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Off the top of your head , can you name

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  8 years ago  •  44 comments

Off the top of your head , can you name

Off the top of your head , can you name

 

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4  pieces of classical music

 

5  rap songs

 

4  Canadian provinces

 

5  best actress oscar winners and the films they won for

 

The original six NHL teams

 

4  cities in Alabama

 

4  Pacific islands the US Marines fought on in WW2

 

2  U.S. Congresspeople from a single state other than your own

 

7  world religions

 

3  standard weights of bowling balls

 

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Honor system. Anyone can look them up. How many do you know off the top of your head?

 

I could only complete a few of them, and I made up the questions !

 


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JohnRussell
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What say you? 

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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4  pieces of classical music:

Shahrazad, Beethoven's 9th, Mozart's Requiem, Midnight Concerto

5  rap songs

Baby's got back, Rapper's delight, Naughty by nature, Run DMC's Walk this way, Blondie's Rapture

4  Canadian provinces

Toronto, Alberta, Quebec, British Columbia

5  best actress oscar winners and the films they won for

Oprah- The color Purple, Meryl Streep-The Deer Hunter, Dame Judy Dench- Chocolat, Patty Duke-The Miracle Worker, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Taylor

The original six NHL teams

Not a clue.

cities in Alabama

Bermingham, Mobile, Tuskegee, Montgomery.  

4  Pacific islands the US Marines fought on in WW2

Iwo Jima, Pearl Harbor, Marshall Islands... The battle of Midway?

2  U.S. Congresspeople from a single state other than your own

Elijah Cummings, Nancy Pelosi

7  world religions

1. Christianity, 2. Judaism, 3. Islam, 4. Hindu, 5. Buddisim 6. Shinto, 7.Baha'i 

3  standard weights of bowling balls

10lbs, 12lbs, 14lbs. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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You did very good.

 

However.

Toronto is not a province.

Oprah did not win a best actress oscar, and Meryl Streep did not win a best actress oscar for the Deerhunter.

Not close on the Marines.

 

2  U.S. Congresspeople from a single state other than your own

Elijah Cummings and Nancy Pelosi are not from the same state. 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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I guess your answer of "Midway" could fall into a grey zone, now that I think about it. The Battle of Midway was almost entirely a naval engagement, but there were marine torpedo bomber squadrons involved. So you get three islands correct. 

 
 
 
Dowser
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Too much for my brain, today!

4 pieces of Classical Music:

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart.  Bolero, Ravel.  Spring, Vivaldi.  Water Music, Handel.  Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Bach.

5 Rap Songs:

Baby Got Back, Gangsta's Paradise, I can't think of the name, but the chorus goes, "A little bit of Tina's what I need, a little bit of Monica blah blah beed, a little bit of Rita for my ____, a little bit of Marilyn all night long, and then I'm stuck.  OK, I'm tapped out.

4 Canadian Provinces:

New Brunswick, Quebec, Yukon, Alberta

5 Best Actress Oscar Winners and their movies:

Louise Rainer, The Good Earth.  Katharine Hepburn, Lion in Winter.  Meryl Streep, Kramer vs Kramer.  Shirley Maclaine, Terms of Endearment.  Sally Field, Places in the Heart.  

The Original NHL teams (6)

I have no idea.  I don't watch hockey...  It's pretty warm down here in KY.

Cities in Alabama:

Montgomery, Huntington, Decatur, Birmingham, and Mobile.

4 Pacific Islands the US Marines fought on in WWII:

Iwo Jima, Saipan, Guadalcanal, Okinawa  Is Guadalcanal a canal or a city?  

2 congress people from another state, other then your own.

OK, this is hard.  McCain, and Pelosi.  Not sure about spelling, couldn't come up with their first names if my life depended on it.

7 World Religions:

Buddhism, Catholicism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Protestant, Judaism, Confucianism, Islam  There, that's 7, right?  I'm really caught  up with the Celtic faiths in my brain right now...

3 standard weights of bowling balls.

I don't know if it is standard, but I bowl with either an 8 pound or a 10 pound.  The 12 pound balls are just too heavy!

