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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 9:44 am 
New set and good luck!
11. What is the longest above-water mountain range in the world?
12. Where can you find the only digital timepiece made by Rolex?
13. The Joshua tree is native to which country?
14. How many property street squares are on a standard Monopoly board?
15. Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics in 1932 and 1980 – in which US state is it located?
16. Rack, neck fillet and shank are common terms for cuts of what meat?
17. What method of food preservation was invented for the British Navy in 1813?
18. Who created the character of Yogi Bear?
19. Which espresso drink was named for a religious order?
20. Which popular beverage features "Real Facts" inside its bottle caps, like "All porcupines float in water"?
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-03-2001
| Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 10:10 am
11. ANDES
12. ON AN ARM?
13. USA
14. NO IDEA
15. NEW YORK
16. LAMB
17. CANNING
18. HANNA/BARBERA
19. CAPPUCCINO
20. SNAPPLE
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Deanofwords
Member
09-13-2005
| Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 11:56 am
11.Andes
12.Switzerland
13.USA
14.24?
15.New York
16.lamb
17.canning?
18.Hanna Barbera - Did you hear they tried to clone Yogi ; but made a booboo
19.Cappuccino
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-03-2001
| Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 4:01 pm
GOOD ONE, DEANO!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 9:18 pm
Guesses for new set:
11. Andes
12. London
13. USA
14. My mind is seeing two sides of six each and two sides of 5, so 22
15. New York
16. lamb
17. canning
18. Hanna Barbera
19. capuccino
20. Dr. Pepper
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, February 17, 2025 - 9:43 am
Good morning and happy Monday!
Answers:
11. What is the longest above-water mountain range in the world? Andes
12. Where can you find the only digital timepiece made by Rolex? half court of Wimbledon (which is technically right Juju so WTG)
13. The Joshua tree is native to which country? USA
14. How many property street squares are on a standard Monopoly board? 22 (WYG Juju)
15. Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics in 1932 and 1980 – in which US state is it located? New York
16. Rack, neck fillet and shank are common terms for cuts of what meat? lamb
17. What method of food preservation was invented for the British Navy in 1813? canning
18. Who created the character of Yogi Bear? Hanna Barbera
19. Which espresso drink was named for a religious order? cappuccino
20. Which popular beverage features "Real Facts" inside its bottle caps, like "All porcupines float in water"? Snapple (WTG OG)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, February 17, 2025 - 10:01 am
New set and good luck!
21. What is the chemical symbol for zinc?
22. Scoring an 847 over three games as a teenager in 1946, Dick Hoover later became a hall-of-famer in what sport?
23. Invented in San Francisco, or New York, or maybe Guangdong, what meat-and-veggie pile is Chinese for "odds and ends"?
24. When it was originally published in 1900, what adjective described The Wizard of Oz?
25. According to tradition, there are 100 pleats in a chef's hat, representing 100 ways to cook what?
26. A famous passage of Shakespeare's will bequests his second-best "what" to his wife?
27. In the Peanuts comic, what is the name of Charlie Brown’s younger sister?
28. In the 1890s, heroin was introduced commercially to the U.S. by Bayer as a remedy for what ailment?
29. In law, a person who has been impaneled is about to do what?
30. Since 1999, what actor has played NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler in the Law & Order franchise?
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-03-2001
| Monday, February 17, 2025 - 12:17 pm
21. ZN
22. BOWLING?
23. CHOP SUEY
24. WONDERFUL
25. EGGS?
26. NO IDEA
27. SALLY
28. COUGHING
29. BE A JUROR
30. CHRISTOPHER MELONI
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Deanofwords
Member
09-13-2005
| Monday, February 17, 2025 - 4:19 pm
21.ZN
22.Bowling
23.Chop Suey
25.eggs?
27.Sslly
29.Jury duty
30.Christopher something
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, February 17, 2025 - 9:16 pm
Bwahahahaha, London for the Rolex was a very wild guess.
Guesses for new set:
21. ZN
22. Well, 300 is a perfect score in bowling, so bowling, because they didn't have video games in 1946
23. chop suey
24. enchanting
25. pasta
26. quill pen
27. Sally
28. headache
29. sit on a jury
30. Christopher Meloni
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 9:30 am
Good morning and happy Tuesday!
