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Quote of The Month
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even
though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows
neither victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The Great FSS Trivia Challenge
1) This professional baseball team was recently voted the worst
professional sports franchise of all the 4 major professional sports because of
their 15 consecutive losing seasons, one season short for the all-time record
for futility.
2) In the 1976 film, The Bad News Bears starring Walter Matthau and
Tatum O'Neal, what was the name of the company that sponsored the Bears in
the Little League they played in?
3) Speaking of Tatum O'Neal, she was once married to what famous
athlete?
4) Speaking of athletes, he pocketed $128 million dollars in 2007
making him the highest paid athlete on the planet for the 5th year in a row.
5) With well over 250,000 people in attendance, this is the largest
one day sporting event in the world.
6) As of May, 2008 this website has officially passed Yahoo to become
the most visited website by Americans.
7) The singer/group had a chart topping hit in 1986 with this smash
about racism entitled, "The Way It Is."
8) The 80's will long live as a decade famous for it's music, but can
you name the group whose members were all born in the 80's, who had a
worldwide smash in the 90's with MMMBop?
9) Vincent Bugliosi, famed prosecutor of Charles Manson, turned
author, has very recently written a book where he hypothetically puts who on
trial for murder?
10) This home designed by the future U.S. President who lived there,
has been featured on the back of U.S. Currency, was once seized by the
Confederate government and sold, and now serves as a shrine and
museum to it's original designer and occupant who is buried there.
11) The U.S. President featured in question 10 above also founded what
University?
Last Issue’s Puzzle Solution
1) Video Killed The Radio Star
2) Destiny Hope Cyrus
3) Arkansas, West Virginia
4) Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Migratory Bird
Conservation Act of 1929
5) Religulous
6) Arianna Huffington
7) Harvard
8) Chris Farley
9) "Wild Bill" Hickok
10) Bowling Pin
11) Hershey's
12) Bartles & James
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