Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 24, 2015)

OR OR #1

Every clue below can be answered with a two word phrase in which each word contains OR. Your job is to figure out what they are. Good luck.

1. Person on an assembly line

2. Whiskey made from ears of a certain vegetable

3. Vet with an equine practice

4. 1970s-’80s tennis champ from Sweden

5. Listing in the Guinness Book

6. Home of Texas Christian University

7. Person who gives a kidney or liver

8. Piece of fiction not as long as a novel

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Oct 24, 2015)

The Santa Clause
This 1994 Tim Allen comedy film has become a modern Christmas classic. How much do you know about it?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Oct 24, 2015)

The Santa Clause
This 1994 Tim Allen comedy film has become a modern Christmas classic. How much do you know about it?

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Gossamer

gos-sa-mer

adj :: Sheer, light, delicate, or tenuous.

“You can see through the gossamer wings of the butterfly.”

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Historical Events for 23rd October 2015

1886 – St Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10
1921 – Leos Janacek’s opera “Kat’a Kabanova” premieres in Brno
1922 – Conservative Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom
1947 – Husband and wife Dr Carl Cori and Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1953 – France grants Laos’ sovereignty
1953 – German FR applies to NATO
1984 – Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1993 – Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) hits a World Series winning walk-off home run against the Philadelphia Phillies
2012 – “Skyfall”, 23rd James Bond film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem premieres in London

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