⁉️ September's TRIVIA

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Yesterday's Answer:
The Clio Awards is an annual award program that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design and communication, as judged by an international panel of advertising professionals. Time magazine described the event as the world's most recognizable international advertising awards. The awards, founded by Wallace A. Ross in 1959, are named for the Greek goddess Clio, the mythological Muse known as "the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments".

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🌷 Today's Question:

🌝 In which month do you celebrate the summer solstice if you live in Australia?

March

June

September

December



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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:
The summer solstice occurs once a year in December when the Sun's track across the Australian sky reaches its highest point. It is the day that has the most daylight hours of any in the year. The summer solstice usually occurs on 21 December, but can occur between 20 and 22 December.

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🎶 The song "America the Beautiful" was inspired by a trip to which American landmark?

Pikes Peak

Yellowstone National Park

Grand Canyon

Ellis Island


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[JoGee]

🎶 Yesterday's Answer:
Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The mountain is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike who was unable to reach the summit. In July 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful", after having admired the view from the top of Pikes Peak. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, "Pikes Peak", first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. A plaque commemorating the words to the song was placed at the summit. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.

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Today's Question:
🍧 Which U.S. city is the official birthplace of the Banana Split?

Fort Collins, Colorado

Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Missoula, Montana

Asheville, North Carolina


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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer: David Evans Strickler, a 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist at Tassel Pharmacy, located at 805 Ligonier Street in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, who enjoyed inventing sundaes at the store's soda fountain, invented the banana-based triple ice cream sundae in 1904. In 2004, the National Ice Cream Retailers Association (NICRA) certified the city as its birthplace. The Great American Banana Split Celebration is held throughout the downtown Latrobe area in late August with food, fun and events for kids and adults to enjoy.


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From: Jo Grace
Date: September 13, 2015 at 7:47:23 AM MST
To: Jo Grace
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💫 What is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess?

Venus

Earth

Uranus

Neptune


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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:
Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess. For example, Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture, and Venus was the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Neptune was the Roman god of the Sea.

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Today's Question:

In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad was completed with a golden spike in which U.S. state?

California

Utah

Colorado

New Mexico

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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:

On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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Today's Question:

😱. What color did blue replace in 1995 when it was introduced to the standard package of M&M's?

Violet

Tan

White

Green


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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:
M&M's originated in the United States in 1941, and are now sold in as many as 100 countries. They are produced in different colors, some of which have changed over the years. In early 1995, Mars held a replacement contest, inviting candy lovers to call a 1-800 number and vote for their favorite proposed color: pink, purple, or blue. Blue was the winner, replacing tan in the fall of 1995.

🌵 Today's Question:

Sodium Pentothal is popularly referred to as what?

Laughing gas

Truth serum

Table salt

Bleach


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[JoGee]

🌀 Yesterday's Answer:

The chemical sodium pentothal, is commonly known as truth serum. Sodium pentothal is a brand name. The drug was manufactured and trademarked by Abbott Laboratories, and its free-for-all name is sodium thiopental. Thiopental (Pentothal) is still used in some places as a truth serum to weaken the resolve of a subject and make them more compliant to pressure. Sodium Pentothal has been featured as a truth serum in many Hollywood films, television shows, and literature.


💠 Today's Question:

Who was the only U.S. President that was never elected as either President or Vice President?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Chester A. Arthur

Gerald Ford

Calvin Coolidge



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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:

Gerald Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the House Minority Leader, Ford was chosen VP by the Senate after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, who pleaded no contest to tax evasion in October 1973. Ford then went on to became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. To this date, Ford remains the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College.


Today's Question:

🔬 In addition to inventing the process of pasteurization, what vaccine did Louis Pasteur create?

Chickenpox

Rabies

Measles

Influenza


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[JoGee]

🐮 Yesterday's Answer:
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist and is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. Pasteur created the first vaccine against rabies. The vaccine was so successful that it brought immediate fame to Pasteur. However, he is best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization.

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Today's Question:


💀 Who provided the voice of Darth Vadar in the original "Star Wars"?

Orson Welles

Samuel L. Jackson

James Earl Jones

Frank Oz


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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:
James Earl Jones provided Darth Vader's voice in the 1977 film Star Wars and its sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Darth Vader was portrayed in costume by David Prowse in the film trilogy, with Jones dubbing Vader's dialogue in postproduction because Prowse's strong West Country accent was deemed unsuitable for the role by George Lucas. At his own request, Jones was initially uncredited in the original releases of the first two Star Wars films because he felt his contributions were too small to warrant recognition.


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Today's Question:

🐩 How long does a dog's pregnancy last?

4 weeks

9 weeks

6 months

9 months


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[JoGee]

Monday's Answer:
The average time that a dog is pregnant is 63 days (9 weeks). The range for dogs is between 56 and 66 days and of course this depends on the day of ovulation, which may not be the same day that the actually impregnation took place. Most dogs have the same experience during gestation and it does not matter if the dog is a tiny Chihuahua or a large Newfoundland.

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Tuesday's Question:


Which ship took Charles Darwin on his voyage to the Galápagos Islands?

HMS Bounty

HMS Victory

HMS Beagle

HMS Discovery

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Yesterday's Answer:
The Voyage of the Beagle is the title most commonly given to reissues of the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. On the second survey voyage, the young naturalist Charles Darwin was on board, and his work made Beagle one of the most famous ships in history.

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Today's Question:

Ivan Pavlov is famous for conditioning dogs to do what at the ringing of a bell?

Jump

Bark

Roll over

Salivate

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Yesterday's Answer:

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. Pavlov carried out his classical experiments on the digestive glands which is how he eventually won the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904. Pavlov investigated the gastric function of dogs, and later, children, by externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyze the saliva and what response it had to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it.

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Today's Question:

🌐 What is the smallest planet in the solar system?

Venus

Mercury

Mars

Earth


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[JoGee]

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Yesterday's Answer:

The smallest planet in the Solar System is Mercury. Mercury is just 4,879 kilometres across its equator, compared with 12,742 kilometres for the Earth. Mercury has only 0.05 the volume of the Earth. In other words, if the Earth was a hollow shell, you could fit 20 Mercurys inside with room to spare. Even though the planet is small, Mercury is the second densest planet after Earth. This is largely due to Mercury being composed mainly of heavy metals and rock.

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Today's Question:

What does the letter "E" in Disney's EPCOT stand for?

Educational

Earth

Experimental

Entertainment


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