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22001. Who is Enos Slaughter, and what is he famous for doing?

22002. How long was the Super Bowl winning kick in 2002 and who kicked it?

22003. What was the final score of Game 6 between New York and Arizona in the 2002 World Series?

22004. Who is Larry Csonka, and what show did he host in the 90's?

22005. Is actress Renee Taylor of 'The Nanny' in any way related to Elizabeth Taylor?

22006. What nations are not in the UN?

22008. Which player scored the first goal in the African Nations Cup Finals?

22009. Accrington Stanley resigned from Division 4 of the Football League on Monday 6th March 1962 (see Q# 21933). Their last match, played on Saturday 3rd March 1962, was their 33rd game for the 1961-62 season, and their W-D-L 5-8-20 (goals 19-60) record was expunged. I've hit a brick wall trying to locate their next game, the 34th game of the 46 game season. What was their next game (aka which club got the bye)?

22015. What team did the Washington Senators become?

22016. What is the name of the mouse in the Green Mile?

22017. In a literary context 'which craggy hero makes the earth move for his dead beloved'?

22021. When did capital punishment end in Canada?

22023. Where was the first Hard Rock Cafe?

22024. Who was the famous Dutch painter who killed himself?

22025. How did Wonder Woman gain her powers?

22026. I know R2-D2 got his name from 'reel 2, dialogue 2', but where did C-3PO get his?

22033. In 1849 a Glasgow solicitor codified the rules of his favourite outdoor game. Which Game was it?

22034. What was the name of the white mouse that Charly Gordon challenged in 1968's 'Charly'?

22035. What was the theme song to the movie 'Women in Love'?

22037. What color were Gary Cooper's eyes?

22038. What was the first film Charlie Chaplin spoke coherently in?

22039. Who was the first of Henry Fonda's children to appear in a movie?

22043. How many broke out, however briefly, in 'The Great Escape'?

22044. What director developed the kaleidoscopic cinematic girlie numbers of the '30s?

22045. What director always had tea on the set at 4 p.m.?

22047. On a French Monopoly board what is the equivalent to Old Kent Road?

22048. Against which team did Alan Shearer hit his first Newcastle hat-trick?

22049. How many test matches did Ian Botham captain England?

22054. In literature which animal walked by himself?

22056. Is Kathryn Joosten who plays Mrs. Landingham in West Wing also Wendolene Ramsbottom in Wallace and Grommit's Close Shave?

22057. How far can a double decker bus lean before it falls over?

22058. How did the number eighty-six come to mean that something is no longer available?

22061. In what movie was there a blooper that showed Roman Soldiers wearing Rolex watches?

22062. How many flaws were discovered in the movie 'Spiderman'?

22064. How many indentations are there on the US quarter and why is the number so significant?

22068. In baseball what is the record for the fastest pitch?

22069. Which boxer was known for dieing 'in the ring'?

22072. Sean Connery played the 'father role' in which movies?

22075. In which state was littering legal?

22080. If you were to dig a whole through the earth starting in Philadelphia USA in what country, town or city would you wind up exactly when punching through on the otherside of the world?

22083. What is the difference in gravity from the north pole to the south pole and why is the gravitational pull stronger at one of the ends?

22084. Is gravity exactly the same all over the world and if not where is the force the greatest and the weakest?

22086. If Santa Claus was real and delivered presents to all the kids in the world in one day, how much time will he have to spend at each house and what speed would his sleigh have to go to make it happen?

22088. Where did the term 'snapshot' come from?

22090. Which TV show theme song includes the line, "The game of life is hard to play"?

22091. Which TV theme song includes the line 'They gone and 'alved me pension for a start'?

22092. Which TV theme song includes the line, "What became of the people we used to be"?

22093. Can any one identify Wrigth (sic) ?

22095. I would like to know the effect of connecting a TV / anthena without a 75W BALUN ?

22097. In literature who put a smile on the face of corpses to attract a colleague's interest?

22102. What famous short story ends with the line 'Ah Humanity!'?

22103. "Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair. Weave a circle around him thrice and shut your eyes with holy dread - because on honey dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of paradise." Who wrote these famous lines?

