Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia

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Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:29 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:28 pm Does that include something like San Francisco, which is a City and a County simultaneously?
No. In these cases there is absolutely no county involved, even nominal.
So, not Jacksonville/Duval, or Miami/Dade.
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brian wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:33 pm One is Carson City, NV. No idea on the others.
Carson City is correct. Expected it to be the hardest, but also suspected you might know.

Other two are "big" cities in the major-league sense.
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Baltimore is correct. One more left.
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Giff wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:20 pmNew Orleans
I guessed that too, but apparently it's a city-parish, like San Francisco and other city-counties.
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On the easy side but funny anyway - what two pairs of countries border Russia and start with the same letter?
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Ryan wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:17 am On the easy side but funny anyway - what two pairs of countries border Russia and start with the same letter?
Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Latvia and Lithuania.
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Yes to the Ls
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Armenia and Azerbaijan?
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Armenia and Uzbekistan don't border Russia
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Azerbaijan and Afghanistan?
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Mongolia and Moldova.
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Afghanistan and Moldova don't border Russia. Nor is it either of those letters
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Turkmenistan and Tajikistan?
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China and Chechnya?
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Kazakhstan and Coach Kistan?
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Neither of the Ts border Russia, and Chechnya is not yet independent
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HINT: Google says the capitals of the other country pair are an 18-hour flight apart!
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Norway and North Korea?
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I had to look it up because I didn't realize Russia shared a border with Norway, so I learned something new today.
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brian wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:56 am I had to look it up because I didn't realize Russia shared a border with Norway, so I learned something new today.
I made the guess before checking but I also learned that today.
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Not quite for the distance reason, but it's about as jarring as realizing that Missouri and New Mexico are separated by only one state
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I'll guess true
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Is it Vinny Testaverde?
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Jameis?
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Cam threw 35 in his MVP season.


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Just giving this one away because who would ever guess it, but Vicente Padilla got a win against all 30 MLB franchises while only winning 108 total games.
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Wonder if he has an HBP against every team.
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Which are the only two major pro sports franchises with at least 4 titles but never multiple titles in the same decade?
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This is somewhat hard so I’ll give the decades for each:

20s, 30s, 40s, 90s

30s, 40s, 60s, 80s
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Ottawa Senators
Milwaukee Brewers
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A roughly educated guess will be the Tigers since I know they won in the 80s and not since.
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A_B wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:08 pm A roughly educated guess will be the Tigers since I know they won in the 80s and not since.
That’s one of the two. Sabo was off on both guesses.
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Giff got the other.
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