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Famously February

February 27, 2014 by Dave Knadler

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For a short month, it’s kind of long.

April may be the cruelest month, as Eliot observed, but for me it’s always been February. In my homeland of Montana, February was always the time I’d get thoroughly sick of winter and thoroughly disheartened by the certainty that spring would not start in March.  Here in Florida, which is the opposite of Montana in a whole bunch of ways, I dislike February for another reason: It means pleasantly cool temperatures will soon be coming to an end. And it means I’m another year older.

Anyway, here’s a quiz to mark the passing of the shortest, cruelest month. Hint: It’s more fun if you don’t Google the answers first. It’s a test of trivia, not typing.

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Comments

  1. mike knadler says

    February 27, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    Good quiz, despite the fact I only got 4 out of ten. At least I got the Beatles one right.

    • Dave Knadler says

      February 27, 2014 at 6:00 pm

      Oh oh. If you only got four right, that means I made it far too difficult. I’ll ease up on the next one.

  2. Joan says

    February 27, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    Mike, you beat me by one!

    • Dave Knadler says

      February 28, 2014 at 9:52 am

      Clearly, I need to lower the bar.

  3. John H. says

    February 28, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    4/10 for me, too. It was fun, though. I got the space shuttle, New Amsterdam, and the music ones. I’m not sure what that says about the quiz, but it says quite a bit about me.

  4. Kim says

    February 28, 2014 at 10:36 pm

    9/10

    erm… the best picture winner from 2007 wasn’t in the list of nominees you offered.

    No Country for Old Men won in 2007.

    • Dave Knadler says

      February 28, 2014 at 10:51 pm

      The Departed won for Best Picture at the Academy Awards presented on Feb. 25, 2007. It wasn’t intended to be a trick question, but I can see how you might interpret it that way. No Country For Old Men won the Oscar at the 2008 ceremony.

      • Kim says

        February 28, 2014 at 11:04 pm

        Ah! LOL it WAS a trick question! The Departed won Best Picture of 2006 – at the ceremony IN 2007!

        • Dave Knadler says

          March 1, 2014 at 8:58 am

          Anyway, point taken. Future Oscar questions, if there are any, will be worded more carefully. (And I’ve clarified this one.) You still appear to be the champion for this particular quiz.

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