April 28, 20251 yr (I'm still trying to process Peter Pan killing off the Lost Boys! In Pinocchio, the cricket, Jiminy Cricket in the Disney version, gets smashed and killed by... Pinocchio!)So, Fleming, Ian Fleming. I think Clifford is a fairly recent creation. Sendak wrote "Where the Wild Things Are". C.S. Lewis wrote "Narnia". That leaves C: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Musical score written by the Sherman Brothers, I found out recently.
May 8, 20251 yr Author Correct answer to Question 29: LiteratureWhat is the name of the only children’s book penned by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels?C: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
May 8, 20251 yr Author Question 29: LiteratureWhat is the most shoplifted book?A: The BibleB: Harry Potter Series booksC: JawsD: The Great Gatsby
May 8, 20251 yr I wonder if people taking the ones from hotel nightstands counts as 'shoplifting'?Purely a guess: B: Harry Potter Series books
May 8, 20251 yr My love of irony compels me to pick A: The Bible. (Although I suspect Wagi may be right.)
May 12, 20251 yr Author Correct Answer for Question 29: LiteratureWhat is the most shoplifted book?A: The Bible
May 12, 20251 yr Author Question 30: Moving onto SportsIn 2016 this baseball player surpassed Pete Rose’s record of 4,256 professional hits, but he will not appear in the MLB record books for it. A: Alex RodriguezB: Derek JeterC: Ichiro SuzukiD: Adrian BeltreBonus if you know why?
May 12, 20251 yr C: Ichiro Suzuki And it's because those numbers include 8-9 seasons laying in Japan Leagues rather than MLB...which personally I don't agree with.
May 12, 20251 yr No idea, but it sounds like Wagi knows what he's talking about, so I will go with C: Ichiro Suzuki
May 12, 20251 yr Since I know next to nothing about sports, I will brazenly copy Wagi because he seems to know what he's talking about. C: Ichiro Suzuki. And besides, Wagi's avatar looks like he's smarter than the average bear. ;-)"Sports"... What is that? As in, Mr. Spock 'sports' a goatee in the alternate universe?Ha! Citytrader posted just before I did, and said the same thing!
May 13, 20251 yr Yes, I'm an expert in sportsball...thingy-stuff!Mostly from quickly scrolling down through the sportsball section of the on-line editions of the newspaper on my way to the comics. My answer here was based on my intense knowledge of a headline I recall skimming past...Although I did once own an autographed bat and ball from Ken Griffey Junior...only because my store won a contest on who could sell the most of his videos years ago, I had them proudly displayed on a shelf as proof of my sportsball fandom nerdiness (as long as no one actually asked me anything about Ken Griffey Junior or the Sonics or whatever his Seattle sportsball team's name was...).Go Sportsball Team!I still think those Bible shoplifters just thought it was like eating grapes or candy from the bulk bins at the grocery store, or 'accidentally' hauling hotel towels, coffee creamer, mini-bottles of shampoo and toilet paper home in your suitcase from your motel stay...they EXPECT you to partake of such samples and souvenirs...right? Edited May 13, 20251 yr by Wabigbear
May 17, 20251 yr Author Correct answer for Question 30: Moving onto SportsIn 2016 this baseball player surpassed Pete Rose’s record of 4,256 professional hits, but he will not appear in the MLB record books for it.C: Ichiro SuzukiHe will not get the record because 1,278 of those hits came from when he played in Japan
May 17, 20251 yr Author Question 31: SportsAn Olympic gold medal has about how much actual gold in it?A: Less than 1%B: About 3%C: A bit more than 11%D: 51%
May 17, 20251 yr I seem to recall that the gold medals from the Paris Olympics are already losing their gold coating. Which would indicate that the gold content must be pretty low. So I'll say A: Less than 1%.
May 18, 20251 yr Cheap buggers! They probably have no money left for actual god after paying for those new stadiums...A: Less than 1%
May 20, 20251 yr Author Correct answer for Question 31: SportsAn Olympic gold medal has about how much actual gold in it?A: Less than 1%It mostly made of silver
May 20, 20251 yr Author Question 32: SportsWhen did water polo become an Olympic sport?A: 1900 ParisB: 1932 Los AngelesC: 1956 StockholmD: 1980 Moscow
May 20, 20251 yr Seems like it wasn't that long ago... i.e.- In my lifetime. So I'll just go with the most recent choice and say D: 1980 Moscow
May 21, 20251 yr Should ask citytrader if he recalls them having water polo back in 1900...But I think I read in a article about the history of the Games that it wasn't on the list for the first Modern Games in Greece, but was added for Paris, the second. So, unless citytrader recollects differently what he saw, I'm going with A: 1900 Paris
May 21, 20251 yr Ha! We're at complete opposites on this one... for a change. Maybe they had water polo in the ancient Greek Games!? Should ask ciitytrader that one! Also ask if it's true that Zeus wore a dress.
May 21, 20251 yr Well, I have a cousin who loves water polo, and you're both kind of right. Men's water polo was 1900, women's was in 2000. so, A: 1900 Paris. No, I didn't ask him, just remember from previous conversations. He did hit me over the head when I asked him how many horses drowned before they stopped riding them during the game! I mean, it is water POLO, right???JB, Zeus only wore a skirt on Thursdays! 😁
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