22104. What great book opens with the line, "Call me Ishmael"?

22109. What does "fire in the hole" mean?

22110. Where did the term 'dead as a doornail' or 'dead as a doormouse' come from?

22111. I am trying to find information on a footballer who played for Aston Villa in the twenties and thirties.So far I have drawn a blank.I have tried the Aston Villa web pages to no avail.I would be grateful for any suggestions?

22112. When was the food SPAM first introduced to the consumer?

22113. How many people are considered to be members of the British royal family?

22116. In which year was Lauda Air founded ?

22127. Who said 'Football's always easier when you've got the ball'?

22128. Who was the first president of the South African Students Association?

22129. What has a hazlenut in every bite?

22130. Did some kid eat a lot of pop rocks, drink alot of soda, and then die?

22131. Do the Royals ever suffer from inbreeding?

22134. How many of Elizabeth II's prime ministers were educated at state schools and how many did not attend university?

22135. What office was held by DL Gammans MP, at the time of the coronation of Elizabeth II?

22136. What was the highest denomination of postage stamp issued for the coronation of Elizabeth II?

22137. In which year did women gain the vote in the Most Serene Republic of San Marino?

22139. How long would a Cow live for on average if it wasn't killed?

22140. Which Ref has issued the most yellow and red cards in English Premiership football since the league began?

22141. Who were the first UK pairing of world Champion and Runner Up in Formula 1 Grand Prix Racing?

22142. When buying a cordless phine is one with 900 megahertz or one with 2.4 giggahertz better?

22143. A massive smog called the Asian Brown Cloud could be affecting people around the world. Where is it located?

22145. In which novel does a rooftop sunbather come to a sorry end?

22146. What was the ancient Greek method of shock therapy?

22147. Do you get hurricanes in Europe?

22149. What does this mean gobeithio eich bod wedi mwynhau'r cwis?

22151. What could be 16th century untried book covers?

22152. Originated in Galway, worn on either hand?

22153. Who was the waiter for Vincent Vega and his date at Jack Rabbit Slim's?

22156. For what reason was a Fatwa placed on Naguib Mahfouz?

22158. Is the German airforce still called the Luftwaffe, and if not what is the current name?

22159. Does the PLO still exist? They never use that term today on the news.

22161. Who was the founding leader of Senegal?

22162. Who was the first female writer to win the Noble Prize of Literature?

22163. Which book was published first - All Quiet on The Western Front, Goodbye To All That, No More Parades, The Middle Parts of Fortune?

22164. Which country was Christina Stead born in?

22165. Which rock star was Charlie Hero loosely based on?

22166. What was the fate of Dostoyevsky's first child?

22167. Which is the best translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegine?

22168. Which novels were written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford?

22169. Which countries own the largest portion of Antartica?

22174. In literature who was forced to wear a colourful letter of the alphabet?

22175. What other names does Coopervision market their Cooperflex contacts under?

22183. Which mystery is set in the ancient English Cathedral town of Cloisterham?

22185. In which novel is England an outlying province of the Russian Empire?

22186. Which colour was the subject of a book in 2000?

22187. Why do plant cuttings or rooted plants thrive indefinitely when placed in a container of water, but potted plants will quickly drown and die when overwatered with inadequate drainage?

22193. What does M*A*S*H stand for?

22194. Which music video is grand celebration of pregnancy (hey,baby / flowers in the window / underneath your clothes / wonderwall ) ?

22196. Will someone put me out of my misery.Who said 'My gut feeling is that what happened to me was wrong.I would not wish it on anybody'?

22200. In which book does someone sail south from St. Petersburg and on what?

22201. Who said 'I never bought in to the status of the job- like the cars-as a lot of men in particular do'?

22202. Who on earth was D L Gammans?

22203. Is Le Figaro a daily,weekly or Sunday newspaper?

22205. Whose appointment as Director of the London School of Economics in 1967 occasioned student strikes and an occupation of the building?

22207. Which novel sends a playboy prince plummeting from the dome of St Peter's?

22209. Who or what was the Scholar's Pope?

22210. Who was described as 'the only leader in history whose opinions are delivered to him by the paperboy'?

22211. What is the longest pair of English words that are pronounced exactly the same but share no letter in common?

22213. Are there any nations where women can't vote?

22214. In a literary context, Who used a stationery shop as a front for pornography and espionage?

22216. Who said or wrote, "I have never drunk, and never wanted to. I can never understand how anyone can get passed the taste"?

