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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, March 2Nowadays, the Oscars attract more attention for celebrity frocks than for the actual awards themselves. When Lizzie Gardiner won an Oscar for Best Costume Design, she accepted in a dress she'd made from 254 AmEx Gold cards. She had won the prize for "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." AmEx played along: It issued each card in her name, although none of them were valid.
Who quoted Numbers 23:23, when he asked "What hath God wrought?" on May 24, 1844? A) Abraham Lincoln B) Samuel Morse C) Harriet Tubman D) William Wordsworth
Previous answer: William Shatner was in "The People." Poor guy. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s and has written roughly 100,000 questions.
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