ON FUN ~ Stump This...

Edition #29

Thirteen Things about THE BUMBLES - and the trivia questions we battled through at Stump Trivia Night...

One of the things we do for fun is to meet up with some friends of ours and go play bar trivia every now and then. Stump Trivia was created by a guy in Massachusetts and can now be played in many states across the country. It sponsors trivia nights at bars and pits teams against each other for gift certificates to the bar. So - if you have your thinking caps on you can have a fun night out for free! Here's a sampling of the questions we were asked. We missed two of these thirteen - how many do you know? Leave your guesses in the Comments and we'll add the correct ones to the post as you come up with them. Oh yeah - no cheating. We weren't allowed to use cell phones to make our guesses - so no googling for you!

1. What T.V. network targeting kids ages 6-11 was founded in 1977 as Pinwheel until adopting it's current name in 1981? NICKELODEON (becky68)

2. What hugely popular musical and subsequent movie adaption was the last written by Rogers & Hammerstein? THE SOUND OF MUSIC (FireFox)

3. What political figure claimed he was the victim of a hi-tech lynching during highly publicized Congressional hearings in 1991? CLARENCE THOMAS

4. In what 1997 film is the imaginary character Rolo Tomassi used as a metaphor for a criminal who gets away with his crime? LA CONFIDENTIAL (FireFox)

5. What fruit native to the Caribbean, Mexico, South America and Central America is sometimes known as a butter pear? AVOCADO

6. What wildly popular game was included with the original edition of Nintendo's Game Boy? TETRIS (becky68)

7. The Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels is best known for playing what famous role from 1949-1957 as well as in 2 films? TONTO (Nicholas)

8. What 1982 duet was #59 on Billboard's "Greatest Songs of All Time" list, has also appeared on several polls of "Worst Song," and was the first song from a former Beatle to hit the Black Singles Chart? EBONY & IVORY - PAUL MCCARTNEY & STEVIE WONDER (Carleen)

9. What nickname is sometimes used by the N.Y. Times to underscore it's sober presentation and style? THE GREY LADY

10. Ramon Ferrer was the Captain of what famous ship in American history which also was made into a 1997 movie? The name of the ship meant friendship in his native language. AMISTAD (SuziQ)

11. Martin Buser currently holds the record time in what annual 1,161 mile event - at 8 Days, 22 hours, 46 Minutes and 2 Seconds? IDITAROD (SuziQ)

12. What 1937 event was radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison witnessing when he famously exclaimed "Oh the humanity! This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed."? THE HINDENBURG (becky68)

13. The book entitled "The Undead" scheduled for release this October is an official sequel to what 1897 novel and is written by the great grand-nephew of the original author? DRACULA (Nicholas)

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