Win Treebeard's Money!

“If you think you have the savvy, the gumption, the right stuff!

Then, you may be a candidate to WIN.....TREEBEARD"S....MONEY!

Of course, Treebeard doesn't have any money. So, any and all payouts will be distributed via the USPS in Monopoly currency only!



So, who's up for it?”

“Oooh Ooooh, how do I play, I need fake cash fast!”

“I got one! Anyone else?”

“ohhhh astronomy edition..... ahhhhh...”

“Is that two?”

“I'll play but I just got this feelin this is another hoax...”

“HA! No hoax! I have a limited amount of categories and questions here.”

“C'mon, you slackers!”

“sure i'm in”

“Ok, that's three. Another minute and we will start”

“bring it.”

“Bison, Carlette, And Blind Willie, ready?”

“Ready”

“Ready freddy”

“yeah...”

“Ok, here goes. I will give you three categories at a time. You pick one and the first post with the correct answer gets the loot. We keep going until the questions run out. There will no commercial interruptions. Got it?”

“shoot”

“hope my clicker works
(ever noticed how some of those folk on jeopardy click that thing a hundred times trying to get in..lol)
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“Shopping Maulers

Go west, young man (until your hat floats)

I got all choked up when I read Heimlich’s biography”

“Who picks first?”

“Blind Willie chooose first”

“Go west young man”

“For 150 dollars

How many years did the California Gold Rush last, starting from the first gold find?”

“53
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“no”

“anyone?”

“look again...I was concentrating too much on the 150 bucks”

“17 years

1848-65
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“no! Blind Willie. wanna guess?”

“you gotta hurry, i gotta pee.”

“150”

“bzzzzzzzzzz! 3 years 1848-1851”

“go pee, BW”

“years that is”

““53
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carlette


ta hell with google....
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“Alright what's next.”

“Ok, Carlette chooses a new category.


“Shopping Maulers

I see by your shirt you are cold or are you happy to see me?

I got all choked up when I read Heimlich’s biography””

“I see by your shirt..”

“ok, for 150 dollars:

Who, became, in 1773, the first explorer to cross the arctic Circle?”

“james cook”

“YAY!!!!!!!

Carlette gets $150!”

“1773?

Cook crossed the "Antarctic circle" that year not the Arctic.”

“and the crowd goes wild”

“Hey! That's not right!”

“Follow-up question for Carlette:

If she doesn't get it, then it's open to you two.

What country’s flag was the first to be hoisted at the South Pole?”

“Sir Vivian Fuchs”

“I protest!”

“sorry, misprint. ooopps”

“Soviet union..”

“no, blind willie or Bison for 50 dollars”