A New Trivia Stumper Thread

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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#30 - I thought Schiller’s POEM was used by Beethoven, but, of course, Ludwig wrote the MUSIC.

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Originally posted by GoldenGael

Oh.

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  1. What city uses the ZIP Code prefix 126?

Poughkeepsie, NY

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  1. 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?

Bobo Newsome

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You’re right, 5 Time Champ, but in most baseball books, “Newsom” is spelled without the final “e.” :stuck_out_tongue:
Unanswered:
41. “Curses, Broiled Again” (from the book of the same name).
47. Amos.
Some new ones:
50. Which Elton John song mentions “Susie”?
51. Which U. S. President was a chronic alcoholic?
52. What pro hockey star set a record for longevity in the sport?
53. Which country in Europe has two capitals?
54. In Just Shoot Me, what is the name of Jack Gallo’s most recent ex-wife?
55. What isotope, a product of nuclear explosions, poses a danger to consumption of cow’s milk?
56. Which future U. S. Presidient suffered a double tragedy in one day?
57. What real city did Sinclair Lewis portray (negatively!) in Main Street?
58. What part of a cat’s eyes produces the eerie reflection of light?
59. What has Fidel Castro refused to do concerning the U. S. naval base at Guantanamo?
60. Which U. S. State has the largest percentage of American Indians living in it?

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#59 - Cash the Checks.

#55 - Strontium-90.

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  1. Are we talking consecutive games or seasons? Howe played the most seasons.

  2. I think it’s a retinal reflection.

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#58 - It’s called the tapetum.

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#50 - Crocodile Rock.
#53 - Netherlands: The Hague (administrative) & Amsterdam (official)

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  1. Grant was allegedly a tippler
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#53 - Technically San Marino has two capitals, ‘S’ and ‘M’ :slight_smile:

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  1. Which future U. S. Presidient suffered a double tragedy in one day?

Teddy Roosevelt’s mother and his first wife died on the same day.

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Oh, you’re funny, PT. :stuck_out_tongue:
To Lurkernomore: I wasn’t thinking of Grant…I read in Tom Burnam’s Dictionary of Misinformation that Grant “was as abstemious as any man needs to be…”

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That’s interesting. Everything I have remember from my high school Presidency[sup]*[/sup] course suggests otherwise. Of course, what would you expect from a man who, according to Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, was once arrested of speeding on his horse while in office.

[sup]*[/sup]Of course, this makes me the ultimate authority on this very topic. :eek:

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You were president of your high school? Wow!

For what it’s worth, I have absolutely no idea about any of the Presidents drinking habits.

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  1. Arizona, unless you count Eskimos as Indians in which I’d venture a guess of Alaska.
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To settle this: The President I was thinking about is Franklin Pierce. I don’t know how much of his life he was an alcoholic; the loss of two of his children before the end of his term in the White House couldn’t have helped matters. :frowning:
I read in Burnam about “Grant’s whiskey and Lincoln”; the story that, when someone told Lincoln that Grant was a heavy drinker, Lincoln said, “Find out what brand he drinks and send some to my other generals.” Lincoln himself researched the story and traced it to a king of England, perhaps James II, who, when told that a General Wolfe in his army was mad (“insane”), the king commented, “If Wolfe is mad I hope he bites some of my other generals.” :stuck_out_tongue:
Fior the record, Grant died at 63 from throat cancer: He really did smoke lots of cigars. (Pierce died in 1869 at age 65.)

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Originally posted by Superdude

I found that in Facts about the Presidents by Joseph Nathan Kane, about 1960. Grant was stopped on a Washington street by a city policeman, who was black. The officer recognized Grant and hestiated, but the President insisted the policeman “do his duty.” He did, and Grant later wrote a letter to the officer’s superior commending the man for his attention to duty. :slight_smile:
To Lieu; Oh, I see what you mean. I had Oklahoma in mind–but you pointed out something I hadn’t contemplated. :o

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  1. Gordie Howe
  2. The capitol of Hungary is Budapest, which is technically two cities, Buda and Pest (spelling?).
  3. Sauk Centre, Minnesota
  4. The back/retina?
  5. Oklahoma?
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Shibboleth, You and the others are right, except for the matters of Grant/Pierce and Budapest: I knew a long time ago that Budapest was technically two cities; but The Netherlands was what I had in mind. (Don’t even ask me about South Africa’s capitals.) :stuck_out_tongue:
Some new ones:
61. In counting from 10 to 100 by tens, which languages have irregular forms for 30, 40, 70, and 90? (One language each.)
62. Nolan Ryan pitched one no-hitter in the National League. Against which team?
63. What is the “dashpot” in an automobile?
64. Which late nineteenth-century artist had brushes tied to his fingers when he could no longer hold pastels?
65. Which side fired first at the other at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941?
66. How many electoral votes did Horace Greeley receive in the 1872 Presidental election?
67. What name did chemist Dmitri Mendeleev give to gallium?
68. What happened to tennis player Linda Siegel at Wimbledon?
69. Why is a constriction near the bottom of the human esophagus called the “cardiac sphincter”?
70. Deaf-and-blind Helen Keller wrote several books. What were they mostly about?