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Shoeless Trivia: Hurricane Florence

Five questions for the calm before the storm.

  1. Insiders know that the invention of the popular hurricane cocktail is credited to what New Orleans tavern owner?
  2. What is the name of the 14th century Boccaccio work in which ten youths fleeing plague-ridden Florence tell 100 tales overs the course of ten days?
  3. What is the name for the annular region of a hurricane where the highest winds and most severe weather occur?
  4. The character pictured below, also named Florence, was one of three female characters to perform a particular job on a workplace sitcom that aired on NBC from 1984 to 1992. Give the first name of either of the other two.hurricane1
  5. Mark Richt is currently the head football coach at the University of Miami. Where was his previous coaching position, where he served from 2001 to 2015?

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  1. Pat O’Brien
  2. The Decameron
  3. eyewall
  4. Selma, Rosalind / Roz
  5. University of Georgia

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