365 Days of Amazing Trivia! (2014)

The tavern, described by Daniel Webster as the "headquarters of the Revolution," was where the Sons of Liberty, whose members included John Hancock and Paul Revere, planned the Boston Tea Party and attacks on the British at Lexington and Concord.



Wednesday, March 5, 2014

What words from Genesis are said as ashes are applied to a worshipper's forehead during Lent?​
 
Jane Austen. In Northanger Abbey she noted that her tomboy heroine Catherine Morland preferred "cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books." The baseball Austen was writing about was the British game of rounders, an early version of what is now America's national pastime.



Friday, March 7, 2014

How many active battleships are there in the U.S. Navy?​
 
Vipsoccermaster said:
Jane Austen. In Northanger Abbey she noted that her tomboy heroine Catherine Morland preferred "cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books." The baseball Austen was writing about was the British game of rounders, an early version of what is now America's national pastime.
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Too long since I read Northanger Abbey (I think I read it???)

Umm wild guess 24
 
None. The last one, the last active battleship in the world, was the USS Missouri. It was decommissioned in March 1992 and is now a memorial museum at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Cruisers and destroyers have replaced battleships in the 21st-century U.S. Navy.



Saturday, March 8, 2014

What is the name of filmmaker Spike Lee's production company?​
 
Georgia. The three songs, the artists, and the years in which they were No. 1 are "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles in 1960; "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence, in 1973; and "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, also in 1973. Two other songs with Georgia in their titles that charted high but didn't reach No. 1 were "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton in 1970, and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band in 1979.



Monday, March 10, 2014

In what women's race at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, were the three leaders disqualified within sight of the finish line?​
 
The 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) race walk. Each was disqualified after receiving a third red flag for either having both feet off the ground at the same time or for bending the knee of her lead foot. Under Olympic race-walking rules, three red flags and you're out.



Tuesday, March 11, 2014

What was the favorite beverage of TV detectives Dan Tanna on Vega$ and Barnaby Jones on Barnaby Jones?​
 
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