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Today's Trivia, "Who is BURIED in Grant's tomb?"

Today's Trivia, "Who is BURIED in Grant's tomb?"

Old Oct 19th, 2004, 07:04 AM
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Today's Trivia, "Who is BURIED in Grant's tomb?"

I know this is nit-picky...but the answer to today's Test Your Travel IQ Trivia Question: "...The...question may be silly, but exactly who IS buried in Grant's Tomb?":
is not General Grant and his wife.

They are not BURIED in the tomb, they are entombed in crypts in the tomb (this, told to us by the docent that showed us the tomb many years ago). According to the docent, to be buried, you have to be under ground, and because neither of them are, they are not technically "buried" there.
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Old Oct 19th, 2004, 07:41 AM
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gosh...thx so much for clarifying that one for us. And, I suppose it shd be Grants' Tomb if they are both entombed!
Whew! We'll all sleep better tonight ( Karen.... are you still awake???)
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Old Oct 19th, 2004, 07:55 AM
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Well, after 35 years , I have finally been vindicated (well, almost.) When I was in the 5th grade, "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" was a bonus question on a history test. I thought that the teacher was being tricky, and that the answer coulnd't possibly be Grant. I think I answered Lincoln. I guess I was embarrased enough about this that I still remember it! SO, thank you for pointing out that this at least COULD be a trick question.
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Old Oct 19th, 2004, 08:29 AM
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Get with it. Are you still playing the original Trivial Pursuit???? Get the new 90's version.
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I think the answer is F.W. Woolworth.
(Does anyone remember W.T. Grant stores?)
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Old Oct 19th, 2004, 08:50 AM
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We had a Grants in our small town. It had everything!
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the original primise of the assertion is well described by the name of a modern sculpture in the Pinakothek Modern in Munich. The title of the sculpture fashioned from car bumpers and fenders is: Horse Pucky.

The word bury can also mean to entomb or to inter a corpse. A tomb need not be below ground

So to cling just to a single meaning of the word is as narrow minded as it is
asinine.

It is in the same league as "How do you get down off an elephant?" Answer, "You don't. You get down off a goose." Such perterbations of meaning undercut the communicative powers of the language and reduce common interpretations to farcical exercises in arrant pedantry.
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Old Oct 19th, 2004, 09:28 AM
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okay bob, but can you help me out with these: "primise" and "perterbations?"
 
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