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APPLET'S PAGE
ABOUT ME
My name is Becca and I am a
retired family law attorney living
about 25 miles northwest of Bemidji
in the vast frozen tundra of northern
Minnesota. I have three grown
children, one granddaughter and
another grandchild on the way.
I come from a large, musically
inclined family headed by a Church
of Christ evangelist, so I didn't have
a TV growing up. My brother (also an
attorney) and I spent thousands of
hours reading old books my parents
got at rummage sales. (I have a
complete set of Bobbsey Twins
books.) When we got hard up for
something to read, we read our
well-worn set of World Book ency-
clopedias. I didn't go to my first
movie until I was 19 years of age!
I'm a Vietnam Era veteran of the
Navy Hospital Corps.
I've been a triviaphile since 2002
when I first started hosting live trivia
quizzes on the web. I have accumu-
lated about 200 reference and trivia
books and I get most of my ques-
tions from them -- although I find
that most general trivia books are
poorly researched. (The players let
me know when an answer is wrong!)
My favorite areas of trivia are classic
literature, foreign words and
phrases, medicine and geology. I
never developed the mathematical
and mechanical portion of my brain,
so I don't even go there. For that
reason and my lack of TV and movie
knowledge, you'll never see me on a
game show!
I appreciate the support that our
players have given us, and my hope
is that this site will continue to grow
and provide hours of fun each day
for our guests. --Becca
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My name is Becca and I am a
retired family law attorney living
about 25 miles northwest of Bemidji
in the vast frozen tundra of northern
Minnesota. I have three grown
children, one granddaughter and
another grandchild on the way.
I come from a large, musically
inclined family headed by a Church
of Christ evangelist, so I didn't have
a TV growing up. My brother (also an
attorney) and I spent thousands of
hours reading old books my parents
got at rummage sales. (I have a
complete set of Bobbsey Twins
books.) When we got hard up for
something to read, we read our
well-worn set of World Book ency-
clopedias. I didn't go to my first
movie until I was 19 years of age!
I'm a Vietnam Era veteran of the
Navy Hospital Corps.
I've been a triviaphile since 2002
when I first started hosting live trivia
quizzes on the web. I have accumu-
lated about 200 reference and trivia
books and I get most of my ques-
tions from them -- although I find
that most general trivia books are
poorly researched. (The players let
me know when an answer is wrong!)
My favorite areas of trivia are classic
literature, foreign words and
phrases, medicine and geology. I
never developed the mathematical
and mechanical portion of my brain,
so I don't even go there. For that
reason and my lack of TV and movie
knowledge, you'll never see me on a
game show!
I appreciate the support that our
players have given us, and my hope
is that this site will continue to grow
and provide hours of fun each day
for our guests. --Becca
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TRIVIA BRAINBUSTERS
1. What 1939 novel contains the line
'Three quarks for Muster Mark!'?
2. For what three teams did Nolan Ryan
throw no-hitters?
3. In what state is the Buffalo National
River?
4. What city replaced Lagos as the capital
of an African nation?
5. What Alfred Uhry play won the 1988
Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
6. What was the usual occupation of the
Fates?
7. What are the collected works of the
great early Norse poets and writers
called?
8. 'Pale hands I loved, beside the
Shalimar' is a line from the Edwardian
'Kashmiri Song' by Amelia Woodforde-
Finden. What is the Shalimar?
(Answers below)
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TRIVIA BRAINBUSTERS
1. What 1939 novel contains the line
'Three quarks for Muster Mark!'?
2. For what three teams did Nolan Ryan
throw no-hitters?
3. In what state is the Buffalo National
River?
4. What city replaced Lagos as the capital
of an African nation?
5. What Alfred Uhry play won the 1988
Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
6. What was the usual occupation of the
Fates?
7. What are the collected works of the
great early Norse poets and writers
called?
8. 'Pale hands I loved, beside the
Shalimar' is a line from the Edwardian
'Kashmiri Song' by Amelia Woodforde-
Finden. What is the Shalimar?
(Answers below)
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ANSWERS TO BRAINBUSTERS
1. Finnegan's Wake
2. Houston Astros, California Angels,
Texas Rangers
3. Arkansas
4. Abuja, Nigeria
5. Driving Miss Daisy
6. Spinning thread
7. Eddas (The Poetic Edda and the Prose
Edda)
8. A garden in Kashmir
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1. Finnegan's Wake
2. Houston Astros, California Angels,
Texas Rangers
3. Arkansas
4. Abuja, Nigeria
5. Driving Miss Daisy
6. Spinning thread
7. Eddas (The Poetic Edda and the Prose
Edda)
8. A garden in Kashmir
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LOGIC PROBLEM
Mary won't eat fish or spinach; Sally won't
eat fish or green beans; Steve won't eat
shrimp or potatoes; Alice won't eat beef or
tomatoes; Jim won't eat fish or tomatoes.
