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Week 42's Trivial Pursuit
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Where's the year gone ???

The autumn holidays are upon us (for some Sad ) and it's the season's final GP this Sunday too :bigcry:

I'd better start off this week's quiz before I start ranting :haha:

What is the meaning of the Greek word atomos, from which our word atom is derived?
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Jangar Wrote:Where's the year gone ???

The autumn holidays are upon us (for some Sad ) and it's the season's final GP this Sunday too :bigcry:

I'd better start off this week's quiz before I start ranting :haha:

What is the meaning of the Greek word atomos, from which our word atom is derived?

I would have said something along the lines of very small or particle: when I think of very fine perfume atom spray or a very small atom particle.

BUT: Mr Oxford tells me: ORIGIN from Greek atomos ‘indivisible’. :mmm:
Hagar the Lovable (and to some the Horrible) Wink
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Jangar Wrote:The autumn holidays are upon us (for some Sad ) and it's the season's final GP this Sunday too :bigcry:

My WIFE has been wearing black since his (that little german sh1t who rides that horrible red car) anouncement of retirement. And last week, went back to bed when he blew out the race :rofl: and spent the entire day there sulking. :rofl:
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Hagar Wrote:I would have said something along the lines of very small or particle: when I think of very fine perfume atom spray or a very small atom particle.

BUT: Mr Oxford tells me: ORIGIN from Greek atomos ‘indivisible’. :mmm:

:thumbs:

What was the name of the cafe in the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes?
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Hagar Wrote:My WIFE has been wearing black since his (that little german sh1t who rides that horrible red car) anouncement of retirement. And last week, went back to bed when he blew out the race :rofl: and spent the entire day there sulking. :rofl:

:yikes:

Only 1 day spent sulking ? I'm still too much in shock to sulk. :haha:
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Jangar
[B Wrote:
What was the name of the cafe in the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes?[/B]

The Whistle stop cafe?
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#7
Curio Wrote:The Whistle stop cafe?

:thumbs:

The film was adapted from the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.

Who was the winner when Victoria Claflin Woodhull became the first woman to run for the nation's highest office?
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#8
Jangar Wrote:Who was the winner when Victoria Claflin Woodhull became the first woman to run for the nation's highest office?

U.S.Grant
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Hagar Wrote:U.S.Grant

:thumbs:

This was in 1872.

What is variety magazine "slanguage" for a television comedy aimed at or featuring teenagers?
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#10
Something to do with ripping off or trying to understand the SLANG LANGUAGE used by teenagers? :confused:

OK, no idea :mrburns:
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