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After a hard fought battle between Sonuvabum and SmokinSims the winner, by virtue of being the first to 24 correct answers is.....
Sonuvabum!
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Now for the answers you have all been waiting for.
Q1.How did the US Navy say “Well Done” phonetically in February 1956? In April 1956?
A.In March 1956 the Navy adopted the ICAO alphabet. It was then that "Baker Zebra" finally became "Bravo Zulu".
Q2.This was the first number retired in Baseball
A. Lou Gehrig #4
Q3. This 108 year old baseball record was broken in 2009. What is the record and who did it?
A. Consecutive 200 hit seasons by Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle (9)
Q4. What do I drink from the “valley of the deer”? Specifically.
A. Glenfiddich Scotch
Q5. Ronald Reagan voted for FDR how many times?
A. Four
Q6. How many more Medal of Honor winners have been Commandant of the Marine Corps (35 total Commandants) compared to Chief of Staff US Army (39 in total)?
A. Four Commandants have been Medal of Honor winners. Three Army Chiefs of Staff have won.
A: One
MARINES:
MGen Wendell Neville (1929-1930)
Awarded the Medal of Honor as a LtCol for his actions while commanding Marines landing at Vera Cruz, Mexico on 21 April 1914.
Gen Alexander A. Vandegrift (1944-1947)
He earned the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross in WWII for his service in the Solomon Islands. He was sworn in as CMC as a LtGen, but 14 months later he became the first Marine on active duty to attain four stars.
Gen David Shoup (1960-1963)
He earned the Medal of Honor while commanding the 2nd Marines as a Colonel during the fight for Tarawa.
Gen Louis H. Wilson (1975-1979)
Medal of Honor recipient for his actions as a Captain in Guam during 25-26 July 1944 while commanding a rifle company from 2d Battalion, 9th Marines.
U.S. ARMY
MG J. Franklin Bell (1906-1910)
Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions of September 9, 1899 near Porac on Luzon Island in the Philippines.
MG Leonard Wood (1910-1914)
Awarded the Medal of Honor, in 1898, for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and for commanding an infantry detachment whose officers had been lost.
GEN Douglas MacArthur (1930-1935)
Awarded the Medal of Honor (April 1, 1942) For his leadership in the defense of the Philippines
Q7. The Ramones met “The only band that matters” for the first time where and when?
A: Dingwall's club - July 5, 1976
Q8: This was the first song Prince learned to play on guitar
A: Proud Mary
Q9: This President’s first name was Leslie
A: Gerald R Ford born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. on July 14, 1913.
Q10: What president served the shortest full term.
A: FDR’s first term ended on January 20[sup]th[/sup] 1937 after his being sworn in on March 4[sup]th[/sup] 1933, 45 days less then previous presidents due to the signing of the 20[sup]th[/sup] Amendment (1418 days) The first-term inaugural of George Washington was postponed 57 days (1 month and 27 days) to April 30, 1789 because the U.S. Congress had not yet achieved a quorum. However, he had been elected by the Electoral College. I’ll accept either answer.
Q11: Two women both named Brewer are special in the history of the Marine Corps. Who are they and what did they do?
A:In secret, Lucy Brewer became the first woman to serve in the Marine Corps. Disguised as a gung-ho man, she served in the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. In May 1978, BGen. Margaret Brewer became the first general grade Woman Marine, serving as Director of Information.
Q12: Who was the first guitarist with a 100 watt amp?
