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trivia 12/15
DID YOU KNOW...
Basketball, racquetball, and volleyball were all invented at YMCA facilities.
1. What do we call an expanse of water containing many scattered islands ?
(Hint; starts with "A")
2. Who was the first U.S. President to visit Moscow ?
3. "Don't Look Down" Dept. ;
On your standard keyboard, reading left to right, there are two groups of three letters each that are arranged alphabetically ; what are they ?
(Hint; they're in the middle row.....)
4. In the 1980's, Southern Rhodesia changed it's name to..................what ?
5. What are the names of the Chipmunks of popular music fame ?
6. To which of the fifty must I travel to visit Zion National Park ?
7. What's the tune that these lyrics are from......
I'm so young and you're so old
This, my darling I've been told
(Bonus; who recorded it ?)
8. Which Nevada city is farther west, Carson City, Reno, or Virginia City ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Guinness Book of Records was commissioned by Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, in 1951.
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1. An Archipelago
2. Nixon
3. FGH & JKL
4. Zimbabwe
5. Alvin, Theodore and Simon
6. Utah
7. Diana (Paul Anka)
8. Reno
TRUTH !!
Twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London, were hired by the Brewery to compile the first edition, and it became a best-seller within five months on the market.
DID YOU KNOW...
Basketball, racquetball, and volleyball were all invented at YMCA facilities.
1. What do we call an expanse of water containing many scattered islands ?
(Hint; starts with "A")
2. Who was the first U.S. President to visit Moscow ?
3. "Don't Look Down" Dept. ;
On your standard keyboard, reading left to right, there are two groups of three letters each that are arranged alphabetically ; what are they ?
(Hint; they're in the middle row.....)
4. In the 1980's, Southern Rhodesia changed it's name to..................what ?
5. What are the names of the Chipmunks of popular music fame ?
6. To which of the fifty must I travel to visit Zion National Park ?
7. What's the tune that these lyrics are from......
I'm so young and you're so old
This, my darling I've been told
(Bonus; who recorded it ?)
8. Which Nevada city is farther west, Carson City, Reno, or Virginia City ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Guinness Book of Records was commissioned by Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, in 1951.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. An Archipelago
2. Nixon
3. FGH & JKL
4. Zimbabwe
5. Alvin, Theodore and Simon
6. Utah
7. Diana (Paul Anka)
8. Reno
TRUTH !!
Twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London, were hired by the Brewery to compile the first edition, and it became a best-seller within five months on the market.
