Monday, March 05, 2007

Trivia II Answers

Congrats to crummy who won with a score of 4.466666/10.0. Moose got a shockingly bad 2/10. Perhaps I should make this easier....

The Answers:

1. Yuri Gagarin
2. Savoy Special
3.
a. Nikkei 225
b. FTSE 100
c. CAC 40
4. Yangtze
5. Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, etc.
6. Sterling Sharpe (The Jersey is Retired)
7. King Charles I of England, who was beheaded during the English Civil War, seriously how can you be from South Carolina and not know that: Coming Next week: What is the capital of South Carolina
8. New York Yankees
BONUS: 26
9. In the Red Sea on the opposite side of the Sinai Peninsula from the Suez Canal. It controls access to the Israeli port of Aqaba.
10. 11/17/2001 South Carolina v. Clemson; 85,000; South Carolina 20-15

more next Friday

1 comment:

Moose said...

After Charles II (1660-85) was restored to the British throne after Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, he granted the chartered Carolina territory to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietor, in 1663. It took seven years before the Lords could arrange for settlement, the first being that of Charles Town. The community was established by English settlers in 1670 on the west bank of the Ashley River, a few miles northwest of the present city. It was soon chosen by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, one of the Lords Proprietor, to become a "great port towne", a destiny which the city fulfilled. By 1680, the settlement had grown, joined by others from England, Barbados, and Virginia, and relocated to its current peninsular location. The capital of the Carolina colony, Charleston was the center for further expansion and the southernmost point of English settlement during the late 1600s.