Silly Trivia Game for Lazy Dopers

Answer the trivia question and get to ask your own. If you know the answer, give it and just forge right ahead with your next question. If you don’t know the answer for sure, then don’t answer. That way, the asker of a question doesn’t have to monitor the thread. And unlike, say, the Daily Feud, no googling or research of any kind is allowed, unless you do it after deciding on the answer you are going to give. After deciding, do all the research needed to insure you are correct, and then post your answer. You have to know this from memory or other brain related activity (deduction, induction, etc). If this turns out how I imagine, this thread should go well into the late 2030’s!

Room temperature eggs are essential to making a perfect souffle. Yet as a rule, the French, masters of the souffle, don’t include this info in their cookbooks. Why not?

Because the French don’t refrigerate their eggs. All eggs are room temperature. Usually they are stored on the kitchen counter.

My turn:
Many know hitters have been thrown in the Major Leagues, what was special about a no-no thrown by Gaylord Perry and one thrown by Ray Washburn?

SSG Schwartz

Perry no-hit the St Louis Cardinals, the next day Washburn no-hit the San Francisco Giants in return.

This is common to every U. S. President elected running as a Whig?

William Henry Harrison (1840) and Zachary Taylor (1848) both died in office, but neither was assassinated. Hope that’s what you were going for.

During their one season (1969) in Seattle, the American League’s Pilots played in a facility with what unfortunate name?

Sick’s Stadium.

Only one congress person voted against WWI* and* WWII in the House of Representatives. Who is it and what else is very surprising and interesting about that person’s congressional record?

Jeannette Rankin of Wyoming, the first ever female Representative.

What American Revolutionary War general is commemorated by a statue of his boot?

Benedict Arnold, on the Saratoga battlefield, in honor of his foot wound. Though there is a bunch of modern signage around it explaining that “this is the Benedict Arnold monument, which does not display Benedict Arnold’s name because Benedict Arnold was a traitor”.

Where, per Gertrude Stein, was there no there?

Yay, I know one!: Oakland, California.

What famous person shares a birthday (including year) with Abraham Lincoln ?

And she only served two separate two year terms in congress, 30 years apart. In one 2 year term, she voted against WWI and in her 2nd two year term, she voted against WW2.

Charles Darwin.

What fairly well-known person was in close proximity to 3 different Presidential assassinations?

Robert Todd Lincoln.

Which actor in the film “Tora! Tora! Tora!” was actually stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

Rankin was from Montana. Wyoming (known as The Equality State for granting suffrage to females in 1869, when it was still a territory) was the first USA state to be governed by a woman, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who served from 1925 to '27.