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Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Jangar - 15-03-2006

A bit of a shortened version this week Sad

What was the first cable TV network in the U.S.?


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - dudette - 15-03-2006

CNN? :mmm:


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Curio - 15-03-2006

Was it HBO (Home box office)??


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Jangar - 16-03-2006

Curio Wrote:Was it HBO (Home box office)??

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It was established in 1972 by Time Inc.

In what month do Russians commemorate the 1917 October Revolution?


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Curio - 16-03-2006

The month of November.


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Jangar - 17-03-2006

Curio Wrote:The month of November.

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On November 7. Russia was using the Julian calendar at the time, and was 13 days behind our modern Greorian calendar, so November 7 was our October 25. It switched to the Grepgorian calendar in 1918.

What wacky movie - and broadway musical - borrowed a key character's name from Irish writer James Joyce?


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Jangar - 18-03-2006

Me thinks I've left this question up long enough :haha:

:cheer: for me :p

The Producers. Mousy accountant Leo Bloom is named for Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses. Writer-producer Mel Brooks made his bow to Joyce clear by having Bloom meet producer Max Bialystock on June 16, the day all action in Ulysses takes place.

In the Batman comics, what was the name of Bruce Wayne's butler?


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - dudette - 18-03-2006

Alfred Pennyworth


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Curio - 18-03-2006

ditto Dudette.


Week 11's Trivial Pursuit - Jangar - 19-03-2006

:thumbs:

What was the name of the political party founded by Texas billionaire Ross Perot in 1995?