18-07-2005, 08:47 AM
What major league pitching ace gave all his children names begining with "K" - the score-keeping symbol for a strikeout?
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18-07-2005, 10:46 AM
The only Major League Pitcher I can think of off the top of my head :cheeky: is Babe Ruth.
19-07-2005, 09:06 AM
A bit difficult one so I'll keep it to a small :cheer:
Roger Clemens, who pitched for the Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Bosten Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. His four sons wre named Kody, Koby, Kory and Kacy. Why did malaria-stricken Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, refuse to take quinine, the only known cure for the disease?
19-07-2005, 04:12 PM
Because it was probably in Tonic water, and he was a Puritan, was he not? (Gin and tonic?)
20-07-2005, 08:27 AM
dudette Wrote:Because it was probably in Tonic water, and he was a Puritan, was he not? (Gin and tonic?) Not quite so yet again I get to do a :cheer: :haha: Because it was introduced by the Jesuits, and was believed by many Protestants to be part of a sinister plot to poison them. Cromwell died rather than take what some called "the powder of the devil". What member of a royal family once appeared as a crew member on TV's Star Trek: Voyager?
21-07-2005, 09:05 AM
dudette Wrote:Then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Jordan Guess what... No :cheer: for me today :haha: :thumbs: Nice one Dudette  A big fan of the show, he made a cameo appearance as a medical officer in an episode entitled "Investigations". What famous 19th century novel's working title was Elinor and Marianne, the names of two of its key characters?
21-07-2005, 12:02 PM
Jangar Wrote:Guess what... Also, because he did'nt belong to the Actors Guild, he was not a allowed to say any lines... ... I guess One of Jane Austen's novels... Sense and Sensibility springs to mind, but I am sure there were more than 2 main characters... 
22-07-2005, 10:10 AM
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The question did say "two of its key characters"  In her novel the first to be published, sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood represent sense and sensibility, or the rational and the romantic. What country was the third - after the Untied States and the Soviet Union - to have an artificial satellite orbit the earth? |
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