TOUGH TRIVIA ON KBND

THE QUESTIONS WE USE HERE ON TOUGH TRIVIA COME FROM A VARIETY OF RELIABLE SOURCES, SUCH AS HORN-ABBOT'S TRIVIAL PURSUIT AND TED MAGNUSON'S OREGON TRIVIA. WE WORK HARD TO ENSURE THAT OUR INFORMATION IS ACCURATE. HOWEVER, WE REALIZE THAT - FROM TIME TO TIME - YOUR SOURCE MAY GIVE YOU A DIFFERENT ANSWER THAN OURS. SO, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS GAME, K-B-N-D ACCEPTS AS FINAL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY OUR SOURCES. - - - AND, AFTER ALL, THIS IS JUST FOR FUN. . . .

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS (AND SOME ANSWERS) FROM OUR LAST GAME.

*1. WHAT IS THE LONGEST CONTINUALLY RUNNING COMIC STRIP IN THE U-S, DATING BACK TO 1897.

                THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS

*2. WHAT MEMBER OF BASEBALL'S 3000 HIT CLUB WAS THE FIRST (AND I BELIEVE STILL THE ONLY) ONE TO HIT A TRIPLE FOR HIS 3000TH HIT?

                PAUL MOLITOR

*3. THE LIFE SPAN OF THE AVERAGE ONE DOLLAR BILL IS ABOUT 18 MONTHS. WITHIN FIVE MONTHS, WHAT IS THE LIFE SPAN OF THE TYPICAL 100-DOLLAR BILL?

                102 MONTHS (8.5 YEARS)

*4. WHAT MAGAZINE IN 1974 BECAME THE FIRST TO SELL OVER ONE BILLION COPIES IN A SINGLE YEAR?

                T-V GUIDE

*5. WHAT EARLY POP SINGER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR INTRODUCING MUHAMMAD ALI TO PROMOTER DON KING?

                LLOYD PRICE

6. TEXAS HAS MORE COUNTIES THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION. WHAT STATE IS SECOND ON THAT LIST?

                GEORGIA

7. PRESIDENTS JOHN ADAMS AND GEORGE BUSH EACH HAD SONS WHO WENT ON TO SERVE AS U-S PRESIDENT. WHICH PRESIDENT HAD A GRANDSON SERVE AS PRESIDENT?

8. CONGRESS IN 1803 VOTED TO ACCEPT OHIO'S BORDERS AND CONSTITUTION. BUT, WITHIN 10 YEARS, IN WHAT YEAR DID CONGRESS FORMALLY RATIFY OHIO STATEHOOD?

9. WHAT WELL-KNOWN CLASSICAL COMPOSER/PIANIST WOULD SOMETIMES SHAVE JUST ONE SIDE OF HIS FACE BEFORE A RECITAL SINCE THAT WAS ALL THE AUDIENCE WOULD SEE?

10. THE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME IS IN CANTON, OHIO. WHAT UNIVERSITY IS HOME TO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME?

11. WHEN "MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" PREMIERED ON A-B-C, THERE WERE THREE MEN IN THE BOOTH. ONE WAS HOWARD COSELL. NAME THE OTHER TWO.

                KEITH JACKSON & "DANDY" DON MEREDITH

12. WHAT OREGON COMMUNITY WAS ONCE KNOWN AS "WEST TUALATIN PLAIN"?

13. WHO IS THE YOUNGEST PLAYER EVER TO WIN A   MAJOR LEAGUE HOME RUN CROWN?

                TONY CONIGLIARO

14. AS MEASURED BY THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION, WHAT IS THE WORLD'S LARGEST DESERT?

                THE ANTARCTIC

15. MONTY PYTHON FANS... WHAT BREED WAS THE INFAMOUS "DEAD PARROT"?

Unanswered questions will carry over to our next game. Good Luck!