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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 3, 2019 15:04:30 GMT -5
DECEMBER 3ED
ANSWER:ZEUS AND DEMETER THE GODDESS OF THE HARVEST.
WHAT PROMINENT MAGAZINE DECLINED TO RUN AN EXCERPT OF J.D. SALINGER'S THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE CHARACTERS WERE UNBELIEVABLE AND THE WRITING WAS "SHOW-OFF"?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 4, 2019 8:33:16 GMT -5
DECEMBER 4TH
ANSWER:THE NEW YORKER. THE BOOK WAS ALSO TURNED DOWN BY HARCOURT BRACE,A PUBLISHING COMPANY, BECAUSE ON EXECUTIVE THERE WASN'T SURE WHETHER HOLDEN CAULFIELD WAS SUPPOSED TO BE "CRAZY"OR NOT.
WHAT ENDANGERED ANIMAL USED ITS TAIL AS A BLANKET WHEN IT SLEEPS?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 5, 2019 10:35:16 GMT -5
DECEMBER 5TH
ANSWER:RED PANDAS. THEY CURL THEIR TAIL AROUND THEIR BODIES TO KEEP WARM IN THEIR MOUNTAIN HABITATS.
WHAT NATION INVITED ALBERT EINSTEIN TO BECOME ITS PRESIDENT IN 1952?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 6, 2019 9:34:41 GMT -5
DECEMBER 6TH
ANSWER:ISRAEL. THE INVITATION WAS EXTENDED BY EINSTEIN'S FRIEND AND ISRAEL'S FIRST PRESIDENT, CHAIM WEIZMANN. EINSTEIN, SAID THAT HE WAS "DEEPLY MOVED" BY THE OFFER BUT ULTIMATELY TURNED IT DOWN.
WHAT WAS MAURICE WAS MAURICE MAURICE SENDAK'S ORIGINAL TITLE FOR HIS LAUDED PICTURE BOOK. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 7, 2019 12:33:50 GMT -5
DECEMBER 7TH
ANSWER:WHERE THE WILD HORSES ARE. AFTER DISCOVERING THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO DRAW A HOUSE,HOWEVER,SENDAK CHANGED THE TITLE TO REFLECT WHAT HE FELT HE COULD DRAW:THINGS.
WHAT ARTIST DID DAVE BOWIE SUPPOSEDLY CALL THE "FUTURE OF MUSIC" BEFORE HIS PASSING?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 8, 2019 9:06:52 GMT -5
DECEMBER 8TH
PSALMS 7:1 O LORD MY GOD,IN THEE DO I PUT MY TRUST:SAVE ME FROM ALL THEM THAT PERSECUTE ME,AND DELIVER ME.
ANSWER:LORDE, THE ADMIRATION GOES BOTH WAYS THE NEW ZEALAND SINGER HAS CITED DAVID BOWIE AS AN INFLUENCE ON HER OWN MUSIC.
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN TV AND RADIO ANTHOLOGY SERIES HOSTED BY RONALD REAGAN FROM 1954 TO 1962?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 9, 2019 11:12:01 GMT -5
DECEMBER 9TH
ANSWER:GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER. DURING HIS EIGHT-YEAR TENURE AS HOST, REAGAN DEVELOPED MANY OF THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES THAT WOULD GUIDE HIS ALTER CAREER AS GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
BRAND-NEW BASEBALLS ARE GLOSSY AND DIFFICULT FOR PITCHERS TO GRIP. HOW IS THE GLOSS REMOVED FROM EVERY BALL USED IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 10, 2019 7:28:37 GMT -5
DECEMBER 10TH
ANSWEREVERY BALL IS RUBBED IN MUD FROM THE DELAWARE RIVER, WHICH BUFFS AWAY THE GLOSS.
WHAT OPERA SINGER DROPPED DEAD IN THE MIDDLE OF A PERFORMANCE AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN 1960?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 11, 2019 7:30:43 GMT -5
DECEMBER 11TH
ANSWER:LEONARD WARREN. HE DIED OF A CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE WHILE PERFORMING LA FORA DEL DESTINO GIUSEPPE VERDI ON MARCH 4,1960.
THE OFFICIAL MASCOT OF DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY IS THE STATESMAN. WHAT IS THE SCHOOL'S UNOFFICIAL MASCOT?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 12, 2019 9:15:10 GMT -5
DECEMBER 12TH
ANSWER:THE FIGHTING OKA (A PIECE OF OKRA WITH BOXING GLOVES.)
WHAT COMIC BOOK SERIES FEATURED BATMAN'S FIRST APPEARANCE?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 13, 2019 7:55:16 GMT -5
DECEMBER 13TH
ANSWER:DETECTIVE COMICS. BATMAN FIRST APPEARED IN ISSUE #27 OF DETECTIVE COMICS IN 1939. THE ISSUE, WHICH SOLD FOR TEN CENTS AT THE TIME, CAN NOW FETCH OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
WHAT WERE THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS IN MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP, A MID-19TH CENTURY CONCOCTION ADVERTISED FOR TEETHING BABIES?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 14, 2019 11:07:24 GMT -5
DECEMBER 14TH
ANSWER:MORPHINE AND ALCOHOL. DESPTE BEING DENOUNCED BY THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN 1911, THE "SOOTHING SYRUP" CONTINUED TO BE SOLD UNTIL THE 1930S.
WHAT WAS ELVIS PRESLEY'S NATURAL HAIR COLOR?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 15, 2019 12:35:49 GMT -5
DECEMBER 15TH
GENESIS 50:20 BUT AS FOR YOU, YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST ME; BUT GOD MEANT IT UNTO GOOD, TO BRING TO PASS, AS IT IS THIS DAY, TO SAVE MUCH PEOPLE ALIVE.
ANSWER: BLOND ELVIS DYED HIS HAIR BLACK TO ACHIEVE AN EDGIER LOOK.
ACCORDING TP GUINNESS WORD RECORDS, HOW TALL WAS THE TALLEST TREE EVER CUT?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 16, 2019 9:56:57 GMT -5
DECEMBER 16TH
ANSWER:221 FEET. THE MASSIVE DOUGLAS FIR WAS PLACED AT THE NORTHGATE SHOPPING CENTER IN SEATTLE IN 1950.
BABY FLAMINGOS ARE USUALLY A LIGHT GRAY COLOR. WHY ARE ADULT FLAMINGOS PINK?
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Dec 17, 2019 7:47:26 GMT -5
DECEMBER 17
ANSWER:IT'S ALL IN THE DIET THE ALGAE,MOLLUSKS, AND CRUSTACEANS THAT FLAMINGOS CONSUME CONTAIN A REDDISH PIGMENT THAT FLAMINGO'S FEATHERS.
TWO STEVEN SPIELBERG ALIEN FILMS E.T. AND POLTERGEIST SPRANG FROM AN EARLIER FILM CONCEPT THAT SPIELBERG DEVELOPED IN THE LATE 1970S BUT NEVER ACTUALLY MADE. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THIS NEVER-MADE FILM?
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