, a book about “freaks,” to use a famiilar word instead of a euphemism. (Sandy Allen (7’7", 440 lbs.) is a more familiar and more recent example.) The author mentioned Primo Carnera in passing; I think he was 6’6", and the author did say that Carnera was acromegalic.
sorry, Dougie - no offense taken. I shoulda smileyed. I don’tknow if we have any Doeprs who’d actually remember him fighting.
Eh, 38 is Charles Sumner, attacked twice as I recall. One of which was very vicious using a cane…
And 36 is Charpak (I googled for the name, I thought it was Sharpek… but knew it wasn’t right). Georges Charpak won the Physics Nobel Prize and spent time in Dachau.
Originally posted by Ronincyberpunk
You outdid me, Ronin. :o I had only heard of Carl von Ossietzky (pronounced, I think, oh-see-ETZZ-kee), a pacifistic journalist who exposed Hitler’s secret rearmament. Not only did von Ossietzky wind up in a concentration camp, but the judges who decided on him were themselves arrested when the Nazis invaded Norway. :mad:
To Lurkernomore: No hard feelings. I hoped more of the Teeming Millions had seen the movie Mighty Joe Young…
The next ten:
41. In The Big Book of Urban Legends, in which story does Jan Harold Brunvand himself appear?
42. Besides eggs, which food(s) should not be put in a microwave oven?
43. In Spanish, counting in 100s, three of the numbers for hundreds are irregular. Give any one of them, in Spanish and English.
44. What substance, found in some wild flowers, can cause an irregular heartbeat if ingested?
45. What actor, who played one of Fred Sanford’s friends in Sanford and Son, was in the movie Zapped!?
46. What city uses the ZIP Code prefix 126?
47. Which Biblical prophet was a “nipper of figs”?
48. What old-time gangster flourished in Los Angeles and Las Vegas?
49. Which major-league pitcher, who won two games in a World Series, won more than 200 games in his career but had a life-time won-lost percentage below .500?
50. What major-league pitcher lost two World Series games (winning none!) and won more than 240 games in his major-league career?
- Whole potatoes, if you don’t pierce them. Hah.
Incorrect.
Dr. William Moulton Marston was the sole creator of Wonder Woman. What Max Gaines gave was his middle name. The pesudonym Dr. Marston wrote Wonder Woman stories under was Charles Moulton.
Originally posted by Hastur
I disagree, Hatur, and here is my evidence:
“This Wonder Womanparody [on these two pages] has all the more resonance when we realize that in the late 1930s, Bill’s father, Max Gaines, was responsible for the creation of Wonder Woman. He worked with the psychologist William Moulton Marston to invent a new, psychologically healthy superhero character. Marston had felt that ‘from a psychological angle…the comics[’] worst offense was their blood-curdling masculinity.'His suprprising deduction was that 'The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of a Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.”–Completely MAD, by Maria Reidelbach, 1991; pp. 9, 34-35.
On Pages 6 and 9 it is also noted that the senior Gaines had no middle name and “Charles” or “Charlie” was in fact a nickname. Maxwell became Bill Gaines’ middle name when he was born.
Quinientos = five hundred.
Digitalis?
Well I admit I had to research this one, having not seen “Sanford and Son,” but having seen “Zapped!.” But the answer is Lawanda Page, appeared in both. In “Zapped!” she played Mrs. Jones and in “Sanford and Son” she was Aunt Esther Winfield Anderson.
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Bugsy Seigal
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The other two are setecientos, seven hundred, and novecientos, nine hundred
- What major-league pitcher lost two World Series games (winning none!) and won more than 240 games in his major-league career?
Bob Feller
Those answers are all correct.
Actually, Ronin, I was thinking not of Lawanda Page, who I know was in the TV series and the movie, but Scatman Crothers–a musician friend of Fred’s on Sanford and Son, and the baseball coach in Zapped!
A couple of minor points:
The gangster was Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. I found that out because a late friend of mine who lived in Redondo Beach, CA, for nearly 70 years, knew about Siegel’s connections to illegal gambling in the 30s in places near the Redondo Beach shore. (She died in January 1997 at the age of 72. )
Aunt Esther was not one of Fred’s “friends”; she was the sister of Fred’s deceased wife (“I’m comin’ for you, Elizabeth!”) and she and Fred Sanford detested each other. And I think she played Scatman Crothers’ wife in Zapped!