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From: latzko@topaz.ARPA (Alex Latzko)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Dumb trivia because I am bored.
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 14:31:10 EST
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I hope these are the answers you wanted.


> 
> Ok, let's just have some dumb trivia questions to get things
> rolling around here:  (Mail me answers, and I will correlate and post.)
> 
>       1)  Where did the California gold rush start and in what year?

		Near Suters Mill which is near Sacramento(sp) CA in 1848
> 
>       2)  How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander?
> 	  (Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders
> 	  to represent whatever year you may be in.)
> 
		Remembering my World Almanac it takes 17 calanders
		to make a perpetual listing.

>       3)  What were the first words ever spoken on a telephone 
> 	  (exactly) and who said them?

		Mr Watson! Come here I need you.  Alexander Grahm Bell
> 
>       4)  (For psychics only:)                         ?

		Unfair.  Its hard to read a computers mind.
> 
> C'mon gang, let's get trivially rowdy!!
> 
> -- 
> -Michael  "on the the Twilight Node"  Weiss         UUCP...!gondor!weiss
> 
>      - The opinions expressed herein are those of my superiors,
>        and are not neccesarily shared by myself.


Cheers,
/S*

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