FSS Newsletter :: July 2003

Trivia Challenge

This Month's Challenge

1) The Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin to feature a historic figure. President Abraham Lincoln was first placed on the penny in 1909 to commemorate this.

2) This very familiar entity encompasses approximately 41,330 square miles.

3) She paid an American record $50 million dollars for a residence outside Santa Barbara, California, the highest sum ever paid for a personal residence in the United States.

4) He is the only person in U.S. history to be elected to the United States Senate as a write-in candidate. I feel almost certain that this will never happen again.

5) When the State Quarter for Alabama is released, what famous person will appear on their quarter? The Alabama quarter dollar will be the first U.S. coin minted for circulation with what unique feature?

6) Speaking of the State Quarters, how is what appears on each state’s quarter design determined?

7) In each episode, this TV Detective would return to a witness and ask, "Just one more thing..."

8) Speaking of TV Detectives, who when interviewing witnesses insisted on “Just the facts, Ma’am.”

9) When the Democrats enticed Andrew Jackson into Presidential politics in the 1820s, they presented him to the people as "the __________ of Tennessee."

10) She was the first former actress as well as the first former foreign Head of State to appear on an American postage stamp when it came out in 1993.

11) It is illegal to drive barefoot in how many states in the US?

Last Issue’s Puzzle Solution

1) Marion Barry

2) Polk High School

3) Don’t Give Up On Us Baby

4) Bob Hope

5) Sir Edmund Hillary

6) Band-aide

7) Eldrick

8) Toy Story

9) Where’s The Beef?

10) Smithsonian Institution

11) Brazil

12) New York City

13) Geddy Lee