The new trivia thread.

Check it out yourself on your dial-up connection. It should only take you 15-20 minutes.
Actually, I'll look it up in one of my Encyclopedia Britanicas
 
Which Formula One driver won the last race of his F1 career?


Not Fangio, but all of the drivers mentioned so far* have something in common with the correct answer, (more specific than that they drove in F1. It also has nothing to do with each of them having one or several refrigerators in their homes).

*(Nigel Mansell, Alan Jones, Jackie Stewart, Juan Manuel Fangio)
 
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What was the third leading cause of death in the USA 100 years ago?

The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. (____________________) 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
 
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What percentage of the population in the USA could not read nor write 100 years ago? ( Answers within 10% will be accepted )
 
Not Fangio, but all of the drivers mentioned so far* have something in common with the correct answer, (more specific than that they drove in F1. It also has nothing to do with each of them having one or several refrigerators in their homes).

*(Nigel Mansell, Alan Jones, Jackie Stewart, Juan Manuel Fangio)

LOL, Jim Clark?
 
LOL, Jim Clark?

Correct!

Jim Clark won the Grand Prix of South Africa on January 1, 1968. He was killed in April, 1968 during a Formula 2 race at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany, before the European season began in May.

Mansell, Jones, Stewart, Fangio and Clark were all World Champions at least once.
 
On average, how many pots ( not cups ) of coffee does 7-11 corporation sell every day.

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