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121. The second suit of cards is Clubs. Ann M. Martin has written a lot of books about "The Babysitters Club". But where are most of the members of the club from?

From Quiz Cards on the Table

Answer: America

"The Babysitters Club" books were about children who ran a local babysitting service. There are lots of clubs in the world. Clubs are usually a group of people interested in the same thing. There are after-school clubs, like art clubs and drama clubs, among many others.

From Quiz So, Whodunnit?

Answer: 50

Instead of being required to determine the killer, the location, and the weapon, "Clue Mysteries" only requires: 1) which suspect committed the crime; and 2) where he or she can be found. Question by reedy

From Quiz Invented By Mistake

Answer: Velcro

Swiss engineer George de Mestral got the idea for Velcro by studying the burrs that stuck to his clothes after country walks. It still took him eight years to perfect his invention, which consists of a nylon strip composed of tiny hooks and a matching strip of nylon loops. Velcro is now found in lots of places, including shoes.

From Quiz And as the Lights Went Out...

Answer: Her standing on her own

"Massachusetts" was released by the Bee Gees in the UK in 1967, and was their first number one hit. It spent seventeen weeks on the UK Singles Chart.

From Quiz Son of Looney Tunes Title Puns and Gags

Answer: It had an all-Black cast

"The Green Pastures" was an adaptation of Marc Connelly's 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that depicted Old Testament stories as visualized by rural black children listening to their Sunday school preacher. The cartoon, which follows the general theme of the film, has long been withheld from circulation because of its use of stereotyped portrayals, including caricatures of many popular entertainers of the time, such as Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and the Mills Brothers.

From Quiz Looney Tunes Title Puns and Gags

Answer: Congratulations

"Muzzle Tough" is a pun on mazel tov, a term used to express congratulations. It's a Hebrew term used in Yiddish. The other choice referring to a Yiddish term that has gained some currency in Standard American English is to meddle, or "kvetch." As might be expected, the 1954 Sylvester and Tweety cartoon involves many cat and dog set-tos, but what makes the title pun particularly relevant is the urban New York setting.

From Quiz Whatever Possessed Them to Call it That?

Answer: A combination of "Velour" with "Crochet"

George de Mestral was a Swiss inventor. One day back in 1948, so the story goes, he went for a walk in the mountains, and came back to find his clothes covered in burrs. He immediately took some of these burrs and put them under his microscope. He saw that they actually had thousands of little hooks that clung to the fabric of his trousers. The path from that discovery to his invention of a fastener which had hooks on the one side (crochet) and a fuzzy, loose fabric on the other (velour) is fairly easy to imagine from that point onwards. The idea was patented in 1955, and de Mestral set up his company, Velcro Industries, to mass produce the product.

From Quiz Rhyme and Reason

Answer: The first name of Beatles member Mr Lennon

The answer is JOHN Lennon - and JOHN rhymes with "GONE With The Wind." The state capital of Pennsylvania is HARRISBURG, the Australian rugby union team are nicknamed the WALLABIES, and ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.

From Quiz Janet's Jewish Jokes

Answer: Chelm

Chelm is actually a real town, and one can even find web sites describing its universities and churches. But in Jewish legend, Chelm is a town of full of fools, with a council of seven "wise men" at their head. Here is an example of a story told about Chelm. "A man in Chelm was seen on his hands and knees in the middle of the road one night. A stranger asked him, "What are you doing?" and he replied, "I've lost my house key and I'm looking for it". "You lost it here, in the middle of the road?", the incredulous visitor asked. "No, I lost it back there a way." "Then why are you looking here?" the stranger persisted. "Because there is a streetlight here. How could I ever find anything back there in the dark?"

From Quiz The Last Word

Answer: "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget."

Epicurus said "Live today...", but not on his deathbed. "Veni, vidi, vici" were the famous words of Julius Caesar in 47 B.C. It means, "I came. I saw. I conquered." "I drank what?" is a common joke referring to the fact that Socrates died from drinking hemlock. He was ordered to commit suicide after he was found guilty of corrupting minors.

From Quiz Form Fours

Answer: James Elroy Flecker

'The Gates of Damascus' was written by James Elroy Flecker. He was born in London in 1884 and died of tuberculosis is Davos, Switzerland in 1915. Educated at Dean Close School in Cheltenham, where his father was headmaster, and at Uppingham, he attended both Oxford (Trinity College) and Cambridge (Caius College). While at Oxford he came under the influence of the Aesthetic Movement, and John Addington Symonds. He entered the consular service in 1910 and served in the Eastern Mediterranean.

From Quiz In My Day It Was Called...

Answer: Oslo

The capital of Norway. Founded in 1048 and named Oslo, it was destroyed by fire in 1624. King Christian IV of Norway rebuilt the city, which was later named in his honour. In 1924 the original name, derived from Old Norse and meaning 'Eastern leaning", was restored.

From Quiz The Door Is Still Opun

Answer: Tic-Tac of Oz

"Tik-Tok of Oz" was about a robot, of all things!

