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2000 Club #3 Trivia Contest

As part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Toronto SCRABBLE® Club, we held a trivia contest. Each item in the first list below is a true fact about one of the club members in the second list. Kate Doe and Mad Palazzo managed to correctly match 31 of the 52 players and facts, and won free membership for the rest of the 1999-2000 season. How many can you match? See the correct answers, and the guesses submitted for each player and each trivia.

  1. Fifteen years ago I walked and crawled into the bowels of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. I stood in the innermost chamber where the Pharaoh was laid about 5000 years ago.
  2. Guess what! I have another interest besides playing Scrabble. Curling!!
  3. I accepted a lift from a very famous man who was driving from T.O. to NYC. I was sent back at the US border on suspicion of violating the Mann Act (I.e. crossing a state border for the purpose of prostitution)
  4. I broke my arm at a Scrabble Tournament and had to forfeit one game because of it
  5. I can put my legs behind my neck (or if that sounds too rude, you could just say I'm double-jointed)
  6. I can type over 100 WPM.
  7. I climbed Mount Kinabalu in Borneo
  8. I gave up body-building about 15 years ago
  9. I had one university class with the director of our Club
  10. I have a daughter in England and I belong to a bowling league
  11. I have a drawing of mine displayed in a museum in Israel
  12. I have a sailboat called the "UNDOWNER" because the 'S' fell off
  13. I have had four car accidents, none of which I was responsible for
  14. I have lots of time on my hands
  15. I have procreated professionals
  16. I marched through the streets of Paris demonstrating with Daniel Cohn Bendit (Danny Le Rouge) during the '68' Revolution
  17. I met my husband-to-be when I was a singer at CBC TV and he was a TV camera man - LONG LONG TIME AGO
  18. I met one of my wives in a mental hospital!
  19. In approximately 18 months, I MIGHT be able to win $5.00 at Club #3
  20. In back-to-back tournaments in Mississauga, I was 7-0 and then 0-7
  21. In order to play on a baseball team where all the players had to be Jewish, I had to pretend that my name was Lee Paulsen and that I belonged to Beth Jacobs shul
  22. I once got caned for insolence
  23. I once traveled on a MULE SHIP (mules being transported from one country to another). I even helped water and feed the mules in return for a greatly reduced fare
  24. I ran the 1998 New York Marathon
  25. I read my own erotic poetry at the Art Bar last week
  26. I smoked - and I inhaled!!
  27. I spent a night in a New York fire hall with Mike Wise
  28. I started taking cello lessons at the tender age of 59
  29. I streaked across campus - and got my picture on the front page of the local paper
  30. I used to be a correctional officer at a maximum security penitentiary
  31. I used to work as a Customs Officer on the Rainbow Bridge
  32. I've stood at the top of an active volcano
  33. I visited the Church of the Sepulchre in Jerusalem
  34. I was almost eaten by a timberwolf at age 2ð in Riding Mountain National Park. He reconsidered and let me go
  35. I was apprehended trying to flee a Canadian Forces base
  36. I was at the first Scrabble night ever
  37. I was Bahrain Scrabble Champion in 1987/88
  38. I was in the room with Queen Elizabeth when she made her first televised speech
  39. I was once offered a job as a spy by a government agency (I'm not at liberty to say which)
  40. I was one of the stand-byes for Sri Lanka for the 1997 Scrabble World Championship
  41. I was on the TV show "Just Like Mom"
  42. I was Tim Anglin's bodyguard in Daytona
  43. I won a televised arm-wrestling competition
  44. I won the Tournament of Champions of the game show "Definition"
  45. I work like a mad dog in the summer, and I hibernate in the winter
  46. My last dog was named Candy
  47. My lifelong hobby - photography and reading. My lifeblood - music
  48. Once when in a Cessna airplane, we landed in a wheat field in Saskatchewan and fueled up and took off from the highway
  49. The first names of my two daughters is the name of a famous fashion designer
  50. The USA was once my homeland, and prior to that, Germany
  51. When I was three years old, I almost jumped out of our 4th floor apartment
  52. With whom did Zev practice Scrabble when he first started to attend the Club?
  1. Ani Migirdicyan
  2. Anita Herczeg
  3. Anne Molloy
  4. Bill Wray
  5. Brenda Megannety
  6. Danny Panganiban
  7. Diane Brown
  8. Dick Wallin
  9. Donna Wyonch
  10. Evan Berofsky
  11. Fern Lindzon
  12. Gene Rawlins
  13. Gene Tyszka
  14. Glenn Dunlop
  15. Hugh Currie
  16. Hy Francis
  17. Idelle Weinstock
  18. Jillian Bathgate
  19. John Chew
  20. Karen Falconer
  21. Kate Doe
  22. Kristen Chew
  23. Leah Katz
  24. Libero Paolella
  25. Lisa Deift
  26. Lisa Kessler
  27. Lloyd Mills
  28. Lynda Wise
  29. Mad Palazzo
  30. Margaret Tolnai
  31. Marty Schuster
  32. Merran Dunlop
  33. Myna Wallin
  34. Nan Doe
  35. Neil Naft
  36. Norma Manson
  37. Peggy Molloy
  38. Ray Francis
  39. Ron Manson
  40. Ruth Simpson
  41. Sal Desiato
  42. Sandi Spencer
  43. Shirley Drucker
  44. Sinna Vijayakumar
  45. Sophia Ozorio
  46. Stan Jeffay
  47. Steve Ozorio
  48. Tim Anglin
  49. Trevor Sealy
  50. Vinnette Francis
  51. Vivienne Muhling
  52. Zev Kaufman