Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh, also Saddam Hussein tried to get his hands on Kuwait

1. Shakespeare Quotes
Hamlet - "To be or not to be, that is the question"
Romeo and Juliet - "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Othello - Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone
Julius Caesar - Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Richard The Second - The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation
Hamlet - Sweets to the sweet, farewell
Hamlet - Come give us a taste of your quality, come, a passionate speech

2. Star Trek
USS Voyager Chakotay is First Officer
Rom and Nog is Ferengi species in Deep Space Nine
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek
Robert Picardo played the Doctor in Voyager
Anthony Montgomery played Travis Mayweather in Enterprise
Developing cloaking technology is how USS Pegasus conspired to violate the Treaty of Algeron in Star Trek the Next Generation
Mogh is Worf's natural father

3. Science
Greenwich is at Zero Degrees of Longitude
They don't grow - Lichens indicate air pollution by doing this
3959 miles far below the ground (sea level) would the center of the Earth be
Polaris - The North Star is also known as
Bears - Animals of the Ursidae family
50 seconds - it takes to make 100,000 vibrations if a tuning fork has freq of 2000 Hz
Osmosis - what term describes the balancing of water molecules from higher to lower pressure, across a semi permeable membrane

4. Baseball
1908 famous song was written by Jack Norworth but he didn't go to his first baseball game 'til 1942
Didn't go to a baseball game till 1942
New York Mets, in 2012 Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter
It's a home run - a hit ball bounces off the foul pole and into the field
Matt Williams - first player to hit a World series home run for 3 diff teams
San Diego - Ted Giannoulas created a chicken who cavorts at sports events in San Diego
Mark McGwire - in 2014, holds Athletics' record for home runs in a career

5. NBA
47 Blake Griffin's career high
Magic Johnson - started at the center of game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals as Lakers clinched NBA title
Tim Duncan won 2 times, NBA MVP award
How many games was the Knicks playoff losing streak that ended 2012
Tyreke Evans
Patrick Beverley = winner of 2015 All Star Weekend Skills Challenge
Pacific = Phoenix Suns play in which NBA Division
Oscar Roberston, Michael Jordan, Lebron James averaged 20+ PPG, 5+ APG, and 5+ RPG as rookies. Who else has done this? = Tyreke Evans

6. Animals
Turtle returns to the beach
French Gnome = NOT
Blue eyed white cats are deaf
All of these
Tree Snake = boomslang ysnake, a name originating in Afrikaans and Dutch
Breeds of Rabbits are Britannia petite, French gnome, American sable
A method of cane toad control in Australia is urgently needed. Chemical control, legislative control, and biological control is needed.

7. Philosophy
Our mind - Descartes believe we can know this most intimately
Humanism - there's inherent goodness and nobility in the human spirit
Socrates - "As for me, all i know is that
Kurt Godel - proved the famous incompleteness theorems
Parmenides - ancient Greek philosopher who was not a member of the Ionian school
"all bachelors are unmarried" - Analytic a priori
Appearances - In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant refers to as "intensive magnitudes" and "extensive magnitudes"


8. World War 2
Belgium's King Leopold III spent much of WW2 as a prisoner in his own castle
Soviet Union lost the most people in WW2
Enola Gay B-29 dropped the atom bomb
Europe was most devastated by WW2
UK was lead by Winston Churchill
Allies and Axis
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa - Demon Of Rabaul
Tours - French Gov't surrendered it to Germany
Das Schwarze Korps - Official Weekly Newspaper of the SS
Hong Kong - a British territory captured on Christmas Day 1941


9. US Presidents
Bill Clinton is 42nd Pres
Dick Cheney is Vice Pres under George Bush
JFK youngest elec Pres
Thomas Jefferson first elec press by house of rep
Calvin Coolidge had Vaseline rubbed on his head in the morning
Chester A Arthur - The Gentleman Boss, nickname
Chester Alan Arthur

10. US States
Wisconsin - abbr. WI
Washington shares border with Idaho and Oregon
New York has cat skill mountain



United Arab Emirates is the third one, after Yemen and Oman

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