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* 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...
1. GEOGRAPHY: Which is the least-populated continent? 2. GEOLOGY: What metal is produced by refining the ore bauxite? 3. EXPLORERS: Where was explorer Marco Polo born? 4. ART: Which popular American artist referred to himself as "Painter of Light"? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the pH value of pure water? 6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of leopards called? 7. LITERATURE: What was the birth name of author Toni Morrison (a pseudonym)? 8. MOVIES: In which James Bond movie is the character of Jaws introduced? 9. HISTORY: Which country was home...
* It was American cartoonist, humorist and journalist Kin Hubbard who made the following sage observation: "There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?" * Next time you're in Iowa, you might want to stop by the rural town of Riverside, which touts itself as the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. Yep, the future birthplace. It seems that "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry asserted that the character of James Tiberius Kirk was born in Iowa, but he didn't specify exactly where. In 19...
1. LITERATURE: Which novel introduced the character of Lisbeth Salander? 2. MOVIES: What was the name of Bill Murray's character in the 1984 "Ghostbusters" film? 3. HISTORY: Roughly how many people migrated from drought-stricken Dust Bowl states in the United States in the 1930s? 4. ENTERTAINMENT: What was the title of the first arcade video game? 5. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Which American humorist once observed, "In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours"? 6. MUSIC: Which 1980s movie featured the theme song...
* It was American humorist Evan Esar who came up the following definition: "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." * The Emperor Charlemagne, who conquered much of Western and Central Europe during the first century, had an unusual relationship with his daughters. He refused to allow them to get married, but he evidently had no objections to their forming, shall we say, less formal relationships. He doted on his illegitimate grandchildren and even gave money and gifts...
