Veterans/Sports Wednesday Trivia
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In honor of Veteran's Day, today's trivia will be Sports/Military Word Association. I will give you two clues, one of which pertains to sports, the other to a military subject. You give the one word/phrase that applies to both. Only exception is the last question, which is straight trivia:
1. Jaws WWII vessel/2006 Super Bowl champ
2. D-Day beach/1944 NCAA hoops champ
3. WWII aircraft carrier/Travers Stakes site
4. WWII aircraft carrier/7 time NCAA hoops champ city
5. WWII's "Grey Ghost/New Orlean's team
6. D-Day beach/College World Series site
7. December 7 casualty/1997 NCAA champ
8. Amphibious vehicle/1939 NCAA champ nickname
9. WWII Tunisian Operation/Rocky occupation
10. Name of very first submarine in US Navy/Allegheny college mascot
11. One of first 8 Americans to die in Revolutionary War(at Lexington Green)/1964 Cleveland Browns Championship team member
12. What is the mascot for the Naval Academy? The Military Academy (Army), the Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy?
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In honor of Veteran's Day, today's trivia will be Sports/Military Word Association. I will give you two clues, one of which pertains to sports, the other to a military subject. You give the one word/phrase that applies to both. Only exception is the last question, which is straight trivia:
1. Jaws WWII vessel/2006 Super Bowl champ
2. D-Day beach/1944 NCAA hoops champ
3. WWII aircraft carrier/Travers Stakes site
4. WWII aircraft carrier/7 time NCAA hoops champ city
5. WWII's "Grey Ghost/New Orlean's team
6. D-Day beach/College World Series site
7. December 7 casualty/1997 NCAA champ
8. Amphibious vehicle/1939 NCAA champ nickname
9. WWII Tunisian Operation/Rocky occupation
10. Name of very first submarine in US Navy/Allegheny college mascot
11. One of first 8 Americans to die in Revolutionary War(at Lexington Green)/1964 Cleveland Browns Championship team member
12. What is the mascot for the Naval Academy? The Military Academy (Army), the Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy?
In honor of Veteran's Day, today's trivia will be Sports/Military Word Association. I will give you two clues, one of which pertains to sports, the other to a military subject. You give the one word/phrase that applies to both. Only exception is the last question, which is straight trivia:
1. Jaws WWII vessel/2006 Super Bowl champ
Indianapolis
2. D-Day beach/1944 NCAA hoops champ
If Omaha is the answer for #6, must be Utah
3. WWII aircraft carrier/Travers Stakes site
Can't be Lexington, that's definitely #4, Saratoga then?
4. WWII aircraft carrier/7 time NCAA hoops champ city
Lexington
5. WWII's "Grey Ghost/New Orlean's team
You must mean the Hornet. But the Enterprise was actually the Grey Ghost.
6. D-Day beach/College World Series site
Omaha?
7. December 7 casualty/1997 NCAA champ
Must be basketball champs, didn't Michigan win the football championship that year? So Arizona?
8. Amphibious vehicle/1939 NCAA champ nickname
Ducks? DUKW
9. WWII Tunisian Operation/Rocky occupation
Boxer
10. Name of very first submarine in US Navy/Allegheny college mascot
Turtle?
11. One of first 8 Americans to die in Revolutionary War(at Lexington Green)/1964 Cleveland Browns Championship team member
Don't know
12. What is the mascot for the Naval Academy? The Military Academy (Army), the Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy?
Naval Academy - Goat
West Point (Army) - Mule
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Cool! Since I'm horrible at trivia, this was especially fun because I was able to puzzle out some of the answers. Apparently my WWII knowledge is greater than I knew. Thanks for a fitting nod to Veterans.
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Good Job by LN, essentially, 8 right, plus 1/2 of the answers on the last question.
Note however, that when you Google "Grey Ghost aircraft carrier, nearly all the references that come up are for The Hornet.
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In honor of Veteran's Day, today's trivia will be Sports/Military Word Association. I will give you two clues, one of which pertains to sports, the other to a military subject. You give the one word/phrase that applies to both. Only exception is the last question, which is straight trivia:
1. Jaws WWII vessel/2006 Super Bowl champ
2. D-Day beach/1944 NCAA hoops champ
3. WWII aircraft carrier/Travers Stakes site
4. WWII aircraft carrier/7 time NCAA hoops champ city
5. WWII's "Grey Ghost/New Orlean's team
6. D-Day beach/College World Series site
7. December 7 casualty/1997 NCAA champ
8. Amphibious vehicle/1939 NCAA champ nickname
9. WWII Tunisian Operation/Rocky occupation
10. Name of very first submarine in US Navy/Allegheny college mascot
11. One of first 8 Americans to die in Revolutionary War(at Lexington Green)/1964 Cleveland Browns Championship team member
12. What is the mascot for the Naval Academy? The Military Academy (Army), the Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy?
