The Official Dubliners' Useless Trivia Questions for January 21, 2000


Language & Culture
1. Frisian
2. An intransitive verb can have no object; direct or indirect.
3. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
4. cock's egg (yolkless hen eggs once believed to be laid by cocks.
Religion
5. Simon Peter (see John 13:38)
6. Song of Solomon: 5:2-6; 7:2-8.
History and Politics
7. Che Guevara
8. General Noriega
9. Lech Walesa
10. Pancho Villa
11. Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt
12. Las Malvinas
13. 12
14. about 44 years


Animals
15. Bald Eagle
16. ostrich
17. a tooth to break out of the shell
18. Lack of food
19. Attracts mates
20. Manatees, Sea Cows
21. Up a tree
22. barnacles
23. anglerfish
24. Komodo dragon
25. moth sleep during the day, butterflies at night.


Entertainment
26. Oliver Hardy.
27. Swept Away
28. Duel
29. The Jazz Singer
30. Hugh Hefner
31. They are identical twins.
32. Be-Bob, Bop, Re-Bop
33. Igor Stravinsky
34. Tin Pan Alley
35. Abbey Road
36. Jackson Pollock
37. Marcel Duchamp
Japan Trivia
38. nasaru
39. itasu
40. kudasai
41. Lady Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu)
42. Hikaru Utada
42. Michiko
43. They do it during cremation
44. Osechi-ryori
45. Horyuji
46. Yukio Mishima
47. Takamiyama


Science
48. Edwin Hubble
49. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
50. non-sexual reproduction
51. Vitamin D
52. Gregor Johann Mendel
53. Sir Isaac Newton
54. Max Planck
55. gamma rays
56. hydrogen, sea water,
57. six times less
58. red green and blue
59. Mantle
60. discovery of the structure of DNA
61. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
62. collective unconscious
63. Guglielmo Marconi
64. Edwin Aldrin
65. five
66. Challenger
67. Mexico; Chicle, the dried milky sap of the sapodilla Mexican jungle tree.
68. China
69. Ethiopian men
70. ethanol
71. methanol (or formaldehyde and formic acid. )
72. eda-mame, soy sauce, tofu, miso, moyashi, etc.
73. Soy beans
74. Ferdinand Porsche for Hitler
75. V-2


Sports
76. 7
77. Safety and Two point after touchdown conversion
78. Peaches
79. An International Match
80. Hockey
81. 1930 in Montevideo Uruguay
82. 15 for Union and 13 for League
83. Roger Bannister of England
84. L'oeuf or egg.
85. 14
86. niblick
87. Flush, Full-house, Straight
88. Sonny Liston
89. Cassius Clay
90. . . . sting like a bee
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