"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2006"

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

1. What famous nature-loving 19th-century writer acidentally sparked a forest fire while cooking a fish he had caught?

2. James Burrows helped create and produce the TV sitcom Cheers. What saloon-based radio sitcom was written by his famous writer-performer-director father, Abe?

3. What future president appears with George Washington in the famous Emanuel Leutze painting George Washington Crossing the Delaware?

4. How long is the shirt program for both men and women in Olympic singles figure-skating competition?

5. What world leader, while a university student, was the long haired lead singer of a rock group called Ugly Rumours?

1. Henry David Thoreau, in 1844, a year before he built and moved into a cabin on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts.

2. The popular radio series Duffy's Tavern. Cheers was the Boston bar "where everybody knows your name"; Duffy's was "where the elite meet to ear."

3. Lt. James Monroe--he's the officer standing behind Washington, holding the American flag.

4. 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Skaters must execute eight required moves--three jumps, three spins, and two fast-step sequences--in that time.

5. British prime minister Tony Blair, while he was studying law at Oxford.