| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jan 27 05:04PM -0800 On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 1:35:42 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > 1. The star of shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "NCIS", he was > a starting quarterback for the UCLA Bruins in the early '70s, > leading his team to a 17-5 record over two seasons. mark harmon > attended USC on a football scholarship and, fittingly enough, > played a high school football player in his movie debut "Fast > Times at Ridgemont High". forrest whitaker > was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech in the mid-'60s, > and was replaced after graduation by a guy named Terry Bradshaw. > Name that duck hunter. (As usual, the surname is sufficient.) phil robertson > before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for > the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders. > He recently played Hercules on screen. dwayne 'the rock' johnson (hey! a question where johnson is actually the answer!) > showbiz, but only after flaming out in minor-league baseball with > the Cincinnati Reds organization. Name this dreamy Oscar-winning > leading man. george clooney > His athletic career included a football college scholarship and > an ill-fated invitation to the Pittsburgh Steelers' training > camp in 1969. ed o'neill (he was in the movie _dutch_ too) > 7. The artist sometimes known as Apollo Creed played 8 games for > the Oakland Raiders and 18 games for the BC Lions. carl weathers > 8. Before becoming a movie star, he was a star running back for > Florida State, and actually got to play football again with > his starring turn in the movie "The Longest Yard". burt reynolds > yards in a season. His films include "The Cassandra Crossing", > "Capricorn One", "The Naked Gun", "The Naked Gun 2 1/2", and > "The Naked Gun 33 1/3". orenthal james simpson > 10. He once held the professional middleweight karate championship > title. But some people know him better as a Texas Ranger on TV. > Name him. chuck norris > A1. One of its slogans is "the Home of American Music". > It's been a weekly Nashville stage show since 1925 and one > of the longest-running broadcasts in radio history. Name it. the grand ole opry > A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to > music. Son House, Charley Patton, and Robert Johnson were > seminal performers of what specific regional style of blues? american delta blues (the leading statement is incorrect. jazz is the greatest american contribution to music.) > their tribe, *or* their chief (who gave the settlers food > the previous winter), *or* the bilingual native who taught > them New World fishing and agriculture. massasoit > Revolution happened in a running skirmish on 1775-04-19, in > two towns that still argue about which one it took place in. > So name *both* towns. lexington and concord > inventors have played with electricity. What ground-breaking > 1947 invention was credited to three distinctly less famous > Bell Labs scientists -- Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain? transistors > reaper were revolutionary agricultural innovations, but > which inventor's *literally* groundbreaking steel plow > helped open the prairies to farming? john deere > D1. John Updike's most famous work is a series of novels about > a middle-class American everyman with an unusual nickname. > What nickname? rabbit > D2. Name Philip Roth's novel, winner of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, > that describes the life of the fictional Seymour "Swede" > Levov. american pastoral > park in the world, signed into law by President Ulysses > S. Grant in 1872. In which US state is 96% of the park > located? wyoming > E2. The most visited national park, by a wide margin, is located > closer to eastern population centers. Great Smoky Mountains > National Park is located in two states; name *either*. tennessee > F. Sports: National Pastimes > F1. What is the most popular competitive sport for Americans > to *participate* in? basketball > as *fans*, which is the 4th-most-popular American sport? > It follows football, baseball, and basketball, but comes > ahead of hockey. soccer swp |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jan 27 05:07PM -0800 On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:45:27 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > -- > Mark Brader, Toronto | "We did not try to keep writing until > msb@vex.net | things got full." --Dennis Ritchie clearly you are confused because he got the inflection wrong. it's: IF YA SMEELLLLL<insert tongue wag here>LLLLL<and here>LLL. WHAT THE *ROCK!* <dramatic pause> is cookin'. |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Jan 27 05:12PM -0800 On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 10:45:27 PM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > -- > Mark Brader, Toronto | "We did not try to keep writing until > msb@vex.net | things got full." --Dennis Ritchie see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr8glaM4ruM |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 27 07:59PM -0600 Mark Brader: >> before following in pop's footsteps, he played football for >> the Miami Hurricanes and briefly for Calgary Stampeders. >> He recently played Hercules on screen. Stephen Perry: > dwayne 'the rock' johnson (hey! a question where johnson is actually the > answer!) Yeah -- a pity it was in the question too. I should've noticed and edited that out. >> A2. The Blues might be the greatest American contribution to >> music... > ...incorrect. jazz is the greatest american contribution to music. What, you mean it wasn't actually... oh, wait, she's Canadian. Well, then... no, she's Canadian too. Then... oh, never mind. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Abel was I ere I saw non-Abelian groups" msb@vex.net | --Roland Hutchinson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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