[tomkow6]

Answers to yesterday's POP QUIZ

1. To many Americans, the ball dropping at Times Square
in New York City signals the start of the new year.
When was the ball first dropped?

2. How did the Pilgrims celebrate New Years Day?

3. How fast per second does Earth travel in its orbit
around the Sun?

4. Why were there two kickoffs at the start of the
second half of Superbowl I?

5. From what performer did Elvis Presley pick up his
pelvic gyrations?

Answers:
1. 1908
2. They didn't. They considered it a blasphemous reverence
for the Roman God Janus, for whom the month of January is
named. The Pilgrims referred to January as First Month.
3. 18.5 miles per second
4. NBC was running a commercial and missed the first kickoff.
Officials nullified the play and had the half start over.
The 1967 game ended with the Green Bay Packers beating
the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
5. Bo Diddley

[tomkow6]

[American Preservative]

5. Bo Diddley

I heard this GREAT Bo Diddley song on the Michael Savage program.

You can hear it here - www.turnup-root.com

It's called, "We Ain't Scared of You"

(My computer has no sound, but, I'm assuming the song can be heard at the website for those with sound.)

[Soaring Feather]

Acorn Harbourne Blue, failed this quiz, ergo, the "bonger" or "tweety mallet award" of the day to bentfeather!

[freedumb2003]

Did anyone get it right?

Please ping me for the next trivia contest.... I've missed the last whole bunch!

Happy New Year! Stay happy and healthy!