"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2006"

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1. Who played a neighborhood cop who gets hit in the face with a pie intended for Alice Kramden in Jackie Gleason's very first televisted Honeymooners skit?

2. In what war did Mary Edwards Walker--the only woman ever awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor--serve?

3. How did the California wine country town of Hopland get its name?

4. Why were ladies asked not to wear their hooped skirts, and men not to wear their swords to the premier performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742?

5. What hulking basketball legend appeared in a fight scene opposite 5-foot-7 Bruce Lee in the 1978 film Game of Death?

1. Art Carney--before he assumed the role of Ralph Kramden's sewer-worker sidekick Ed Norton.

2. The Civil War.

3. From the hops once grown there for brewing beer.

4. To make room for as many music lovers as possible.

5. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had studied the martial art style known as Jeet Kune Do with Lee.