amarise wrote:
Okay, here is our final, complete list. (Hopefully)
1. What is the only animal that can get leprosy besides humans? Armadillo
2. In the board game Monopoly, what is the non-Railroad property that is landed on the most?
Illinois Avenue
3. How much does a cubic yard of air weigh at sea level? About 2 pounds
4. What is the fastest growing plant in the world? Bamboo
5. What was the first spacecraft to visit Venus? Mariner 2
6. What was the profession of the man that invented the electric chair? There are many different people who claimed to have invented the electric chair. One of the claimants was an assistant of Thomas Edison's, but my guess is the answer we're looking for is Dentist
7. Research on this animal lead to the development of the CAT scan. The Pig
8. What member of George W. Bush's White House team has logged the most hours atop a unicycle? None
9. Where does the name "Reebok" originate? It was the name of an African Gazelle
10. A period of five years is called a ___. Quinquennat
11. How many paintings did Vincet Van Gogh sell during his lifetime? One
12. What was TIME Magazine's Man of the Year in 1982? The Computer
13. What 2002 film did Jesse Jackson call "insensitive," drawing the ire of the National Association of Cosmetologists? Barbershop
14. The formula for which soft drink has never been patented? Gatorade
15. Apple seeds contain a compound of what poisonous substance? Cyanide
16. Some ripe bananas can come in what colour besides yellow? Okay, there are red bananas, which can have maroon to dark purple skin and pink flesh when ripe, and cooking bananas can be green when ripe, so I don't know which answer is the correct one. (Links can be supplied if necessary.)
17. What is the world's largest rodent? Capybara
18. What is the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar in the "Best Picture" category? Beauty and the Beast
19. Ernest Vincent Wright's fifty thousand-word novel, Gadsby, contains no words with this letter. E
20. Thomas Edison had a fear of ____. The dark
You got 19 correct (you missed #10, it should be
quinquennium. You were close, but no cigar.

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Kugetsu wrote:
1. Queens
2. Cats
3. Walker: Texas Ranger
4. Gretchen Wilson
5. Tempest
6. mtDNA (mitochondrial)
7. Sphecius speciosus
8. Avocado
9. Steve Biko
10. Bohemian Rhapsody
11. Seventeen Magazine
12. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic! at the Disco
13. Meg Giry
14. Alt 126
15. Nicolette
16. 7 brakes
17. A miscalculation in the weight load capacity of the hotel.
18. Echo Bay
19. Black
20. Cellulose
You guys got 18 right. You missed Nicolas on #15 (you put Nicolette) and it's not Alt 126, it was Alt 0126. That means the B Sharps win the round! I'm really sorry for being so picky about the answers, but everyone would have gotten 20/20 if I hadn't! The special challenge is as follows:
The team needs to compile a list of the ten most interesting facts they can possibly find. They can be weird, obscure, anything. I'll choose one of the facts, and whoever found it will be given a choice much llike last challenge: take 10K walk-away or put it in the pot, with immunity.