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1. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What are female elephants called? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the oldest brewery in the United States? 3. MOVIES: To which destination is the McCallister family traveling in the movie "Home Alone"? 4. GEOGRAPHY: How many U.S. states are named after a president? 5. MUSIC: In the song, what did Frosty the Snowman do after a magic hat was placed on his head? 6. ANATOMY: Where is the glabella located in the human body? 7. LANGUAGE: What did the Russian Space Station "Mir" mean in English? 8. LITERATURE: What are the names of...
* It was nonviolent Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi who made the following sage observation: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." * In 1905, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, became one of the first people ever to be fined for speeding. * Appropriately, the patron saint of bankers is St. Meingold. * Ever wonder how BVDs came to be called that? From the names of the men who originally manufactured them: Bradley, Voorhies and Day. * Less than half the people in the world...
* It was Samuel West, the founder and curator of Sweden's Museum of Failure (which showcases disasters in design and innovation), who made the following sage observation: "Each failure is uniquely spectacular, while success is nauseatingly repetitive." * Those who study such things say that the earth is more flattened at the South Pole than the North Pole. The weight of all that ice is to blame. * Clams can live for more than 200 years. * You know what a mortgage is, but do you know how the word came to the English language? The "mort" should...
1. TELEVISION: What were the names of the villainous agents in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"? 2. MUSIC: Which rock group produced the album "Shout at the Devil" in the 1980s? 3. LAW: What was the subject of the landmark legal case titled Furman v. Georgia? 4. MEDICAL: What is a more common name for dyspepsia? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What does a lepidopterist study? 6. LITERATURE: How many ghosts appear in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"? 7. LANDMARKS: What lies around the feet of the Statue of Liberty? 8. GEOGRAPHY: What is the...
1. MOVIES: What was the name of the main character in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"? 2. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which U.S. president was the nation's first known speleologist? 3. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix "tele" mean in English? 4. MUSIC: What was the main title of the 1979 song that is popularly known as "The Pina Colada Song"? 5. PERSONALITIES: Which actress was born Betty Joan Perske? 6. MEDICAL: What is a more common name for the condition known as canities? 7. HISTORY: When did daylight savings time go into effect in the...
* It was Nobel Prize-winning French poet, journalist and novelist Anatole France who gave the following sage advice: "Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me." * One-quarter of the city of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles. * Ancient Egyptian priests were bald. And not just on their heads -- they would pluck every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. * In many parts of Spain, Dec. 28 is traditionally observed as the Feast of the Holy In...
