Week 4's Trivial Pursuit

[Jangar]

What was the name of the Virginia mansion where first-lady-to-be Martha Washington lived with her first husband, wealthy planter Daniel Parke Custis?

[dudette]

White House

[Jangar]

White House

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The mansion, on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, is the widowed Martha Dandrige Custis was living at the time of her marriage to George Washington.

What was the $50 bet between editor Bennet Cerf and Theodor Geisel - aka Dr. Seuss - that resulted in the children's classic Green Eggs and Ham?

[dudette]

The editor bet Dr Seuss that he couldn't write a children's book using less that a certain number of words... I think it was 50, or perhaps even 30.

[Jangar]

The editor bet Dr Seuss that he couldn't write a children's book using less that a certain number of words... I think it was 50, or perhaps even 30.

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It was 50 words and Geisel won.

What federal building in Washington, D.C., has a larger-than-life frieze of Napoleon Bonaparte on a wall in its main chamber?

[dudette]

The supreme court

[Jangar]

The supreme court

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The friese is one of 18 marble likenesses on the courtroom's north and south walls, depicting great figures in legal history. Napoleon's legal legacy is 1804 Civil Code.

What early colonial figure escaped slavery in Turkey before trvelling to the New World to help found a settlement?

[Jangar]

Too difficult ? :p

[dudette]

John Smith of Pocahontas fame

[Jangar]

John Smith of Pocahontas fame

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Captain John Smith, who helped establish Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, in 1607. British-born Smith was captured and sold into slavery in 1602 while fighting for the Austrian armyagainst the Turks in Transylvania.

What is the literal meaning of the word antibiotic?