Lucky Seven - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Kirk Douglas. His performance as Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey in Seven Days in May was the only one listed that didn't earn him an Oscar nomination. He captured his only Oscar for Elmer Gantry.
• A2) Vassar. The New York liberal arts college allowed male students in 1969 after declining an invitation to merge with Yale University. Radcliffe College became the second a full three decades later when it formalized its union with Harvard University.
• A3) Nitrogen. The main gas in the Earth's atmosphere sits between carbon (atomic number 6) and oxygen (atomic number 8).
• A4) United Arab Emirates. The word "emirate" simply means "province". The country was known as the Trucial States (or Trucial Oman) until 1971.
• A5) Pleiades. The open cluster in the constellation Taurus is named for them and serves as the Subaru logo.
• A6) Ralph Kiner. The Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder's amazing streak from 1946 to 1952 included ties with Johnny Mize in 1947 and 1948 and with Hank Sauer in 1952.
• A7) Elephant. The disc earned the divorced Detroit duo of Jack and Meg White 2004 Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song ("Seven Nation Army", of course).
• A8) Representative. Presidents and vice presidents need to have been U.S. citizens for the past fourteen years and senators for nine.
• A9) Mars. Only Mercury is smaller as Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet status.
• A10) Maryland. On April 28, 1788, the state ratified the U.S. Constitution just after Massachusetts and before South Carolina. Maryland had been the last of the thirteen colonies to ratify the Articles of Confederation seven years earlier.
• A11) George Axelrod. His comedy opened at New York City's Fulton Theatre in 1952 and in movie theaters around the country in 1955. Tom Ewell won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy, while Marilyn Monroe was nominated for a BAFTA Best Foreign Actress award.
• A12) Netball. The sport, which was developed in 1895 as a alternative to basketball for females, is now the most popular sport for women in Australia and New Zealand.