As we leave 2013 behind and look forward into a new year – a fresh beginning – I wish you peace, joy, and happiness! Happy 2014!
1. The 1982 Liberty Bowl was the final game for which legendary coach? Lou Holtz; Bear Bryant; Tom Osborne; Knute Rockne.
2. What encrusts the desert floor of Death Valley? Gypsum; coal; salt; sand.
3. The country once called Siam is now know as what? Viet Nam; Syria; Thailand; Malaysia.
4. What was the stage name of English-born comedian Leslie Downes? Ethel Barrymore; Bob Hope; Charlie Chapman; Harold “Go-Getter” Lloyd.
5. What’s the best selling board game of all time? Trivial Pursuit; Monopoly; Scrabble; Twister.
6. What’s the first sense to be fully developed? Taste; smell; sight; hearing.
7. In the West, the bride traditionally carries or wears something blue. What does blue represent in this case? Love; commitment; peace; new life.
8. What color supposedly has the effect of counter-acting physical fatigue? Blue; green; red; yellow.
9. Which group of words best describes a haberdasher. Someone who survives by stealing from others; someone who bakes gourmet bread and pastries; a shoe shiner; a men’s clothing and accessory salesman.
10. Cindy Jackson, who has the world record for most plastic surgeries (27), is trying to achieve: the face of Demi Moore ; Leonardo da Vinci’s theory of the perfect face; the face of Cleopatra; eternal youth.
ANSWERS
1. Bear Bryant. 2. Salt. 3. Thailand 4. Bob Hope. 5. Monopoly. 6. Hearing. 7. Love. 8. Red. 9. A men’s clothing and accessory salesman. 10. Leonardo da Vinci’s theory of the perfect face.