applet222:  “What type of play or film usually has a sensational plot and exaggerated
emotion?"
bubba: “Chick flicks.”
                           
Jazz: “This day in history: On December 9, 1990, who became the first directly elected
president in the history of Poland?”
skep:  “Walesa.”
skep:  “He was an electrician.  That means he was a positively charged Pole.”
                        
Jazz: “The word for which move in ballet literally comes from the French word 'bent'?”
Shi: “Plie.”
Sassy: “Where was I on that Q?”
carebear:  “You were tutu, Helen.”
                         
applet222:  “After oxygen, what is the second most abundant element on earth?”
blavinson26:  "Silicon."
Shi:  “Silicone?”
Occams_Razor:  “Yup, Shi--especially in Hollywood.”
                            
Jazz:  “'Almost exactly', 'elevated subway' and 'only choice' are examples of what sort
of figure of speech?”
Jazz:  “a: Oxymora.”
skep:  “Ah, so that’s the plural—as in “Congress is full of mora”?”
                         
Jazz:  “Telluria is the poetic name for a certain planet, inhabited, not surprisingly by
Tellurians. Which planet is this?”
Jazz:  “a: Earth.”
maxbearjr:  “There are also Walmartians on earth.”
                            
Jazz:  “From the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes came which chief god, who began his
existence as the god of air?”
belle:  “Amun.”
carebear: “I was amun for the right god.”
                            
applet222:  “What is Italy’s longest river?”
carebear:  “Po.”
Spammy:  “Wanted to say Tinky Winky but refrained.”
Occams_Razor:  “Not on my screen.”
                            
applet222:  “Minsk is the capital of what European country?”
maxbearjr:  “Belarus.’
applet222:  “Yes max!”
maxbearjr:  “Now I’m in the pinsk.”
carebear:   “Let’s not minsk words here.”
                            
applet222:  “If Orient means ‘The East,’ what is ‘The West’?
CityBoy1986:  “Occident.”
lobsterboy79:  “It was discovered by occident, after all. . .”
                          
Jazz:  “What islands are included in Amnesia?”
peachie:  “I can’t remember, Jazz.”
                            
applet222:  "What is the largest city in the world (pop. 10,280,523 million) to have a one-
syllable name?"
Muldoon:  ‘Ho Chi Minh City.”
                         
applet222:  “In a 1984 interview with ‘Cosmopolitan,’ Jane Fonda revealed she had
suffered from a disorder for many years. What disorder was it?”
Occams_Razor:  “Idiocy?”
Spammy:  “Big mouth?”
                          
applet222:  “What is the term for naturally hornless cattle?”
Shi:  “Cows.”
donner:  “Polled.”
Jazz:  “9 out of 10 hornless cattle, when polled, said it sucked to not be horny.”
maxbear:  “Someone done polled they horns outta they head.”
                         
applet222:  “Even though this substance is the most abundant substance in the plant
kingdom, no mammal produces the enzyme to digest it.”
paulh:  “McDonald’s”
Jeff_justJeff:  “Big Macs.”
Sassy:  “Arby’s burgers.”
                          
Jazz:  “Geography: A goat and a spotted fever are named for this famed mountain
range located in the Western Hemisphere. Name the mountain range.”
IX.XII.MMVI:  “Andes?”
ricky_red_mancunian:  “I know where the andes is—they’re at the end of your
wristies.”
                         
blavinson26:  “What carried a message to Garcia pre-Spanish American War?"
Spammy:  “Mule.”
Sassy: “Burro?”
Spammy: “Smoke signal.”
Spammy:  “Juan Valdez?”
blavinson26: “Hint: ROW”
driving:  “Rowan and Martin.”
Spammy: “Rowan Atkinson.”
                            
Jazz: “Weird Obsessions: Spanish scholar Don Vicente and German vicar Johann
Georg Tinius are two extreme examples of covetous obsession. Both reportedly
committed murder in order to acquire which of the following?”
ricky_red_mancunian:  “Play Station.”
softwolf:  “A lump of cheese.”
maxbearjr:  “Paul McCartney’s Hofner bass.”
IX.XII.MMVI:  “A good cigar?”
Jazz:  “Hint-something I imagine you all have at least 500 of.”
Occams_Razor:  “Bills.”
the_surfer_dude4: “DVDs.”
belle:  “Bacteria.”
skep: “Hairs on my upper lip.”
ricky_red_mancunian:  “Girlie mags.”
                            
