Tuesday Trivia

[micropolitan guy]

We are back after a lengthy hiatus, with a somewhat different format. The object here, in this collection of athletic, historic and other tyrivia, is to fill in the missing name or object that complete the common theme.

We'll consider this a test drive. So here goes, starting with easy to harder questions.

1. Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold ...

ANSWER: Juno, the fifth D-Day invasion beach.

2. Jacksonville, East Tennessee, Belmont, Lipscomb, Campbell, Mercer, Stetson, North Florida, Florida Gulf Coast, Kennesaw State and ...

ANSWER: USC Upstate, the 11th team in the Attlantic Sun Conference.

3. Bob Aspromonte, Al Spangler, Roman Mejias, Norm Larker, Jim Pendleton, Hal Smith, Joey Amalfitano, Bobby Shantz, and ...

ANSWER: SS Don Buddin, which completes the starting lineup for the Houston Colt 45s in the first game in franchise history.

4. Armstrong, Aldrin, Bean, Cernan, Conrad, Irwin, Mitchell, Schmidt, Scott, Shepard, Young and ...

ANSWER: Charlie Duke, who walked onthe moon on the Apollo 16 mission.

5. Charles White, Ken Simonton, Marcus Allen, Darrin Nelson and ...

ANSWER: Napoleon Kaufman, which completes the list of the top 5 rushers in Pac-10 history: White (6245), Simonton (5044), Allen (4810), Nelson (4169) and Kaufman (4106).



BONUS CIVIL WAR QUESTION: Anderson, Pettigrew, Trimble and ... Pickett.

Soldiers from divisions commanded by those generals comprised the Confererates who participated in Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863. It's often mistakenly believed that only Virginians commanded by Pickett participated.

 

[OnTheRiver]

1. The names assigned to beaches for the invasion of Normandy.

 

[GBNF]

4. Men to walk on the moon

 

[OnTheRiver]

Wait. I think I missed the point.

 

[dreunc1542]

Guys, you're supposed to complete the missing name, team, etc., not guess what the names represent.

 

[PeteyPirate]

1. U.S. States

Wait, damn. Sword isn't a state.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Guys, you're supposed to complete the missing name, team, etc., not guess what the names represent.

Keeping with the theme, Winner, winner, chicken ...

 

[PeteyPirate]

PARMESAN!

 

[dreunc1542]

As for the bonus question: Wilcox?

 

[Chef]

1. Silver

2. Middle Tenn. St.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

3. Gus Triandos?

Bonus: Delaware?

 

[Pancamo]

4. Pac-10 (8) rushing leadings?

 

[dreunc1542]

4. Pac-10 (8) rushing leadings?

Read the rules again.

 

[expendable]

2. USC Upstate.

 

[Cosmo]

2. expendable beat me to it.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Expendable gets No. 2 right and completes the membership of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

 

[93Devil]

5. Ricky Bell?

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

I can only do trivia on a Thursday.

 

[lisa_simpson]

We are back after a lengthy hiatus, with a somewhat different format. The object here, in this collection of athletic, historic and other tyrivia, is to fill in the missing name or object that complete the common theme.

We'll consider this a test drive. So here goes, starting with easy to harder questions.

1. Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold ...

That would be Juno, the deployment location for Canadian troops who participated in D-Day.

 

[micropolitan guy]

This has proven to be more difficult than I imagined. Which is good, it's a long day.

And Lisa is correct with Juno, the fifth D-Day invasion beach.