Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Alan Rock's Trivia Questions

Q: This date in 1941 was a happy day for the Zimmerman family of Minnesota. Why?
A: Their son Robert was born. He later changed his name to -- Bob Dylan.

Q: On this day in 1982, Mrs. Christina Samane of South Africa gave birth to the heaviest baby ever born -- a boy. How much did he weigh?
A: 22 pounds, 8 ounces. I'm not sure a bouncing baby boy that heavy would even bounce. According to Guinness, the child weighed 77 pounds at 16 months, and 112 pounds at age 5.

Q: If you're a baseball fan, something special happened on May 24, 1935. What?
A: The first major-league night baseball game was played in Cincinnati. At first, fans didn't care for night baseball. But, gradually they got used to having bugs in their beer.

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