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1. Name the last baseball team before LSU in 2008-10 to win three consecutive SEC tournaments. 2. In 2009, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim set a major-league record for most hitters in one season having at least 50 RBIs. How many were there? 3. Who was the first player in NFL history to earn a Pro Bowl selection at two positions in the same season? 4. In 2011, David Lighty became the third Ohio State men’s basketball player to tally 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 300 assists for his career. Name the first two to do it? 5. In 2009-10, Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos, at 20, became the third-youngest NHL player to hit the 50-goal mark for a season. Who were the two younger players? 6. Who won the first gold medal in the Olympic men’s speed skating team pursuit in 2006? 7. Name the last European golfer before Lee Westwood in 2010 to be No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings.

The World Trade Center was officially dedicated on April 4, 1973, after nearly seven years of construction. This week, Tidbits takes a look at these structures, destroyed on September 11, 2001.

1. ASTRONOMY: The star called Rigel is part of which constellation? 2. MYTHOLOGY: What did the god Frey represent in Norse mythology? 3. CHEMISTRY: What gas has the chemical symbol of CH4? 4. MOVIES: Who directed “The Magnificent Ambersons” and “Touch of Evil”? 5. HISTORY: Who was the first English king to hold the title “Prince of Wales”? 6. INVENTIONS: What was the name of the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy? 7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who drew the famous image of Uncle Sam proclaiming, “I Want You”? 8. GEOGRAPHY: To what island group in the Caribbean does St. Croix belong? 9. LITERATURE: Which writer’s autobiography is called “Black Boy”? 10. POLITICS: Who was Adlai Stevenson’s vice-presidential running mate in 1956?

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1. Which singer had a debut hit with “I Only Want to Be with You”? 2. Name the group that released the ever-popular “Shout.” 3. Who sang the 1962 hit “Party Lights”? 4. Name the group that wrote and released “Mr. Lee.” What was the song about? 5. Who sang “River Deep -- Mountain High,” and when? 6. Which band released “Baby, Come Back”?

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1. Dusty Springfield in 1963. Samantha Fox covered the song in 1988. 2. The Isley Brothers in 1959. Amazingly, the song never rose higher than No. 47 on the charts, but became gold through long use. “Shout” continues to be played at athletic events and weddings. 3. Claudine Clark, who also composed the song. 4. The Bobbettes, an all-girl group from Harlem, wrote the 1957 song about a crush on a schoolteacher. The original version was negative about poor Mr. Lee and had to be rewritten. 5. Ike and Tina Turner, in 1966. Except you won’t hear Ike. Legend has it he was paid $20,000 to stay out of the studio while it was recorded. 6. Player. The 1977 song has been used in films and currently is being used in a commercial for Swiffer.

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1. Orion 2. Frey is the Norse god of fertility 3. Methane 4. Orson Welles 5. Edward II 6. U.S.S. Holland 7. James Montgomery Flagg 8. U.S. Virgin Islands 9. Richard Wright 10. Estes Kefauver

• Groundbreaking for the complex of seven buildings took place in August of 1966. Built at a cost of about $1.5 billion, the complex contained 13.4 million square feet of office space. • The address of 1 World Trade Center belonged to the North Tower, which was completed in December of 1970. For two years, the North Tower ranked as the world’s tallest building, edging out the Empire State Building, which had held the title for 40 years. The North Tower was 1,368 feet (417 m) tall at its completion, but a telecommunications antenna was added eight years later, increasing its height by 360 feet (110 m). Chicago’s Sears Tower surpassed the Tower as the world’s tallest building in 1974. • The Twin Towers were not identical twins. Although they both contained 110 stories, 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower), completed in 1973, was actually six feet (1.8 m) shorter than the North Tower. In 1976, the Windows on the World restaurant opened on the North Tower’s 106th and 107th floors at a cost of more than $17 million. • In addition to the Twin Towers, five other buildings occupied the 16-acre plot, including a 22-floor Marriott hotel and the U.S. Customs Service. Underneath the complex was an underground shopping mall. The development was large enough to merit its own zip code. About 50,000 employees worked in the Twin Towers on an average workday. Another 200,000 people passed through the buildings on a daily basis. • The Towers seemed to attract their share of daredevils. In 1974, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the Towers. Three years later, a Brooklyn toymaker named George Willig climbed to the top of the South Tower in 3.5 hours. At the top, he was pulled in through a window hatch where he was promptly arrested. New York City’s mayor later fined Willig $1.10, a penny for each of the Tower’s 110 floors. His feat did earn him a job as a stuntman on television’s “The Six Million Dollar Man.” • The first attack on the World Trade Center came in 1993. A Ryder truck loaded with 1,500 pounds (680 kg) of explosives blew up in the underground garage of the North Tower, resulting in a 100-foot (30-m) hole through five sublevels of the structure WANT TO RUN YOUR OWN BUSINESS? and six fatalities. Publish a flag that was Paperflying in Your • The American inArea front of the If You Can Provide: Sales Experience · A Computer · World Trade Center was foundFinancial the Inday after the Desktop Publishing Software · A Reasonable vestment provide the for success! The flag bombings,We tangled upopportunity on a streetlight. was rescued Call and three months later was taken on 1.800.523.3096 www.tidbitsweekly.com a flight of the space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station. On Flag Day, 2002, it was returned to the city of New York by NASA and is now a part of the Ground Zero memorial ceremony every September.

1. Alabama, 1995-97. 2. Eleven players. 3. Philadelphia’s DeSean Jackson, in 2009. 4. Jim Jackson (1989-92) and Evan Turner (2007-10). 5. Wayne Gretzky and Jimmy Carson, both 19 years old. 6. Italy. 7. Nick Faldo, in 1994.

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