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91. Medical student Roger Bannister did not stop trying and on 6th May, 1954 what did he do?

From Quiz Don't Stop Trying

Answer: broke the four minute mile barrier

Sir Roger Bannister was the first to run the mile in under four minutes (3 min 59.4 seconds) under official rules. The record was beaten just six weeks later by the Australian John Landy, who ran the mile in 3 min 58 seconds.

From Quiz Don't Count Your Chickens

Answer: 98

"The Thirty-Nine Steps" which has also been made into several films, is a 1915 novel by John Buchan. It first began to appear as a serial in that year but October saw it published in book form. This adventure-spy story sees the protagonist, Richard Hannay, on the run from a series of murders he didn't commit and reluctantly being drawn into saving Europe from an anarchist's plot, in the lead-up to the First World War. Antimony's atomic number is 51. Its properties have been known since ancient times, but it was only used in the manufacture of cosmetics during that time. Today it and its alloys are used as flame-retardants, to make bullets, batteries, cables, diodes, and in the manufacture of some medicines. And those eeky creepy creatures known as spiders, one of which almost scared Miss Muffet (a distant relative of mine) to death, have eight horrible, hairy legs. (Question and information supplied by Creedy)

From Quiz Which President: Obama or Santos?

Answer: Obama

According to his official West Wing biography, Matthew Santos was born in Houston, Texas in the early 1960s. His stated age on the show is inconsistent. On the other hand, Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. Debates about whether his official birth records are part of an elaborate conspiracy will not be entered into!

From Quiz Retrospective: 250 quizzes

Answer: Alan Ameche

Yvonne Molinaro was Alan Ameche's high school sweetheart in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1954 playing for the University of Wisconsin. After his professional career, Ameche died in 1988. Eight years later she married Davis and was with him until his death in 2006. Davis was part of West Point's Army famous football teams of the mid-1940s. Injuries kept him from having an extensive professional career. For a while he played the Hollywood playboy role as he dated Elizabeth Taylor and was briefly married to Terry Moore. Although only 38% got it correct, I thought it was the most interesting piece of trivia about the Heisman Trophy winners posted in 11/2009.

From Quiz Children of Terra Ask: What On Earth Is It?

Answer: Pocket lint

Gnurr, or standard pocket lint, is typically made up of small fibers broken off from a piece of clothing, plus pieces of paper or any other particulates found in a person's pocket. The substance is generally an amalgamation of anything that had been stored in one's pocket, and is therefore often tested by police to see if a person has been carrying illegal substances in his or her pocket. The other three options are completely made up. (Shadowmyst2004)

From Quiz Help Jog This Old Man's Memory

Answer: Mudville

Casey was the Mudville nine's power hitter and, like all baseball power hitters, with one swing he could end up being a team hero or a strike-out victim.

From Quiz Table of Contents

Answer: Retrac-

Maybe that's why it's so fast. Almost all cats have retractable claws, and unsheathe them only when needed. As for domestic cats, it's best to have something they can claw at (NOT your carpet) to wear down their claws unless you're adept at clipping them without cutting into the quick.

From Quiz The Wesley Crusher

Answer: Soccer

Wesley Sneijder was born in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, in 1984. He has played for Ajax, Real Madrid, Internazionale and Galatasaray. He has also played for the Netherlands National team since 2003. His playing position is attacking midfielder. Question by tiye.

From Quiz Upping the Ante

Answer: Auntie Nuptial

Antenuptials, or prenuptials, are in reference to all events and traditions that come before the actual wedding. Fortunately, Auntie Valborg was far away when I first got married without any froufrou, but she resented it for years. I was so glad I didn't have to put up with the rigamarole; I like things nice and simple.

From Quiz You HAVE to Play this Quiz!

Answer: Aphrodite

Each goddess tried to bribe the generally honest Prince Paris. Aphrodite's gift to Paris was the most beautiful mortal woman in the world - Helen of Sparta, who was already married to King Menelaus. Oops. The Trojan War followed.

