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trivia 9/7
DID YOU KNOW...
In 1893, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Frances Folsom Cleveland, became the first presidential wife to give birth at the White House (girl, Esther). The first child born in the White House, though, was the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson in 1806: Jefferson's daughter, Patsy (Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.) gave birth to a son named for James Madison.

1. What Washington D.C. elevation was once called Jenkins Hill?
2. What are the names of the two rival gangs in the musical, "West Side Story"?
3. What was the name of the store that Ned Flanders opened in a "Simpson's" episode
that stocks left-handed items only?
4. What year was the first STARBUCKS opened?
5. What was the name of the Middle-Earth home of Bilbo Baggins?
6. Do you remember the maiden name of Marty McFly's mother, Lorraine, in the "Back to
the Future" series?
a. – Banks
b. – Beans
c. – Beers
d. – Baines
7. Who was the first runner to break the Four-Minute mile?
8. What long-running comic strip features a family dog named Barfy?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Reindeer eat moss to keep warm.
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1. CAPITOL HILL
2. SHARKS AND JETS
3. THE LEFTORIUM
4. 1971
5. bag end, located in the shire
6. - d
7. ROGER BANNISTER
8. "the family circus"
TRUTH !!
Moss is hard to digest and has little nutritional value, but strangely enough, reindeer fill
up on it because it contains a special chemical that helps keep their body fluids warm.
The chemical keeps them from freezing much the same way that anti-freeze keeps a car
from freezing up in winter.
 
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