Friday Trivia

tldh

You know the rules.  Answer a question and then post one of your own. If nobody has the answer to your question after a couple hours, please come back and post the answer.

What piece of bridal attire that we wear today was worn by brides in ancient Greece to ward off evil spirits?

frogurt814

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[QUOTE]You know the rules.  Answer a question and then post one of your own. If nobody has the answer to your question after a couple hours, please come back and post the answer. What piece of bridal attire that we wear today was worn by brides in ancient Greece to ward off evil spirits?
Posted by tldh[/QUOTE]
Veil?

frogurt814

Mine was just a guess.  I honestly have no clue.

tldh

It's the veil.  Your question Frogurt.

frogurt814

Woohoo!

What are the names of the 4 houses in Harry Potter?

tldh

Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin.

What does Hermione conjur up for Harry to place on his parent's graves?

emilyinchile

A wreath of flowers, too easy since I saw it last night

Where was the first university founded? For the record, this doesn't include learning centers that later became universities - I mean the place that was first founded as a "university," creating the term.

tldh

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[QUOTE]A wreath of flowers, too easy since I saw it last night :) Where was the first university founded? For the record, this doesn't include learning centers that later became universities - I mean the place that was first founded as a "university," creating the term.
Posted by emilyinchile[/QUOTE]

Cambridge?

emilyinchile

Nope. This one may be too hard - I learned it in college as a factoid from a professor, and it was the only trivia-type question I could think of.

tldh

Ok.  Keep guessing on Emily's question.  In the meantime...

Which character on Friends accidentally said the wrong woman's name in his wedding vows?  Bonus if you can name the woman standing in the white dress stunned.

frogurt814

Brigham Young?

EDIT:  I'm embarassed that I just posted that.  After I posted, I was like WTF?  Why would I say that.  That would make no sense.  I'm sure universities date way back.

emilyinchile

Ross/Emily. But I don't have any more questions

Frogurt, no. First hint: it's in Europe but not England.

Wait, I have one! Now this one is probably too easy, but oh well. On Sex and the City, what is Mr. Big's real name? Full name, please.

bablingbrooke

John James Preston.

What is Thomas Edison's middle name?

emilyinchile

Yay Brooke! I was hoping to get the middle name too

Edison's middle name, however, I do not know.

Manwaithiel

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[QUOTE]Alva. Who was the actual first president of US?
Posted by StageManager14[/QUOTE]

Quoi? Now I feel like an idiot...

tldh

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[QUOTE]Alva. Who was the actual first president of US?
Posted by StageManager14[/QUOTE]

This is bugging me.  I know it was the President under the Articles of Confederation but I can't think of his name.  You'll have to tell us if nobody gets this in a couple of hours.  I cheated and checked the answer to Emily's question (never would have guessed it.)

Along the same lines as this question...

<strong>Who signed the Declaration of Independence with large handwriting so that King George III could read it without his glasses?</strong>

bablingbrooke

Was John Adams the president under the AOC?  And John Hancock had the diva signature.

tldh

Just looked it up.  Not John Adams.  John Hancock did indeed have the diva signature so your question Brooke.

bablingbrooke

Gonna then go with John Jay?

My question: Who was Britain's longest-reigning monarch?

Manwaithiel

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[QUOTE]Gonna then go with John Jay? My question: Who was Britain's longest-reigning monarch?
Posted by bablingbrooke[/QUOTE]

Elizabeth I?

bablingbrooke

Nope.  Elizabeth II just surpassed her, but two other monarchs have reigned longer than her, who celebrates her 60th year next year (the woman is the energizer bunny!).  Which is the longest?

tldh

I think it was Queen Victoria.  I have to admit that despite my Irish roots I've always been fascinated with the British Royal family.  I'm working my way through Sharon Kay Penman's historical novels that stretch from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane to Edward I.

bablingbrooke

Tricia is correct!  Victoria is followed by George III and then Elizabeth II.  Elizabeth will outlive them all.

I also have an unhealthy interest in the royal family.  I've spent a lot of time reading about the Tudors, Platagenets, Wars of the Roses...and, in the last week, the Windsors.  Charles was a man-whore before he got married.  Did you also know he and Diana only saw each other 13 times before they got married?  13!

bablingbrooke

Stage: My new guess was John Jay for AOC president.  True?  False?  How many more guesses do I get?

tldh

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[QUOTE]Tricia is correct!  Victoria is followed by George III and then Elizabeth II.  Elizabeth will outlive them all. I also have an unhealthy interest in the royal family.  I've spent a lot of time reading about the Tudors, Platagenets, Wars of the Roses...and, in the last week, the Windsors.  Charles was a man-whore before he got married.  Did you also know he and Diana only saw each other 13 times before they got married?  13!
Posted by bablingbrooke[/QUOTE]

I read The Windors years ago.  This is why I am stunned that Will gave Kate Diana's e-ring.  I love sapphire e-rings, having one myself, but this is the absolute last one that I would have wanted.  Talk about a lamb to the slaughter.

<strong>This one is for you Brooke:  What was the name of King John's son in law (married to his daughter Eleanor) who led the barron's rebellion becoming the de facto ruler of England until Edward I reclaimed the throne?

Edit: For everyone else: Who is the Russian Grand Duchess rumored to have survived her family's assassination?</strong>

emilyinchile

Should I say the answer to my question?

tldh

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[QUOTE]Should I say the answer to my question?
Posted by emilyinchile[/QUOTE]

Probably.  It was a really good one though.  I even got the country wrong.  I thought it would be somewhere in France.

bablingbrooke

Re: Diana's engagement ring: One of my friends brought that up.  But I think we all forget that she was an amazing mother to those boys, they lost her when they were very young, and I think it's sweet that he wanted a part of her there.  

Re: the other question...um...I'm going to go with William Marshall?  Crossing my fingers that living in Runnymede paid off...

Licia&Wayne

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Friday Trivia : I read The Windors years ago.  This is why I am stunned that Will gave Kate Diana's e-ring.  I love sapphire e-rings, having one myself, but this is the absolute last one that I would have wanted.  Talk about a lamb to the slaughter. This one is for you Brooke:  What was the name of King John's son in law (married to his daughter Eleanor) who led the barron's rebellion becoming the de facto ruler of England until Edward I reclaimed the throne? Edit: For everyone else: <strong>Who is the Russian Grand Duchess rumored to have survived her family's assassination?
</strong>Posted by tldh[/QUOTE]

Anastasia. Now ask me to sing songs from the movie...please?

tldh

Nope.  The 6th Earl of Leicester Simon de Montfort.  His daughter Eleanor btw was married to the last true Prince of Wales, Llywellen the Last, and was the first woman invested with the title "Princess of Wales."

tldh

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Friday Trivia : Anastasia. Now ask me to sing songs from the movie...please?
Posted by Licia&Wayne[/QUOTE]

I won't ask you to sing unless you do so in the form of another trivia question.