Trivia company owner
Chicago, Ill.
$10,000
With tuition over $60,000/year for 7th through 12th graders, Rafael Nadal’s tennis academy is located on which island — part of the star’s home country?
A: Crete B: Corsica
C: Mallorca D: Sicily
Jeremy knows Nadal is
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Spanish, but Crete is Greek and Sicily is Italian
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Corsica, but Mallorca is definitely Spanish
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C: Mallorca
$20,000
By definition, where on his body would a pirate wear a baldric?
A: Over his eye B: Across his torso
C: Where his missing hand should be D: In his ear
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A: 16% B: 64% C: 18% D: 2%
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B: Across his torso
$30,000
One of the best-selling singles ever, Queen’s 1975 hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” opens with “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” What is the song’s last line?
A: “Carry on, carry on” B: “Goodbye everybody I’ve got to go”
C: “Just gotta get right out of here” D: “Any way the wind blows”
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50/50 leaves C & D. His gut says it’s D.
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D: “Any way the wind blows”
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$50,000
In degrees Fahrenheit, what is the highest temperature ever recorded on the continent of Antarctica?
A: 19.3 B: 33.4
C: 48.9 D: 63.5
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+1 Jonathan Hess says it can get a little warm in Antarctica. They agree on 63.5.
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D: 63.5
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$100,000
Before it became popular in America, which of these items appeared in Scientific American magazine in 1916, in an article about “Filipino Toys”?
A: Frisbee B: Pogo stick
C: Jump rope D: Yo-yo
Jeremy says
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jump ropes have been around forever, and the frisbee was made by the Wham-O Disk Company. Pogo sticks and yo-yos could be Asian
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pogo stick
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D: Yo-yo
Jeremy wins $50,000.
Jeremy wins $50,000.
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QotD
What legendary woman is said to have committed suicide by allowing a poisonous snake to bite her?
A: Lady Guinevere B: Helen of Troy
C: Cleopatra D: Mary Magdalene
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C: Cleopatra