Serving Whitman County since 1877
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1. ADVERTISING SLOGANS: Which product was advertised as "the champagne of bottled beer"? 2. GEOGRAPHY: Which was the first designated national park in the United States? 3. BIBLE: From which book of the New Testament does the proverb "the blind leading the blind" originate? 4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president established the Purple Heart award to military members injured or killed in battle? 5. LITERATURE: What is the title of a classic novel that its British author originally named "Strangers from Within"? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Which animal's...
* In the mood for a looong vacation? Consider the planet Uranus. Its summer lasts 21 Earth years. * It takes 700 gallons of water to make a cotton shirt. To put that in perspective, the amount of water needed to make a T-shirt is enough for one person to stay hydrated for 900 days, while the amount necessary to create a pair of jeans is equivalent to hosing down your lawn for nine hours straight. * The official color of the Golden Gate Bridge is "International Orange." * Speaking of that delightful hue, Alexander the Great washed his hair in...
Representatives from the City of Palouse met with those from the Washington State Department of Ecology and Department of Commerce Feb. 27 in Spokane, for a follow-up meeting in the city's effort hit a coming deadline for an “approvable” wastewater plan. The city will now move to turn it in by March 31, offering a strategy to lower the temperature of effluent into the Palouse River, and a second, longer-term requirement to eliminate all inorganic nitrates. Both are directives from the Dep...
1. HISTORY: When was the United Nations organization formed? 2. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first president to reside in the White House? 3. ASTRONOMY: Which planet has the largest moon in our solar system? 4. TELEVISION: Which TV series featured a character named Walter White? 5. LITERATURE: Which character appears in three of William Shakespeare's plays? 6. MUSIC: What was the original name of the rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers? 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of giraffes called? 8. SCIENCE: How many main body sections does an insect...
* It was American journalist, author and humorist Don Marquis who made the following sage observation: "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." * The first recorded newspaper that published on a daily basis was in Rome -- in 59 B.C. * A giant carnivorous plant has been discovered on a remote mountaintop in the Philippines. The second largest pitcher plant on record, nepenthes attenboroughii secretes a nectar that lures insects, frogs and even rats into its trap, where enzymes and acids break down the animal and digest it. *...
1. SCIENCE: What is dendrochronology? 2. FOOD & DRINK: What are the ingredients in a Tom Collins drink? 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who is considered to be the father of nuclear Navy submarines? 4. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel "Anne of Green Gables"? 5. AD SLOGANS: Which product is advertised as "the quicker picker-upper"? 6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the shortest president in U.S. history? 7. HISTORY: Who was the oldest signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence? 8. GEOGRAPHY: Which country lies on the eastern border of Ukraine? 9. MOVIES:...
* It was American political scientist, economist, psychologist and professor Herbert Simon who made the following sage observation: "What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." * Those who study such things claim that the act of licking a stamp burns one-tenth of a calorie. * The shortest song in the world is "You Suffe...
