Quote Of The Month

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk. This is your moment. Own it.
— Oprah Winfrey



The Great FSS Trivia Challenge

1) Forty billionaires call this world city home, giving it the distinction of having more billionaire residents than any other city in the world.

2) He is the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit 35 home runs and have 200 hits in three consecutive seasons. This fete however, has not as of yet earned him a spot in Baseball’s Hall of Fame.

3) Once again for the past year, he topped Forbes list of the world’s highest paid athletes.

4) This singer had several hit songs from his smash 1977 album including, “All Revved Up With No Place to Go.”

5) Name the only 4 characters which appeared in all six of the “Star Wars” movies.

6) Speaking of Star Wars, it originally debuted in 1977, the biggest film of that year by far. But can you name the second highest grossing film that year? (Hint: It made a star of this former TV pupil who is still a top box office draw even today)

7) With 121 deaths in the past 13 years, this U.S. State leads the nation by far in the number of people killed by lighting strikes.

8) “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country,” is a famous quote from what American Patriot?

9) Speaking of American Patriots, when colonials dumped tea into Boston Harbor as a protest to The Tea Act of 1773, they were disguised as what?

10) When Albert Woolson died in 1956 at the age of 109, he had been the last authenticated surviving American who had actually participated in this.

11) Purely from the point of total cost and harm that its abuse causes to a community (crime, social problems, health problems) this is generally considered to be the most dangerous drug known to man.


Last Issue’s Puzzle Solution
1) 1964, (1965 also acceptable)
2) Camaro
3) Limelight
4) President James A. Garfield
5) Binford Tools
6) 8
7) 4:10
8) 7, (6 would also be acceptable)
9) Boston
10) 140 & Above
11) Climbing Mt. Everest, Barrel ride over Niagara Falls also acceptable as an answer
12) Spacely Sprockets
13) 20
14) 5, eye, ear, lip, jaw, gum