Saturday, August 14, 2010

Knuckle Head -- Quiz Quilt 187 Solution

Category Answers:
Geography
&
Nature
BELGRADEThe city was founded in 878 and became the country capital in 1403. It is now the capital of Serbia.
Sports
&
Games
LITHUANIAThe players dressed in tie-dye shirts to receive their bronze medals.
Entertainment
&
Food
SWEATHOGSThey starred as underprivileged high school students on Welcome Back, Kotter from 1975 to 1979.
Literature
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Arts
STEVENSONThe disease afflicted novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson during childhood but did not contribute to his death by brain hemorrhage at age 44.
History
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Government
JEFFERSONHe was born as William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946.
Math
&
Science
HYDROGENThe zeppelin burst into flames while trying to land on May 6, 1937. Hydrogen was used primarily because other countries refused to make the safer helium available to Germany.

Quiz Quilt Answer: NOOGIE (Eighth letters going up)

The term "noogie", meaning to "put in a headlock and rub a knuckle into the head" was coined in 1972, around the same time as the equally annoying "wedgie".

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