The Twitter Effect: 12-16-08 Tuesday Night Trivia On Twitter with Sean

12-16-08 Tuesday Night Trivia On Twitter with Sean
Hey Folks,

Since everyone had Fun Last Week we will do it again!

We will Kick it off at 8:30 Eastern Standard Time



This time we have a great prize offered by Fellow Group
Member:


Deborah Bryan
GypsyOwl
http://www.gypsyowl.com
http://www.twitter.com/GypsyOwl
http://www.twitter.com/BackgroundOwl

She is giving away a free Twitter Background.

Please be sure to give her some Kudos by Tweeting
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Tuesday Trivia Prize--A FREE TWITTER BACKGROUND
by @gypsyOwl--www.gypsyowl.com-Thanks Deborah
Brought to you By The Twitter Experiment.
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THE RULES:



Pretty Simple

15 Questions



-There will be a 15 min Break after question 7 or 8
I will tweet BREAK TIME

-First Person To answer The question Correctly..
THAT SHOWS UP ON MY @Reply Gets Credit.

-If there is a Tie....I will Tweet the people who tied
and we will have a show down between them.

-All Questions and answers will be posted here
when the game is finished.

-Obviously this is On Twitter and there are factors
such as Peoples Connection Speed, Tweet Deck getting
cluttered, you power going out, the dog eating your
power cord etc. :-) that may effect your ability to
answer quickly ...Please keep this in mind.

This is to have fun!





1. How many U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico?
A: Five. http://www.twitter.com/UncleOwen

2. What continent is cut into two fairly equal halves by the Tropic of Capricorn?
A: Australia. http://www.twitter.com/glwallace
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3.What railway linked Moscow and Irkutsk in 1900?
A. The Trans-Siberian Railway. http://www.twitter.com/glwallace

4.What country saw a world record 315 million voters turn out for elections on May 20, 1991?
A. India. http://www.twitter.com/glwallace

5. What was the first organ successfully transplanted from a cadaver to a live person?
A. Kidney http://www.twitter.com/UncleOwen

6. What golfer beat Porky Oliver at the 1946 PGA Championship to win his first major?
A.Ben Hogan. http;//www.twitter.com/MizzCindy

7.Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand slam events at least four times?
A.Steffi Graf. http://www.twitter.com/glwallace

8. What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
A.Pythagoras http://www.twitter.com/glwallace

9. How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
A. Twenty. http://www.twitter.com/deannatroupe

10. What 1938 pact caused Winston Churchill to utter: "We have sustained a defeat without a war"?
A. The Munich Pact. http://www.twitter.com/sweetcherrypop

11. What movie theme was Barbra Streisand's first chart-topping single?
A: They Way We Were. http://www.twitter.com/sweetcherrypop

12, What was the most lethal infectious disease of 1990?
A. Pneumonia http://www.twitter.com/sweetcherrypop

13, What poisonous snake's black, red and yellow bands are mimicked in the harmless milk snake?
A. The coral snake's. http://www.twitter.com/drpants

14. What's the more common term for herpes zoster?
A Shingles. http://www.twitter.com/Sweetnote

15. What two seas flank the Caucasus Mountains?'
A: The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea http://www.twitter.com/UncleOwen

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