Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:23 pm

Lockerbie

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:31 pm

The U.S.S. Maine explosion.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:32 pm

Chicago Fire

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:33 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:Lockerbie

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:33 pm

Johnny Carwash: 2
Howard: 1
Sabo: 1
AB: 1
Jerloma: 0

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:41 pm

I'm on the board!

I'd like to thank..ME. Cause I am the best.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:42 pm

How many foreigners were hanging around in OKC that day?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:44 pm

Jerloma wrote:How many foreigners were hanging around in OKC that day?

168 people were killed in the OKC bombing, about 20 fewer than were on the Lockerbie flight.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:55 pm

A lot of people died in the Civil War, you know.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:09 pm

Yeah but they called it a War.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:23 pm

What's so civil about war, anyway?

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:33 pm

Me and my closed mind didn't think to consider an attack outside of US soil.

Tom 1860 · Post by **Tom 1860** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:02 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:Lockerbie

Also the hometown of the GB Men's curling skip, Dave Murdoch.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:22 pm

Tom 1860 wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:Lockerbie
Also the hometown of the Scotland Men's curling skip, Dave Murdoch.

Fixed.

Anna Sloan, third position on the Scottish bronze medal winning women's curling team at the Olympics, is also from Lockerbie.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:44 pm

Gunpowder wrote:
Jerloma wrote:How many foreigners were hanging around in OKC that day?
168 people were killed in the OKC bombing, about 20 fewer than were on the Lockerbie flight.

I did not know that; I had considered Pan Am 103.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:02 am

Sinking of the Lusitania?

(am I remembering that right? Off to Google ...)

Tom 1860 · Post by **Tom 1860** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:52 am

govmentchedda wrote:A lot of people died in the Civil War, you know.

Europeans killed a lot of Native Americans. I would imagine they felt fairly terrorized.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:17 am

Shirley wrote:Sinking of the Lusitania?

(am I remembering that right? Off to Google ...)

Probably considered to be an act of war.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:34 pm

Gunpowder wrote:
Shirley wrote:Sinking of the Lusitania?

(am I remembering that right? Off to Google ...)

Probably considered to be an act of war.

Yeah, after a quick Wikipedia refresher, I agree.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:28 am

The first female governor in U.S. history governed which state?

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:31 am

Gunpowder wrote:The first female governor in U.S. history governed which state?

Washington?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:31 am

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:35 am

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:35 am

Nope and Jerloma is still at 0

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:36 am

Which puts me what...tied for 4th?

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:37 am

Post by **Sabo** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:44 am

Wasn't it Ann Richards, who was governor of Texas?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:46 am

Texas was "Ma" Ferguson who was second, right behind this lady.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:41 pm

Mrs. Wallace of Alabama?

At this rate of guesses, someone will get it.

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:42 pm

I looked it up after my guess and ain't none of you going to get it.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:44 pm

brian wrote:I looked it up after my guess and ain't none of you going to get it.

Yep, until we get to the 49th or so guess.

Bensell · Post by **Bensell** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:49 pm

Blind guess here - Arizona

ETA - had no idea it was that early in the 20th century, much less the state

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:50 pm

No idea. But I will guess from the way that question is worded that it was not someone who was ever elected but rather someone who inherited the position as a replacement for a governor that was thrown out or died or abducted by aliens or whatnot.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:56 pm

And based on that I'm going to guess something old west frontierish where it would have been less likely to have a bunch of Philadelphia lawyers around. So I'll go with New Mexico.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:35 pm

Nope, but right idea. I'm just gonna give it away since someone could just guess down the list.

Wyoming.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:40 pm

Damn. I knew the answer just late to the game.

Strange that WYO used to be so progressive (first woman vote, first governor) and now is backwards as F.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:08 pm

This would totally be a better letter: ᖷ

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:19 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Strange that WYO used to be so progressive (first woman vote, first governor) and now is backwards as F.

Or they are the first state to wake up to the fact that "progressives" are just the idiot hipsters of politics. Depends on who you ask, doesn't it?

A blindfolded teenager aimlessly walking toward a 1000-foot cliff may well be described as progressing toward something.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:20 pm

1890s Progressives are much different than any group trying to take that name in the last 20-30 years.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 2:23 pm

Rush2112 wrote:1890s Progressives are much different than any group trying to take that name in the last 20-30 years.

Commenting on what you wrote, not on what you meant to write.