1834 - Louis Dobermann, the tax collector and dog pound owner (there's a popular guy!) for whom the pinscher will be named, is born in Germany.
1. For his tenacity, nineteenth-century biologist Thomas Huxley was nicknamed whose "bulldog"?
2. Ironically, German shepherds now do the rescue work at what historic Alpine hospice?
3. What detective would have made his eighth appearance in Raymond Chandler's unfinished novel Poodle Springs?
4. Who was coached the UConn Huskies to two national titles and an undefeated Final Four record?
5. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
6. What two U.S. states border Mexico's largest state, Chihuahua?
7. What 1995 album did Billy Corgan describe as "The Wall for Generation X"?
8. What nation was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol in 1901?
9. The name of what nineteenth-century parson and avid hunter is still remembered today thanks to his beloved pet terrier Trump?
10. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
1928 - Stuck in a slow news week and still embarrassed to have left Charles Lindbergh off their cover following his famous transatlantic flight, the editors of Time institute an ad hoc "Man of the Year"award , awarding the first one to Lindy.
11. In 1989, what fifty-nine-year-old became people's oldest Sexiest Man Alive ever?
12. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year , so name din 1996 and 2000?
13. What magazine gives out the "Golden Clippers" to its Car of the Year Winner?
14. Who beat our FDR and Gandhi to be named Person of the Century in 1999?
15. Who's the only Playboy Playmate of the Year also to make the cover of Rolling Stone?
1961 - Caltech students perform one of history's greatest pranks, on national TV at the Rose Bowl. By infiltrating the Washington cheer squad, the pranksters sabotage a routine in which giant images were to be displayed on thousands of flip cards held by the crowd. The word "Caltech" replaces "Washington", and UW's Husky Mascot was replaced by the Caltech beaver.
16. What city's Summer Olympics had the beaver Amik as their mascot?
17. In Airplane, Barbara "June Cleaver" Billingsley proves to be fluent in what language?
18. The Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
19. What's the only college football team whose home stadium is larger than Penn State's Beaver Stadium?
20. The beaver is North America's largest rodent. What South American animal is the world's largest?
Answers:
1. Darwin's
2. The hospice of Saint Bernard
3. Philip Marlowe
4. Jim Calhoun
5. 3-2-1 Contact
6. Texas and New Mexico
7. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. China
9. Jack Russell
10. Mars
11. Sean Connery
12. Tiger Woods
13. Motor Trend
14. Albert Einstein
15. Jenny McCarthy
16. Montreal's
17. Jive
18. The Boston Tea Party
19. Michigan
20. The capybara
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