The Second Trivial Pursuit and Fact or Fiction catch up thread

[Jangar]

Guess ... California

I thought California was a state, not a city...

WB BTW

[dudette]

Oh yes, I meant Los Angeles :duh:

Thanks. Good to be back

[Jangar]

Oh yes, I meant Los Angeles :duh:

Thanks. Good to be back

Nope, it's somewhere in Oklahoma

[Curio]

Is it Boise city?

[Jangar]

Is it Boise city?

:thumbs:

Well done

Time for you to do a :cheer:

Six practice bombs were mistakenly dropped on the town at 12:30 A.M. on July 5, 1943, by a U.S. Air Force B-17 on a training mission from nearby Dalhart Army Air Base. The 100-pound bombs - intended for a range 30 miles away - hit a church and a garage. There were no casualties.

W.C. Fields's tombstone reads "I'd rather be in Philadelphia".

[dudette]

Sounds like something he would say ... Fact :haha:

[penelope]

I follow Dudette

[sooibrand]

just to even the chances ---- fiction

[Jangar]

Well done Sooibrand :thumbs:

But as it is majority wins I get to do a :cheer:

It simply reads "W.C. Fields 1880-1946". However, Fields, a Philadelphia native, did consider the humorous epitaph at one time. Another variation of the rumoured epitaph read "I'd rather be dead and buried here than alive and living in Philadelphia".

What future leading lady made a brief, uncredited appearance in the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as a girl eating an ice cream cone?

[penelope]

Laura Dern :mmm: