Sunday, September 24, 2017

Digest for rec.games.trivia@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 2 topics

Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Sep 24 03:59AM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:uPydnbBcZ4aqjVnEnZ2dnUU7-
 
> A1. This US snowboarder is a 2-time Olympic gold-medalist (2006
> and 2010), and holds the record for the most X Games gold
> medals with 13.
 
Shaun Johnson
 
> the mega-brewery.
 
> C1. Toronto brewery Mill Street was taken over by which much
> larger brewer in the fall of 2015?
 
Molson; Labatts
 
> as Maximus and Hop Stoopid) sold 50% of the company in
> 2015 for an estimated $500,000,000 US to which European
> mega-brewer?
 
Heineken
 
> acquisition of Goose Island in 2011. As a result of
> subsequent mergers, that company is now the largest brewer
> in the world. Name the mega-brewery.
 
AB InBev
 
 
> D1. See: <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/GFR10/canal1.jpg>.
> Name this Belgian city, often referred to as the "Venice
> of the North".
 
Brugges
 
> this rapper acquired legendary status with his graphic
> accounts of ghetto life and East Coast / West Coast feuds.
> He was shot dead in Las Vegas in 1996.
 
Tupac Shakur
 
> by adding real instruments and writing sophisticated lyrics.
> They are currently the house band for NBC's "Late Night
> with Jimmy Fallon".
 
The Roots
 
 
> F3. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel
> Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon
> when his father took him to discover ice."
 
Pete Gayde
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Sep 23 02:09PM -0500

Peter Smyth:
> And as far as I can tell there has never been a hockey player called Eric
> Johnson (although there is an Erik Johnson).
 
Oops. But at least that one doesn't affect any scoring.
--
Mark Brader "Great things are not done by those
Toronto who sit down and count the cost
msb@vex.net of every thought and act." --Daniel Gooch
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