22218. Who said or wrote 'If you travel as much as we do ,you appreciate how much more comfortable aircraft have become.Unless you travel in economy class,which sounds ghastly'?

22219. What is the name and artist of the music for O2 the mobile company.?

22222. Which county cricket 2nd xi team did Gary Lineker play for?

22224. In 2001 season which two overseas players were employed by Leicestershire cricket club?

22225. Which cricket club became successful due to efforts of Richard Nyren, Philip Dehany and Rev Chales Powlett?

22228. About how many years does a fashion models career last?

22233. What is the origin of the expression, "No flies on him"?

22238. For what does the Turing Test test?

22240. In literature which Indian girl is torn between a cobbler and a cricketer?

22242. Which modern novelist put a mock venetian palazzo on the banks of the Thames?

22245. Wk51 abc where was this car first registered?

22249. Former name of ship 'The Golden Hind'?

22252. Who said, "I haven't got big ears. I've just got a very small head"?

22254. How did the dunce cap get so named?

22255. At a Jewish Wedding, why does the Groom step on a glass?

22256. What is Anselm's Ontological Arguement?

22257. When was the term Beefcake first used?

22258. In what movie do we meet Tucker?

22259. What is the name of the town in Wales with the really long name?

22260. Which was the first Punk Rock Band?

22261. If you were drop a Rolls Royce and a Leer Jet from the Empire State Building which would hit the ground first and why?

22262. Where and when can you check in to an ice hotel?

22263. What was the top grossing movie in the new millenium?

22266. What religion treats death as a portal into another dimension?

22267. In what country can you be arrested for hitting an animal such as deer, moose, bears and caribou with your vehicle?

22268. What country today still holds public executions?

22269. In which religion do can there be female ministers?

22270. What movie is the statement 'How do you know they're going to do it How can you be sure Where do you get off judging us when you don't know they're going to do it'?

22271. If you throw rocks at a moving car on the freeway, by what law can you be convicted under and what are the penalties?

22274. If you threw a coin at a person across the border from the US to Mexico, would you be subject to US laws or Mexican law?

22275. What were the reasons behind Iran and Iraq splintering from what was previously Persia?

22276. How many countries in the world are still ruled by monarchies?

22277. What colour are black boxes in planes?

22278. Why are people ticklish?

22281. Who wrote the song Werewolves of London?

22284. What is the most popular beverage in Britian?

22285. A thousand years ago, Chinese sailors chewed which of the following to ward off seasickness: ginseng root, ginger, or ginkgo?

22286. What are St. Thomas Aquinas' FIVE proofs for the existence of God?

22287. Did St. Francis and St. Domonic ever meet each other?

22288. Dr. Ruth said that what human function is the closest thing to orgasim?

22290. Why are the Dutch so liberal when their decendants in South Africa are so right wing?

22291. What is the name of the capital of the country of which Babar the Elephant is king?

22292. Why do boxers avoid sex when they are training for a fight?

22293. While in North Queensland I saw lots of black signs with a yellow cross on them on the roadside. Does anyone know what they mean?

22298. Which American novelist has proved peculiarly hard to catch by biographers?

22299. A massive smog called the Asian Brown Cloud could be affecting people all over the world. where is it centered over. (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore)?

22300. Whose tomb served as an inspiration for the creation of Taj Mahal. (Akbar, Babur, Humayun, Hyder Ali)?

22306. In literature,Whose lethal locomotive travelled from Istanbul to Calais?

22307. In literature, Who travels on the back of a hoopoe bird a big as a double bed?

22308. In literature, In which novella do a wooden-legged man, a dwarfish Andaman islander and a poisoned thorn exact revenge for the theft of a rajah's jewels?

