Friday, March 15, 2013

Today's Trivia Question

The theme for the week is Sesame Street.
 
In 1991, professional athlete Bo Jackson appeared on Sesame Street to demonstrate that Bo knows the alphabet, numbers, and the difference between near and far. Bo certainly knew football and baseball too, going to the NFL's Pro Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in 1990 and Major League Baseball's All-Star Game as a representative of what team in 1989?

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Kansas City Royals
 

Thursday's Question
The Cookie Monster loves cookies—particularly chocolate chip cookies. Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, invented the chocolate chip cookie, and gave her famous recipe to what chocolate company in 1930 in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate?

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Nestle

Wednesday's Question
Oscar the Grouch loves trash. He also loves recycling. Plastics in the US are now marked with numbered Plastic (or Resin) Identification Codes for easy sorting. What Plastic Identification Code do milk jugs and Hula Hoops share?

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Two



Tuesday's Question
“Monsterpiece Theater,” a spoof of PBS's Masterpiece Theater hosted by Cookie Monster, once lampooned the absurdist 1953 play Waiting for Godot in a sketch entitled, “Waiting for Elmo.” What French playwright wrote Waiting for Godot?

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Samuel Beckett

Monday's Question
Who is the only Muppet character to appear on both Sesame Street and The Muppet Show?

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Kermit

Come back next week for a new trivia question and a new theme!