Triva Question Sep 01, 2010

1. Answer Man-er John Reed of Westerville, Ohio, asks: Who was the first U.S. president to have a typewriter in the White House? 2. Name the only athlete to win gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Olympics. For Bragging Rights, name the year he set this record. 3. What movie actress served on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1967 to 1970? 4. Still heavily visited by tourists, what early British colony was originally named Middle Plantation? 5. In baseball, what was the New York Yankees' original city and name? 6. Can you name the three sisters who recorded more than 100 songs, selling more than 90 million records with a strong series of appearances to troops in World War II? 7. Why is Mary Pickersgill, a seamstress from Baltimore, famous? 8. Where can we visit the original beautiful banner sewn together by Pickersgill? 9. What has been the most costly battle in U.S. Marine Corps' history? 10. What U.S. president titled the U.S. Marine Band as "The President's Own"?