Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 29, 1993 TAG: 9310300265
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Wendi Gibson Richert
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Which network sportscaster starts each broadcast with the phrase, ``You are looking live... .''?
What was the last name of the ``Brady Bunch'' character Sam (Alice's boyfriend - the butcher)?
What great Thoroughbred was beaten only once in 21 races from 1919 to 1920 by a horse named Upset?
If you answered all of these correctly (Brent Musburger, Franklin and Man O' War), give yourself a piece of pie.
But don't eat it until you know why they are trivially meaningful.
These questions and some 5,000 more were submitted by Trivial Pursuit players for the All American edition of the board game released in July. Questions came from every state and touched most every subject.
Among the pursuers of American trivia whose questions were printed on the tiny cards in each game set were celebrities Don Mattingly, Casey Kasem, Mickey Mantle and Carol Alt, and locals Robert S. Ames of Salem and W.B. Richardson of Roanoke.
Of course, playing the game with Ames and Richardson wouldn't be fair since they already know at least one answer. So we'll even the score for you and fill you in on what they know: Ames made it into the Trivial Pursuit All American Hall of Fame with the Man O' War question above, and Richardson made the cut with ``Which state is the site of the Pentagon?'' (a gimme for Virginians - Virginia).
As for the celebrity questions, well, you'll have earn your own pie on those.
by CNB