19 for '19

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By God, this blog is going to be early for something for once... Happy New Year!
And logically, this would be a good year for us to know our 19's, so here are between 18 and 20 questions about that very number!

19 FOR '19
1. What Steely Dan song released in 1980 mentions a musical legend who passed away in 2018?
2. Who was the 19th President of the United States?
3. What notable speech, just a few minutes in length, was delivered on the 19th of November, 1863?
4. What is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet?
5. What right was established by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
6. What #19 was the first NBA player to win Most Valuable Player (for the season), MVP of the NBA Finals and MVP of the All-Star game, all in the same season?
7. What was the 19th state admitted to the Union?
8. What was Product 19, which was available in grocery stores from 1967 to 2016?
9. What Hall-of-Fame quarterback made his only Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XIX, a 38-16 loss to the San Francisco 49ers?
10. “Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax” is a line from what 1965 song?
11. Juneteenth was first officially observed in which state that abolished slavery on June 19, 1865?
12. What Hall-of-Fame center and three-time Stanley Cup winner was named the best player ever to wear #19 by NHL.com?
13. William A. Wheeler was the 19th man to hold what American high office?
14. Channel 19 is most commonly used by truck drivers on what medium?
15. What observance that started in the mid-1990s encourages people to speak a little differently on September 19th?
16. Number 19 on the periodic table, what chemical element gets its symbol from its Latin name, kalium?
17. Who won her only Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1999, the 19th time she had been nominated for the award?
18. What #19's NFL record for consecutive games with a touchdown pass was broken by Drew Brees in 2012?
19. What was the subject of Paul Hardcastle's 1985 single titled 19?

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1. Hey Nineteen (mentions Aretha Franklin)
2. Rutherford B. Hayes
3. the Gettysburg Address
4. Tau
5. Women's right to vote / women's suffrage
6. Willis Reed (1969-70)
7. Indiana
8. a Kellogg's breakfast cereal
9. Dan Marino
10. 19th Nervous Breakdown
11. Texas
12. Steve Yzerman
13. Vice President. (Hayes', oddly enough)
14. CB radio
15. International Talk Like A Pirate Day
16. Potassium
17. Susan Lucci
18. John Unitas
19. the Vietnam War

Hey, an actual new quiz on a trivia quiz blog!

Welcome (me) back to Trivia Road! Keep an eye out on this space for more quizzes again. Your author here has finally got a little bit of time on his hands, and writing quizzes is a good way to learn a lot of trivia, which your author has stunk at competitively lately. Let's see if this week's ripped-from-the-headlines categories can sharpen your edge and mine:

(Clicking the Answers button will reveal all 20 answers)

FICTIONAL NATIVE AMERICANS

1. In Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, who is the object of Hiawatha's love?

2. Uncas is the title character of which James Fenimore Cooper novel?

3. What book made into a 1975 movie is narrated by a half-Native American named Chief Bromden who is pretending to be deaf and mute?

4. What trusted friend has been portrayed on the big screen by Johnny Depp and Michael Horse, among others?

5. I should have just made this a Michael Horse category. What character did Michael Horse portray on Twin Peaks?

EMBASSY NOT-SO-SWEETS

6. Who has Ecuador's embassy to the United Kingdom ordered to clean his bathroom and take care of his cat?

7. For how many days were Americans held hostage at the United States embassy in Tehran from 1979-1981?

8. Security guards beat 20 protesters outside the home of what country's ambassador in Washington, D.C. in 2017?

9. On August 7, 1998, 224 people were killed by Al-Qaeda bombings at U.S. embassies in what two countries?

10. In 1996, in what country did Tupac Amaru rebels hold 72 hostages for 126 days at the Japanese embassy?

LOTTERY MADNESS

11. Which team won the first NBA draft lottery (which will always be believed to have been rigged) in 1985?

12. Who “wins” the lottery in Shirley Jackson's famous short story The Lottery?

13. Which team won the 2018 NHL draft lottery and used the first pick to select defenseman Rasmus Dahlin?

14. In 2019, what state will become the 45^th to offer a state lottery, though over Gaming Commission objections that a state lottery will be a competitive force for gambling dollars spent at its casinos?

15. What country has the world's oldest continuous lottery, dating back to 1726?

THAT'S AN UNUSUAL THING TO STEAL

16. Vincenzo Peruggia became famous for stealing what museum item in 1911?

17. Which MLB player stole home more times in his career: Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock or Lou Gehrig?

18. Who stole one of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl rings at a meeting in 2005?

19. In April 2018, what airline had a plane stolen from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and eventually fatally crashed into an island in Puget Sound by one of its employees?

20. Thieves in Kansas last week stole a ten-foot model of what body part that averages 61-65 inches in length in humans?

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FICTIONAL NATIVE AMERICANS
1. Minnehaha
2. The Last of the Mohicans
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Tonto
5. Deputy Hawk, or Tommy "Hawk" Hill

EMBASSY NOT-SO-SUITES
6. Julian Assange
7. 444
8. Turkey
9. Kenya and Tanzania
10. Peru

LOTTERY MADNESS
11. New York Knicks
12. Tessie Hutchinson
13. Buffalo Sabres
14. PSYCH! The answer is Mississippi. That will leave Alabama, Nevada, Utah, Alaska and Hawaii as the only states that do not have a lottery.
15. The Netherlands. Spain's famous annual Christmas lottery is the second-oldest, dating back to 1812.

THAT'S AN UNUSUAL THING TO STEAL
16. the Mona Lisa
17. You smelled a rat, didn't you? Lou Gehrig stole home 15 times in his career, Rickey Henderson 4, Lou Brock 2. Babe Ruth, of all people, stole home 10 times. (The double steal was used a lot more in their era of baseball.) The all-time leader in home steals is, not too surprisingly, Ty Cobb with 54.
18. Vladimir Putin. He tried Kraft's ring on, pocketed it and walked off with it! (according to Kraft) Diplomacy has turned this interaction into a "gift of respect and admiration", and according to Wikipedia, the ring is on display at the Kremlin.
19. Horizon Air. Also accepting: Alaska Air, Alaska Airlines
20. They stole a 10-foot inflatable colon. If you said large intestine, eh, close enough.