From Quiz Schoolyard Taunts, Rhymes, and Songs 3

Answer: egg

This odd expression dates from 1880, when Spanish inventor Antonio Zaragoza y Moniz invented a railroad engine that ran on sulphur, of all things. While it was a bit more efficient than the coal powered trains, the reeking sulphur stank like anything. Engineers soon dubbed the train 'El huevo pudrido', or 'the rotten egg'. Brakemen would often race to claim their train assignments early, the last ones to sign in getting stuck on the rotten egg. The train only ran from 1880-1882 between Madrid and Barcelona, until it derailed and was not recovered.

From Quiz Opun Library - Still Ticking!

Answer: The Maven

While Poe did write a short story "The Pit And the Pendulum", the poem for which he is best known is "The Raven," and "maven" is a word meaning "expert".

From Quiz Entomology and Etymology

Answer: Afrikaans

'Aardvark' is the Afrikaans word for 'earth-pig.' Its first recorded use dates from 1833.

From Quiz Apt Titles Perhaps

Answer: The Old Man and the C

Well -- most dads would be upset with too many Cs!

From Quiz Not Quite So Easy-Peasy

Answer: Kota Bharu

Kota Bharu is on the north eastern coast of Malaya and was a British military station and airfield. The Japanese launched a surprise amphibious and air attack there 70 minutes (in real time) before they attacked Pearl Harbor.

From Quiz General Knowledge - With a Twist

Answer: General Electric

Founder Thomas Edison launched a propaganda war against his rival, Nicola Tesla in the 1880s' "War of the Currents". Edison advocated DC (direct current) while Tesla promoted AC (alternating current) as the better choice for electrical distribution.

From Quiz A Question Quandary

Answer: ...to find the area of a triangle?

The answer to this question is the sine function. The formula for finding the area of a triangle is 1/2ab(Sin c). (A and B are the lengths of the sides of the triangle and C is the angle of the third angle.) -To find the limit of 2x+3 as x approaches 3, just "plug" 3 into the equation: 2(3)+3=9. -To find the 5th term in the arithmatic series of 3,8,13, you could use this equation: 18thTerm = FirstTerm + (NumberOfTermYouWantToFind - 1)DifferenceBetweenNumbersInSeries Filling this in, we get 18thTerm = 3+(18-1)5 or 18thTerm = 88. -Lastly, to find the value of [4.3], just take the integer that is nearest the number in brackets but does not exceed it. The answer here would be 4.

From Quiz Schoolyard Taunts, Rhymes, and Songs 1

Answer: In a tree

For instance: Czolgolz and Brittany, sittin' in a tree/ K-I-S-S-I-N-G/ first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Brittany with a baby carriage. The tree in the song is clearly a reference to the Biblical tree of the Knowlege of Good and Evil, ie, lost innocence. See the book of Genesis for the complete story.

From Quiz The Anti-Math Quiz

Answer: Arabic

Math may be the language of the sciences, but its words have been coined from many languages. Dictionary.com tells us that algebra is from "al-jebr", meaning "reduction of parts to a whole". Zero is from the Arabic "ifrun" or "ifr", meaning "empty". Both words entered Latin and then Italian before English. Other math words are derived from Greek, Persian, and even French. We (well, not me, maybe you) use the letter "m" to denote the slope of a line. The "m" is from the French verb "monter" which means to mount, to climb, or to rise. (info from www.curiousmath.com)

From Quiz School Daze

Answer: cowslips

A childhood favorite, but just who is this Susan Blue and what's she doing down in that meadow?

From Quiz Do The Ends Justify The Means?

Answer: New York

When a U.S. bomber gets through and devastates Moscow, Fonda offers to obliterate New York City in an effort to prevent a nuclear showdown with the Soviets.

From Quiz What's "Ing" -ing This Time?

Answer: Firing

The "Firing Line" show aired from 1966 to December 14, 1999, and was the mouthpiece for conservative William F. Buckley.

From Quiz Generation Gaps

Answer: A young woman

A flapper was a Bright Young Thing in the 1920s. She wore flapper dresses, may have smoked, and probably danced the Charleston.

From Quiz Numerical Facts

Answer: The number of Prime Ministers since 1925 representing the Liberals

Sir Alec Douglas-Home served just one year as Prime Minister from 1963-1964 and there was only one female Prime Minister in the 20th century, the unforgettable Margaret Thatcher (1 - 1 = 0). Since 1925 there have been no Prime Ministers from the Liberal Party, the last being David Lloyd George from 1916-1922. James Ramsay MacDonald was in office from 1931-1935 representing a National Government. Since 1925 there have also been 9 Conservative and 5 Labour Prime Ministers.

From Quiz Handwriting Analysis Test

Answer: balance

Balance in all areas of handwriting is the gold standard by which a sample is judged.

From Quiz In Between

Answer: Aramis

Yes, D'Artagnan became a musketeer, but the trio was firmly in place from the time D'Artagnan arrived in Paris. Laius was the father of Oedipus. Dantes became the Count of Monte Cristo.

From Quiz A Day at the Waxworks

Answer: Even Better Than The Real Thing

A model of U2 star Bono can also be found at Rock Circus.

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