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Week 12's Trivial Pursuit
#1
What young Hollywood star appeared in a film called The Story of Seabiscuit more than 50 years before the highly acclaimed 2003 movie about the legendary racehorse?
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#2
Shirley Temple
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#3
nataliiie Wrote:Shirley Temple

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The historically inaccurate 1949 version of the Seabiscuit story featured Barry Fitzgerald as the trainer.

Who was the heaviest heavyweight champion to weigh in for a title bout?
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#4
In kilograms or pounds?
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#5
This depends on how up-to-date your answers are, Jangar:

Nikolai Valuev - 23st 1lb (147kg / 323lbs) - 2005

Previous to that ...
Primo Carnera - 260lbs - 1933
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#6
Eek! Blush Misread the question :double Blush
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nataliiie Wrote:This depends on how up-to-date your answers are, Jangar:

Nikolai Valuev - 23st 1lb (147kg / 323lbs) - 2005

Previous to that ...
Primo Carnera - 260lbs - 1933

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Looks like the questions were printed prior to the record being broken last year.

Here's the answer they give:

Primo Carnera. The 6-foot-7 boxer tipped the scales at 270 pounds in March 1934, before beating 184-pound Tommy Loughran in a 15-round decision. The 86-ppound difference was the biggest in a title fight.

What fruit gave a battlefield weapon its name?
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#8
Grenade (from French pomme de grenade = pomegranate)
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nataliiie Wrote:Grenade (from French pomme de grenade = pomegranate)

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They got the name because the first grenades resembled pomegrantaes in shape and size.

On the TV series The Sopranos, what was the name of the racehorse co-owned by mob boss Tony Soprano?
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#10
Pie-oh-my?
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