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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 23, 2018 9:57:05 GMT -5
APRIL 23ED
ANSWER: DOUGLAS COUPLAND. HIS 1991 NOVEL, GENERATION X,POPULARIZED THE NAME FOR AMERICANS BORN BETWEEN 1965 AND 1980.
WHAT BUILDING TAKES UP THE MANHATTAN CITY BLOCK BETWEEN 49TH AND 50TH STREET AND PARK AND LEXINGTON AVENUES?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 24, 2018 8:43:14 GMT -5
APRIL 24TH
ANSWER: THE WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL. THE HOTEL'S ORIGINAL LOCATION WAS ON FIFTH AVENUE AND 33ED STREET, WHEN WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR OPENED A HOTEL CALLED THE WALDORF.HIS COUSIN JOHN JACOB ASTOR IV OPENED A HOTEL CALLED THE ASTOIRIA NEXT DOOR, AND THE TWO COMBINED TO FORM THE WALDORF-ASTORIA.
WHEN YOU ORDER A CALIFORNIA ROLL AT A SUSHI RESTAURANT, WHAT WILL IT CONSIST OF.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 25, 2018 8:40:53 GMT -5
APRIL 25TH
ANZAC DAY (AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND)
ANSWER: CRAB,CUCUMBER AMD AVOCADO. IT IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF MAKIZUSHI ("ROLLED SUSHI)"?
IN 1933, AN ARCHITECT NAMED ALFRED MOSHER BUTTS INVENTED A GAME HE CALLED "LEXIKO." WHAT NAME EVENTUALLY REPLACE THAT ONE?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 26, 2018 7:34:18 GMT -5
APRIL 26TH
ANSWER: SCRABBLE - BUTTS'S BUSINESS PARTNER JAMES BRUNOT CAME UP WITH IT.
WHAT YEAR EARNED THE NICKNAME "EIGHTEEN-HOUDRED-AND-FROZE- TO-DEATH?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 27, 2018 8:52:18 GMT -5
APRIL 27TH
ANSWER: 1816. IT WAS KNOW AS "THE YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER." THE COLD TEMPERATURES WERE MOST LIKELY DUE TO A VOLCANO ERUPTION IN INDONESIA THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
WHAT OPERA IS THE MUSICAL RENT BASED ON?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 28, 2018 7:51:55 GMT -5
APRIL 28TH
ANSWER: LA BOBEME, BY GIACOMO PUCCINI IN A NOD TO THE SHOW'S SOURCE MATERIAL.
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE COMPUTER THAT BEAT GARRY KASPAROV IN A CHESS MATCH IN 1997.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Apr 28, 2018 10:09:37 GMT -5
Was that Deep Blue?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 29, 2018 7:47:29 GMT -5
APRIL 29TH
PSALMS 8:3-4 WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS, THE WORK OF THY FINGERS, THE MOON AND THE STARS,WHICH THOU HAST ORDAINED: WHAT IS MAN, WHAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM? AND THE SON OF MAN, THAT THOU VISITEST HIM?
ANSWER:DEEP BLUE. KASPAROV CAME OUT VICTORIOUS WHEN THEY FIRST FACED OFF IN 1996, BUT THE IBM SUPERCOMPUTER TOOK THE 1997 REMATCH.
KAT MIDDLETON AD PRINCE WILLIAM OF ENGLAND TIED THE NOT ON THIS DAY IN 2011. WHO DESIGNED THE WEDDING DRESS FOR THE NEW DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Apr 30, 2018 8:37:18 GMT -5
APRIL 30TH
ANSWER: SARAH BURTON, CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF ALEXANDER MCQUEEN. NOTABLE FEATURES INCLUDED LACE SLEEVES AND A DRAMATIC TRAIN.
WHAT FOOD HAS A NAME THAT IS OFTEN TRANSLATED AS "DEVIL'S FAET IN GERMAN?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 1, 2018 16:46:12 GMT -5
MAY 1ST
ANSWER: PUMPERNICKEL. THE BROWN BREAD IS A TYPE BREAD THAT INDEED ORIGINATED IN GERMANY.
IN A 2013 EPISODE OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, HOST JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE'S MONOLOGUE FEATURE A SKETCH ABOUT HIM JOINING WHAT CLUB, SOME MEMBERS OF WHICH - INCLUDING PAUL SIMON, STEVE MARTIN, CHEVY CHASE, APPEARED WITH HIM IN THE SKETCH?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 2, 2018 9:36:48 GMT -5
MAY 2ED
ANSWER: THE FIVE TIMERS CLUB,FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE HOSTED THE SHOW FIVE TIMES OR MORE.
IN BEVERLY CLEARY'S RAMONA BOOKS, WHAT IS THE NAME OF RAMONA QUIMBY'S OLDER SISTER?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 3, 2018 8:18:41 GMT -5
MAY 3ED
ANSWER: BEEZUS, WHICH WAS SHORT FOR BEATRICE.
AT THE NUPTIALS OF LUCREZIA BORGIA, DAUGHTER OF POPE ALEXANDER VI, AND ALFONSO D'ESTE, THE DUKE OF FERRARA, GUESTS CONSUMED 260 POUNDS OF WHAT NOW-COMMON WEDDING FAVER?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 4, 2018 8:21:59 GMT -5
MAY 4TH
ANSWER: JORDAN ALMONDS. THE SNACK, WHICH COMBINES BITER AND SWEET,FIRST GAINED POPULARITY IN THE 15TH CENTURY. IN SOME CULTURES, THEY ARE SAID TO BRING FERTILITY AND GOOD FORTUNE.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CURRENCY USED IN CROATIA?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 5, 2018 10:37:40 GMT -5
MAY 5TH
ANSWER:THE KUNA. IT WAS INTRODUCED IN 1994, AND BANKNOTES FEATURE PICTURES OF NOTABLE CROATIANS.
JEANETTE JEROME WAS BORN IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ON JANUARY 9TH, 1854. WHO WAS HER FAMOUS SON?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on May 6, 2018 7:53:16 GMT -5
MAY 6TH
ROMANS 8:28 AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
ANSWER:BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHUCRHILL, WHO WAS VERY PROUD OF BEING HALF AMERICA.
WHAT PRODUCT DID DR.EARLE CLEVELAND HAAS PATENT IN 1933 AFTER DESIGNING IT USING COTTON AND SOME PAPER TUBES HE HAD LYING AROUND?
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