Sunday Special - The Replacements

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Sunday Special - The Replacements
First chore is to figure out the venue...........

1. Who replaced Wally Pipp?
a. - Yogi Berra
b. - Lefty Gomez
c. - Lou Gehrig
d. - Walter Cox
2. Who replaced Johnny and the Moondogs?
a. - Steely Dan
b. - Johnny Cash Trio
c. - The Beatles
d. - The Beach Boys
3. Who replaced Buddy Ebsen?
a. - Ray Bolger
b. - Jack Haley
c. - Andy Griffith
d. - Bert Lahr
4. Who replaced the Colts?
a. – Ravens
b. – Buccaneers
c. – Browns
d. – Jets
5. Who replaced Pete Best?
a. - Stuart Sutcliff
b. - Ringo Starr
c. - George Harrison
d. - Paul McCartney
6. What replaced Hot Springs?
a. - Yosemite National Park
b. - Dodge City
c. – Deadwood
d. - Truth or Consequences
7. Who replaced Lenn Sakata?
a. - U Thant
b. - Adlai Stevenson
c. - Carl Sagan
d. - Cal Ripken
8. What replaced Teenie Weenies?
a. – Cheerios
b. - Honey I Shrunk the Kids
c. - Mini Skirts
d. - Vienna Sausages
9. Who replaced Bobby Fischer?
a. - Garry Kasparov
b. - Tigran Petrosian
c. - Boris Spassky
d. - Anatoly Karpov
10. What replaced Jurassic?
a. – Carboniferous
b. – Triassic
c. – Cretaceous
d. – Paleogene
11. Who replaced Floyd Patterson?
a. - Ezzard Charles
b. - Cassius Clay
c. - Sonny Liston
d. - Jersey Joe Walcott
12. What replaced the Waldorf Astoria Hotel?
a. - Hyatt Regency Grand Hotel
b. - Empire State Building
c. - U.N. Building
d. - New Madison Square Garden
13. Who replaced Alben Barkley?
a. - Michael Jordan
b. - Richard Nixon
c. - Jessie Owens
d. - Tim Curry
14. What replaced the song title 'Scrambled Eggs'?
a. - Theme From A Summer Place
b. – Yesterday
c. – Maybelline
d. - Stranger on the Shore
15. Who replaced Dick York?
a. - Dick Van Dyke
b. - Alvin York
c. - Red Skelton
d. - Dick Sargent
16. What replaced Saigon?
a. - Dien Bien Phu
b. – Hanoi
c. - Ho Chi Minh City
d. - Cam Rahn Bay
17. Who replaced Joe DiMaggio?
a. - Miller Huggins
b. - Arthur Miller
c. - Hank Aaron
d. - Al Kaline
18. What replaced Halfway, Oregon?
a. - Half.com
b. - Better Half
c. - All The Way
d. - Half-Crazy
19. What replaced Homo habilis?
a. - Homo sapiens
b. – Paleolethicus
c. – Australopethicus
d. - Homo erectus
20. What replaced Town ball?
a. – volleyball
b. – rugby
c. - American football
d. – baseball
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1. – c
When Pipp got injured one day, Gehrig took his place at 1st base and set a
consecutive games played record there.
2. – c
The fourth name John Lennon used for the band. He changed their name
another four times before they hit it big as the Beatles.
3. – b
Originally slated to play the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz', Ebsen had an
allergic reaction to the makeup and had to be replaced.
4. – a
After leaving Baltimore, the NFL Colts were eventually replaced by the
Ravens.
5. – b
Ringo replaced Best as drummer of The Beatles.
6. – d
This town in New Mexico changed its name in 1950.
7. – d
Ripken replaced Sakata at shortstop and went on to break Gehrig's
consecutive games streak.
8. – b
Originally listed as the name for the film, it was changed before it's
release.
9. – d
Karpov inherited the World Chess championship when Fischer failed to defend
it in 1975.
10. – b
It followed the Jurassic...
11. – c
Liston beat Patterson to gain the Heavyweight Championship in September,
1962.
12. – b
The original Waldorf was purchased for 20 million dollars in the 1920s and
razed to make way for the tallest building in the world up to that time.
13. – b
Truman's vice president was replaced by Eisenhower's vice president.
14. – b
McCartney used it as a working title before the song's release.
15. – d
The first and second Darin on 'Bewitched'.
16. – c
The city was renamed when the war was over.
17. – b
After his divorce from Marilyn Monroe he was replaced by the writer as her
next husband.
18. – a
The town recently changed its name for the corporate sponsorship.
19. – d
Next in line of the hominids
20. – d
An early name for the sport before it evolved into the game we know it as
today.
 
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