The 2015 Trivia Calendar

[wlu_lax6]

Why is a 10--pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American HIstory?
Where is Good Friday known as Long Friday?
Where in the world is the largest Passover seder held annually?
Instead of chocolate Easter bunnies, many Australians have switched to chocolate Easter bilbies. What are bilbies?
Who was the only bar patron to appear in every episode of the popular 1980s TV sitcom Cheers?
What color were the first berets worn by member of a U.S. military unit?
For what proposed change in the Statue of Liberty's appearance did the U.S. Congress authorize $62,000 in 1906?
What famously stoic pro basketball superstar was ejected from a game for laughing while he was sitting on the bench?
Who was the very firest winnner of reality TV's Celebrity Apprentice?
What famous entertainer wrote the 201 memoir entitled Who I am?
What U.S. president's mother had Stanley as her first name?

[DC47]

Why is a 10--pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American HIstory?

As an illustration of the the Cubs' long era of failure to win the Series.

What color were the first berets worn by member of a U.S. military unit?

Raspberry

For what proposed change in the Statue of Liberty's appearance did the U.S. Congress authorize $62,000 in 1906?

A nose job so she wouldn't look so Gallic.

What famously stoic pro basketball superstar was ejected from a game for laughing while he was sitting on the bench?

Two. Tim Duncan, Epictetus.

Who was the very firest winnner of reality TV's Celebrity Apprentice?

Joan of Arc

What famous entertainer wrote the 201 memoir entitled Who I am?

Roman Emperor Gordian

[Pruitt]

What famous entertainer wrote the 201 memoir entitled Who I am?

Pete Townsend

[howard]

What color were the first berets worn by member of a U.S. military unit?

Raspberry

You mean the kind you find in a second-hand store?

(That was brilliant.)

[wlu_lax6]

What does a tree squirrel use to control its body temperature?
In what order are swimmers required to use the four strokes that make up individual medley races at the Olympics? How about in Olympic medley relay races?
Where in the world is Mocha, the town for which high-quality Arabian coffee is named?
Who was Mike Zoss, the man for whom the filmmaking Coen brothers named their production company?
How deep is the deepest hole ever drilled in the earth’s crust?
What is the most populous city named for a saint in the U.S.?

[wlu_lax6]

answers to previous questions
The pack of gum made history in 1974 when it became the first product to have its bar code electronically scanned. It was scanned in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio
IN the northern European countries of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland.
In Kathmandu, Nepal. Known as the “Sedar on top of the world,” it regularly attracts more than a thousand Jewish travelers, man y of them young backpacking Israelis.
They’re rabbit-size marsupials with big ears, pointed snouts, and long tails. These animals once thrived in Australia, but have become endangered, partly because rabbits took over their burrows and their food. Chocolate Easter bilibies were introduced in 1991 by the Foundation for a Rabbit-Free Australia, which wants the bilby to replace the rabbit as an Australian Easter symbol.
Norm Peterson, played by George Wendt. Over the sitcom’s 11 seasons, the only other regulars to appear in every episode were Ted Danson, who played bar owner Sam Malone, and Rhea Perlman, who played waitress Carla Tortelli
Maroon. In 1940, during World War II, soldiers in a battalion of the U.S. Army’s 509th Parachute Infantry were given maroon berets when they were granted honorary membership in the British Parachute Regiment.
Painting its cooper exterior to mask the sea-green patina it had acquired from oxidation over the years. The plan was abandoned amid public cries of “sacrilege” and “vandalism.” According to experts, the patina has helped prevent further oxidation of the statue’s exterior, which was found to be “Virtually intact” when the famous landmark underwent a major restoration in preparation for its 100th birthday in 1986.
San Antonio Spurs power forward Tim Duncan, He was ejected after being hit with two technical fouls for laughing at calls made against teammates during a 2007 game against the Dallas Mavericks. Joey Crawford, the veteran referee who booted him, was later suspended for the rest of the season for “improper conduct” and inappropriate comments made to Duncan.”
Piers Morgan. The one-time British tabloid journalist and television host won Donald Trump’s celebrity television competition in 2008. Three years later, he launced “Piers Morgan Tonight in the CNN primetime evening slot previously held by Larry King.
The Who’s lead guitarist Pete Townshend.

[howard]

Where in the world is Mocha, the town for which high-quality Arabian coffee is named?

A beautiful illustration of the Mark Twain comment, "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Mocha is in Yemen, I only recently learned. Currently being bombed by American-made munitions upon the order of the Saudi royal family.

[DC47]

What color were the first berets worn by member of a U.S. military unit?

Raspberry

You mean the kind you find in a second-hand store?

(That was brilliant.)

Military surplus.

[wlu_lax6]

What was the first greek-letter society formed on a U.S. college campus?

[howard]

phi beta kappa. All downhill from there.

[wlu_lax6]

It’s long, thick, bushy tail. The squirrel has a bundle of blood vessels at the base of its tail. By constricting them in cold weather, it reduces the blood flow to its tail and conserves it body heat. IN hot weather, it does the reverse to cool off, dilating the blood vessels to increase the flow of blood to its tail, which loses heat rapidly.
Individual: Butterfly, Backstroke,Breastroke,Freestyle
Medley: Backstroke, Breaststroke , Butterfly, Freestyle
In Yemen, on the Red Sea.
He owned a drugstore in their hometown of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, where young Joel and Ethan Coen passed the time reading magazines while their mother was shopping. “Mr. Zoss never asked us to leave,” they said, in explain why they named their firm company Mike Zoss Productions in 1998.
San Antonio, Texas, which is the seventh most populous U.S. city, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It was named for San Antonio de Padua by a group of Spanish exploreres and missionaries who visited the site on Saint Anthony’s feast day (June 13) in 1691.


What product placement deal made for 2012 film, Skyfall led to a change in James Bond’s onscreen drinking habits?
What bird has the slowest wing beat- only one beat per second?
In which of the four major U.S. professional sports do teams have salary caps for their players?
Why did Ludwig van Beethoven compose music on a legless piano?
What are the names of crime boss Vito Corleone’s four children in the Godfather movie trilogy?
What is the meaning of the word twitterpated? Hint: It has nothing to do with social media.
What ban involving private jets is in effect in Monaco?

[howard]

Vito Corleone had four children: Santino, Fredo, Michael and Adrienne, eh I mean Connie (Constance?)

[DC47]

What product placement deal made for 2012 film, Skyfall led to a change in James Bond’s onscreen drinking habits?

Nestle's Quick

Why did Ludwig van Beethoven compose music on a legless piano?

He liked to get down.

What ban involving private jets is in effect in Monaco?

You cannot own more jets than the number of hedge funds you run.