22309. What novelist has worked his way through blue, red, white, black, and yellow to brown?

22310. In literature, Which drably coloured cleric sleuthed around in Edwardian England?

22311. Which novel opens with preparations for the celebration of Hitler's 75th birthday?

22312. In which novel does the Master of Jordan College, Oxford, enjoy a dish of poppy heads heated in butter?

22313. Whose novel about seaside property development was left unfinished?

22314. In literature, What opium aided poetic vision was cut short by a visitor?

22315. In literature, who never got to the end of his Key to all Mythologies?

22317. In literature, whose fictional look at Hollywood was never concluded?

22318. Which American novel breaks off with the Duchess of Tintagel preparing to escape from her unhappy marriage?

22321. A vacuum cleaner salesman passes as a spy in which novel?

22322. In literature, Which clergyman venerates Rosings?

22324. In literature, Which soldier's bride-to-be disastrously turns up at the wrong church?

22329. In what Mass town did the famous Salem hangings take place?

22330. What was the original title of 'Roots' by Alex Haley?

22331. What recent movie has the quote - 'The two things I hate the most are intolerence towards other cultures, and the Dutch.'?

22332. Are Swiss Army Knives issue to all the members of the Swiss Army?

22333. Who was the first to recommend the potato as nutritious food ?

22334. What was the first capital of the Confederacy?

22336. When did Italy become an official country?

22340. Who invented women's stockings?

22344. The highest price ever paid for the use of a song was {$15} million. Microsoft paid this amount for what song to promote Windows XP?

22345. In the States, was percent of the greeting card market does Hallmark have?

22347. On the Sgt. Pepper's album the Beatles actually name one memeber of Sgt. Pepper's Band. Who is this person?

22354. Which US President's father was one of the surveyors who laid out the Virginia/North Carolina border?

22356. The average lifespan is 6-10 years what?

22357. What is the six letter American slang word for a German soldier?

22361. How does one join the French Foreign Legion?

22362. What is the maximum number of times a piece of paper can be folded?

22363. In literature where was crime treated as a disease and disease as a crime?

22364. Acupuncture is most effective in treating which of the following (drugabuse/ asthma/ arthritis/ nausea) ?

22365. Which of the following contains that highest percentage of water ( brain / heart / muscle / bones) ?

22366. Which direction generally produces the worst jet lag; east, west, north or south?

22367. Acupuncture points are stimulated with which of the following(heat / fingers / needles / all of them) ?

22368. Which country records the highest annual rainfall?

22369. How many countries does the Nile River flow through?

22370. Which state has the highest death rate per capita in the nation?

22372. How much of the water on earth is available to drink ?

22373. How much of your body is made up of water; 25%, 75%, 85%, or 15%?

22376. How long could you live without water (about oneday, seven days, one month, three days) ?

22377. Why do we wash with soap to get rid of germs?

22378. What does repersentation mean and where can i find a long definition of the word for my media studies?

22384. What is the largest living animal cell?

22386. Question for Brainy Blonde ,who said 'I never bought in to the status of the job-like the cars -as a lot of men in particular do'?

22388. How did the superstition of a hat on a bed being unlucky come about?

22389. In the movie 'Fight Club,' what is the name of the narrator?

22390. In the movie 'Fight Club' why is Brad Pitt wearing rubber dish washing gloves in that one scene?

22391. What was the 1,000,000 th video shown on MTV?

22392. Sticking with MTV, what distinction does the Michael Jackson video 'Billie Jean' hold?

22393. In what novel does an ex-MP (Tory) live in a tree-house?

22394. What is the world's largest country?

22395. What is the difference between live bullets and blanks?

22396. How come fresh-layed carpet is such a conduit for static electricity, resulting in electric shocks?

22398. From what did the terms 'left-wing' and 'right-wing' originate?

22399. When was the slang word COOL first used?

22401. What are the origins to the 'extended middle finger gesture' becoming a mocking gesture?

22402. How many 4year colleges are there in the United States?

22403. How did marijuana get the nickname 'pot'?

22405. How did the Barber Pole originate?

22406. When was the first match made?

22407. You wonderful people I know will be able to give me an answer to this. Where in Britain did the first women traffic wardens go on duty?

22408. In the new series of Andy Pandy on British telly who narrates?

22409. 350 sheep per person, where?

22410. The film 'The Madness of King George III' was released in America as 'The Madness Of King George' Why were the titles different?