Jazz:  “Native Americans: You may recall the word 'tatanka' from the film 'Dances with
Wolves'. What Native American's name was 'Tatanka Iyotake' in his native language?”
softwolf:  “Sitting Bull.”
kay_zzzz:  “Related to that other famous one Alotta Bull.”
                          
Jazz:  “History: Ships named the Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver are attached to which
important event of early American history?”
carebear:  “Boston tea party.”
kay_zzzz:  “Sheesh, Americans and their tea parties.”
Jazz:  “That was the last straw for the Brits, honestly . . . dumping perfectly good tea,
and not even at tea time?”
Occams_Razor:  “If the ships had been carrying coffee, the first Starbucks would have
been built in Boston.”
                          
carebear:  “I’m poaching fish right now.”
skep:  “What the hell is poaching?”
Shi: “She is cooking in water.”
carebear:  “You drown the fish?  Ironic, huh?”
Occams_Razor:  “Game wardens generally frown on poaching around here.”

Jazz: “With a name that literally means 'rock jumper' in Afrikaans, this southern
African antelope species is among the most agile in the world. What is its 'K' name?”
Jazz: “Hint...Klip + the last name of a sleazy talk show host.”
Occams_Razor:  “Klipstern.”
skep:  “Klipwinfrey.”
Shi: “Klipobrien.”
skep:  “Klipjessyraphael.”
Muldoon: “Kliplake and klipjones too.”
                            
blavinson26: “OK THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER YOUR CIVICS . . .”
Lilah:  “I never had a Honda.”
                           
applet222:  “Wow cupcake...you are wayyy behind on a java update...this room has all
kinds of options you can't see.”
cupcake_z:  “I’m Amish.”
skep: “I have a 300 baud modem.  Feel my wrath.”
peachie:  “I have 20 mule team.”
Muldoon:  “. . . has a 302 boss under the hood.”
september_rain_33f:  "I’ve got 6 dwarf hamsters in a wheel.”
                          
Jazz: “A ligament is a band of fibrous connective tissue that holds two bones together.
What is the term for the similar tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone?”
september_rain_33f:  “Tendon.”
skep: “I was intendon to answer that correctly.”
                       
Jazz: “Which character from the newspaper comic strip 'Peanuts' shares his name
with the man who is recognized as the second Roman Catholic pope?”
the_surfer_dude4:  “Linus.”
Jazz:  “Charlie Brown was the name of the third pope, incidentally.”
the_surfer_dude4:  “What about Ron ‘Pope’peil?”
                           
Jazz: “Early Renaissance artist Giovanni da Fiesole is better known to art
connoisseurs by which 'holy' name?”
Greeneyes49: “Holy Mackerel!”
                            
applet222: “In classical mythology, what hideous female monsters
relentlessly pursued evildoers?”
Occams_Razor:  “Wives.”
blavinson26: “Dallas cheerleaders?”
                          
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applet222:  “I never understood the expression ‘See Naples and die.’”
x-PANDORA-x:  “Well . . .everyone who’s seen my naples and told has died.”
Occams_Razor:  “I’ve seen Naples, still kicking but ache a lot.”
Jazz: “You haven’t lived until you’ve seen some nice naples . . .”
                          
applet222: “What mountain in the Bernese Alps of South Central
Switzerland has a name which in German means ‘Virgin’?”
applet222:  “Hint—starts with J.”
bubba:  “Unclimbed, so to speak.”
applet222:  “JU_______”
Occams_Razor:  ‘Un-jumped.”
                            
applet222:  “During a drought period in the Pliocene the softer grasses in North
America were replaced by harsher grasses with three times as much silica content.
All species of browsing horses became extinct except those with the longest
________.”
maxbearjr:  “Noses.”
carebear:  “Faces.”
peachie:  “Snouts.”
Shi:  “Legs.”
CityBoy1986: “Manes.”
Sassy: “Tongues.”
login:  “Shoes.”
carebear:  “Schlongs?”
'BUBBA'ISMS IV
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