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suspects questioned when what item was stolen in Paris in 1911?
    3. What is the Jules Rimet Trophy, which was stolen in England in 1966?
    4. What Amish country village in Pennsylvania, where
Witness
was filmed, is a frequent victim of street-sign theft?
    5. What literary pickpocket’s real name is Jack Dawkins?

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JANUARY 18
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    1788 T HE FIRST SHEEP ARRIVE in Australia, brought from South Africa with the British First Fleet. Today there are 120 million sheep in Australia, six for every human.
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    BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
    For that many sheep you’ll need a few shepherds.
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    1. What traditionally tops the meat in shepherd’s pie?
    2. What did “Kristin Shepard” do on March 21, 1980, that sealed her TV fame?
    3. What are German shepherds called in Great Britain, due to lingering anti-German sentiment following World War II?
    4. What actress has lived with playwright Sam Shepard for more than twenty-five years?
    5. Where will I “fear no evil,” according to Psalm 23, the “Shepherd Psalm”?
    6. What entrepreneur did Cybill Shepherd portray in 2003 and 2005 TV movies?
    7. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe’s 1599 poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”?
    8. Alan Shepard was scheduled to command the ill-fated
Apollo 13
before switching missions with what astronaut?
    9.
The Good Shepherd,
about the founding of the CIA, was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
    10. “Shepherd moons” in the solar system, such as Prometheus and Pandora, are so called because they help shape what?

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    1943 T HE U.S. D EPARTMENT OF A GRICULTURE bans the sale of sliced bread, so that the metal in commercial bread slicers can be used in war munitions.
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    THE GREATEST THING SINCE…
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    1. Why did
The Greatest American Hero
’s name hurriedly change to “Ralph Hanley” in 1981?
    2. In what city was Cassius Clay born in 1942?
    3. Who appropriately spelled their 2005 greatest hits collection
Greatest Hitz
?
    4. Max von Sydow, Donald Pleasance, and Telly Savalas—three stars of
The Greatest Story Ever Told
—all went on to play what screen role?
    5. Almost since its 1961 inception, what has humbly billed itself as “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine”?

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    1952 C URLY WILL NYUK NO MORE, dying after a series of strokes and a long illness. His brother Shemp Howard has already replaced him, reluctantly rejoining the Three Stooges.
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    TRIO BRAVO
    Give the missing last member in these famous threesomes.
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    Easy
    1. Emerson, Lake, and…
    2. Athos, Porthos, and…
    3. Executive, legislative, and…
    4. Kukla, Fran, and…
    5. Alvin, Simon, and…

    Harder
    1. Brahma, Vishnu, and…
    2. Liberté, égalité,…
    3. Cyan, magenta, and…
    4. Wynken, Blynken, and…
    5. Gaspar, Melchior, and…

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. Clotho, Lachesis, and…
    2. Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and…
    3. Duty, honor, and…
    4. Triassic, Jurassic, and…
    5.
The Bad News Bears, Breaking Training,
and…
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JANUARY 19
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    1935 C OOPERS I NC. OF C HICAGO first sells a new men’s undergarment it calls the “Jockey.” Tighty-whities are born.
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    A BRIEF QUIZ
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    1. What song is playing during Tom Cruise’s iconic underwear dance in
Risky Business
?
    2. The
Captain Underpants
books take place at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
    3. What was Bill Clinton’s answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 “Rock the Vote” event?
    4. According to the 1980s slogan, what was “underwear that’s fun to wear”?
    5. Where is the “Naked Cowboy,” an underwear-clad guitarist, famous for playing?

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    1949 F OR THE FIRST TIME, an unnamed black-clad man leaves three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave. The mysterious annual tradition continues today.
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    PETAL PUSHERS
    Everything’s coming up roses in this quiz.
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