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SEPTEMBER 22

1735
R
OBERT
W
ALPOLE MOVES
into 10 Downing Street, becoming the first British prime minister to live at the famous address.

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM

Can you find
these
famous addresses without a map?

1.
What
77 Sunset Strip
regular actually played a vicious killer in the show’s pilot?

2.
What’s the street address of the TV brownstone where Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, et al., live?

3.
Who was the landlady at 221B Baker Street?

4.
As fans of
The Blues Brothers
know, 1060 West Addison Street is the address of what?

5.
What veterinarian’s address is Oxenthorpe Road, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, Slopshire?

6.
The White House is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, of course. But what cabinet department occupies the massive building at
1500
Pennsylvania Avenue?

7.
What comedian had two sons star on TV’s
21 Jump Street
?

8.
What NFL team plays its home games at 100 Art Rooney Avenue?

9.
What number is shared by the Munsters’ Mockingbird Lane address and Disneyland’s Harbor Boulevard address?

10.
The song “Love Street” is actually about whose house at 1812 Rothdell Trail?

1927
G
ENE
T
UNNEY HOLDS OFF
former champ Jack Dempsey to retain his heavyweight boxing title, thanks to the famous “Long Count.” Referee Dave Barry (no relation), takes thirteen seconds to count Tunney out in the seventh, giving him time to recover.

BAD CALLS

1.
Who won the 1990 AP national championship thanks in part to the notorious “fifth down” win over Missouri?

2.
What unusual overtime goof did referee Phil Luckett make in a Thanksgiving 1998 Steelers-Lions game?

3.
What Olympic sport is the subject of the HBO documentary
:03 from Gold
?

4.
Who lost a World Cup quarterfinal due to the “Hand of God” goal?

5.
What stadium’s right-field wall now has a railing thanks to the uncalled spectator interference of Jeffrey Maier in 1996?

1972
T
HE
B
RADY
B
UNCH
GOES
to Hawaii! Don Ho! Vincent Price!

TV NATION

In what states were these TV title locales?

Easy

1.
Mayberry

2.
Twin Peaks

3.
South Park

4.
Everwood

Harder

1.
Hazzard County

2.
Tree Hill

3.
Eerie

4.
Jericho

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Fernwood

2.
Eureka

3.
Port Charles

4.
Push

SEPTEMBER 23

1845
E
NGINEER
A
LEXANDER
C
ARTWRIGHT
formalizes the Knickerbocker Rules, twenty guidelines for his “ball game” club, the New York Knickerbockers. These rules will become the basis of modern baseball.

THE RULING CLASS

What lists of regulations are being excerpted here?

1.
One: please don’t operate the grinder or the press if you’ve been drinking. Two: please don’t smoke in bed or use candles.

2.
Three: what precedes debate on a question. Four: what motions to be in writing, and how they shall be divided.

3.
Five: don’t call him and rarely return his calls. Six: always end phone calls first.

4.
Seven: if your pants hang off your hips, I’ll gladly secure them with my staple gun. Eight: dates must be in crowded public places. You want romance? Read a book.

5.
Nine: should a glove burst, or come off, it must be replaced to the referee’s satisfaction. Ten: a man on one knee is considered down and if struck is entitled to the stakes.

1952
V
ICE
P
RESIDENT
R
ICHARD
N
IXON,
facing the possibility of being dropped from Eisenhower’s ticket, gives the “Checkers speech,” insisting that his kids will keep their new cocker spaniel. Checkers will eventually die on September 8, 1964, after which Julie and Tricia won’t have him to kick around anymore.

VEEP VEEP

Name these U.S. presidents given a
pair
of their vice presidents.

Easy

1.
Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson

2.
Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford

3.
Henry Wallace and Harry Truman

Harder

1.
Aaron Burr and George Clinton

2.
Garret Hobart and Theodore Roosevelt

3.
John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Henry Wilson and Schuyler Colfax