February 21, 2023: Questions
Hey, everyone. Happy Troyale Tuesday.
Here’s today’s list. If you want to know how you did before I post the key tomorrow, email me your answers at contact.troyale@gmail.com and I’ll reply with your score.
1. Patented in 1904 by Liz Magie, The Landlord’s Game – originally intended to educate its players on the economic theory of ‘Georgism,’ or the Single Tax Movement – later became the inspiration for what much, much more popular board game, developed by travelling salesman Charles Darrow in 1932?
2. Born in Utah Territory in 1866, legendary outlaw Robert LeRoy Parker - much better known to history as Butch Cassidy - began his prolific criminal career when, on June 24, 1889, he robbed his first bank in the small city of Telluride in what ‘Centennial State?’
3. Derived, in part, from the Spanish word for ‘fool,’ what two-word term, defined by the UN as: ‘any device or material which is designed, constructed or adapted to kill or injure and which functions unexpectedly,’ originally referred to an innocent schoolboy prank before taking on its more sinister meaning during the First World War?
4. Along with Hollywood fixture Cloris Leechman, what beloved American actress and comedian - an alum of both Second City and Saturday Night Live - holds, with eight, the all-time record for the most total Emmy wins by a single performer?
5. Only July 11, 1979, representatives of the small Australian town of Esperance officially fined the U.S. government $400 for littering after thousands of pounds of debris from what recently decommissioned space station – the first ever built and launched by NASA – unexpectedly crashed down onto their streets in the middle of the afternoon?
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