A: Dick Dale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale)
“Leo Fender kept giving Dale amps and Dale kept blowing them up! Till one night Leo and his right hand man Freddy T. (Freddie Tavares) went down to the Rendezvous Ballroom on the Balboa Peninsula in Balboa, California and stood in the middle of four thousand screaming and dancing Dick Dale fans, and said to Freddy, I now know what Dick Dale is trying to tell me. Back to the drawing board. A special 85 watt output transformer, manufactured by the Triad Transformer Company, was made that peaked 100 watts, when Dale would pump up the volume of his amp, this transformer would create the sounds along with Dale's style of playing, the kind of sounds that Dale dreamed of. But they now needed a speaker that would handle the power and not burn up from the volume that would come from Dale's guitar.“
“Leo, Freddy and Dale went to the James B. Lansing speaker company, and they explained that they wanted a fifteen inch speaker built to their specifications. That speaker would soon be known as the 15" JBL D130 speaker. It made the complete package for Dale to play through and was named the Single Showman Amp. When Dale plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the new Showman Amp and speaker cabinet, Dale became the first person on earth to jump from the volume scale of a modest quiet guitar player on a scale of 4 to blasting up through the volume scale to TEN! That is when Dale became the "Father of Heavy Metal" as quoted from Guitar Player magazine. Dale broke through the electronic barrier limitations of that era!”
Q13: Who was the very first "center square" on "The Hollywood Squares"?
A: Jim Backus - pilot, Ernest Borgnine – 1[sup]st[/sup] show
Q14: Name a platinum sales certified California band who got their name from a Monty Python skit.
A: Toad The Wet Sprocket. The band drew its name from the Eric Idle monologue "Rock Notes" on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album from 1980,
Q15: The red star that Macy’s is known for came from ……?
A:The star in the Macy's logo comes from a tattoo that Mr. Macy got as a teenager when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship.
Q16: How many noodles are in a can of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup?
A: 216
Q17: What 2 US Army Generals held the highest titled rank ever given in the United States?
A: Public Law 94-479, General of the Armies of the United States was established as having "rank and precedence over all other grades of the Army, past or present," clearly making it superior to General of the Army. It has been held by two people: John J. Pershing who received the rank in 1919 after World War I, and George Washington who received it posthumously in 1976 as part of the American Bicentennial celebrations.
Q18: Who was the first Major League player to have an at bat in the month of November.
A: Derek Jeter. Jeter's homer with 2 out in the 10th ties the Series in the first-ever Series at-bat by any player in the month of November (just after midnight on November 1, 2001); the series had been delayed because of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Q19: What was the first complete movie shown on television in the US?
A: The Crooked Circle a 1932 detective film was shown in 1933. In Los Angeles, the Don Lee Broadcasting System showed the film on March 10, 1933 over their experimental station W6XAO, transmitting an 80-line resolution picture to a half-dozen or less receiving sets in the greater Los Angeles area.
The first full–length feature film shown on television was "Police Patrol " (US 1925), transmitted in six daily episodes by W2XCD Passaic, NJ, 6–11 April 1931."
Q20: Who played Eddie's Girlfriend in the Tom Petty video "Into The Great Wide Open?"
A: Gabrielle Anwar
Q21: What company’s amplifiers powered the first Woodstock Music and Arts Festival?
A: McIntosh (http://www.robbreport.com/Home-Electronics-Power-Player.aspx)
Q22: This day was the first the New York Stock Exchange closed early due to bad weather.
A: Monday March 12, 1888. The Exchange closed early the next day too. During the famous Blizzard of ’88 quite possible the strongest snow storm ever to hit the eastern United States in recorded history.
Q23: What is this? N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L
A: Drake’s Equation
Q24: Who was the first New Jersey native elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
A: William Robert "Sliding Billy" Hamilton
Q25: Who was the first American casualty of World War One?
A: In the battle of the Somme, Harry Butters serving in the British Royal Artillery, became the first American combat casualty in the First World War. Also Adolf Hitler, then a member of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Battle of the Somme and was wounded, taking a bullet to the leg on 7 October 1916.
On March 28, 1915 - Leon Thrasher became the first American citizen killed.
Q26: The United States Army Air Corps first bombed Hawaii on this date.
A: On Dec. 27, 1935 the Army Air Corps dropped 20 600lb bombs near Hilo to stop a lava flow from engulfing the town.
Q27: This supergroup might have been called “HELP” until one of the people who was supposed to join died. Who were going to be the members?
