Trivia
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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. How long was Lady Jane Grey Queen of England? -2. Can light be frozen? -3. What is the soprano's effect? -4. Before he became Captain Kangaroo, what other famous TV character did Bob Keeshan portray? -5. What is the trade name for vinylidene chloride polymer? -6. What record did Ann Miller set in the early 1940s? -7. What book begins "1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with."? -8. Mistral, Williwaw and Brickfielder are types of what? -9. What three scripts are found on the Rosetta Stone? -10. What was the name of Starsky and Hutch's regular informant? 
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Re: Trivia
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10. Huggy bear
Still waiting for that 17th century Icelandic witchcraft question :)
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3. Clarabell the clown on Howdy Doody
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Great answers!  Bob, amusing try, but LadyK got it.  Jema, you're right that it involves tap dancing, but not longest legs. 
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9. Greek, Aramaic, Sumerian?
Bob As I've grown older, I've found that my memory is not as good as I used to think it was.
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Bob, Greek is one of them.  niteowl, your Mom is right!  Jema, nice try! 
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2. Yes 9. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek. 
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