Trivia 5/3

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Trivia 5/3
DID YOU KNOW.
Surfing, or heenalu, was invented thousands of years ago by the Polynesians who first settled Hawaii. Their boards weighed more than 150 pounds and measured up to twenty feet.


1. How many ping-pong balls do you need to weigh over an ounce ?
a. - 9
b. - 11
c. - 13
d. - 15
2. What part of the black mamba is inky black, giving the light gray-to-dark brown snake it's name ?
3. On the TV sitcom Cheers, what was the name of Norm Peterson's wife ?
4. What's the second half of the phrase that most of us know in shortened form as "happy as a clam"?
(Hint; Three Words...)
5. Iron City brand beer introduced us to the pull-tab on cans in what year ?

a. - 1959
b. - 1962
c. - 1965
d. - 1968
6. Madagascar lies off the coast of what country ?
7. What were the two sitcoms that took place in the fictional community of Hooterville ?
8. What does an Oologist collect and/or study ?

TRUTH OR CRAP ?
Harry Belafonte was the first singer to have an album sell over a million copies.
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1. - b
2. INSIDE OF IT'S MOUTH
3. VERA
4. at high tide
5. - b
6. MOZAMBIQUE
7. PETTICOAT JUNCTION & GREEN ACRES
8. eggs

TRUTH !!
It was the silky-voiced singer's 1956 album, Calypso , featured "The Banana Boat song (Day-O)", "Jamaica farewell", and "Brown Skin Girl."
 
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