I got 8 out of ten: answered the questions about Crapper and mud-slinging wrong. Although the lake one I got right for the wrong reason, since I grew up in MA.

I'd only actually heard of 3 of those before I first ran across that quiz. So I got those right and the rest were guesses.

I was reading Hubby some of the near-death stories, and his answer to "what's the closest you've been death?" was "which time?" He's had his heart stop on him three times so far, plus so many near misses he's lost count. When I finally knew him well enough to see him without clothes, we'd play "What's that scar from?" "That one's from being sideswiped by a shark in Hawaii, I guess he got tired of me annoying him. That one's from a gang fight in LA. That's where I got shot, I don't remember where." Then there's the heart attacks. As he says, "It's almost like a game show, now, how many I can survive." He has personally raised the survivability average in our county.

Me? Ignoring infected mosquito bites until I keeled over in the hospital parking lot and a passing nurse looked at me and said, "ER. Now." Septicemia and congestive heart failure, whee.

Um, 3. Columbus, Jefferson/Adams, and ice cream . And I majored in the subject.

Fred, don't feel too bad. I had a fairly exhaustive high school education on US history (not that it compares to a major, just...it was more thorough than the few classes I had to take for my policsci major,) and like I said, I'd only heard of three of those. I suspect it depends highly on ...well, something.

How the hell does the dog always know what time it is?

Eight-thirty, every night. Doesn't matter if the last walk was at noon or at 7:45, she always starts fussing at me at 8:30. For the last time, I'm not ready! Please god just leave me alone for fifteen minutes and I swear we'll go back out.

Okay, rant over. I feel better. No visible canine effect, however.

Hey Californians - Phil Angelides is giving a speech in my office right now!

I am not listening. I am entering invoices.

Am I too late to play the death quiz?

Skull Fracture

Almost hit by car in Rome

Tequila

Landing on an icy runway in Portland, ME.

Calling Pete adorable and then poking him on the arm.

On the almost died thing, I can only think of three:

Fifth grade, riding my bike home from school, the front tire got caught in a crack in the sidewalk, and my bike flipped over. I landed pretty much head-first on the pavement. All exposed skin got pretty badly scratched up, I needed a bunch of stitches in my face, and my helmet cracked. I'm pretty sure that could have been my skull cracking if I hadn't been wearing the helmet. (Somehow, my back and neck were pretty much OK.)

The other two were traffic accidents. Second one was flooding roadway and driving too fast, led to car spinning across three lanes of oncoming traffic. I was in the backseat, and had a moment where I was just watching a car getting closer and closer to my door. It stopped with less than a foot to spare. The first traffic accident was a family vacation. The car in front of us had a cooler on the roof. The cooler fell off, opened up, and a whole roast turkey started rolling across the highway. (This was I-95, somewhere in Virgnia.) My dad braked to avoid hitting the turkey, and the car behind us, which was a minivan towing a UHaul, couldn't stop in time.

Matt, I'm glad your dad's tests went well.

I got 8 out of 10 on the history quiz. I missed the mudslinging and Jefferson and Adams dying on the 4th of July.