The Great FSS Trivia Challenge

1) All loyal Ohio State Buckeye fans know that TBDBITL stands for this.

2) Speaking of Buckeye Acronyms, most Buckeye fans who just can’t say a certain word also know that TSUN stands for this.

3) Only two football players can say they won the Heisman Trophy as a college player, played on a National Championship team as a college player, played on a Super Bowl winning team as a pro player, and are members of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Professional Football Hall of Fame. Can you name either one of these greats?

4) This hotel buffet is the largest buffet in Las Vegas and among the busiest restaurants in the world, serving approximately 10,000 people per day. Name this buffet “fit for a king” and the hotel that houses it.

5) In 1836, this U.S. State was the first to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.

6) This popular Christmas carol was composed by James Pierpont in 1857.

7) In Disney’s Finding Nemo, Marlin was Nemo’s father, but can you name Nemo’s mother?

8) Becoming a national monument in 1924, what was dedicated in 1886 to commemorate the American Revolution?

9) He invented the steel-tooth plow in 1837, an invention that revolutionized farming in America’s prairie lands.

10) This U.S. city boasts both the largest in city park (4,600 acre Forest Park) and the smallest (tiny 24 inch Mills End Park) in the country.

11) This Washington Post reporter serves up a devastating portrait of the Iraq War as a misguided exercise in hubris, incompetence and folly in his book aptly titled ‘Fiasco.’

12) He hit the top of the charts in 1975 with a song about a pony named ‘Wildfire.’

13) Speaking of 1975, this ship was lost in November of 1975 on Lake Superior and was later immortalized in a Gordon Lightfoot song.




Last Issue’s Puzzle Solution
1) Christopher Glenn
2) Dennis Rader
3)Toronto, Canada
4) Nickelback
5) Ohio
6) Frankenfood
7) Dennis Rodman
8) Polar Bear
9) Diet Coke
10) Etymology
11) Waldorf Statler
12) Lee Ann Rimes