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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 22, 2019 7:40:20 GMT -5
OCTOBER 22ED
ANSWER:THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS AND THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLE. LATER, IN 1944 THE STEELERS MERGED WITH THE CHICAGO CARDINALS TO FORM CARD-PITT. THEY RETURNED TO THEIR ORIGINAL TEAMS FOR THE 1945 SEASON AFTER THE WAR ENDED.
WHAT PHILOSOPHER IS CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF UTILITARIANISM, A PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINE THAT EMPHASIZES THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 23, 2019 7:46:09 GMT -5
OCTOBER 23ED
ANSWER: JEREMY BENTHAM (1748-1832). TANGENTIALLY,AFTER BENTHAM'S DEATH,HIS BODY WAS DISSECTED WATCHED; THEN, HEAD WAS MUMMIFIED AND THE REST OF HIS SKELETON WAS RECONSTRUCTED.
WHAT IS A WALLAROO?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 24, 2019 6:47:16 GMT -5
OCTOBER 24TH
ANSWER: A LARGE, REDDISH-GRAY KANGAROO. THEY CAN OFTEN BE FOUND IN AUSTRALIA'S ROCKY REGIONS.
LEMONS FLOAT I WATER, WHILE LIMES SINK. WHY?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 25, 2019 7:17:27 GMT -5
OCTOBER 25TH
ANSWER:IT'S ALL ABOUT DENSITY. WHILE LEMONS ARE USUALLY BIGGER THAN LIMES IN TERMS OF SHEER SIZE LEMONS HAVE LOWER DENSITY THAN LIMES, ALLOWING THEN TO FLOAT WHILE THE DENSER LIMES SINK.
VIRGINIA WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF EIGHT US PRESIDENTS. WHICH STATE FOLLOWS CLOSES ON VIRGINIA'S HEELS AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF SEVEN US PRESIDENTS?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 26, 2019 15:01:23 GMT -5
OCTOBER 26TH
ANSWER:OHIO. PRESIDENTS BORN IN OHIO INCLUDE GRANT,HAYES,GARFIELD,HARRISON, MCKINLEY,TAFT, AND HARDING.
WHAT CLASSIC NOVEL, FIST PUBLISHED IN THE MID-29TH CENTURY,ROSE TO THE TOP OF BOOK BESTSELLER LISTS IN THE WAKE OF THE 2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 27, 2019 8:11:51 GMT -5
OCTOBER 27TH
PSALM 31:24 BE OF GOOD COURAGE,AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN YOUR HEART,ALL YE THAT HOPE IN THE LORD.
ANSWER:1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL. A DYSTOPIAN STORY OF A TOTALITARIAN REGIME. PENGUIN RAMDON HOUSE, THE BOOK'S PUBLISHER, RESPONDED TO THE SURGE IN DEMAND BY REPRINTING THE BOOK IN LARGE QUANTITIES.
WHRE IN THE WORLD CAN YOU FINE A TEMPLE BUILT ENTIRELY OF EMPTY BEER BOTTLES?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 28, 2019 10:16:33 GMT -5
OCTOBER 28TH
ANSWER:THE SISAKET PROVINCE OF THAILAND. THE BUDDHIST MONKS BUILT THE TEMPLE TO PROMOTE RECYCLING.THE TEMPLE'S NAME IS WAT PA MAHA CHEDI KAEW,OR THE TEMPLE OF A MILLION BOTTLES.
AUTHOR BRAM STOKER'S LEGENDARY VAMPIRE DRACULA IS WIDELY THOUGHT TO BE INSPIRED BY WHAT REAL-LIFE ROMANIAN PRINCE?
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Post by Sir Trevor on Oct 28, 2019 13:36:22 GMT -5
Vlad the Impaler.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 29, 2019 6:49:26 GMT -5
OCTOBER 29TH
ANSWER:VIAD III(1431-1476) WHILE HE WASN'T A VAMPIRE,HE WAS FOND OF IMPALING HES ENEMIES, WARNING THE FEARSOME NICKNAME VLAD THE IMPALER.
MAME THE FOUR MOVIES IN WHICH MEG RYAN AND TOM HANKS APPEAR TOGETHER.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 30, 2019 7:14:49 GMT -5
OCTOBER 30TH
ANSWER:JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO (1993) YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998,AND ITHACA(2016).(2016) THEY ONLY APPEAR TOGETHER IN ITHACA,A FILM THAT MARKED MEG RYAN'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT.
IN EUROPEAN FOLKLORE, WHAT IS A FAMILIAR?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Oct 31, 2019 6:24:28 GMT -5
OCTOBER 31ST
ANSWER:A SPIRIT OR DEMON THAT ASSISTS SOMEONE. FAMILIARS ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH WITCHES AND ARE BELIEVED TO TAKE THE FORM OF HOUSEHOLD PETS.
IN WHAT COUNTRY DID THE PRACTICE OF MAKING JACK-O'-LANTERNS ORIGINATE?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Nov 1, 2019 7:38:54 GMT -5
NOVEMBER 1ST
ANSWER:IRELAND. THE IRISH BEGAN BY MAKING JACK-O'-LANTERNS OUT TURNIPS AND POTATOES FOR HALLOWEEN AND IRISH IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA APPLIED THE TECHNIQUE TO PUMPKINS.
WHAT DOES NANOWRIMO STAND FOR?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Nov 2, 2019 10:33:19 GMT -5
NOVEMBER 2ED
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS TONIGHT. TURN THEM BACK.
ANSWER:NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH. EACH NOVEMBER,PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD ATTEMPT TO WRITE A 50,000-WORD NOVEL IN 30 DAYS.
WIMBLEDON IS NOW SYNONYMOUS WITH TENNIS,BUT WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL SPORT PLAYED ON ITS LAWNS?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Nov 3, 2019 9:17:12 GMT -5
NOVEMBER 3ED
PSALMS 27:7 HEAR, O LORD, WHEN I CRY WITH MY VOICE: HAVE MERCY ALSO UPON ME,AND ANSWER ME.
ANSWER:CROQUET. THOUGH NOT MUCH CROQUET TAKES PLACE AT WIMBLEDON THESE DAYS, THE FULL NAME OF THE CLUB WHERE THE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP IS PLAYED IS THE ALL ENGLAND LAWN TENNIS AND CROQUET CLUB.
CONFUCIUS WAS A HUGELY INFLUENTIAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHER WHO LIVED FROM 551 BCE TO 479 BCE, WHAT WAS HIS BIRTH NAME?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Nov 4, 2019 7:31:33 GMT -5
NOVEMBER 4TH
ANSWER:KONG QIU (OR K'UNG CH'IU). CONFUCIUS IS THE LATINIZED VERSION OF HIS NAME.
NAME THE LEGENDARY DESERT CITY MENTIONED IN THE KORAN AND ONE THOUSAND AND ONE ARABIAN NIGHTS AND REFERRED TO BY T.E. LAWRENCE AS "ATANTIS OF THE SANDS?
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