 

 
 
 
Dowser
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OK rap song is Mambo #9...  One of the few rap songs I like!

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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"A little bit of Tina's what I need, a little bit of Monica blah blah beed, a little bit of Rita for my ____, a little bit of Marilyn all night long, and then I'm stuck.  OK, I'm tapped out.

 

The name of the song is Mambo #5. Don't believe it qualifies as rap. 

 

You did very well though Dowser. 

 

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Shirley Maclaine won a best actress oscar for Terms Of Endearment even though hers was basically a supporting performance.

 
 
 
Dowser
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It probably doesn't, which is why I like it!  winking

 
 
 
Dowser
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Tell me, did I get some of the islands right?  How about Canadian ;provinces?  (Priorities, you know...)

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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All 4 of your answers about the marines are correct

 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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Yukon is not a province Dowser.

Mc Cain and Pelosi are not from the same state.

 
 
 
Dowser
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You're right, it's a territory.  Oh well...

Oh, didn't get that you meant from the same state!  Couldn't have answered it, anyway!  winking

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
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4  pieces of classical music

William tell overture, 1812 overture , only 2 I can think of off the TOH

 

5  rap songs

 Don't listen to rap , but recognize blondie having one of the first ones in the 1970s (late)

4  Canadian provinces

 BC, NWT, Quebec , Manitoba

5  best actress oscar winners and the films they won for

 never paid attention to the oscars

The original six NHL teams

 blackhawks ,rangers , flyers , bruins , mapleleafs are 5 I can remember being from Chicago, Ny,phillie, boston , and Toronto respectively

4  cities in Alabama

Birmingham , Mobile , Montgomery ,tuskeegee

 

4  Pacific islands the US Marines fought on in WW2

 Wake , iwo jima , Okinawa, guadalcanal

2  U.S. Congresspeople from a single state other than your own

 Didn't say past or present , all 3 kennedy brothers , john Kerry , eward brookes.

7  world religions

 Roman catholic , eastern orthodox catholic, Islamic(muslim) hindu ,Shinto, buddism, Hebrew

 

3  standard weights of bowling balls

1#, 5#, *8#    (candle pin bowling)

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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blackhawks ,rangers , flyers , bruins , mapleleafs are 5 I can remember being from Chicago, Ny,phillie, boston , and Toronto respectively

sixth was detroit

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Not so sure about the Flyers, but what about the Montreal Canadiens?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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You are right Buzz. I didn't look closely enough at Mark's answer. The National Hockey League original six were the Montreal Canadians, The Toronto Maple Leafs, The New York Rangers, The Chicago Blackhawks, The Boston Bruins, and the Detroit Red Wings.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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The team's name is "Canadiens" not "Canadians".  It's French.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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Interesting. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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What the puck!!! I'm off to Yellow Knife.

 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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NWT is a Territory but not a Province. NWT = North West Territory

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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If I could come up with anything off the top of my head, I'd still have hair.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Me too, that's why I dared not even try.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Baseball quiz: What was the name of the Canadian MLB team other than the Blue Jays?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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that's too easy Buzz. let's see if a non baseball fan can get it

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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You're right, it was easy. It's been a lot of years since they were in Montreal so I thought it might take a real baseball fan, and as you can see below, it did.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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Montreal Expos … now the WASHINGTON NATIONALS.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Of course you're right. For sure I wasn't going to ask who hit the home run that won the Blue Jays second World Series.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Same rules apply - guess on the top of your head - on your honour no internet or encyclopedia research.

