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Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:01 pm**

OCmike's Humpday Challenge

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

For the sake of thread readability, please copy the question into your reply. Thanks.

1. What car company has a model that’s named after the Spanish word for “river”?

2. What corporation owns Kentucky Fried Chicken?

3. What company paid more than one million dollars for JumpTheShark.com?

4. Who was the leading rusher for the Houston Texans last year?

5. In what city did Jack, Crissy and Janet live on the show “Three’s Company”?

6. Who won Superbowl III?

7. What 1999 movie features A man with a rather mundane existence suddenly introduced to a stranger who teaches him how to live on the wild side, and how to make soap?

8. Harrison Ford starred in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, but he was the movie studios second choice to play the part of Indiana Jones. Who was their first choice?

9. What British actor portrayed Grand Moff Tarkin in “Star Wars: Episode IV”?

10. In “Better Off Dead”, how much money does the paperboy want from John Cusack’s character?

11. In what make of car would you find a flux capacitor?

12. What famous science fiction author penned the book “The Puppet Masters”?

13. Who wrote “A Tale of Two Cities”?

14. “Fish” was a spin-off of what other TV show?

15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

16. Who was President of Spain at the onset of hostilities in 1936?

17. What television show once featured the “Buddy Biancalana Countdown” as a parody of the coverage surrounding Pete Rose’s chase of Ty Cobb’s hit record?

18. When did President Nixon first visit the Soviet Union as president of the US?

19. In Russia, what was the specific term called for the combining of many farms for peasants to work on?

20. What actor/actress do “Singles”, “Point of No Return” and “Lake Placid” have in common?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:05 pm**

OCmike wrote:20. What actor/actress do “Singles”, “Point of No Return” and “Lake Placid” have in common?

Bridget Fonda

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:06 pm**

6. Who won Superbowl III?

Jets

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:10 pm**

4. Who was the leading rusher for the Houston Texans last year?

Ron Dayne

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:11 pm**

14. “Fish” was a spin-off of what other TV show?

Barney Miller

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:14 pm**

10. In “Better Off Dead”, how much money does the paperboy want from John Cusack’s character?

$2

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:18 pm**

13. Who wrote “A Tale of Two Cities”?

Charles Dickens.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:20 pm**

4. Who was the leading rusher for the Houston Texans last year?

Ron Dayne

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:22 pm**

RumpleForeskin wrote:4. Who was the leading rusher for the Houston Texans last year?

Ron Dayne

Already answered. Try again.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:23 pm**

7. What 1999 movie features A man with a rather mundane existence suddenly introduced to a stranger who teaches him how to live on the wild side, and how to make soap?

Fight Club

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:26 pm**

RumpleForeskin wrote:4. Who was the leading rusher for the Houston Texans last year?

Ron Dayne

Man, you ask for a Houston question, I give you one, and BSmack beats you to the punch...

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:27 pm**

11. In what make of car would you find a flux capacitor?

DeLorean Motor Company

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:27 pm**

1 - Kia

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:28 pm**

8. Harrison Ford starred in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, but he was the movie studios second choice to play the part of Indiana Jones. Who was their first choice?

Sean Connery

"I'll take the rapist for 200"

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:31 pm**

17. What television show once featured the “Buddy Biancalana Countdown” as a parody of the coverage surrounding Pete Rose’s chase of Ty Cobb’s hit record?

Late Night with David Letterman

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:32 pm**

12. What famous science fiction author penned the book “The Puppet Masters”?

Heinlein

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:34 pm**

15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bud Grant

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:49 pm**

2. What corporation owns Kentucky Fried Chicken?

Yum

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:58 pm**

RumpleForeskin wrote:8. Harrison Ford starred in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, but he was the movie studios second choice to play the part of Indiana Jones. Who was their first choice?

Sean Connery

"I'll take the rapist for 200"

Nope.

8. Harrison Ford starred in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, but he was the movie studios second choice to play the part of Indiana Jones. Who was their first choice?
Tom Selleck

Yep.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:59 pm**

poptart wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bud Grant

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:03 pm**

OCmike wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Just a guess...Erik the Red?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:06 pm**

5. In what city did Jack, Crissy and Janet live on the show “Three’s Company”?

San Diego

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:13 pm**

5. In what city did Jack, Crissy and Janet live on the show “Three’s Company”?

Santa Monica. (To cover all the bases, LA if you're looking for the larger city, but on several occasions it was mentioned that they lived in Santa Monica.)

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

R-Jack wrote:
OCmike wrote: 2. What corporation owns Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Pepsi

Wrong - Pepsi spun off Taco Bell, KFC & Pizza Hut about 7 years ago. That corporation is now called YUM brands and also includes Long John Silvers and A&W

Smackie is correct

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:34 pm**

Shoalzie wrote:
OCmike wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Just a guess...Erik the Red?

Nope.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:37 pm**

# 3 - jumptheshark.com is owned by TV Guide/Gemstar of Which Ruppert Murdoch's News Corp. has a significant stake

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:39 pm**

16 - Manuel Azaña y Diéz

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:51 pm**

18. When did President Nixon first visit the Soviet Union as president of the US?

May 1972

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:05 pm**

15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bjarni Herjolfsson

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:00 pm**

KC Scott wrote:
R-Jack wrote:
OCmike wrote: 2. What corporation owns Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Pepsi

Wrong - Pepsi spun off Taco Bell, KFC & Pizza Hut about 7 years ago. That corporation is now called YUM brands and also includes Long John Silvers and A&W

Smackie is correct

I thought he was just hungry.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:04 pm**

Mikey wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bjarni Herjolfsson

Come on, you looked that up...just admit it. :wink:

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:20 pm**

Shoalzie wrote:
Mikey wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bjarni Herjolfsson

Come on, you looked that up...just admit it. :wink:

No, I made it up.

It wasn't actually right was it?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:27 pm**

Mikey wrote:
Shoalzie wrote:
Mikey wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bjarni Herjolfsson

Come on, you looked that up...just admit it. :wink:
No, I made it up.

It wasn't actually right was it?

No. Bjarni Herjolfsson was a founding member of ABBA.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:42 pm**

OCMike has the question in bold...someone must've said the answer.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:08 pm**

Shoalzie wrote:OCMike has the question in bold...someone must've said the answer.

He's just messing with you. Bjarni Herjolfsson is the correct answer.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:13 pm**

OCmike wrote:
Shoalzie wrote:OCMike has the question in bold...someone must've said the answer.

He's just messing with you. Bjarni Herjolfsson is the correct answer.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:45 pm**

Here's one for you Mike - and I know this only beacuse i handled their account:

When Pepsi spun off Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut - what was the original name of that new Corporation before it was later changed to YUM Brands?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:49 pm**

KC Scott wrote:Here's one for you Mike - and I know this only beacuse i handled their account:

When Pepsi spun off Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut - what was the original name of that new Corporation before it was later changed to YUM Brands?

YUCK?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:00 pm**

Shoalzie wrote:
Mikey wrote:15. Although Leif Ericson was the first European to land in the New World, which earlier Viking was actually the first to sight it?

Bjarni Herjolfsson

Come on, you looked that up...just admit it. :wink:

You just watch yourself. Mikey's on the waiting list for Jeopardy, and he has the death sentence on twelve systems.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:00 pm**

Mikey wrote:
YUCK?

Wrong Mike - You Ugly Cock Kisser

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