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"Man the powder was insane today. I was floating until I caught an edge trying to stomp a clean frontside off that kicker. I spent all day carving up the corduroy until my bindings prasctically froze."
Snowboarding!
HISTORICAL EVENTS!
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Tieneman Square Massacre
The Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of Little Bighorn: June 25-26, 1876.
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
Tieneman Square Massacre: April 19, 1989.
Which Apollo mission successfully put the first man on the moon?
1. Apollo 11
2. Apollo 12
3. Apollo 13
4. Ocean's 11
ANSWER:
Apollo 11!
Duh!
1. Spider-Man gained his powers from a radioactive spider bite!
2. Steve Rogers is the only Super Soldier!
3. Jean Grey was the first host of the Phoenix Force to be shown in comics!
Answer:
While the first, and definitely the best, Steve Rogers is not the only super soldier!
Others include Isaiah Bradley, David Colton, and (in certain realities) Peggy Carter!
"I pulled out my big dog on the par-5, but I ended up slicing right into the drink and had to take a drop. My buddy drained a thirty-foot birdie putt from across the double breaker though."
Golfing!
PINK FLOYD ALBUMS!
Wish You Were Here
The Wall
Dark Side of the Moon
Dark Side of the Moon: March 1, 1973
Wish You Were Here: September 12, 1975
The Wall: November 30, 1979.
Which country holds the record for most FIFA World Cup titles?
1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Brazil
4. Venezuela
ANSWER:
Brazil!
1. Bluey is a blue Heeler!
2. Dory is a clown fish!
3. Dodge (Oliver and Company) is a Jack Russel Terrier
ANSWER:
Dory is a blue tang! Marlin and Nemo are clown fish!
"As the Owlbear charges me, I'm going to use my readied action to attack with my crossbow. I rolled a 13, plus 5 with my modifiers, so 18 to hit. That lands, but Owlbears have a special reaction to retaliate. He rolls an 18, which would normally hit, but the Bard's Vicious Mockery gives him disadvantage, and his second roll, a 9, misses."
Dungeons and Dragons!
AMERICAN PRESIDENTS!
Millard Fillmore
James A. Garfield
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
James A. Garfield (1881)
Tom Petty, lead and founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, later joined which super group?
1. The Travelling Wilburys
2. Velvet Underground
3. ASIA
4. Cream
ANSWER:
The Travelling Wilburys!
1. The Peregrine Falcon holds the top recorded diving speed (or stoop) at 389 km/h, or 242 mph.
2. The Common Swift holds the top recorded horizontal flight speed at 111.5 km/h, or 69 mph.
3. The Secretary Bird holds the top recorded ground speed of any bird at 56.3 km/h, or 35mph.
ANSWER:
The Ostrich holds the record for the fastest land speed of a bird at 70 km/h, or 43 mph.
"I finally sat down last night to swap out the stock linear switches for the new tactiles I got, but lubing the housing and stems with the Krytox took forever. The hardest part was tuning the stabilizers. I had to band-aid mod the the space housing just to stop that annoying rattle on the return."
Custom keyboarding!
Pokemon games!
Pokemon Stadium
Pokemon Go!
Black and White Versions
Red and Blue Versions
Red and Blue Versions: September 28, 1998
Pokemon Stadium: February 29, 2000
Black and White Versions: March 6, 2011
Pokemon Go!: July 6, 2016
What is the longest running Broadway show?
1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Les Misérables
3. The Lion King
4. Guys and Dolls
ANSWER:
The Phantom of the Opera officially opened at the Majestic Theatre on January 26, 1988, and closed on April 16, 2023, completing its historic 35-year, 13,973-performance run. The show still runs in London's West End, where it premiered at Her Majesty's Theatre on October 9, 1986.
1. Kryptonite, Superman's biggest weakness, was originally created so that Bud Collyer (Supes' radio voice actor) could go on his honeymoon.
2. Jack Black's mother was a pivotal part of the engineering team of Apollo 13's Abort-Guidance System (AGS).
3. Jeff Bridges is an accomplished crime novelist, writing under the pen name "P.D. Bellamy"
ANSWER:
Jeff Bridges ain't never written no books!
"I spent hours yesterday prepping the block, using my b-gouge to clear out the negative space without undercutting my fine lines. I was applying ink with the brayer, but my registration was totally misaligned on the mulberry paper. I tried again with the barenden and the second pull came out with no chattering."
Woodblock printing!
FILMS!
The Martian
The Theory of Everything
Spotlight
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel: March 7, 2014
The Theory of Everything: November 7, 2014
Spotlight: November 6, 2015
The Martian: October 2, 2015
Harold Rhodes is famous for:
1. Creating the Rhodes piano, originally intended for soothing convalescing GIs during WWII.
2. Creating the Rhodes treatment, one of the first anti-smoking self-help therapies.
3. Being a hall-of-fame pitcher for the Dodgers.
ANSWER:
1. Creating the Rhodes piano! The first Rhodes was made with scrap aluminum piping and airplane scraps. Later, he collaborated with Leo Fender on creating the electromechanical Rhodes piano in 1965.
1. The Basque language (spoken in the country of Basque) is a linguistic puzzle, as experts have no idea where it originated. Completely surrounded by Romantic and Germanic language speaking countries, it bears no relation to either, nor any other indo-european language.
2. Biologists have no idea how electric eels reproduce. Differing from their non-sparky cousins in a few distinct ways makes them a biological mystery. They're reproductive cycle or processes have never been witnessed by humans.
3. Some big cats have the ability to produce "infrasounds" which are sounds lower than 20 hertz, the baseline limit of human hearing. The resulting roar is so powerfully vibrative that it can paralyze small mammals, and even some humans.
ANSWER:
While it is true that mating of electric eels has never been witnessed by humans (something of a mystery) their biology and physiology is similar enough to eels and other fishes that how exactly they reproduce is verifiable scientific fact.