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Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:51 pm**

OCmike's Humpday Challenge

There is only one rule: No more than one correctly answered question per person, per hour.

To make the thread easier to follow, please post the question to which you are responding in your reply.

1. What is the Nirvana song “Polly” about?

2. What is the team mascot of Coastal Carolina University?

3. What do math, alcohol, evidence and photography have in common?

4. Alphabetically (location, not mascot), which are the first and last NFL teams?

5. Which NFL team signed the first black player in 1946?

6. The Lindbergh Kidnapping served as an inspiration for what film?

7. The landmark civil-rights case, Brown vs. Board of Education, originated from what state?

8. How many states joined the Union in the 20th century?

9. Who did Dan Rather take over for on the CBS evening news in 1981?

10. Who was the first Billionaire in the US?

11. What did the National Security Act of 1947 do?

12. In what year did the 6.6 Northridge earthquake occur?

13. What is the name for A digestive enzyme that breaks down starch to maltose?

14. What is the name for the first cervical vertebra which supports the skull?

15. What is the term for The tissue fluid of the eyeball?

16. What's the name of Alabama's on-campus stadium?

17. At which school was Iowa Hawkeye football coach Hayden Fry the head coach, just before coming to Iowa?

18. What is the yellow sign Irish Football players hit, before running onto the field?

19. The Rose Bowl that was played in 2006 between a Big 12 school and a Pac 10 school was won by which team?

20. What does the H.W. stand for in George H.W. Bush’s name?

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:59 pm**

20. What does the H.W. stand for in George H.W. Bush’s name?

Herbert Walker

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:00 pm**

9. Who did Dan Rather take over for on the CBS evening news in 1981?

Walter Cornkite

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:01 pm**

Who the fuck is "Walter Cornkite"?

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:01 pm**

4. Alphabetically (location, not mascot), which are the first and last NFL teams?

Atlanta and Tennessee

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:02 pm**

A.C. Crut wrote:4. Alphabetically (location, not mascot), which are the first and last NFL teams?

Atlanta and Tennessee

Nope.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:03 pm**

OCmike wrote:18. What is the yellow sign Irish Football players hit, before running onto the field?

"PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY"

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:03 pm**

2 - Chanticleers

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:15 pm**

7. The landmark civil-rights case, Brown vs. Board of Education, originated from what state?

Kansas

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:18 pm**

13. What is the name for A digestive enzyme that breaks down starch to maltose?

Salivary amylase

(HS Bio)

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:23 pm**

10. Who was the first Billionaire in the US?

John D. Rockafeller

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:25 pm**

BSmack wrote:10. Who was the first Billionaire in the US?

John D. Rockafeller

You'd think somebody from NY would get the speeling right.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:27 pm**

4. Alphabetically (location, not mascot), which are the first and last NFL teams?

Arizona Cardinals, Washington Redskins.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:32 pm**

16. What's the name of Alabama's on-campus stadium?

Bryant Denny

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:32 pm**

Mikey wrote:
BSmack wrote:10. Who was the first Billionaire in the US?

John D. Rockafeller
You'd think somebody from NY would get the speeling right.

I blame it on the pervasive influence of hip hop culture.

And Bush.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:34 pm**

OCmike wrote: 5. Which NFL team signed the first black player in 1946?

The Los Angeles Rams...

edit: Sammy beat me to it

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:57 pm**

17. North Texas

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:06 pm**

19 - Texas

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:09 pm**

OCmike wrote:1. What is the Nirvana song “Polly” about?

A chick who was held captive and raped by some psycho. In Tacoma, if I remember right. Specific enough?

3. What do math, alcohol, evidence and photography have in common?

They're things Luther thinks he's good at.

Wait, that's two. Sorry.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:16 pm**

OCmike wrote:19. The Rose Bowl that was played in 2006 between a Big 12 school and a Pac 10 school was won by which team?

Oklahoma?

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:19 pm**

13. What is the name for A digestive enzyme that breaks down starch to maltose?

Yogurt.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:23 pm**

MuchoBulls wrote:19 - Texas

But of course, USC-Texas...what the hell was I thinking?

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:24 pm**

Shoalzie wrote:
MuchoBulls wrote:19 - Texas

But of course, USC-Texas...what the hell was I thinking?

Did you forget to read the date? Oklahoma beat Washington State in the '03 Rose Bowl.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:27 pm**

3. What do math, alcohol, evidence and photography have in common?

Proof

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:29 pm**

8. How many states joined the Union in the 20th century?

5

Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Alaska
Hawaii

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:51 pm**

Jsc810 wrote:11. What did the National Security Act of 1947 do?

Reorganized the military and established the NSC and the CIA.

and established the Department of Defense from the Department of War.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:56 pm**

I believe it formed the Air Force, as well.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:59 pm**

OCmike wrote:14. What is the name for the first cervical vertebra which supports the skull?

The atlas.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:05 pm**

Terry in Crapchester wrote:
Shoalzie wrote:
MuchoBulls wrote:19 - Texas

But of course, USC-Texas...what the hell was I thinking?
Did you forget to read the date? Oklahoma beat Washington State in the '03 Rose Bowl.

Yeah...I knew Oklahoma played in the Rose Bowl in the BCS era. I know Miami thumped Nebraska at the Rose Bowl as well.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:17 pm**

14. What is the name for the first cervical vertebra which supports the skull?

C1

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:18 pm**

6. The Lindbergh Kidnapping served as an inspiration for what film?

Murder on the Orient Express

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:40 pm**

Mikey wrote:6. The Lindbergh Kidnapping served as an inspiration for what film?

Murder on the Orient Express

I was going to say Finding Nemo
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