Who is Bill Watterson?
- The creator of the comic strip “Li’l Folks” is on record as having hated this new title given to it by the distribution syndicate.
What is ‘Peanuts’?
- This newspaper comic strip by Milton Caniff, which debuted in 1947, introduced us to the hero’s cousin, Poteet, ten years later.
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What is ‘Terry and the Pirates.’
New category: The National Basketball Association
- The Denver Nuggets recently became the second former ABA team to win an NBA championship; this team was the first.
Who are the Spurs?
- This innovation in 1954 is credited with saving basketball or at least exploding its popularity.
Bzzzzzt. Incorrect.
What is Steve Canyon?
This was the response to “This American spacecraft was designed to hold two astronauts”.
Nitpick: “Gemini” was the name of the project. The spacecraft was a “Titan II GLV” or “Gemini Titan II”.
Titan II GLV - Wikipedia
What is the shot clock?
- This Hall of Famer famously claimed to have bedded 20,000 women over the course of his life
Who was Wilt Chamberlain?
- This star of the early NBA was so dominant that the league widened the “lane,” and implemented the shot clock, in efforts to curb his influence on play.
Who is George Mikan?
- This team is the only team to ever win the NBA championship in their first post-season appearance.
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I’m calling time on this one.
New category: Famous Addresses. (We supply the street address, you name the establishment located there.)
- 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
What is the Willis Tower?
- 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Kelly Drive Philadelphia, PA 19130
What is the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Judges say that is acceptable, although we were going for the statue and steps for Rocky Balboa.
- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
What is the White House?
- 1313 S. Harbor Blvd., Anaheim, CA
What is Disneyland?
- 221b Baker Street, London, NW1, United Kingdom
The answer: The Portland Trail Blazers
What is Sherlock Holmes’ address?
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New category - Food and Drink
- This gravy made from fried ham drippings & black coffee sounds like an early flight.
What is red-eye gravy?
- Shoestring potatoes are better known by this American idiom.