Answers:
21. What is the chemical symbol for zinc? Zn
22. Scoring an 847 over three games as a teenager in 1946, Dick Hoover later became a hall-of-famer in what sport? bowling
23. Invented in San Francisco, or New York, or maybe Guangdong, what meat-and-veggie pile is Chinese for "odds and ends"? chop suey
24. When it was originally published in 1900, what adjective described The Wizard of Oz? wonderful (WTG OG)
25. According to tradition, there are 100 pleats in a chef's hat, representing 100 ways to cook what? an egg
26. A famous passage of Shakespeare's will bequests his second-best "what" to his wife? bed
27. In the Peanuts comic, what is the name of Charlie Brown’s younger sister? Sally
28. In the 1890s, heroin was introduced commercially to the U.S. by Bayer as a remedy for what ailment? persistent coughing (WTG OG)
29. In law, a person who has been impaneled is about to do what? sit on a jury
30. Since 1999, what actor has played NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler in the Law & Order franchise? Christopher Meloni
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 9:46 am
New set and good luck!
31. In terms of the Christian faith, which comprises a higher proportion of the total – Catholicism or Protestantism?
32. Which nursery rhyme character's wife could "eat no lean"?
33. What is a crack in a glacier known as?
34. Neil deGrasse Tyson specializes in which area of science?
35. Roughly 80% of ginger cats are male or female?
36. After two years of continuous employment, workers at which company can turn all the “Bean Stock” they’ve earned into actual stock shares?
37. Which landmass connects Africa to Asia?
38. What kind of precipitation fell in the Sahara Desert on February 18, 1979, for the first time in history?
39. What is Michelangelo's David holding over his left shoulder?
40. Actually made from Alaskan pollock, surimi is the mashed-up paste sold as an "imitation" of what crustacean?
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-03-2001
| Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:00 pm
LOST MY ANSWERS I GIVE UP
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Deanofwords
Member
09-13-2005
| Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 4:57 pm
31.Catholicism
35.female
36.Amazon
37.Egypt
38.hail
40. Crab
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 10:33 pm
Guesses for new set:
31. Catholicism, as it is the older faith.
32. Jack Sprat
33. crevasse
34. astronomy
35. male
36. Starbucks
37. Sheesh, this required some brain energy, as I am sure we have been there, because we have been through the Suez canal on a cruise ship (AFTER our ship got surrounded by Somali pirates just before we entered the Red Sea), and so, Egypt
38. just rain
39. probably a slingshot
40. crab
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 10:48 am
Good morning and happy Wednesday!
Answers:
31. In terms of the Christian faith, which comprises a higher proportion of the total – Catholicism or Protestantism? Catholicism
32. Which nursery rhyme character's wife could "eat no lean"? Jack Sprat (WTG Juju)
33. What is a crack in a glacier known as? crevasse (WTG Juju, I love the way Bear Grylls says the word)
34. Neil deGrasse Tyson specializes in which area of science? Astrophysics
35. Roughly 80% of ginger cats are male or female? male (WTG Juju, we have had a few and they were all males)
36. After two years of continuous employment, workers at which company can turn all the “Bean Stock” they’ve earned into actual stock shares? Starbucks (WTG Juju)
37. Which landmass connects Africa to Asia? Sinai Peninsula
38. What kind of precipitation fell in the Sahara Desert on February 18, 1979, for the first time in history? snowfall
39. What is Michelangelo's David holding over his left shoulder? a slingshot (WTG Juju)
40. Actually made from Alaskan pollock, surimi is the mashed-up paste sold as an "imitation" of what crustacean? crab
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 11:09 am
New set and good luck!
41. What chef opened his flagship restaurant, Spago, on Sunset Boulevard?
42. The River Nile forms near Sudan's capital Khartoum at a confluence of two tributaries, the Blue and "What" Nile rivers?
43. Which Greek city was named after the goddess of war?
44. What board game features Cavity Sam?
45. Who starred as Danny Ocean in the 1960 version of Ocean’s 11?
46. What type of clouds often cover the entire sky like a blanket?
47. Bacteria are the only living things in which body of water, because the high salt density quickly kills any fish brought in by rivers and streams?
48. What "Arrested Development" narrator won the Best Director Oscar in 2002 for "A Beautiful Mind"?
49. A Minnesota-to-Washington transplant named Frank is the namesake of what confectionery he founded in 1911?
50. Which country grows the most avocados?
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-03-2001
| Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 12:18 pm
41. NO IDEA
42. WHITE
43. ATHENS
44. NO IDEA
45. FRANK SINATRA
46. STRATUS
47. DEAD SEA?
48. RON HOWARD
49. NO IDEA
50. MEXICO
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Deanofwords
Member
09-13-2005
| Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 2:48 pm
Will try later after my eyes are back to normal after my eye dr appt 3 hours ago
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 9:30 pm
quote:37. Which landmass connects Africa to Asia? Sinai Peninsula
Ack!!! We have been there, and I don't remember the name of the ship port, but VERY few passengers got off there, but we very stupidly did. It was like a ghost town, and we came to no harm. But it was a fairly weird experience.
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