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Tuesday, May 14
They say that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. So, that made us wonder how horseshoes works. If your horseshoe connects, that's a ringer. You get three points. If it leans against the stake, that's a leaner, worth one point. …Read more.
Monday, May 13
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote a series of books set on Darkover, an ice-age planet orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman. She also wrote a feminist version of the Arthurian legend called "The Mists of Avalon." Interestingly, she …Read more.
Saturday, May 11
George Read was the only person to vote against the Declaration of Independence. The Delaware representative was a moderate who hoped to negotiate a settlement with Britain. Since Delaware's Thomas McKean voted in favour, Caesar Rodney had to ride …Read more.
Friday, May 10
Ghana used to be called the Gold Coast, back when it was a British colony. It was called that, you'll be shocked to learn, because they region was littered with gold. However, nationalists liked Kwame Nkrumah felt the name belittled them, defining …Read more.
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Saturday, April 20In 1985, Ugo Vetere, mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, mayor of Carthage (a suburb of Tunis), met to officially end the Third Punic War, which apparently had been raging for 2,131 years. In 146 BCE, Scipio Aemilianus finally entered the besieged Carthage, destroying it utterly. In fact, animosity ran so high between Rome and Carthage that Rome purportedly sowed Carthage with salt so it could never rise again. Chinese is one of the six U.N. languages. But only two U.N. members speak it, officially. One is China (which is a pretty major country). What is the other Chinese-speaking U.N.
A) Malaysia B) Singapore C) Taiwan D) Tibet Previous answer: Superman probably could have ended World War II pretty quickly. TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or email him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2013 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM 
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