A: Hendrix, Emerson, Lake, Palmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson,_Lake_%26_Palmer)
Sonuvabum!
Send me your addy and I'll get something out to you.
Now for the answers you have all been waiting for.
Q1.How did the US Navy say “Well Done” phonetically in February 1956? In April 1956?
A.In March 1956 the Navy adopted the ICAO alphabet. It was then that "Baker Zebra" finally became "Bravo Zulu".
Q2.This was the first number retired in Baseball
A. Lou Gehrig #4
Q3. This 108 year old baseball record was broken in 2009. What is the record and who did it?
A. Consecutive 200 hit seasons by Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle (9)
Q4. What do I drink from the “valley of the deer”? Specifically.
A. Glenfiddich Scotch
Q5. Ronald Reagan voted for FDR how many times?
A. Four
Q6. How many more Medal of Honor winners have been Commandant of the Marine Corps (35 total Commandants) compared to Chief of Staff US Army (39 in total)?
A. Four Commandants have been Medal of Honor winners. Three Army Chiefs of Staff have won.
A: One
MARINES:
MGen Wendell Neville (1929-1930)
Awarded the Medal of Honor as a LtCol for his actions while commanding Marines landing at Vera Cruz, Mexico on 21 April 1914.
Gen Alexander A. Vandegrift (1944-1947)
He earned the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross in WWII for his service in the Solomon Islands. He was sworn in as CMC as a LtGen, but 14 months later he became the first Marine on active duty to attain four stars.
Gen David Shoup (1960-1963)
He earned the Medal of Honor while commanding the 2nd Marines as a Colonel during the fight for Tarawa.
Gen Louis H. Wilson (1975-1979)
Medal of Honor recipient for his actions as a Captain in Guam during 25-26 July 1944 while commanding a rifle company from 2d Battalion, 9th Marines.
U.S. ARMY
MG J. Franklin Bell (1906-1910)
Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions of September 9, 1899 near Porac on Luzon Island in the Philippines.
MG Leonard Wood (1910-1914)
Awarded the Medal of Honor, in 1898, for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and for commanding an infantry detachment whose officers had been lost.
GEN Douglas MacArthur (1930-1935)
Awarded the Medal of Honor (April 1, 1942) For his leadership in the defense of the Philippines
Q7. The Ramones met “The only band that matters” for the first time where and when?
A: Dingwall's club - July 5, 1976
Q8: This was the first song Prince learned to play on guitar
A: Proud Mary
Q9: This President’s first name was Leslie
A: Gerald R Ford born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. on July 14, 1913.
Q10: What president served the shortest full term.
A: FDR’s first term ended on January 20[sup]th[/sup] 1937 after his being sworn in on March 4[sup]th[/sup] 1933, 45 days less then previous presidents due to the signing of the 20[sup]th[/sup] Amendment (1418 days) The first-term inaugural of George Washington was postponed 57 days (1 month and 27 days) to April 30, 1789 because the U.S. Congress had not yet achieved a quorum. However, he had been elected by the Electoral College. I’ll accept either answer.
Q11: Two women both named Brewer are special in the history of the Marine Corps. Who are they and what did they do?
A:In secret, Lucy Brewer became the first woman to serve in the Marine Corps. Disguised as a gung-ho man, she served in the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. In May 1978, BGen. Margaret Brewer became the first general grade Woman Marine, serving as Director of Information.
Q12: Who was the first guitarist with a 100 watt amp?
