Trivia Quiz?

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the  answer  is   PAT  TILLMAN

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which professional football player was killed in the War on Terror in 2004?

Pat Tillman Walter Payton Lyle Alzado Reggie White

Pat Tillman

 

5 hours ago, dgrimm60 said:

 PAT  TILLMAN

Answer: Born on this day in 1976, Pat Tillman was a football player in the NFL who left his sports career and enlisted in the military in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Tillman turned down a three-year, $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army. Tillman was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. The official story was that he was shot by enemy forces during an ambush, but it was later revealed that he may have been killed by friendly fire. In addition to his Purple Heart and Silver Star medals from the military, Tillman's number for the Arizona Cardinals was retired in his honor.

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Which disk jockey is credited with coining the term “rock and roll”?

Casey Kasem Dick Clark Alan Freed Don Imus

Alan Freed??

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Trivia Questions About FDR's Fourth Term as President

Why Did FDR Keep Winning?

Why Did Congress Create the 22nd Amendment?

Who Was Roosevelt's Controversial Pick For Secretary Of Labor?

What Legal Loophole Allows a President to Still Serve More Than Two Terms?

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PHKRAUSE

 the answer is  ALAN  FREED

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which disk jockey is credited with coining the term “rock and roll”?

Casey Kasem Dick Clark Alan Freed Don Imus

Alan Freed??

 

4 hours ago, dgrimm60 said:

ALAN  FREED

Answer: Disc jockey Alan Freed is widely credited with coining the term “rock and roll” to describe the uptempo black R&B records he played as early as 1951 on Cleveland radio station WJW. In addition, in 1952, Freed was one of the people who put together the Moondog Coronation Ball, a Cleveland concert that is now considered the first-ever rock and roll concert. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s. On January 23, 1986, Freed was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

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19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Why Did FDR Keep Winning?

Voters did not really want to deal with major political changes during the Great Depression and World War II, and FDR was doing a good enough job of leading the country to recovery and victory that most saw no reason to not re-elect him. FDR was originally not going to run after his second term; at that point in time, there was no official term limit for presidents, but there was an unspoken one set by George Washington, who claimed that longer presidencies ran the risk of becoming tyrannical. On occasion, someone would try to run for a third term but be defeated instead, such as Teddy Roosevelt. However, the growing problems in Europe (remember, the U.S. was not involved in the war yet) convinced FDR that he had to run again to try to provide consistent leadership. He ran for a fourth term for the same reason.

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Why Did Congress Create the 22nd Amendment?

The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed in 1947 and ratified in 1951. The amendment stated that no president should serve more than two terms (more on this in a bit, but that's the gist of the law). The amendment was created for two reasons: one, to reduce the chances of presidential deaths in office (if they're prevented from running and serving repeatedly, there's a smaller chance they'll be in office when they die), and two, to prevent -- wait for it -- the risk of tyranny, or at the very least, having way too much influence over government policy.

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who Was Roosevelt's Controversial Pick For Secretary Of Labor?

FDR made history when he appointed Frances Perkins to his cabinet in 1933. Selected as secretary of labor, Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet post in a U.S. presidential administration. She was instrumental in helping Roosevelt with many of his programs, including Social Security. This was the second time FDR had tapped Perkins for a government post. As governor of New York, he picked her to be the state's labor commissioner.

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Legal Loophole Allows a President to Still Serve More Than Two Terms?

There is one situation in which a president may serve more than two four-year terms. The 22nd Amendment states that presidents will not be elected more than twice, and if a vice president becomes president and then serves more than two years of that term, that person may not be elected as president more than once. For example, VP Doe becomes president due to a resignation and serves three years of that presidential term. Doe can run for and be elected to the presidency one more time.  However, there's a loophole. If the vice president serves less than two years of another person's presidential term, then that VP can run for two more terms as president. So let's say VP Doe becomes president due to a resignation when there is only one year to go before the next election. President Doe can then run for and be elected for two more four-year terms. 

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"Yankee Doodle" is the official song of which U.S. state?

Massachusetts Texas Connecticut Florida

How's Connecticut sound!!

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What does the X in X-Ray stand for?

Extra Xanthelasma Experimental Unknown variable

Unknown variable

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4 Trivia Questions About The State of Montana

On November 8, 1889 President Benjamin Harrison proclaimed Montana the forty-first state in the union. Today we invite you to honor that anniversary by answering some questions about our 41st state...

Montana is the Only State in the Union Where What Two People Do Not Need to be Present for a Marriage?

In 1993, the Town of Ismay, Montana Changed Their Name to What for a Few Months?

Jeannette Rankin of Missoula, Montana Was the First Woman to do What?

How Many Degrees Fahrenheit Was the Largest Temperature Swing in US History?

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What was the original name of the cable television network HBO?

The Green Channel Quantum Services Marufuku Programming Chuck's Movies

The Green Channel!!

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PHKRAUSSE

the answer is CONNECTICUT

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PHKRAUSE

the answer is UNKNOWN VARIABLE

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PHKRAUSE

the answer is  GREEN CHANNEL

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On 11/8/2018 at 11:56 AM, phkrause said:

"Yankee Doodle" is the official song of which U.S. state?

Massachusetts Texas Connecticut Florida

How's Connecticut sound!!

 

8 hours ago, dgrimm60 said:

CONNECTICUT

Answer: “Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony, stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.” These are the first few lines of the classic American ditty “Yankee Doodle,” a tune that almost every American child has sung at some point in their lives. It is often sung patriotically in the United States and is the state anthem of Connecticut. The British troops sang the song to make fun of their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish if he simply stuck a feather in his cap. Eventually, “Yankee Doodle” had turned from being an insult to being a song of national pride.

