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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 3171612, member: 7874"] [LIST=1] [*]DuMont Television Network – started in 1946 but ended in 1956. Never really managed to be profitable despite having Jackie Gleason in its lineup of shows. [B]Rocket009[/B] knows his ABCs but not his DuMont. [B]VAUConnFan[/B] was late to the party but with the correct answer and a wonderful Chateauneuf du Pape 1979. [*]Electric blanket – [B]MSGRET[/B] eventually got it right, however no one else's answers were even warm. [*]Enos Slaughter – [B]meyers7 [/B]like Slaughter did not hesitate to answer. Slaughter's “Mad Dash” won the 7th game of the 1946 World Series for the Saint Louis Cardinals. In 1954 Augie Busch traded Slaughter to the Yankees for among others Bill Virdon who returned to haunt the Yankees when in the 1960 World Series his bad hop ground ball hit Tony Kubek in the throat allowing Virdon to get on base allowing Pirates to rally and win the 1960 World Series. [*]50th, French Men's French Championship – [B]Rocket009[/B] got the event but was aced by the date's significance. [*]She relapsed into heresy by donning male clothing again - [B]Rocket009 [/B]again! [B]Meyers7 [/B]knew it was heresy but was not specific. [B]Gamecock77 and JRRJ[/B] thought, hey, they burned her at the stake so witchcraft, right. Ah … no! Oops! Almost missed [B]'nuf sed[/B]. [*]US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the Army to force Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states - [B]VAUConnFan, Gamecock77, JRRJ, Meyers7, 'nuf sed, and Bigboote[/B] provided accurate answers albeit with varying degrees of creative editorializing and social commenting. [*]Set out the theoretical basis for modern computers – No computer science historians among you? [B]For shame![/B] [*]Plant taxonomy – Where are my Master Gardeners?! [B]More shame![/B] [*]Julian calendar – Ahhhh, we have horologists(?) with correct answers. Accolades go to [B]'nuf sed, Rocket009, Bigboote, and JRRJ[/B] [*]Carolus Linnaeus (AKA Carl Linnaeus to American friends) – see question #8 as did [B]Bigboote[/B]. Clever fellow, that one! [*]Confederate states. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free some 500,000 slaves in the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware. Those slaves were freed by later separate state and federal actions. - [B]Meyers7, Bigboote, Gamecock77, JRRJ, and VAUConnFan[/B] all know their history. [*]German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen – [B]eebmg, Bigboote[/B] -[B] eebmg[/B] says Willy was lucky. Perhaps he says the same about Percy Spencer (microwaves), Wilson Greatbatch (pacemaker), George de Mestral (Velcro), Henri Becquerel (radioactivity), Sir Alexander Fleming (Penicillin), etc. Don't forget Viagra whose active ingredient began as a heart medicine until a certain side (front?) effect was noticed. [*]Concordat of Worms – OK! This was obscure. [B]Sorry![/B] [*]Punch cards and associated tabulating equipemnt. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company which was rename IBM. - [B]Bigboote, JRRJ and eebmg[/B] succinctly state the answer. [*]President Dwight D. Eisenhower – Correct responses from [B]MSGRET, Bigboote, Gamecock77, JRRJ, and VAUConnFan.[/B] [/LIST] [B]If I failed to give proper acknowledgement, please forgive.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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