Trivia Challenge
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12/12/11 11:23 AM
12/12/11 11:23 AM
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soot
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Some Location trivia teasers from around the globe to challenge your wits. Hmm, wasn't that done at ...   - 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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Dan
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Re: Trivia Challenge
[Re: soot]
#773900
12/13/11 06:54 AM
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Posts: 18,262 Massachusetts
GBC
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5. Waldorf Astoria? Boca Raton Resort ?
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Gail
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Re: Trivia Challenge
[Re: soot]
#774412
12/15/11 08:47 PM
12/15/11 08:47 PM
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Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 9,024 Sydney, Australia
Koala
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10. Azerbaijan 15. London 
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