A: Dick Dale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale)
“Leo Fender kept giving Dale amps and Dale kept blowing them up! Till one night Leo and his right hand man Freddy T. (Freddie Tavares) went down to the Rendezvous Ballroom on the Balboa Peninsula in Balboa, California and stood in the middle of four thousand screaming and dancing Dick Dale fans, and said to Freddy, I now know what Dick Dale is trying to tell me. Back to the drawing board. A special 85 watt output transformer, manufactured by the Triad Transformer Company, was made that peaked 100 watts, when Dale would pump up the volume of his amp, this transformer would create the sounds along with Dale's style of playing, the kind of sounds that Dale dreamed of. But they now needed a speaker that would handle the power and not burn up from the volume that would come from Dale's guitar.“
“Leo, Freddy and Dale went to the James B. Lansing speaker company, and they explained that they wanted a fifteen inch speaker built to their specifications. That speaker would soon be known as the 15" JBL D130 speaker. It made the complete package for Dale to play through and was named the Single Showman Amp. When Dale plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the new Showman Amp and speaker cabinet, Dale became the first person on earth to jump from the volume scale of a modest quiet guitar player on a scale of 4 to blasting up through the volume scale to TEN! That is when Dale became the "Father of Heavy Metal" as quoted from Guitar Player magazine. Dale broke through the electronic barrier limitations of that era!”
Q13: Who was the very first "center square" on "The Hollywood Squares"?
A: Jim Backus - pilot, Ernest Borgnine – 1[sup]st[/sup] show
Q14: Name a platinum sales certified California band who got their name from a Monty Python skit.
A: Toad The Wet Sprocket. The band drew its name from the Eric Idle monologue "Rock Notes" on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album from 1980,
Q15: The red star that Macy’s is known for came from ……?
A:The star in the Macy's logo comes from a tattoo that Mr. Macy got as a teenager when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship.
Q16: How many noodles are in a can of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup?
A: 216
Q17: What 2 US Army Generals held the highest titled rank ever given in the United States?
A: Public Law 94-479, General of the Armies of the United States was established as having "rank and precedence over all other grades of the Army, past or present," clearly making it superior to General of the Army. It has been held by two people: John J. Pershing who received the rank in 1919 after World War I, and George Washington who received it posthumously in 1976 as part of the American Bicentennial celebrations.
Q18: Who was the first Major League player to have an at bat in the month of November.
A: Derek Jeter. Jeter's homer with 2 out in the 10th ties the Series in the first-ever Series at-bat by any player in the month of November (just after midnight on November 1, 2001); the series had been delayed because of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Q19: What was the first complete movie shown on television in the US?
A: The Crooked Circle a 1932 detective film was shown in 1933. In Los Angeles, the Don Lee Broadcasting System showed the film on March 10, 1933 over their experimental station W6XAO, transmitting an 80-line resolution picture to a half-dozen or less receiving sets in the greater Los Angeles area.
The first full–length feature film shown on television was "Police Patrol " (US 1925), transmitted in six daily episodes by W2XCD Passaic, NJ, 6–11 April 1931."
Q20: Who played Eddie's Girlfriend in the Tom Petty video "Into The Great Wide Open?"
A: Gabrielle Anwar
Q21: What company’s amplifiers powered the first Woodstock Music and Arts Festival?
A: McIntosh (http://www.robbreport.com/Home-Electronics-Power-Player.aspx)
Q22: This day was the first the New York Stock Exchange closed early due to bad weather.
A: Monday March 12, 1888. The Exchange closed early the next day too. During the famous Blizzard of ’88 quite possible the strongest snow storm ever to hit the eastern United States in recorded history.
Q23: What is this? N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L
A: Drake’s Equation
Q24: Who was the first New Jersey native elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
A: William Robert "Sliding Billy" Hamilton
Q25: Who was the first American casualty of World War One?
A: In the battle of the Somme, Harry Butters serving in the British Royal Artillery, became the first American combat casualty in the First World War. Also Adolf Hitler, then a member of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Battle of the Somme and was wounded, taking a bullet to the leg on 7 October 1916.
On March 28, 1915 - Leon Thrasher became the first American citizen killed.
Q26: The United States Army Air Corps first bombed Hawaii on this date.
A: On Dec. 27, 1935 the Army Air Corps dropped 20 600lb bombs near Hilo to stop a lava flow from engulfing the town.
Q27: This supergroup might have been called “HELP” until one of the people who was supposed to join died. Who were going to be the members?
A: Hendrix, Emerson, Lake, Palmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson,_Lake_%26_Palmer)
