GOOD LORD!! Not another Trivia Thread!! :p

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Here we go again, folks :smiley:

  1. On the online version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, name one of the phone-a-friend people whose name appears.
  2. In the 1948 World Series, who called Phil Masi safe, to the chagrin of Lou Boudreau?
  3. What is the name of the highest court in the state of New York? (I’m not talking in geographical terms.)
  4. What kind of rake has rigid teeth?
  5. Where are sesamoids found?
  6. In Grapes of Wrath, what wrong conclusion did the Joad children come to, about a flush toilet?
  7. In Chopin’s “Nocturne,” what is the name of the musical phrase indicated above the staff with a flat sign, an “S” on its side, and a sharp sign?
  8. When baking an angel-food cake, what must you do with the eggs?
  9. Which of these metals is liquid on a hot summer day: gallium, indium, or bismuth?
  10. What does the term “dip” mean in dancing?
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  1. A garden rake.
  2. Separate them, then beat the whites until they form stiff peaks.
  3. Gallium.
  4. To lower your partner toward (but not to) the ground, while maintaining your hold on her.
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  1. It drains the opposite clock-way on the opposite hemisphere?

[sub](simpsons must have got that from somewhere)[/sub]

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  1. They grow within tendons.
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Sorry, I meant 5.

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  1. The New York State Court of Appeals
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Try again. :smiley:

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That should have been the natural sign, not the sharp sign. :o

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Golly, I thought the Teeming Millions would get all of these.

  1. John Carpenter, for one.
  2. NL umpire Bill Stewart–himself from Boston.
  3. One of them flushed the toilet and the others thought he broke it! :smiley:
    Here are some more:
  4. What job did Moe Berg have outside baseball?
  5. What pianist and composer was once chief of state of a country?
  6. In the play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, what unspeakable thing did Lt. Greenwald fear Hermann Goering might do?
  7. What county in New England has two non-contiguous parts?
  8. What is the conjunctiva?
  9. True or false: The Boston Tea Party occurred because the British taxed tea bought by the colonists.
  10. What happens to iodine as the temperature rises?
  11. On Everybody Loves Raymond, what line of work is Robert’s brother-in-law in?
  12. What Biblical prophet ran and hid rather than accept his divine assignment?
  13. What is a “pongo”?
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  1. Jonah

  2. Cop

  3. an uppity user of and, or, but…

  4. John Carpenter!

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  1. It sublimates.
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I should have been more explicit and stated that it sublimates when the pressue is at or less than 100 mm of Hg.

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  1. Membrane lining the eyelids.
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  1. To quote the title of a book about him, The Catcher Was a Spy.

  2. Ignace Jan Paderewski of Poland

  3. Norfolk County, Massachusetts (as I recall from an SDMB thread!)

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  1. I’m guessing, the Spanish word for “I put”?
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No, it’s a geological term. :slight_smile:

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  1. A name for some kind of monkey or ape? “Pongo will now do his amazing disappearing-banana trick!”
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True, but with a caveat. It wasn’t so much that they taxed the tea, but more that they forced to colonists to buy their tea, instead of buying it from their own wholesale merchants, who were getting it from outside sources to aviod the tax on it.

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Paderewski was Prime Minister (head of government) for most of 1919, not head of state, though I do assume that that was whom dougie monty was thinking of.

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I was thinking of Paderewski but I didn’t know offhand what specific position he held. From what you say he was chief executive. :slight_smile:
As for the Boston Tea Party, we learned in the eighth (and eleventh) grade that the colonials were buying tea snuggled in from Holland. The British priced their tea for less than what the contraband stuff was selling for, in order to undercut it, and that’s what set the colonials off.