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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 12h

#Trivia QOTD: In what classic country song would you find flawed characters like the adulterous Taylors, Mr. Baker, sexual harasser, alcoholics Mr. Harper and Shirley Thompson and the exhibitionist Widow Jones, along with the narrator and her mamma who socked it to them all?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 12h

Spermaceti is found in a whale's head, either in the spermaceti organ itself or in the part known as the junk and if you are currently composing 9000 double entendres in your mind, you will understand how hard it was to keep this note SFW.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 1d

#Trivia QOTD: Spermaceti is a substance most commonly found in what part of a sperm whale?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 1d

A campanile is a bell tower and most of them contain bells. It's still a campanile if the bells are stolen though.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 2d

My impression is the names will come soon, they just won't be used on the uniforms this season.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 2d

#Trivia QOTD: What distinctive thing are you most likely to find inside a campanile?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 2d

The Pullitzer prize for criticism includes a whackton of architecture critics, but I have never heard of any of those people, so I used this list that includes a fashion critic, a food critic, a film critic and a book critic instead.

Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 5d

The Utah NHL team was called what in its first year, again?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 5d

#Trivia QOTD: Robin Givhan, Jonathan Gold, Roger Ebert and Michael Dirda are among the diverse recipients of the Pullitzer Prize in what category?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 5d

Brunnhilde is the Valkyrie in Die Walküre and she is surrounded by her many sister Walküren for that one, but only she and Waltraute get to be in any of the other parts.

Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 6d

There's another Charge season ticket holder in my sector and we have been boring everyone in meetings we are both in for the last two years. It never gets old.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 6d

#Trivia QOTD: Brunhilde appears in three of the four parts of Wagner's Ring Cycle, but only one of the parts is named for her and her sisters. Which part?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 6d

Vale-tudo is basically 'anything goes' or 'no holds barred' in Portuguese, and those fights were one of the key precursors to what is now known as Mixed Martial Arts. If you answered UFC or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu you're probably also at least partially right.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 6d

Extremely Shiny Hockey Jersey v.2.0 is now in progress.

I am getting awfully close to having to choose which @pwhlcharge.bsky.social player's name and number to add to it before I can continue, but no closer to actually choosing.

Who would you pick?

#pwhl

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 7d

LOL, it me!

I did follow you here on BlueSky as a result of that thread, so that's something.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 7d

#Trivia QOTD: The Gracies, a fighting family in Brazil, hosted events under rules they called 'vale tudo'. The popularity of those events prompted the creation of a more formalized sport that we now know by what name?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 7d

Only the most smartest among us know how great Drop Dead Gorgeous is.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 8d

#Trivia QOTD: Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards and Amy Adams compete in the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant in what cult classic mockumentary?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 8d

The thing about being in such a strategically and economically important location is that Istanbul's been conquered a lot and changed names a lot. The first significant city there was Byzantium.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 9d

#Trivia QOTD: Istanbul's not Constantinople (anymore), but it also isn't known as Nova Roma or what Greek-derived name that the area was given after it was Lygos and before it was Constantinople?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 9d

Misty Copeland was such a stunning ballet prodigy that even though she didn't start dancing until she was 13, by the time she was 15 she was already receiving offers to join professional companies.

Last week she officially retired from ABT with a final gala performance.

Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 12d

#Trivia QOTD: What recently retired principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre is also the author of books like Bunheads, Ballerina Body and Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy?

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 12d

Most of the Amazing Race 'things' are given road related names but then there's 'Fast Forward'. Was 'express lane' unavailable?

Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 12d

The games with the highest attendance area the ones that are filled to the rafters with girls' teams because they are during holidays or on weekends. So that's who isn't going to get to go to these games if the building is smaller. Little kids who love hockey.

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Jacquilynne @jacquilynne.bsky.social · 13d

#Trivia QOTD: Detours, Roadblocks, Fast Forwards, Yields and U-Turns are all important elements of what reality series?

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