Week 10's Trivial Pursuit

[Jangar]

A skit by what famous comedy group inspired the use of the term spam for unsolicited e-mail?

[dudette]

Monty Python

[penelope]

ditto Dudette

[Jangar]

:thumbs:

Monty Python's Flying Circus. The skit first aired on the British group's TV series in December 1970. It is set in a cafe where a customer trying to order breakfast finds that everything on the menu includes the meat product SPAM, and is serenaded by a Viking chorus singing "Spam, spam,spam..."

A carnivore eats meat, a piscivore eats fish - but what does a limnivore eat?

[dudette]

Arms and legs (limbs :cheeky: )

[penelope]

algae........

[Jangar]

Yay

I get to do a midweek :cheer:

The answer is mud.

After what legendary Hollywood actress's hourglass figure did fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli model the bottle for her Shocking perfume?

[dudette]

My namesake ... Marilyn Monroe :cheeky:

[penelope]

ditto Dudette

[Jangar]

Woo Hoo ... :cheer: Two days in a row for me, that is unusual :haha:

Mae West's. The perfume was introduced in 1936 by Schiaparelli, who also was credited with popularizing the colour shocking pink, and called her autobiography Shocking Life.

When it comes to chess sets, how tall must the king be to qualify for use in tournaments sanctioned by the U.S. Chess Federation?