If you are willing to give such a bunch of
fussy eaters a dinner party, which items
from the following list can you serve?
green beans creamed codfish
roast beef roast chicken
celery lettuce
(Answer below)
Mary won't eat fish or spinach; Sally won't
eat fish or green beans; Steve won't eat
shrimp or potatoes; Alice won't eat beef or
tomatoes; Jim won't eat fish or tomatoes.
If you are willing to give such a bunch of
fussy eaters a dinner party, which items
from the following list can you serve?
green beans creamed codfish
roast beef roast chicken
celery lettuce
(Answer below)
ANSWER TO LOGIC PROBLEM
lettuce, celery and roast chicken
lettuce, celery and roast chicken
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ANALOGIES
1. Florentine is to spinach as
Parmentier is to __________.
2. LAX is to Los Angeles as EWR is
to __________.
3. 'Oklahoma!' is to 'Green Grow the
Lilacs' as 'My Fair Lady' is to _______.
4. McKinley is to Roosevelt as
Roosevelt is to __________.
5. 3 is to 5, 8, 9 as 4 is to __________.
(Answers below)
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1. Florentine is to spinach as
Parmentier is to __________.
2. LAX is to Los Angeles as EWR is
to __________.
3. 'Oklahoma!' is to 'Green Grow the
Lilacs' as 'My Fair Lady' is to _______.
4. McKinley is to Roosevelt as
Roosevelt is to __________.
5. 3 is to 5, 8, 9 as 4 is to __________.
(Answers below)
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ANSWERS TO ANALOGIES
1. Potato
2. Newark
3. Pygmalion
4. Truman
5. 1, 11, 14
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ANSWERS TO ANALOGIES
1. Potato
2. Newark
3. Pygmalion
4. Truman
5. 1, 11, 14
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MY TOP TEN ALL-TIME
FAVORITE COMEDIES
1. Blazing Saddles
2. M*A*S*H
3. Galaxy Quest
4. Private Benjamin
5. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
6. Ghostbusters
7. There's Something About Mary
8. Airplane
9. National Lampoon's Animal House
10. All Bette Midler movies
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FAVORITE COMEDIES
1. Blazing Saddles
2. M*A*S*H
3. Galaxy Quest
4. Private Benjamin
5. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
6. Ghostbusters
7. There's Something About Mary
8. Airplane
9. National Lampoon's Animal House
10. All Bette Midler movies
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WEEKLY KEN JENNINGS QUIZ
1. What is divided into 114 chapters
called "suras"?
2. What band is named for a British
government form for claiming
unemployment benefits?
3. What movie's tagline was "Five
criminals. One lineup. No
coincidences"?
4. What kind of misfortune destroyed at
least three of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World?
5. Whose famous 1999 shirt removal
is remembered by the title of her book
It's Not About the Bra?
6. What were the "Inverted Jenny" and
the "Penny Black"?
7. What unusual distinction is shared
by all these famous people? Marc
Bolan, Ray Bradbury, Jimmy Breslin,
Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock,
Michael Imperioli, Quincy Jones, and
Vladimir Nabokov.
(See answers below)
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1. What is divided into 114 chapters
called "suras"?
2. What band is named for a British
government form for claiming
unemployment benefits?
3. What movie's tagline was "Five
criminals. One lineup. No
coincidences"?
4. What kind of misfortune destroyed at
least three of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World?
5. Whose famous 1999 shirt removal
is remembered by the title of her book
It's Not About the Bra?
6. What were the "Inverted Jenny" and
the "Penny Black"?
7. What unusual distinction is shared
by all these famous people? Marc
Bolan, Ray Bradbury, Jimmy Breslin,
Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock,
Michael Imperioli, Quincy Jones, and
Vladimir Nabokov.
(See answers below)
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KEN JENNINGS QUIZ ANSWERS
1. The Qur'an
2. UB40
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Earthquakes
5. Brandi Chastain
6. Historic postage stamps
7. All were famous, at some
point, for never having learned
to drive a car.
KEN JENNINGS QUIZ ANSWERS
1. The Qur'an
2. UB40
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Earthquakes
5. Brandi Chastain
6. Historic postage stamps
7. All were famous, at some
point, for never having learned
to drive a car.