1  What was the nationality of the person who invented basketball?

2  How much royalties have been earned by the person who invented windshield wipers?

3  What famous author met his/her death the same way his/her father did?

4  What car was called the "step-down" car?

5  What author praised the works of Turner and criticized those of Constable?

6  Where was paper invented?

7  Where was Phil Ochs when he composed the song "Changes"?

8  What was Joni Mitchell's surname before she married?

9  In what city was "The Great One" born?

10 What Canadian created the UN Peacekeepers?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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Off the top of my head

1  What was the nationality of the person who invented basketball?   AMERICAN

2  How much royalties have been earned by the person who invented windshield wipers?   ZERO

3  What famous author met his/her death the same way his/her father did? ERNEST HEMINGWAY

 

6  Where was paper invented? CHINA

7  Where was Phil Ochs when he composed the song "Changes"? IN PRISON

8  What was Joni Mitchell's surname before she married? MC GUILICUDDY

9  In what city was "The Great One" born? BROOKLYN

 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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John you got 2, 3 and 6 right.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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Maybe you were thinking of a different "great one" , but it was a title given to Jackie Gleason and he was born in Brooklyn

The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason  ...

www.amazon.com ›  Books  ›  Arts & Photography  ›  Performing Arts

Buy  The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason  on ... If you're looking for an objective biography of  Jackie Gleason , search elsewhere. " The Great One " is ...

 

Born John Herbert Gleason February 26, 1916
Brooklyn , New York, U.S.
 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Sorry John, I was thinking of Wayne Gretzky - who was also known as "The Great One"; Now that I saw your comment I remembered that Jackie Gleason WAS known as The Great One as well. Therefore you got 9 correct. However, do you know what city Wayne Gretzky was born in?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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Somewhere in Canada, lol.    I won't cheat.   I'll guess Edmonton. 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Yes John, somewhere in Canada, but not Edmonton.

 
 
 
Krishna
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Has anyone here ever played the game "Trivial Pursuit"?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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I did. I had the game at home. It was invented by some hippies in Ontario who became rich from it.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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OMG Buzz... Those are hard ones! 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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They're all things that I knew without having to look them up, but I admit some are very hard for others. As you can see, John got 3 of them right.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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Correction: John got 4 of them right.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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A little info about the questions answered correctly.

2  An American woman who had trouble seeing the road on a rainy day invented the windshield wipers, and never earned one cent from it. Can you imagine how much she COULD have earned if royalties were paid to her or to her estate?

3  Ernest Hemingway shot himself in the head with a shotgun, just as his father had done before him. They suffered from depression.

6  Not only was paper invented in China, but so was writing, although the first writing was on flat bones and bamboo strips, not on paper.

 

 
 
 
Dowser
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Neat, Buzz!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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I guess Canadians would have had a better chance to solve these, but in any event it looks like the remaining questions will not be answered, so here they are, with some commentary.

1   Although basketball was invented in the USA, the inventor was a Canadian.

4   The 1951 Hudson. My father bought a 1951 Hudson Hornet, and after I, as a 15-year-old learner, partially demolished it, he bought a 1952 Hudson Hornet.

5  John Ruskin. I might not have known that if I had not majored in English Literature for my B.A.

7  In the "Green Room" while waiting to perform at the Riverboat Coffee House in Toronto. I was there that night.

8  Joni's maiden name was Anderson, and she changed it when she married Chuck Mitchell.

9  Wayne Gretzky "The Great One" (of hockey) was born in Brantford, Ontario, about a half hour drive from where I was born and grew up.

10 Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Toronto's airport is named after him.

 
 
 
Krishna
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8  What was Joni Mitchell's surname before she married?

Before she was married her name was actually Mary Mitchell-- but when she got married she changed "Mary" to "Joni".

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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link   Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna   8 years ago

Ha ha. I said SURNAME, not GIVEN name. When Joni just arrived in Toronto in 1964 from Saskatoon, to see the Mariposa Folk Festival, she came right from the train station to the rooming house I was staying in on Madison Avenue, into the living room where I was sleeping on the couch. I was the first person in Toronto she met. I saw her as a buck-toothed long straight-haired blond girl carrying a guitar case. We stayed up a whole night while she played her songs for me. I had come to Toronto to see the festival with a couple of guys who owned a coffee house in Hamilton called the Black Swan. Their names were Jim Neff and Harry Finley, and I talked them into hiring her for her first gig in Ontario. Joni and I remained friends for many years, and I KNOW her name was never Mary Mitchell. 

 
 

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