Answers:
The Official Dubliners' Uselessknowledge Daini Trivia Taikai for
November 1999
General-World:
1. love
2. camel
3. low level of oxygen in the lungs; alveoli collapse & brain
prompts the body to yawn to get fresh air into the lungs (no evidence
to suggest being tired, bored or others doing it causes it)
4. change residence
5. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" OR
"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"
6. mercury
7. Hg
8. whiskers
9. lowers
10. 190 proof or 97%
11. bombay doors open before dropping bomb & when wet or humidity
is high
12. false "manhattanization"
13. Oprah Winfrey & 3rd overall
14. flowering plants
15. towels
16. "talk into the big (white) telephone"
17. 300
18. whiskers
19. phosphorescence
20. zinc sulphide
21. whites-take out 20 mins before serving; reds- put in 20 mins
before serving
22. USS Grapple
23. 7
24. one's own birthday
25. Christmas caroling
26. True
27. 67th; others in mail planes & dirigibles
28. King of Hearts
29. 2x Matt 6 & Luke 11
30. started with the Greeks
31. 'X' is the first letter in the Greek word for Christ or "Xristos",
so Xmas =Cmas
32. blood
Animals:
33. wolves
34. Polar bears
35. True, they lick it
36. lay bigger, stronger eggs
37. 2, most birds have 3/4
38. while flying or while sitting, courting on an object off the
ground
39. N.Amer. pronghorn antelope
40 raccoon
41. Alaska
Entertainment:
42. Mary Pickford & Lucille Ball
43. False, it's Hawaiian.
44. 24
45. Tara
46. Matt Damon's medical school girlfriend at Harvard
47. Mosquito Coast
48. Audrey Hepburn
49. He burned the film, "The Seagull" which was never
released, in front of a number of witnesses.
50. True; she said, "Why don't you come up some time and
see me"
51. smile
52. Turning Point & The Colour Purple
53. Spain
54. a musical instrument
55. Calvin & Hobbes (only one with a first and last name)
56. Carpenters 1974
57. San Francisco
58. Mr. Potato Head
Japan Trivia:
59. Kyoto in July 1999
60. 5
61. Tuffy Rhodes
62. Bobby Rose
63. 2009
64. 31, 170
65 a
picture of the scrolls taken from the "Tales of Genji"
and its author
(Murasaki Shikibu)
Sport:
66. 5
67. Nov. 01, 1999
68. 230-235 kgs
69. tattoos
70. golf balls
71. Yogi Berra
72. rom Badminton House, home
of the Duke of Beaufort, Gloucestershire, Eng.
73. the Jpnse had just attacked Pearl Harbour and the US was
afraid of an invasion on the Pac. coast.
74. she swam the Engl. channel, breaking the men's speed record
at the same time
75. to be booted out of a Grand Slam event; the Australian Open
76. an easy catchable fly ball
77. Izzy
78. goose
79. He was never issued a number; numbers on uniforms appeared
in the 1930s
80. matadors