21 Nov 2017, Day 94

Question 1:
What was the more popular name for the Strategic Defense Initiative? Answer: Star Wars.

Please see Day 18 for the explanation.

Question 2:
The famous defensive tackle who died during a game against the New York Dragons, played in how many games for the Panthers during his career? Answer: twenty.

Please see Day 47 for the explanation.

Question 3:
Who, while working as an apprentice compositor, wrote articles under the pseudonym "Aristides"? Answer: William Lloyd Garrison.

Please see Day 25 for the explanation.

28 Dec, 2015: Day 18

Editor's note: I already knew the answers to these questions. Two of the questions I knew because I grew up during that time. The last because I read The Prize : the epic quest for oil, money, and power. But the reason you're reading this is to get help in finding your own answers, right?

Question 1:
What was the more popular name for the Strategic Defense Initiative? Answer: Star Wars.

Type into the search field Strategic Defense Initiative other names and various page results come up on what is now known as Missile Defense Agency.

Question 2:
The Challenger mission that carried the first African-American into space deployed a multipurpose satellite for what country? Answer: India.

Type African-American astronaut Challenger in the search field, which will give you Guion "Guy" Bluford, who flew on STS-8. Replace the previous search query with sts-8 satellite to get the information of Challenger's payload, which included INSAT-1B.

Question 3:
What New England industry quickly collapsed with the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania? Answer: Whaling.

Using before petroleum was used in our search tells us that necessity is truly the mother of invention. "Rock oil" was a substitution product. Some say it worked wonderfully, others gripe a bit too well.