"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2007"

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Every Tuesday is a Trivia Tuesday on AmericaJR.com!!

1. What is the only bird known to mate on the wing?

2. What famous pro football player once franchised his name for a line of sheets called the Playmaker Collection?

3. What famous inventor's father invented modern plywood?

4. Which was the first American state to abolish slavery?

5. What served as paddles when the game of table tennis was first played in the early 1880s?

1. The swift.

2. Joe Namath.

3. Alfred Noble's father, Immanuel Noble, who glued several thing sheets of wood together to get a stronger piece of wood. Alfred, of course, gave us dynamite.

4. Vermont, in 1777, in its constitution.

5. Cigar box lids. The ball was carved from the top of a champagne cork, and the "net" was a line of books across the middle of a table.