"365 AMAZING TRIVIA FACTS FOR 2008"

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

1. What was the "line" of the very first contestant on the TV celebrity panel show What's My Line?

2. Who was the only baseball player to hit a walk-off home run in the decisive seventh game of a World Series?

3. According to the Bible, who besides Jesus made a triumphal entrance into Jerusalem on the day now known as Palm Sunday?

4. According to the Celtic legend, what saint "discovered" America a thousand years before Christopher Columbus?

5. Why was artist James A. McNeill Whistler kicked out of the West Point Military Academy as a young man?

1. Hatcheck girl at the Stork Club in New York City. The show ran from 1950 to 1967.

2. Second baseman Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates, in 1960 against the New York Yankees. The pitcher was Ralph Terry.

3. Pontius Pilate. The Roman governor led an imperial procession of cavalry and soldiers into the city as a show of power.

4. Saint Brendan, an Irish monk who is known as Brendan the Navigator and Brendan the Voyager.

5. For misconduct. Assigned to draw a bridge in an engineering class, he drew two little boys fishing from it. Ordered to remove them, he drew the boys fishing from the riverbank. Again ordered to remove them, he drew two little headstones near the river.