From Quiz "This is the way we..."

Answer: The Vikings

"This is the way we ironed our clothes..." In European medieval history, the ironing board consisted of using a table or a flat board between two chairs. Prior to that, it is the Vikings who are said to have been the first people to record how they used a flat piece of whalebone as an ironing board and hot rocks to press their clothes. In nineteenth century America, Sarah Boone, an African American, was one of the first to patent her type of ironing board whose shape was tapered. This tapering was to make the ironing of shirts easier. Later the collapsible feature of the ironing board evolved. Most likely the best fact about using an ironing board today is that it is not half as necessary to iron as it once was. Today's fabrics along with the modern improvements in the washing machine have contributed much to lessen the chore of ironing. "Hurrah for permanent press!" "...so early on Tuesday morning".

From Quiz It's Only Doublemm's Connect #2

Answer: The Illustrious One

This sequence lists the English translations of the names of the first four Roman Emperors in reverse chronological order beginning with Claudius ("cripple"), Caligula ("little boots"), Tiberius ("of the Tiber"), and, the fourth in the sequence and so the first Roman emperor, Augustus, meaning "The illustrious one". This name can also mean "the great one" or "increasing". For those curious, the incorrect answers are taken from the meaning of my first name (like the lord), the scientific name of the llama (Llama glama), and the English translation of the scientific name of the fruit fly, which has been invaluable to the field of life sciences, which I study at university.

From Quiz Anonymous Love Letters

Answer: Castling long

In algebraic notation, "O-O-O" designates castling long or castling on the queenside. It is generally a good idea to castle early in the game in order to place the king in a place of safety. It really depends upon the opening, positional dynamics and other factors as to whether one should castle queenside or kingside. Sometimes, it is advantageous to not castle at all.

From Quiz No Such Thing As a Bad Question

Answer: There is nothing wrong with the statement.

Near the end of Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", Juliet takes a drug and pretends to die to avoid marrying Paris. However, Romeo was never informed of this. Instead Romeo believes Juliet to actually be dead, so he buys poison, visits Juliet in her crypt, then poisons himself. Juliet wakes up, sees Romeo dead, and then stabs herself with Romeo's sword.

From Quiz Cowboys and Engines

Answer: Saturn

The Saturn V heavy-lift rocket engine was used to launch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. The Saturn rocket engines consisted of the Saturn 1, Saturn 1B and the Saturn V. The first Saturn launched on October 27, 1961 and the last on July 15, 1975.

From Quiz It's More Than You Think

Answer: 37,000 feet

A Rüppell's Griffon vulture collided with a commercial aircraft at 37,000 feet over Abijan, Ivory Coast, in western Africa. The pilot noted the altitude as the impact caused the one of the engines to fail. After landing safely, the remains of the bird were found. These were sufficient to allow the bird to be identified as G. rueppellii by comparing the feathers with specimens held in U.S. National Museum of Natural History. It is unusual for these vultures to be seen over 20,000 feet.

From Quiz Wacky Races

Answer: Shopping Cart

The original Idiotarod took place in San Francisco in 1994 and was called the Urban Iditarod. A play on words (named for the famed Alaskan sled race), the Idiotarod has held races in New York City, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Denver, Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, Vancouver, and Toronto. Most races require at least five or six team members, "idiots," to be attached to the shopping cart at all times. One of the most famous editions is the Portland race that regularly features diaper-wearing adult-infants, middle-aged Viking-yuppies, and trident-carrying red devils. Awards are sometimes given but organizers share the philosophy that participation in the shopping cart mayhem is reward enough.

From Quiz Points of View

Answer: Ray Allen

Ray Allen passed Reggie Miller's record of 2560 3-point baskets toward the end of the 2010/2011 season. Ray is a scoring machine who continues to extend this historic accomplishment.

