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How long is a football field (in yards)?
100 yards
An American football field is 120 yards long total (100 yards of playing field plus two 10-yard end zones), a size that evolved from early rugby rules and stadium constraints
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Product whose slogan is: Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is.
What is Alka Seltzer?
Alka-Seltzer is an effervescent antacid and pain reliever owned by Bayer since 1978. It contains three active ingredients: aspirin sodium bicarbonate (also known as baking soda), and citric acid
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Which former president with the nickname had Polio?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms.
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What is "Packin heat"
Carrying a gun
The term popularized in American gangster slang during the 1920s and 1930s.
"Packing" meant carrying, while "heat" or "heater" was old slang for a gun—likely referencing how hot a firearm's barrel gets after being fired
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"You should be Kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how"
Gone with The Wind 1939
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How many players can one team have on the field?
Eleven
1870s 15 players Inherited larger, fluid team sizes closer to rugby roots.
1880 11 players Walter Camp successfully reduced the team size from 15 to 11 to improve tactical coordination.
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Product whose slogan is : The Quick Picker Upper
What is Bounty? Paper Towels
The Bounty brand name and its tag line "the quicker picker-upper!" came about through the acquisition of Charmin in 1957 by Procter & Gamble (P&G), becoming its first consumer-paper products business.
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Which MLB pitcher, who retired with the White Sox in 1999, was born without a right hand?
Who is Jim Abbott?
When preparing to pitch the ball, Abbott would rest his glove on the end of his right forearm. After releasing the ball, he would quickly slip his hand into the glove, usually in time to field any balls that a two-handed pitcher would be able to field. Then he would secure the glove between his right forearm and torso, slip his hand out of it, and remove the ball from it, usually in time to throw out the runner at first or sometimes even start a double play.
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What does Pass the Buck mean?
Giving the job and or responsibility to someone else.
The phrase comes from 19th-century frontier poker.
The "buck": A marker—often a knife with a buckhorn handle—was placed in front of the player whose turn it was to deal.
Passing the turn: If a player did not want to deal, they could pass the marker (the "buck") to the next player, shifting the duty.
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Keep your Friends close and your enemies closer
God Father II 1974
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What year were the first official football rules created?
1876
is when the first rules written specifically for American intercollegiate football.
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Product whose slogan is : America's most famous dessert
What is Jell-O Gelatin Dessert
Gelatin, a protein produced from collagen extracted from boiled bones, connective tissues, and other animal products.
Popularized in New York in the Victorian era with spectacular and complex jelly molds. Gelatin was sold in sheets and had to be purified, which was time-consuming. Gelatin desserts were the province of royalty and the relatively well-to-do. In 1845, a patent for powdered gelatin was obtained by industrialist Peter Cooper, who built the first American steam-powered locomotive.
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Which African American singer and musician, known mostly famously for playing piano, became blind shortly after his birth?
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Wonder was born six weeks premature, a condition that, along with the oxygen-rich atmosphere in the hospital incubator, resulted in retinopathy of prematurity, a disease that aborts eye growth and often causes the retinas to detach, which left him blind
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What does it mean to be a "Looker"
Very good looking
The colloquial slang meaning "an attractive person" (originally applied to both women and horses) was first recorded in 1893, with "good-looker" appearing in 1866.
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I feel the need....The Need for speed
Top Gun 1986
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How many games does each team play in a season?
Seventeen
Played 14 games from 1961 to 1977, 16 games from 1978 to 2020, and increased to 17 games starting in 2021.
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Product whose slogan is: Betcha can't eat just one.
What are Lays Potato Chips?
In 1932, salesman Herman Lay opened a snack food operation in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Which famous actor, known for his role of Superman, was paralyzed from the waist down due to a spinal cord injury?
Who is Christopher Reeves?
On May 27, 1995, Reeve's horse made a refusal. Witnesses said the horse began the third fence jump and suddenly stopped. Reeve fell forward off the horse, holding on to the reins. His hands became tangled in them, and the bridle and bit were pulled off the horse. He landed head first on the far side of the fence, shattering his first and second vertebrae. The resulting cervical spinal injury paralyzed him from the neck down.
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What does "Jonesing" mean?
Really, Really want.
1970s, the word spread to college campuses and general popular culture. It lost its strict association with hard drugs and became a common, lighthearted way to talk about everyday cravings
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What we have here is a failure to communicate
Cool Hand Luke 1967
500
When was the Broncos' first Super Bowl Win?
(1997 season)
The Broncos won their first championship in Super Bowl XXXII (1997 season), defeating the Green Bay Packers 31–24 behind Terrell Davis.
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Product whose slogan is: Finger lickin’ good.
What is KFC?
In 1930, Sanders took over a Shell filling station on U.S. Route 25 just outside North Corbin, Kentucky, a small town on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains. It was here that he first served to travelers the recipes that he had learned as a child: fried chicken and other dishes such as steaks and country ham. After four years of serving from his own dining room table, Sanders purchased the larger filling station on the other side of the road and expanded to six tables.
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Which English physicist had ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease?
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Despite being diagnosed with a severe motor neuron disease (ALS) at age 21 and given just two years to live, he survived for decades, communicating later in life through a computerized voice system. He served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for 30 years.
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What is "Riding Shotgun"
Riding in the front seat.
was a phrase used to describe the guard who rides alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a break-action shotgun, called a coach gun, to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the driver in a moving vehicle. The coining of this phrase dates to 1905 at the latest.
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"You talking to Me?"
Taxi Driver 1976
