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Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:29 pm
by Skinny Bastard
» §öñ ðƒ Å ß¤ « wrote:Who was the first playmate to have a clearly visible navel piercing in her centerfold...???
Answer: Gillian Bonner (Miss April 1996)
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QUESTION: The Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons heroine's name and physical description are both based on which playmate?

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:23 pm
by melkior
» §öñ ðƒ Å ß¤ « wrote:QUESTION: The Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons heroine's name and physical description are both based on which playmate?
That would be Miss September 1967 and 1968 PMoY, Angela Dorian. The character's name was based on her real name - Victoria Vetri.

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:46 pm
by Skinny Bastard
You are correct sir! Dan Brown has confirmed this.
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melkior wrote:Miss September 1967 and 1968 PMoY, Angela Dorian. The character's name was based on her real name - Victoria Vetri.
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Question: Like Marilyn Monroe, this playmate committed suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills. She was holding a back-scratcher in her centerfold

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:53 pm
by melkior
Miss November 1968, Paige Young. She died 6 years later. Her favourite authors included Whitman, Voltaire and Kipling if I remember correctly.
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Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:57 pm
by Skinny Bastard
Nicely done - and quite quickly too. :idea: Maybe you should ask the next question? :D

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:04 pm
by melkior
Well, if I must... But I'll be lazy about it and just twist your own question.

Question: Another playmate that died from a sleeping pills overdose. Her centerfold ended up on Playboy's stock certificate.

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:18 pm
by Skinny Bastard
Answer: February 1971 Playmate Willy Rey
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Question: How tall was the tallest Playmate?

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:27 pm
by melkior
Last time I checked, that was Cara Michelle at 6'2", but then again I'm not really up to date with the Playmates in the last couple of years.

Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:48 pm
by Skinny Bastard
I believe Cara she still holds the record.
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See how quickly you can get this one... and then post how many hints it took you.

Hint #1
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Murdered Playmate
Hint #2
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Dated gene Simmons
Hint #3
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posed with a Rickenbacker guitar for her centerfold
Hint #4
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Struggling with post playboy life, she turned to drugs and prostitution
Hint #5
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Was found strangled to death at age 40, her half-naked body being discovered by some boys in bushes behind a Coral Springs Eckerd store. She had been strangled, possibly by the same man who strangled and discarded the body of another prostitute three weeks earlier
ANSWER:
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[center]February 1977 PMoM - Star Stowe
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Re: Playing with Playmates - A Trivia Treasure Hunt Game

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:53 pm
by melkior
After Hint #1:
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Dorothy Stratten
After Hint #2:
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Star Stowe
Opened the rest to confirm.

My final answer.
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Star Stowe, Miss February 1977.