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Trivia Challenge #773680
12/12/11 11:23 AM
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Some Location trivia teasers from around the globe to challenge your wits. Hmm, wasn't that done at ... think



- 1. The locale in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was
- 2. The 1925 exposition that gave Art Deco its name was held in
- 3. The first discovery of Australopithecus was
- 4. Maurice Ravel, composer of Bolero , was a citzen of
- 5. Architect Addison Mizner designed elaborate vacation homes for millionaires at this resort
- 6. The Bear Muntain Bridge opened for traffic in 1924 across the
- 7. Black leader Marcus Garvey's sentence for fraud was commun ted, but he was deported to
- 8. Sean O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock became a success at the Abbey Theater in
- 9. This national park, created in 1929, contains Jackson Hole
- 10. Before he went to prison for the Teapot Dome scandal, oil magnate Harry F. Sinclair tried to buy the Baku oil fields in
- 11 [i]The New Yorker [\i] magazine was definitely not founded for the "old lady" in
- 12. The Dawes Plan provedied for World War I wardebts repayment by
- 13. British author E.M. Forster's 1924 masterpiece was [i]A Passage to[\i]
- 14. The valuable oil resources of this state led to the Teapot Dome scandal in 1924
- 15. In 1926, inventor John L. Baird put on the first public demonstration of TV in



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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773684
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4. France or Belgium


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773710
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9. Grand Teton - we stayed in a ski-lodge in Jackson Hole when we were visitng Grand Teton and Yellowstone 'cos all the motels were full, and it actually turned out cheaaper and more luxurious! smile


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773717
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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773723
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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773839
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That's pretty country up there UW yes

Good answers by all bravo12

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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773874
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3.Eastern Africa smile12 wave12


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #773900
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5. Waldorf Astoria? Boca Raton Resort ?

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6. The mighty Hudson River. santa



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7. Jamaica

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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774047
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Yes Gail...Palm Beach Florida...you and the rest of the gang are all spot on cool


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774090
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14. Wyoming?


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774244
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Yes it is Gerry...Outstanding thumbsUp12


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774389
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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774412
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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774415
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Aye Treval and Koala ... you got em thumbsUp12

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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774582
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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774622
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Yes it is Haroula...nice!! thumbsUp12


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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774671
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Re: Trivia Challenge [Re: soot] #774714
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