Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The 3 for 1 general quiz

the answers WERE:
1. Native Americans landed in Holland in 60 BCE.
2. Cahokia, a Native American city in what is now Illinois, that existed from roughly 800 to 1200 CE.
3. Eilmer of Malmesbury.

NEW, hopefully EASIER QUESTIONS:

1. Who was the victim of the first steam-engine railroad fatality?

2. What employer did Stanley Kubrick and movie critic Gene Shalit once have in common (not necessarily at the same time)?

3. What is the name for taking off from a back inside edge, and then landing on the back outside edge with the opposite foot, after one or more aerial rotations, in figure skating?

N otakers?

I guess I'm still being too obscure.

I won't be around much the next few weeks, so here's some easy ones to re-start this thread (don't wait for me for confirmation unless it's really necessary):

1. What actor has played Superman and Blackhawk?
2. What are the three still-existing countries that currently or formerly own(ed)/control(led) mainland territory in between today's Costa Rica and Colombia?
3. What is the most widely read/published book that gives an incorrect value for Pi (the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter)?

As for the previous set of answers, I have #1 written down, but not with me today. #2 was [b]Look[b] magazine, and #3 was A Salchow (pronounced "Sal-Cow").

1. Kirk Alyn

2. Panama, Costa Rica, & Columbia?

3. Would that be any book seeing how Pi is a non-repeating, non-ending number?

1. Kirk Alyn
2. Panama, United States, Spain
3. The Bible (though it doesn't technically give the value, but it can be calculated on the basis of measurements it does give)

I forgot about Spain!
Both of you have 1&2 correct, but only EDE has #3 right! While Quis has a case for his #3, the Bible is still the best-selling book (it says Pi = 3), so EDE's answer is better.

Go, EDE

Really? I had no idea! Where do you have this from?

Where does the Bible say pi=3?

1 Kings 7:23.

"He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it."

Diameter = 10 cubits
Circumference = 30 cubits

Therefore, the "biblical value" of pi = 3.

Assuming that the thing that what's being measured is a perfect circle, and that the measurements given are meant to be exact values.

There are all kinds of urban legends about state legislatures "changing the value of pi" in order to bring into accord with the Bible.

New questions:

1) What well-known comedian once won a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest?

2) What well-known comedian once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest?

3) What silent film comedian starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone?

1. Charlie Chaplin
2. Charlie Chaplin
3. Buster Keaton

A bit of research shows me that I've got one of those wrong. I'll wait a bit to see if someone else jumps in with the right answer before I post again

1. Lucielle Ball?

2. Charlie Chaplin

3. Buster Keaton

Still one wrong.

Well I looked up the answer too, but given that no one else tried:

1) Bob Hope
2) Charlie Chaplin
3) Buster Keaton

Your turn, Quis.

new questions:

1) In the US system, who would be President if both the President & Vice President were killed or incapacitated?

2) Name all actresses who played the Angels from the TV version of Charlie's Angels.

3) What are the Sandwich Islands now know as?

1. Speaker of the House.
2. Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith, Shelley Hack, Tanya Roberts.
3. Hawaii.

Those are correct

1. The new character in JSA, carrying on the 'Steel' legacy among the Heywood family, will have the superhero codename 'Citizen Steel'. (Or so rumour has it.) I like this name a lot, partly because it reminds me of a superhero character named Citizen Mercury, who appeared in a short story I once read. Here's the question: what writer (and he happens to be a well-known comic book writer) wrote that short story?

2. What actress played herself, as a regular, in a network sitcom that aired within the last decade or so?

3. True or false: 'La La' = 'Epp Opp Ork Ah-Ah'. Explain your answer.

1. Kurt Busiek?

2. Jenny McCarthy?

3. True. Both mean "I love you"

1. Nope. Someone from a while further back than Busiek.

2. Not who I was thinking of, but when I read it, I thought... maybe she did it too? But, no, she didn't.

3. Correct.

1. Denny O'Neal

2. Jennifer Grey, on a short-lived ABC show whose name I forget.

1. Correct.

2. Correct. (The show was called 'It's Like, You Know'.)

Now whoever can be the first to post all three answers in the same post can go next.

1. Denny O'Neal
2. Jennifer Grey
3. True. Both mean, "I love you."

New Questions:

1. What's the most densely populated country in the world that is over 100,000 square kilometers in area?

2. Who wrote, "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."?

3. Who was the first comic superhero to wear a now-characteristic skintight outfit?

OK, I've been away from home for a whole month, and in that time, I've managed to stall three threads! So some hints:

1. This country is in Asia
2. This famous writer once appeared (perhaps thinly disguised, I'm not sure) as a semi-regular character in a highly reknowned comic series
3. This one isn't so hard, I don't think, so I'll let someone guess first