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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:50 AM
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Football Trivia
Who was the first radio announcer for the University of Oklahoma's football team?

Hint....this person later became one of the most respected people in his profession. Everyone(male and female) has heard of this person. Gosh, any more hints and I'll completely give it anyway.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:52 AM
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1. Will Rogers
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 08:52 AM by underpants
Just a guess.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:54 AM
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4. Good guess...
but you're wrong. Try again...
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:53 AM
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2. J.C. Watts
I don't know, who is the all time leader in career passing yardage at Arizona State?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:53 AM
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3. Danny White?
:shrug:
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:56 AM
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6. Nope
RedEarth got it right. 'The Snake'
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:54 AM
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5. JC Watts...lol.....
Jake Plummer
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:57 AM
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8. CORRECT!
You win a box of Jake's Flakes.
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:56 AM
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7. Bartcop?
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:57 AM
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10. Bartcop....lol....nt
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:57 AM
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9. Reagan?
I know he did radio play by play early on.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:58 AM
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11. Nope....but of the same era...
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 08:59 AM
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12. Rush Limbaugh?
WRONG!
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:01 AM
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14. Thank God, not Rush......
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:01 AM
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13. One more Hint...
Now I'm just giving it away. Therefore there will be no million dollar prize.

Here's the hint....He later became a news anchor for a national network.
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:02 AM
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15. DAN RATHER!!!!!!!!!
WRONG!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:02 AM
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16. Walter Cronkite?
That was a good hint! :D
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:04 AM
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18. You're Right...........Walter Cronkite...
In the thirties, Cronkite worked for WKY radio and OU contracted with WKY to do the radio broadcast.
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:06 AM
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20. My mom met Walter Cronkite
Actually she worked as a supervisor at a hotel near Sun Devil Stadium and she was walking through the hallways checking out rooms and bumped into Walter Cronkite in the hallway. She said she was nervous as hell and she said she wasn't coherent when she tried to speak to him.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:02 AM
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17. Cronkite?
:shrug:
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:05 AM
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19. That's right also....Watler Cronkite...
Good guess!!!!
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:08 AM
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21. Easy one
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 09:09 AM by VermontDem2004
What is the name of the heisman trophy winner who has a Big 10 Stadium named after him?

hint: He died in a plane crash in World War II
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:10 AM
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22. Nile Kinnock
U of Iowa
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:11 AM
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24. Close Enough
Nile Kinnick.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:11 AM
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23. Is it okay to look this up on google????? lol
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:11 AM
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25. No!
:)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:13 AM
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27. Not football but WWII related:2d most decorated soldier in WWII
Who is it? Audie Murphy was first but this person was second (I heard this on a radio trivia game)

He was awarded 5 battle stars and among the first to reach Berlin. Again not football related. But has a strange sort of relationship with the original question on this thread.
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:14 AM
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29. I have no idea, George Bush?
Wrong!
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:20 AM
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33. Good question...anymore hints???? nt
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:23 AM
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39. I guess not
:shrug: Have no idea who it is.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:24 AM
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40. Two hints
You don't know him by his given name and
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:26 AM
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43. Kent Brockman?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:28 AM
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47. That's a hint
Connect the dots

Something in common with Cronkite and Brockman but he is not known by his given name.......
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:29 AM
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50. I can't connect the dots
Not smart enough too. :cry:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:32 AM
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52. Okay ONE LAST HINT
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:33 AM
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53. I still don't know
:cry:
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:35 AM
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54. Me either...the signature isn't clear enough to read......lol
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:35 AM
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Ted Knight?
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 09:36 AM by GOPisEvil
:shrug:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:36 AM
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56. Yes born Tadeus Konopka
http://www.billjerome.com/tedknight/bicentennial/bp_760614_mo1.html

Parade chariman Edwin Chmieleski shed light on Knight's lesser-known past achievements in noting that the actor received five battle stars during his Army service in World War II. Ted Konopka was in one of the first troops to enter Berlin and was an active member of the town's veterans groups.

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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:35 AM
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55. "WELL...........................we're waiting"
Oaky I'm just serving it up on a platter now

"hmmm? hmmm?"
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:37 AM
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57. I know it's this guy...





Right???????
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:38 AM
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NO but the Captain "worked" with him
See GOPisevil's post above.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:38 AM
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59. No, that's Gavin McLeod.
He co-starred with Ted Knight on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Ted Knight was an anchor man on the TV station Mary worked at, hence the Kent Brockman hint.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:27 AM
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46. Buddy Holley......
actually that guy looks very familar.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:28 AM
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49. Nope
Please try again.
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:13 AM
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26. Tougher One
Who was the first heisman trophy winner to play Major League Baseball? After this someone else ask a trivia question.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:14 AM
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28. Doc Blanchard
A wild guess and I already asked another one (see above)
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:15 AM
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30. Wrong
I answered your question but had no idea who it was.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:21 AM
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34. Bo Jackson?
just one of many high-profile Angels who tanked.
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:22 AM
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37. See post 36
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:21 AM
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35. Oh!!!! Duh! Bo Jackson!!!!
Am I right?
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:22 AM
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36. No
He did play MLB baseball but he was not the first.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:22 AM
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38. Oh, poo!
x(
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:24 AM
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41. I know now, but I had to look it up. I would have NEVER guessed.
:-)
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:27 AM
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45. Who is it?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:28 AM
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48. I was going to let others guess, but...
Edited on Fri Oct-24-03 09:29 AM by GOPisEvil
...Vic Jankowicz. 1950 Heisman Winner, went on to play for the Pirates after a stint in the Army.

spelling edit
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:30 AM
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51. Correct!
You win a box of Jake's flakes
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:15 AM
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31. GOPisEvil....very impressive
Now we know what you do all the time. Study football trivia..lol
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:17 AM
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32. LOL - nope!
I *do* enjoy trivia. But, I just happened to be watching an Iowa game when the story of Nile Kinnick was told.

The Walter Cronkite thing? That was a guess based on your last hint. Until then, I had no clue.

The Heisman award winner to play baseball? Again - no clue!
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:26 AM
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42. I'm good at trivia
if I know the answer. Otherwise, all this knowledge I have in my brain just can't be accessed quick enough......lol
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:27 AM
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44. I play in a contest every week with some friends.
It's groups of people competing at a pub. Lots of fun.

Too many time I have the answer, I just can't get to it. Frustrating!
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:38 AM
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58. GOPisEvil
Congratulations, every trivia question that was asked, you were the first one to answer correctly. :toast: To you, who wants to ask the next trivia question?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:42 AM
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60. Well, I needed some help, but thanks!
:-)
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-24-03 09:42 AM
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61. GOPisEvil can't play....he's too good....
My gosh, you are very good at trivia. I am impressed.

:toast:
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