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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 6, Round 7 - History - American Vice-Presidents
> 1. Who was the first US VP?
John Adams
> 2. then became president, but when he ran for reelection,
> he was defeated by the man who had been *his* VP. Who was that?
Thomas Jefferson
> 3. Elbridge Gerry [with a hard G, not "Jerry"], VP under James
> Madison, pioneered the technique of contriving the boundaries
> of electoral districts so as to benefit one party. What is
> the name of his eponymous ploy?
gerrymandering
> 5. Upon succeeding to the presidency following the assassination
> of William McKinley, which VP became the youngest president at
> the age of 42?
Theodore Roosevelt
> 6. Herbert Hoover's VP, Charles Curtis, was the first person
> with significant non-white ancestry to rise to that office:
> which non-whites was he descended from?
American Indians
> 7. Taking office at the age of 40, who was the youngest VP of the
> """last 150 years"""?
Richard Nixon
> 8. """Two""" VPs have resigned from office. Name *either one*.
Spiro Agnew
> 9. Which president did Nelson Rockefeller serve as VP?
Gerald Ford
> 10. Who is the only person in the """last 150 years""" to be
> elected president while serving as VP?
George H. W. Bush
> * Game 6, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - When it's on the Internet,
> it's Everybody's Business!
> 1. We start off with """last week's""" stunning announcement
> that Facebook was paying 1/10 of its entire value for smartphone
> instant-messaging service WhatsApp. In US dollars to the
> nearest whole billion, how much is Facebook paying for WhatsApp?
$30 billion; $40 billion
> 3. This much-hyped-at-the-time Internet startup is remembered as
> much for being the highest-profile bust of the 2000 dot-com
> bubble as it is for its sock-puppet advertising campaign mascot.
> Name it.
pets.com
> 4. In 1999, when Yahoo bought this geographically-based online
> community, organized around virtual versions of real
> neighborhoods and regions, it was the 3rd-most-popular site on
> the Web. It is """now""" defunct everywhere but in Japan.
Second Life
> 5. In 2000, AOL merged with this this major old-school media company
> in what turned out be such a disastrous deal: it destroyed over
> $200,000,000,000 in shareholder value, before AOL was eventually
> spun off again in 2009. What company?
Time Warner
> 6. In 1998, AOL paid $4,200,000,000 for *which* early fixture
> of the World Wide Web in a bid to free itself of the tyranny
> of Microsoft's Internet Explorer?
Netscape
> 7. Google bought *which* once-leading mobile phone maker in
> 2011, only to sell it to Lenovo in January 2014 -- for about
> $10,000,000,000 less?
Motorola
> 8. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought this social-networking
> site in 2005 for $580,000,000, but due to bad corporate decisions
> regarding the site and competition from Facebook, sold it just
> 6 years later for a mere $35,000,000. What site?
MySpace
> 9. It was reported """last November""" that the founders of
> this social-networking app, which features photo messages that
> disappear forever seconds after they are viewed by the recipient,
> had recently turned down a $3,000,000,000 offer from Facebook,
> and possibly a $4,000,000,000 offer from Google as well.
> What app?
Snapchat
> 10. Google's purchase of this website for $1,650,000,000 in 2006
> left many scratching their heads, as the site in question had
> no business model (i.e. no plan for earning money), and risked
> opening up the deep-pocketed Google to copyright lawsuits from
> movie and music studio companies such as Viacom. """Today,
> though, the site earns billions for Google and is said to be
> the 3rd-most-visited site on the web""", after Facebook and
> Google itself. Name it.
YouTube
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