Wednesday, September 5, 2007

General Trivia Answers #1,051-1,056

Answer 1,051: Entertainment & Food -- Couple Connection

c) They were both divorced

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau played the pair in the 1968 movie while Tony Randall and Jack Klugman filled the roles on television from 1970 to 1975.

Answer 1,052: History & Government -- Black Block

b) February

Carter Godwin Woodson originally created the event as Negro History Week in 1926, choosing February in honor of the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

Answer 1,053: Math & Science -- Grown Bone

b) Sternum

It is also known as the breastbone.

Answer 1,054: Geography & Nature -- European Latitude

a) Arctic Circle only

The Arctic Circle cuts across northern Scandinavia.

Answer 1,055: Literature & Arts -- Russellite Religion

b) Jehovah's Witnesses

Charles Taze Russell started his Bible study classes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the 1870s.

Answer 1,056: Sports & Games -- Retirement Reason

a) Greg LeMond

The three-time Tour de France winner quit riding in 1994. Puckett suffered from glaucoma, Gehrig from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Lemieux from Hodgkin's disease.

2 comments:

Ronald Day said...

Charles Taze Russell never heard of, nor did he believe in, a religious organization by the name of Jehovah's Witnesses. Russell's teachings were not the same as the religion that Joseph Rutherford formed after Russell died.
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Ronald

THETA Poker said...

No argument here. To quote Wikipedia, "A widespread schism in 1918 resulted in the formation of two groups, one known as Bible Students and the other as Jehovah's Witnesses both of whom trace their history back to his ministry."