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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:38 AM
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Post a trivia question. The only rule for answering: No Google or other searches!
Edited on Thu Nov-27-08 08:40 AM by Bertha Venation
What three movies have won the "big five" Oscars - Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture?

edit for stupid mistake
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peruban Donating Member (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:40 AM
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1. The Godfather? n/m
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:41 AM
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2. no, but a good guess
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:44 AM
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3. Where was the Rose Bowl played in 1942?
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:46 AM
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4. two possible answers
1. There was no Rose Bowl (war)

2. In the Rose Bowl
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:51 AM
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8. There's a third possible answer that's the correct one
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:58 AM
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10. Well, crap. I dunno.
:shrug: Stumped.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:59 AM
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11. Would you like some worthless hints?
Here's one. It's a venue that hosted the Rolling Stones a few years ago.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:00 AM
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12. LOL Worthless is right!
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:02 AM
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13. It also shares a name with a party in a major Supreme Court decision
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:05 AM
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14. at the moment I can only think of three
Brown v. BoE
Roe v. Wade
Loving v. Virginia

??? Was there a SC decision naming the L.A. Colosseum?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:07 AM
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15. One of those three features part of the name of the stadium
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:51 AM
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23. I give up. Please tell me
???
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:13 AM
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27. Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, NC
They moved the game to the East Coast due to concerns about the Japanese.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:13 AM
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28. I had no idea!
Thank you, taterguy. :hi: That was a great one.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:17 AM
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16. Don't give the score, I haven't watched it yet.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:19 AM
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17. L.!
How wonderful to see you today. Happy TG, my friend. :hug: What are you doing today?
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:29 AM
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18. Going to my sister's to have turkey with Mom, Dad, Sister, BIL, Neice
Yum, turkey!

:hug:

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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:36 AM
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19. Only a Devil would spoil the outcome of that game
(That's a not so worthless hint)
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:40 AM
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21. It would take the Duke of Spoilers to give that away.
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:47 AM
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5. I think....
Edited on Thu Nov-27-08 08:49 AM by Maine-ah
One flew over the cuckoo's nest, and silence of the lambs. I can't think of a third...maybe Gone With The Wind?
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:50 AM
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6. Two out of three!
Not Gone With the Wind. Here's a hint: it was earlier than that.
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:50 AM
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7. oy, earlier than GWTW?
Edited on Thu Nov-27-08 08:52 AM by Maine-ah
no fucking clue.

on edit:

I asked my Mom, so I have the answer, but I won't post it because I had to ask someone.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 08:58 AM
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9. Ah, go ahead.
:)
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:41 AM
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22. It Happened One Night
:hi: 1934!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:52 AM
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24. You're mom's a gem!
:hi:
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:07 AM
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25. she should be a contestant on Jeopardy.
she's just full of info like this. When I was a kid, and we'd watch Jeopardy she'd sit there and answer every damn question correctly. No college education either. :hi:
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moriah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 09:39 AM
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20. I would have said Psycho, but obviously that's not it...
Wizard of Oz?
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:46 AM
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31. ha, we should have teamed up. You got one and I got the other and we both got
Cuckoo's nest
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:11 AM
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26. here's one in the spirit of turkey day
how fast can a spooked turkey run?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:24 AM
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29. African or European?
... wait, I meant wild or tame? :P
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 11:00 AM
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32. hmmm. good question. I don't know that answer
I assumed it was turkies in general. I don't know if there is a difference in mph between wild or tame. In terms of tamed, do you mean farmed or like an actual pet?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 11:39 AM
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34. Farmed.
They tend to be a bit more docile than the wild ones.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 10:45 AM
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30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one, and I think 'It Happened One Night'
is another and maybe one other from way back when?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 11:32 AM
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33. Why didn't William O. Douglas hire law clerks from Harvard?
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-27-08 12:07 PM
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35. What do Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie have in common?
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