In honor of Veteran's Day, today's trivia will be Sports/Military Word Association. I will give you two clues, one of which pertains to sports, the other to a military subject. You give the one word/phrase that applies to both. Only exception is the last question, which is straight trivia:
LNC got most of these, so I will give the answers:
1. Jaws WWII vessel/2006 Super Bowl champ
(USS) Indianapolis
2. D-Day beach/1944 NCAA hoops champ
Utah
3. WWII aircraft carrier/Travers Stakes site
(USS) Saratoga
4. WWII aircraft carrier/7 time NCAA hoops champ city
USS (Lexington) (home of Kentucky U.)
5. WWII's "Grey Ghost/New Orlean's team
(USS) Hornet see link: http://usshornet.stores.yahoo.net/13192.html
6. D-Day beach/College World Series site
Omaha
7. December 7 casualty/1997 NCAA champ
(USS) Arizona
8. Amphibious vehicle/1939 NCAA champ nickname
Ducks (DUKW vehicle and Oregon)
9. WWII Tunisian Operation/Rocky occupation
(Operation) Pugilist
10. Name of very first submarine in US Navy/Allegheny college mascot
(USS) Alligator (Civil War) (Allegheny Alligators)
11. One of first 8 Americans to die in Revolutionary War(at Lexington Green)/1964 Cleveland Browns Championship team member
John Brown see this for football player: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowJo22.htm
See this for the casualty at Lexington:
Eight Massachusetts men were killed and ten were wounded; only one British soldier of the 10th Foot wounded. The eight colonists killed were John Brown, Samuel Hadley, Caleb Harrington, Jonathon Harrington, Robert Munroe, Isaac Muzzey, Asahel Porter, and Jonas Parker. Jonathon Harrington, fatally wounded by a British musket ball, managed to crawl back to his home, and died on his own doorstep. One wounded man, Prince Estabrook, was a black slave who was serving in the militia.[48]
Neither of these are to be confused with John Brown of Abolitionist fame, or the guy with the ten little indians
12. What is the mascot for the Naval Academy? The Military Academy (Army), the Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy?
Navy: Goat
Army: Mule
Air Force: Falcon
Coast Guard: Bear
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Good Job by LN, essentially, 8 right, plus 1/2 of the answers on the last question.
Note however, that when you Google "Grey Ghost aircraft carrier, nearly all the references that come up are for The Hornet.
Good Job by LN, essentially, 8 right, plus 1/2 of the answers on the last question.
Note however, that when you Google "Grey Ghost aircraft carrier, nearly all the references that come up are for The Hornet.
Well, all I know for sure is that when I was in the Navy, they told us the Enterprise was called the Grey Ghost (because the Japanese claimed they'd sunk her so many times and never did). The Lexington was called the Lady Lex or Grey Lady. Now that I go to google, I see we're both right. The History Channel ran BATTLE 360 a while back, a multi chapter story about the Enterprise, and one of the episodes was called Grey Ghost:
Not trying to nit pick you Gipper, just going by what I learned many years ago.
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Good Job by LN, essentially, 8 right, plus 1/2 of the answers on the last question.
Note however, that when you Google "Grey Ghost aircraft carrier, nearly all the references that come up are for The Hornet.
Well, all I know for sure is that when I was in the Navy, they told us the Enterprise was called the Grey Ghost (because the Japanese claimed they'd sunk her so many times and never did). The Lexington was called the Lady Lex or Grey Lady. Now that I go to google, I see we're both right. The History Channel ran BATTLE 360 a while back, a multi chapter story about the Enterprise, and one of the episodes was called Grey Ghost:
Not trying to nit pick you Gipper, just going by what I learned many years ago.
Well, all I know for sure is that when I was in the Navy, they told us the Enterprise was called the Grey Ghost (because the Japanese claimed they'd sunk her so many times and never did). The Lexington was called the Lady Lex or Grey Lady. Now that I go to google, I see you're right....
I agree. I toured the Lexington which now a museum in Corpus Christie. I was thinking it was called the Grey Ghost, but I may have confused it with Gray Lady.
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