Sheesh, 40 days and 40 nights without eating a single TRIVIA QUIZ!?!?
Today is Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent, a period of penitence, culminating on March 22, the day before Easter Sunday.
Today is Federal No Smoking Day. In 1987, no smoking became the rule for 6,800 federal buildings across the U.S.
Sitter School Week begins today, a time for parents to certify their sitters and encourage sitters to take courses in competent child care. Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, is the biggest day of the year for babysitters.
Today is National Frozen Yogurt Day.
On this day in 1895, George Herman ''Babe'' Ruth was born in Baltimore. Um, Herman?
On this day in 1971, Alan Shepard hit three golf balls on the moon. He shot a 71, but I believe par for the moon is 55 ;)
On this day in 1990, Steve Briers recited the lyrics of Queen’s record album A Night at the Opera backwards in 9 minutes 58.44 seconds on BBC4 in London, a world record for backwards talking.
On this day in 1998, President Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
And it's trivia time! On this day in 1935, the board game Monopoly went on sale. We all know from previous trivia quizzes that the streets come from Atlantic City, NJ, but can you name the utilities and railroads from the board?
Good luck :)
5 Comments:
water works, electric company are the utilities
And the railroads are B and O, Reading, Pennsylvania and the fourth one I can't remember. Two words, starts with an S I think.
Something like Short Stack, but not. Now this is going to bug me
I can't remember the other railroad either Kim, but I don't think it's Short Stack :). And I wouldn't have come up with Pennsylvania, either. I did know B&O, (take a ride on the) Reading, and the utilities though. This is really a travesty because my brother and I played an absurd amount of Monopoly growing up.
Good answers, folks! So, the utilities are electric company and water works. The railroads are B&O, Reading, Pennsylvania, and...*drum roll*...Short Line!
Kim, nice work...you were pretty close! I like the idea of a Short Stack railroad that serves pancakes all day :)
Laine, my first thought was also "Take a ride on the Reading!"
hehehe, my first thought was actually that we always used to laugh at B&O because it was so much like BO railroad :)
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