From Quiz Game, Set, Match

Answer: Sea snail

The bursina borisbeckeri is a type of sea snail in the animal family bursidae. It lives in the seas along the Philippines. It is named after the German tennis player Boris Becker, who was a former world number 1 in the sport. He won 6 grand slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal throughout his career, which lasted from 1984 to 1999. He won the Wimbledon men's singles tournament at the age of just 17!

From Quiz Oh... Who Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea?

Answer: Southeast Asia

Borneo is the third largest island in the world. It is an island that is mostly rainforest, which is even older than the Amazon. The island of Borneo is split between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Indonesia owns the largest portion of Borneo.

From Quiz Dallas: the City or the TV Series?

Answer: It is a fictional oil company, from the TV series "Dallas"

Ah, Ewing Oil. The thorny crown that seems to always bring them down. Though not founded entirely by TV series family patriarch, Jock Ewing, he is given much of the credit for the foundation of it. Now the rest of the family (and, the show's brilliant staff writers) are given credit for just where it went from there. The scheming and betrayals, the changes at the helm, and the situations that lead to those wonderful cliffhangers - all for control of Ewing Oil. It kept us returning week after week - for more than ten years.

From Quiz It's Only Doublemm's Connect #1

Answer: Odin & Wodin & Woden

Well done if you got this tricky question correct. The list of words above are the root words of the days of the week, starting from Sunday (Sun), through Monday (Moon), Tuesday (Tyr) to Wednesday (Odin or Wodin). Odin and Tyr are both Germanic gods. Other Germanic gods who lend their names to days of the week include Thor (Thursday) and Frigg/Frey (Friday). Saturday is named for Saturn (Roman god of agriculture) and Sunday and Monday are named for the Sun and Moon respectively.

From Quiz Aces Up

Answer: Easy Aces

"Easy Aces" ran on NBC and CBS from 1930 to 1945. The 15-minutes spots revolved around Goodman and his wife, Jane, who had a curious way of expressing herself. Some of her more memorable lines were, "You could have knocked me down with a fender", "Time wounds all heels", and "I'm his awfully-wedded wife".

From Quiz A Latin Quiz... Or Is It?

Answer: Owl

If you did not know about the poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat', published in 1871, you might have noticed the root 'noct-', which refers to night, in our word for 'owl'. Owls are the only nocturnal animals in the answers. I really shouldn't talk about owls - we Romans believe them to be symbols of death and disaster!

From Quiz The Random Wisdom of Wikipedia

Answer: yachting (sailing)

He won the Flying Dutchman class at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964. Officially, those games were known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad.

From Quiz Sorry, Wrong Answer (part three)

Answer: Ecuador

Panama hats were native to Ecuador, where they were made and then shipped to Panama for world-wide distribution. The Panama hats from Hong Kong are imitations.

From Quiz Sorry Wrong Answer (part two)

Answer: Straight bourbons

In a review of Fleming's novels, Bond has a total of 317 drinks. Where the beverage is identified, 37 were straight bourbons, 10 bourbons with water, 7 bourbons and soda. Nineteen were vodka martinis.

From Quiz Hair of the Dog

Answer: Dried bull's penis

You may find that your local convenience store does not have a ready stock of this. A good substitute is dog treats know as bully sticks, which are made from bull penis. These start off at around 24 inches long, but are cut down to around six inches before being packaged and sold. Dogs find the taste quite compelling.

From Quiz Double Double Puzzle Trouble

Answer: South Pacific

Bora Bora is part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. The Society Islands are subdivided into two groups: the Windward and Leeward Islands. Bora Bora is part of the Leeward Islands, while Tahiti is part of the Windward Islands. This cluster of islands is located about halfway between Australia and South America.

From Quiz So What's the Problem?

Answer: Ruptured oxygen tank

Launched on April 11th 1970, Apollo 13 was meant to land on the Moon. However, two days after launch, an explosion in the service module caused a loss of electrical power and damaged oxygen tanks. The crew reduced all consumption of oxygen to a bare minimum and, despite fears for their lives, managed to return to earth safely on April 17th.

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