Extreme Trivia #90
December 12, 2007 at 1:02 pm
First, our last trivia answer: The only U.S. aircraft carrier permanently deployed abroad.
Joe Luchok was first with the correct question:
What is the USS Kitty Hawk, at least until next year when it due to be decommissioned.
Now, the next Extreme Trivia answer:
Tom Lehrer’s reaction to the news that China exploded a nuclear bomb, called a device, and that Indonesia would get one soon.
What’s the question?
Spank That Donkey said,
December 12, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
what’s interesting is that Japan will be accepting a nuclear carrier in exchange for the conventionally powered Kitty Hawk…
I don’t think it’s the USS Truman however, (the President that ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Japan)
Phineas J. Whoopee said,
December 12, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
What is “Who’s Next?”
fyi - followed on the album “That Was the Year That Was” by the immortal standard Wehrner von Braun
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown.
“Ha, Nazi Schmazi,” says Wernher von Braun.
Don’t say that he’s hypocritical,
Say rather that he’s apolitical.
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
You too may be a big hero,
Once you’ve learned to count backwards to zero.
“In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese,” says Wernher von Braun.