Trivia test/ Strange but true

TRIVIA TEST

1. MONEY: Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?

2. GEOGRAPHY: What three states border on the state of Louisiana?

3. MUSIC: Which rock star had a hit song with “Papa Don’t Preach”?

4. GAMES: The properties in the U.S. version of “Monopoly” are based on streets in which city?

5. TELEVISION: On what sketch comedy show did Jim Carrey make a name for himself in the 1990s?

6. LANGUAGE: What does the word “torpid” mean?

7. MOVIES: Who were the three actors in “Three Men and a Little Lady”?

8. BIBLE: What kind of wood was Noah’s ark made of?

9. PHOBIAS: What fear is represented in the condition called “glossophobia”?

10. ENTERTAINERS: Who was Paul McCartney’s first wife?

Answers

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas.

3. Madonna

4. Atlantic City, N.J.

5. “In Living Color”

6. Sluggish

7. Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson

8. Gopher wood (cypress)

9. Fear of public speaking

10. Linda Eastman

STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Samantha Weaver

• It was Canadian American educator Laurence J. Peter who made the following sage observation: “You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”

• In Murfreesboro, Tenn., it is illegal to keep indoor furniture outdoors.

• Mike Edwards, one of the founding members of the British band Electric Light Orchestra, met with an untimely death decades after he left the group. In 2010, as Edwards was driving in the rural southwest of England, a farmer lost control of a 1,300-pound bale of hay. This wheel-shaped bale rolled down a hill and over a hedge, and just happened to smash into the van that Edwards was driving.

• The humble honeybee is the official insect of 17 states.

• Those who study such things say that there is a 1 million to 1 chance that, within the next century, an asteroid will crash into the Earth and destroy most life on the planet.

• In 2008 a company called Defense Devices, based in Jackson, Tenn., introduced a new item: a stun gun disguised as a tube of lipstick. The same company offers a ring that will shoot pepper spray.

• You might be surprised to learn that the giant bullfrogs of South Africa have sometimes been known to attack lions.

• Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it has the longest name: It’s officially known as the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation.

• The tuatara is a lizard that can be found in New Zealand. Its claim to fame? It has a third eye, on the top of its head.

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