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Post by bbg95 on Sept 5, 2024 13:29:21 GMT -5
Thursday's questions: 3, 2, 1, Let’s Jam: All answers this round will contain the letters “J-A-M,” in that order. 1. UFC fighter Conor McGregor’s Proper No. 12 took a surprising fourth place in the list of best-selling Irish whiskey brands of 2019. It ranked behind the much older Bushmills, Tullamore Dew, and what top-selling brand? 2. English songwriter Jay Kay is famous for his ostentatious headgear and for fronting what Grammy-winning “acid jazz” band? 3. Originally a slang term for a “noisy drinking bout,” what word was selected in 1919 by Lord Robert Baden-Powell to describe a large gathering of Boy Scouts? 4. What former BBC radio host and founder of the “I Weigh” movement has a name that doubly fits this round, and is best known in the U.S. for portraying a TV character from 2016 to 2020 whose name also fits the theme of this round? 5. On Tuesdays, B1 and B2 come down the stairs in pairs and chase unaware teddy bears, all while wearing… what? 3. Jamboree
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 5, 2024 13:46:29 GMT -5
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Post by mln59 on Sept 6, 2024 8:03:35 GMT -5
Thursday's answers:
1. UFC fighter Conor McGregor’s Proper No. 12 took a surprising fourth place in the list of best-selling Irish whiskey brands of 2019. It ranked behind the much older Bushmills, Tullamore Dew, and what top-selling brand?
Jameson
2. English songwriter Jay Kay is famous for his ostentatious headgear and for fronting what Grammy-winning “acid jazz” band?
Jamiroquai
3. Originally a slang term for a “noisy drinking bout,” what word was selected in 1919 by Lord Robert Baden-Powell to describe a large gathering of Boy Scouts?
Jamboree
4. What former BBC radio host and founder of the “I Weigh” movement has a name that doubly fits this round, and is best known in the U.S. for portraying a TV character from 2016 to 2020 whose name also fits the theme of this round?
Jameela Jamil
(she played Tahani Al-Jamil on “The Good Place”)
5. On Tuesdays, B1 and B2 come down the stairs in pairs and chase unaware teddy bears, all while wearing… what?
Pajamas
(“Bananas in Pyjamas”)
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Post by mln59 on Sept 6, 2024 8:04:48 GMT -5
Friday's questions:
1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can.
2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender?
3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known?
4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town?
5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it?
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Post by gopherhim on Sept 6, 2024 8:12:09 GMT -5
1. 2. Grant right? 3. Long leaf makes me think romaine lettuce 4. Providence? 5. Princess Diana
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Post by vbprisoner on Sept 6, 2024 8:23:25 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can. 2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender? 3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known? 4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town? 5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it? 1. New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, St Louis Cards, Atlanta Braves, Phillies 2. US Grant 3. Lettuce? 4. Newport 5. Princes Diana
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Post by cindra on Sept 6, 2024 8:28:15 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can. 2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender? 3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known? 4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town? 5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it? 1. 2. Grant? 3. Some type of lettuce 4. Newport 5. Diana
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 6, 2024 9:20:02 GMT -5
1. Dodgers? Cardinals? Braves? Reds? 2. Grant? 3. Spinach? 4. 5. Diana Spencer
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Sept 6, 2024 10:57:50 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can. 2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender? 3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known? 4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town? 5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it? 1. Giants, Dodgers, Cards… 2. Grant 3. Lettuce? 4. Newport 5. Princess Diana
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Post by mln59 on Sept 6, 2024 11:18:52 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 6, 2024 12:16:11 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can. 2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender? 3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known? 4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town? 5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it? 1. Dodgers, giants, braves, cardinals, and reds 2. Ulysses s. Grant 4. Pawtucket 5. Princess Diana
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 6, 2024 16:35:04 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 7, 2024 11:29:21 GMT -5
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Post by nowhereman on Sept 9, 2024 1:08:18 GMT -5
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Post by coahc21 on Sept 9, 2024 8:17:41 GMT -5
Friday's questions: 1. There are five MLB teams who have faced the New York Yankees in the World Series more than two times. Name as many of those teams as you can. 2. When Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House. Who met him there to accept his surrender? 3. The FDA will often call for the recall of Lactuca sativa var. longifolia from grocery stores and restaurants due to contamination. By what name is that plant better known? 4. In July of 1965, Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar at a folk festival in what Rhode Island town? 5. Today is September 6. On this day in 1997, an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world tuned in to television broadcasts of a funeral that included a performance by Elton John. Whose funeral was it? 1. Giants, Dodgers, Braves, Phillies 2. Grant 3. Lettuce 4. 5. Princess Di
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