Trivia
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11/20/13 09:43 AM
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Pandora
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Try your hand at these brain-busting trivia questions. Remember, please, that you may not google or use any reference sources for the first 24 hours of this thread.
-1. Over what fort did the Star-Spangled Banner that inspired Francis Scott Key fly?
-2. In botany, what does an idioblast cell produce?
-3. What state produces the most rice?
-4. What is the title of that melting clocks painting by Salvador Dali?
-5. Muckle John, the last official Court Jester in England, served which Monarch?
-6. What makes Ivory Soap (99-44/100% pure) float?
-7. What city hosted the first World's Fair?
-8. Which musician performed right before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington?
-9. The American Alligator has four toes on each of its back legs. How many does it have on each of its front legs?
-10. On what island was Papillon imprisoned?
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Re: Trivia
[Re: Pandora]
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11/20/13 10:53 AM
11/20/13 10:53 AM
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7. It probably depends on what you call a World's Fair but I would guess the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. Don't know the real name and don't know the year. Probably around 1870. I read about it in Bill Bryson's At Home.
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