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Embarassingly Easy Rogue Trivia

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Embarassingly Easy Rogue Trivia

Jim Rutten

Alex has been doing awesome with trivia but I haven't seen any in a couple of days so here it is. It is even multiple guess. Good luck.

The oldest tree in the world began life in approximately (within a century or 2) which event?

a. Man began cultivating plants as food (is that like the pizza plant in Wall-e)

b. Leif Ericson lands in North America (many people don't know this but Mr. Ericson originally didn't have a first name he was just known as Ericson. When he arrived at North America, the indigenous population told him "Leave, Ericson" and he misheard it but took on Leif as his first name)

c. The land bridge connecting England with Europe disappears beneath the waters of the North Sea and the English Channel (is that Channel no. 5?)

d. Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country; he rules this new country from Memphis (bet you didn't know that about Memphis!).

The first person with the correct answer wins the Rogue Trivia Award.

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Jim Rutten

Bonus points if you don't have to google how old the oldest tree is.

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Alex Y

I'm going to guess the one with a very tenuous connection to Elvis.

No Google, just SWAG

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Jim Rutten

I told you it was embarrasingly easy. Alex gets the Rogue trivia award. The oldest tree is 5062 years (give or take from when the website was put up) which puts it approximately during the unification of Egypt. Nicely done, Alex!

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