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 * ~ Date discovered || November 24, 1974 ||
 * ~ Discovered by || [|Donald Johanson]

__Eon__: Half a billion years or more. __Era__: Several hundred million years. __Epoch__: Tens of millions of years. __Age__: Millions of years.

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MVP Niko Davis for 2014!
//Our banquet for the 2013-14 Season was// //3-10-14 at the// // Grant Bly House in DeLand. //

= Most Valuable Player Matt Dent announced at the banquet Fri. 3-30-12. =

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Sports- **In archery, what does a single blast of a whistle mean?**

 * --shooting may begin**


 * In the American League, what is the 10th player called?**

(The National League still has the pitcher bat for himself.)
 * --The __designated hitter__ or "tenth player" is a member of an American League baseball team who bats for the pitcher who usually has very poor batting skills.**

**What other team joined the Am. League the same year as the Mariners? (1995?)** **--Toronto Blue Jays** **What city is home to an American League team that is the most northern city in the United States?** **--Seattle (home of the Mariners)** **What Am. League city is farthest distance from Seattle?** **--Tampa Bay (Rays)**
 * A goal scored by shooting the puck is particularly challenging as the goaltender has to aim for an empty net, six feet wide, at least how far away? **
 * --180 feet away **

** Literature/Language **
 * Written by a number of primarily European [|playwrights] in the late 1950s and 60s, what is the term for **
 * plays that expressed the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. **


 * -- Theatre of the Absurd **

** Who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra? **  ** -- Nietzsche ** = = ** Who was Nietzsche's "superman"? ** = -- uberman or Übermensch  =

**Spell a 10 letter word meaning causing fires or stirring up strife.**
**-- Faulkner** ** Music ** **Born in Spain in 1876, this world famous cellist died in 1973, and is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of [|Bach] .** **-- Pablo Casals** **What is the plural for "they exit" in a Shakespearean play?** **-- exeunt** **//The Silver Locusts//** is a 1950 [|science fiction] [|short story]  by this author of //**The Martian Chronicles** //
 * -- incendiary**
 * The Reivers, published in 1962, is the last novel by this American author **


 * --Ray Bradbury **

** 'Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?' Four knights took this king's words literally and murdered Thomas a' Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in December 1170. **
 * -- Henry II **

**He served as the 34th President of the United States.**
 * He had previously been a <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|five-star general] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> in the <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|United States Army] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> during World War II **
 * --Eisenhower (Dwight David)**


 * The ancient world was ruled by it for hundreds of years beginning with the rule of Charlemagne in 962 AD**


 * -- The Holy Roman Empire**

**Name 4 former presidents not buried in US soil** **--(joke question-- Bush, Bush, Carter Clinton)**
 * The Homeland Security Advisory System was a color coded terrorism threat scale. What was the color for general risk of attack called "guarded"? The system was phased out in 2011.**

**--Topeka, Kansas**
 * -- blue**
 * Brown v . Board of Education (1954) was the landmark case from the Warren court outlawing segregation in any public school. **
 * What was the city and state for the Board of Education?**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Watergate scandal<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> was the result of the break-in at the <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Democratic National Committee] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> headquarters at the <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Watergate office complex] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Richard Nixon] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">, the President of the United States, the only resignation of a U.S. President. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">**-- 1974**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">One of the most influential clauses of the <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Magna Carta] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">, signed by <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|King John] in 1215 was<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Article 39 which established a panel of 12 free men assigned to arbitrate disputes. What is this called? **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">-- trial by jury **

**-- Mohandas Ghandi ( called Mahatma "Great Soul" as well)** **-- Napolean**
 * One of the most important people involved in the movement for the independence of India. He was a [|non-violent] [|activist], who led the independence movement through a non-violent [|protest] . He died in 1948. **
 * Born on Corsica, this French military and political leader served as Emperor of France from 1804-1815. **
 * On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the telegraph message "What hath God wrought?" from the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in what city and state? **

**11th, 12th and** **13th century religious military campaigns were called-- **
 * -- Baltimore, Maryland **


 * -- the Crusades **


 * Give 1st names of JFK's parents.**


 * -- Rose and Joseph Kennedy**


 * Revised: November 2004, the original issue was August 1982. Congress enacted the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy to regulate what? **


 * -- nuclear waste **

** Math **


 * Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz invented it simultaneously and there was a bitter rivalry between the two. **


 * -- calculus**


 * Name the mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematicia **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">in <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Alexandria] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> c. 300 BC. **


 * -- Euclid **

** Miscellaneous **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">This city introduced a fee to drive in the center of the city on 17 February 2003. It remains one of the largest <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|congestion charge] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> zones in the world. **


 * -- London**


 * What organization is called the IAEA ?**


 * International Atomic Energy Agency**


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Lora,Georgia,Times,Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">In order to have a legal claim for this, you need to prove that a false statement about you to another person(s) has harmed your reputation in the community and <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lora,Georgia,Times,Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">you have suffered actual damages in order to make a lawsuit financial viable. **


 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lora,Georgia,Times,Palatino,serif; font-size: 15px;">-- defamation **

**What was Judas's last name?** **-- Iscariot**
 * Bible **
 * What Old Testament book is the most often quoted in the New Testament? **

**In Matthew in the New Testament, Jesus said "Follow me" to one of the disciples. What did the disciple say he had to do 1st?** **-- bury his father 1st** **In Revelation, the 6th angel poured out his bowl on this great river--** **-- Euphrates** **In the Creation story in Genesis, what was created on the 3rd day? Don't answer it because there are varying answers like 1st forms of life, dry ground, dry land seas and vegetation,** **After Jesus's death, disciples were walking on the road with Jesus but didn't recognize him until he broke bread with them.** **They were walking on the road to where?** **-- Emmaus** ** Geography ** **-- Brooklyn Bridge** **These engineering marvels are a system that lifts ships 85 feet above sea level** **--the locks of the Panama Canal** --Brisbane
 * -- Book of Isaiah **
 * Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River . **
 * Queensland<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> is the <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|second-largest] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> and <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|third-most populous] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> state in <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Australia] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. What is the capital of Queensland? **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">These 2 South American countries claimed to have inherited overlapping parts of <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Patagonia] . They have a border 3,200 miles.**


 * -- Chile and Argentina**

** Science ** **What is the oldest of the 3 Geologic eras? Common during this era were fish, insects, amphibians and early reptiles.** **--Paleozoic**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">This world famous cellist died in 1973, and is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of <span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Bach].