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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...
1. GOVERNMENT: When was the US Central Intelligence Agency founded? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What gift arrives on the 10th day in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"? 3. MOVIES: What was the name of Shirley MacLaine's character in "Terms of Endearment"? 4. PERSONALITIES: At which sport did Babe Didrikson Zaharias excel in the 1940s? 5. ANIMAL KINGDOM: How do baleen whales eat? 6. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Which early American statesman once said, "A good conscience is a continual Christmas"? 7. MUSIC: Which singer was nicknamed "The Material Girl"...
* It was 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes who made the following sage observation: "Curiosity is the lust of the mind." * At Christmastime in Greece, people traditionally give small gifts to orphanages and hospitals rather than to each other. * A traditional Russian Christmas celebration would include spreading hay on a home's floors and tables and clucking loudly. Evidently, this was thought to encourage horse feed to grow and chickens to lay eggs in the coming year. * The antlers of a bull moose can spread up to 6 feet across...
1. THEATER: "West Side Story" was inspired by which earlier play? 2. MUSIC: What is the real name of songwriter/rapper Lizzo? 3. SCIENCE: How many people total have walked on the moon? 4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Under whose administration did Spiro T. Agnew serve as vice president? 5. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Chile? 6. ARCHITECTURE: In what decade was the Empire State Building completed? 7. ADVERTISING: What was the name of Honey Nut Cheerios' mascot? 8. U.S. STATES: What is the least populous state in America? 9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was...
It was Polish chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower who made the following sage observation: "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." * Worldwide, herbivores kill more people than carnivores. * Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all were invented by women. * Japanese scientists have discovered that the human body emits a very slight, yet perceptible, glow. After using a special camera to study a sample of men in their 20s, they found that intensity of the glow varies, with the lowest...
