Hi all. I'm in awe of your passion for and knowledge of trivia! I'd appreciate help with the following questions:

1) In which sport are the shoes made entirely of metal?

2) In terms of Presidential elections, what was the unique achievement of Thomas Jefferson?

3) What is the origin of the term "Yankees"?

4) What city in the world has the largest subway system?

5) What percentage of people worldwide have never placed or received a telephone call?

Thanks in advance.

Stacey

1) In which sport are the shoes made entirely of metal?

I'd have to say horse racing.

Largest subway system=Moscow: http://infoplease.lycos.com/ipa/A0762446.html

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2.) Thomas Jefferson was the first President elected under the new election rules defined in the 12th amendment and was also the first President inaugurated in Washington DC.

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Cellular phones are the only things guys argue over whose is smaller.

) What percentage of people worldwide have never placed or received a telephone call?

I was watching "The Nature of Things" a while ago.
On it, David Suzuki said that technology is amazing etc. etc., but remember, we live in an age when 80% of the world's population have never used a telephone!
fascinating stuff!

Yankee... supposed to be a native of New England says one of my books.But try this: http://www.wilton.net/wordory.htm

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80%?! Really?! That's incredible!

Linda, ya I know! my jaw hit the floor too!
I hope nyte_owl returns to tell us what the "official" answer to that question was according to whoever made this quiz!

It will take a month for the contest results to come back, but I'll definitely post the answers.

Thanks for the help so far.

bumping this up, hoping that nyte_owl sees it, and posts the "official" answers to this one.

Mission Control to nyte_owl. Do you read us? over.

Here are the answers to the questions I posted:

1) In which sport are the shoes made entirely of metal?
Horseracing

2) In terms of Presidential elections, what was the unique achievement of Thomas Jefferson?
He was the only sitting VP to defeat a sitting President

3) What is the origin of the term "Yankees"?
From the Dutch name Jan-Kees

4) What city in the world has the largest subway system?
Moscow

5) What percentage of people worldwide have never placed or received a telephone call?
80%

excellent! Thanks for coming back to us with the answers for these nyte_owl! My "80%" was correct.

I remember a poll about world telephone use. It found that everyone had used a telephone at some point in their life.

Of course, it was a phone poll.