/ / / * * * TRIVIA 2013 * * * / / / ( - - -with hints - - - )

[buttercup]

"I don't deserve this award. But I also have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either."

Who said that, and on what occasion?

Jack Benny. Not sure, but I assume it was for one of his Emmy awards.

18 June 1959, Miami (FL) News, “What’s Up,” pg. 8B, col. 6:
Jack Benny was “Appointed” Chief Justice of the “Ancient and Independent Province of Beverly Hills” recently. The honor was conferred on the CBS Television comedian at a meeting of the Beverly Hills Bar Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, Calif. Bar President Lester W. Roth told the distinguished legal group, which included all of California’s Supreme Court justices, that the occasion marked “a great moment in American jurisprudence” and “a triumph of youth over history.” Benny, in reply, assured his audience that “I don’t deserve all these kind words, but, as a friend of mine said, I’ve got arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”

 

[Ceiling Cat]

It Ain't Me, Babe.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Algeria.

Largest countries in Africa

1 Algeria (2,381,741 sq. km)
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo (2,344,858 sq. km)
3 Sudan (1,861,484 sq. km)
4 Libya (1,759,540 sq. km)
5 Chad (1,284,000 sq. km)

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Black Dahlia murder?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Rank / Country / Tons

1 China 49,467,275
2 Peru 9,416,130
3 India 6,318,887
4 Indonesia 5,578,369
5 United States 5,360,579
6 Chile 5,028,539
7 Japan 4,819,116
8 Thailand 3,743,398
9 Vietnam 3,367,200
10 Russia 3,305,698
11 Norway 3,049,570
12 Philippines 2,803,603
13 Myanmar 2,217,466
14 Bangladesh 2,215,957
15 South Korea 2,075,301
16 Iceland 1,669,287
17 Mexico 1,422,344
18 Malaysia 1,390,017
19 Taiwan 1,321,999
20 Canada 1,235,065.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Ted Danson

 

[Ceiling Cat]

He gambled his fortune away..

93-2214

 

[Ceiling Cat]

 

[Ceiling Cat]

 

[Ceiling Cat]

 

[Insidious Von]

Name the actor who couldn't get work in his early career and resorted to making Fruit of the Loom commercials. Matt Damon wears his costume.

 

[Celticman]

Who loves ya baby

 

[shack]

Brazil

 

[buttercup]

Who loves ya baby

Reminds me of a headline on a minor story in The Times, late seventies, that Chinese leader Hu Yaobang had made some favourable comments about Margaret Thatcher as one of a new breed of strong world leaders.

The headline was, "Hu Loves You, Baby".

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

2500?

 

[Wild Wiglin Willie]

Pigs on a wing.

 

[bobistheowl]

According to BMI, what song, released in December, 1964, is the most played song in radio history, estimated to have been broadcast more than eight million times?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Brazil

South America

1 Brazil (8,514,877 sq. km)
2 Argentina (2,780,400 sq. km)
3 Peru (1,285,216 sq. km)
4 Colombia (1,138,914 sq. km)
5 Bolivia (1,098,581 sq. km)

 

[bobistheowl]

The athlete at #35 on ESPN's list of The 100 Greatest North American Athletes of the 20th Century, who died in 1989, last competed here in Toronto, on October 28, 1973. What was his name?

 

[Ceiling Cat]

As of Dec. 31, 2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314.