22411. Why is it rude to put your elbows on the table?

22412. On the back of the NEW English five pound note you will see how many people?

22413. What is bloodletting?

22415. During WWII, why didn't Hitler use poison gas on the battlefields?

22416. Why do males have nipples?

22418. In Baseball who holds the record for the longest hitting streak, perhaps some of you Brits may know?

22420. Does President Bush have an English or Welsh Springer Spaniel and what is its name?

22422. Tastes great - Less filling?

22423. Is it correct to use people or peoples?

22424. Where did the story of the Bunyip originate?

22425. Who was the founder of the 'magical realist' movement, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier or someone writing before that?

22426. Do more people speak English or Arabic?

22427. Who invented the taximeter ?

22428. Who invented the tachymeter?

22429. Where in the U.S.A. did Karel van de Poele die , the inventor of the trolley ?

22431. Huey dewey and louie ducks had a mother what was her name?

22434. He received a canine Victoria Cross?

22435. Edible mound found in South Africa Ireland and Wales?

22436. What meets Captain Cat's gaze?

22437. With a Welsh connection once known for crumbly cheese?

22439. Welsh connection - cryptic - Remain has lead mines?

22441. In Scotland obtain stamp of approval here?

22443. Anagram of 'silver flagging in mauve baskets' is an event in Downpatrick?

22444. Where is Lilliput in Ireland?

22445. An American break in Connemara?

22446. Scottish connection - cryptic - Kay in a sheltered spot?

22447. Scottish connection choose the 'high' or the 'low' road?

22449. So get out of the way of old Dan Tucker, he's too late to get his, what?

22450. When Henry VIII and William the Conqueror died they both had something in common what was it?

22451. Scottish venue of Old Norse parliament?

22452. 300 year old Irish sandstone watermill or old song?

22453. Which MP helped found the RSPCA?

22454. I want to prove that 'All ravens are black'. An equivalent statement is 'All non-black objects are non-ravens', and if I prove the latter then I prove the former as well. I look around and see a blue sky, green grass, and an overwhelming number of things that are non-black non-ravens. I can easily prove that 'All non-black objects are non-ravens' and, by extension, I must also have proven that 'All ravens are black' because this is an equivalent statement. This is a well known paradox. Whose paradox is it?

22457. Why do they call guys with blonde hair and blue eyes 'towheads'?

22459. Who was the youngest Pope?

22460. What is the most popular copyrighted book in the world?

22463. What is the difference between ethnic relativism and ethnic determinism?

22464. Approximately how many litres of water can an elephant's trunk hold?

22465. What was discovered by accident when attempting to make a better gun barrel?

22466. How many days after one gets contacts, will one be completely used to it?

22467. Who first created peanut butter, before George Washington Carver?

22468. What is the name of the biggest zeppelin ever made?

22469. In the last episode of 'Only Fools and Horses' where the Trotters leave their flat in Peckham, what is the song played at the end?

22470. What is 'bling-bling'?

22472. What is the most popular breed of dog?

22474. What is the difference between a RangeRover and a LandRover?

22475. Specifically, identify London's Parish Church - could it be St Paul's Cathedral?

22476. What is a coalition goverment?

22478. Songs and lyrics - 'When they'd had a high old time, all the whole night through, what was it that King Cole said, and his fiddlers too'. Perhaps this refers to Old King Cole or Nat King Cole?

22485. There are just 210 of these in the UK. The most famous came into being last Sunday (1st Sept). What are they?

22489. When did Alaska become a state?

22490. Who was known as the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'?

22491. In the movie HILARY AND JACKIE, Jackie seemed to mimic different accents as she travelled the world... Even her family mentions it at the dinner table....What was that all about... symptom of Multiple Sclerosis or just a quirk in her personality?

22492. Why does Los Angeles International Airport have the nickname LAX?

22493. What is the real reason actress Christa Miller is leaving The Drew Carey Show this season (US television)?

22495. Was Satan (then known as Lucifer) descent from heaven before or after Creation?

22496. When one gets contacts for the first time, should one also get new glasses also, for times at night when one is not wearing contacts, will it affect anything to wear contacts with new prescription and then wear your old glasses at night right before going to sleep?

22497. Where exactly does the word Oxford come from: an academy of knights, oxygen (meaning pungent), a place where an ox could cross a river, or an old English word for coaxing?

22498. Which James Bond movie has a scene presenting Sean Connery in a Nehru collar jacket: Dr. No, Moonraker, A View to a Kill, or For Your Eyes Only?