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On 11/8/2018 at 12:39 PM, phkrause said:

What does the X in X-Ray stand for?

Extra Xanthelasma Experimental Unknown variable

Unknown variable

 

8 hours ago, dgrimm60 said:

UNKNOWN VARIABLE

Answer: On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Rontgen became the first person to discover the possibility of using electromagnetic radiation to create what we now know as the X-ray. After some considerable investigation, he named the new rays "X" to indicate they were unknown. Rontgen’s discovery was labeled a medical miracle and X-rays soon became an important diagnostic tool in medicine, allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery. Today, X-ray technology is widely used in medicine, material analysis and devices such as airport security scanners.

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Montana is the Only State in the Union Where What Two People Do Not Need to be Present for a Marriage? 

Wanna get married while you're in Montana? Not a problem. Wanna get married while you're somewhere else? Also not a problem. Montana is the only state in the union that will allow a couple to get married even if neither the bride nor groom are present. The law permitting what is called a "double-proxy marriage" was passed during World War II though no one is 100% sure why. When, a few years back, a soldier serving overseas wanted to marry his girlfriend, they hired lawyer Dean Knapton to look into an old rumor that double-proxy weddings were legal in Montana. He found the old law still on the books, and arranged the whole marriage. It was then that he realized there was a potential business opportunity here. And now, for only $900, you too can be married by double proxy in the state of Montana.

 

20 hours ago, phkrause said:

In 1993, the Town of Ismay, Montana Changed Their Name to What for a Few Months?

In 1993, Kansas City acquired one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time: Joe Montana. That's right, Montana, like the state. A local radio host noticed the commonality and thought it would be cool if there was a place in Montana named for the legendary passer. He sought out the smallest incorporated town in the state, and all 21 residents there at the time voted to change the city name to Joe for the length of a football season. Explained town clerk Wayne Rieger, "It would have been 22-0, but one of our voters was out of town." For the next few months, everyone there was a proud resident of Joe, Montana.

 

20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Jeannette Rankin of Missoula, Montana Was the First Woman to do What?

The state of Montana was so progressive, they elected a congresswoman several years before women even got the right to vote. In 1916, Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress, representing the state of Montana. While there, she would do plenty for the women's rights movement, playing a big role in passing the 19th amendment, granting women's suffrage.

 

20 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Many Degrees Fahrenheit Was the Largest Temperature Swing in US History?

On January 23rd of 1916, you would have been wise to not go outdoors in Browning, Montana. Over the course of one day, the thermometer moved from the not-so-bad 44 degrees to a lethal -56. That 100 degrees represents the largest drop in temperature ever recorded in a 24-hour period. However, that's not the largest temperature swing in a 24-hour period. That honor goes to Loma, also located in Montana, where the temperature once increased from -54 to 49 (that's a 103-degree swing) in 24 hours in January 1972. In other words, anytime you go to Montana in January, bring a winter coat and some shorts.

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22 hours ago, phkrause said:

What was the original name of the cable television network HBO?

The Green Channel Quantum Services Marufuku Programming Chuck's Movies

The Green Channel!!

 

10 hours ago, dgrimm60 said:

GREEN CHANNEL

Answer: On this day in 1972, the premium cable TV network HBO (Home Box Office) made its official debut with a showing of the movie "Sometimes a Great Notion" starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda. Originally called “The Green Channel,” the nation’s first pay TV service got its start using microwaves to broadcast nine hours of programming a day in fewer than 400 New England homes. The Green Channel was quickly renamed Home Box Office to stress the offering of this new channel: films that had never been broadcast on the television before and live showings of sporting events.

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What is the only U.S. state to allow its residents to vote from outer space?

Texas California Alabama Michigan

Texas

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What was Nintendo character Mario's original name?

Luigi Jumpman Mr. X Giuseppe

Jumpman

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On 11/9/2018 at 4:17 PM, phkrause said:

What is the only U.S. state to allow its residents to vote from outer space?

Texas California Alabama Michigan

Texas

Answer: Texas is the only state that allows its residents to vote from space. Thanks to a 1997 Texas law, astronauts are allowed to cast a vote while in orbit. The first American to cast his ballot from space was David Wolf, who voted from aboard the Russian Space Station Mir, which preceded the International Space Station. In order to vote from space, astronauts request a special absentee ballot about six months in advance, according to NASA. On the big day, they file their ballot electronically through a protected system.

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On 11/9/2018 at 5:08 PM, phkrause said:

What was Nintendo character Mario's original name?

Luigi Jumpman Mr. X Giuseppe

Jumpman

Answer: Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise, owned by Nintendo. Serving as the company's mascot and protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong on July 9, 1981. Jumpman was later renamed "Mario" in the 1982 arcade game Donkey Kong Junior. With more than 500 million units sold worldwide, the overall Mario franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time.

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Ageusia is the loss of which one of the five sense?

Smell Hearing Sight Taste

Taste

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the answer is TASTE

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12 hours ago, phkrause said:

Ageusia is the loss of which one of the five sense?

Smell Hearing Sight Taste

Taste

 

2 hours ago, dgrimm60 said:

TASTE

Answer: Ageusia is the loss of taste functions of the tongue, particularly the inability to detect sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness. This disorder can be triggered by many factors such as nerve damage or vitamin deficiency. Ageusia is sometimes confused with anosmia – a loss of the sense of smell. Because the tongue can only indicate texture and differentiate between sweet, sour, bitter, and salty, most of what is perceived as the sense of taste is actually derived from smell. True ageusia is relatively rare compared to hypogeusia – a partial loss of taste – and dysgeusia – a distortion or alteration of taste.