trivia 4/13 – Be Careful out there...
DID YOU KNOW...
Costa Rica has a 96% literacy rate. For rural areas where children can't
make it to school, lessons are taught over a national radio station.
1. Which of these is the name of a surveyor's measuring instrument?
a. - Troglodyte
b. - Coprolite
c. - Theodolite
d. - Electrolyte
2. Johnny Carson hosted 'The Tonight Show' for thirty years, 1962-92 ; how many Emmys did he rack up in that time ?
a. - 6
b. - 12
c. - 18
d. - 24
3. Name the first Film to receive an X rating and receive a 'Best Picture' Academy Award..
4. Which Yiddish word means 'audacity'?
5. What notorious crime syndicate figure spearheaded the development of Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel?
a. - Dutch Shultz
b. - Bugsy Siegel
c. - Bugs Moran
d. - Meyer Lansky
6. The uppercase Greek letter Delta looks like what geometric figure?
7. The word "bimbo", used to describe a dumb but attractive woman, comes from Italian. What does it mean in Italian?
8. In the USA, we call it a sidewalk; what do the Brits call it ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Ouija Board is named after a lesser God in the Hindi belief system, who
is looked to for advice about one’s future.
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1. - c
2. - a
3. 'Midnight Cowboy'
4. Chutzpah
5. - b
6. Triangle
7. a Male Baby
8. Pavement
CRAP !!
The Ouija Board named itself.
In 1890, the Ouija Board got its name when the owners of the game and
several of their friends asked the board for an appropriate name.
Under their focused fingers, the Board spelled out O-U-I-J-A.
Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on July 1,
1890, the Ouija board was regarded as a parlor game unrelated to the occult
until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining
tool during World War I. Spiritualists claimed that the dead were able to
contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a
modern Ouija board at their camps in Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable
faster communication with spirits.
DID YOU KNOW...
Costa Rica has a 96% literacy rate. For rural areas where children can't
make it to school, lessons are taught over a national radio station.
1. Which of these is the name of a surveyor's measuring instrument?
a. - Troglodyte
b. - Coprolite
c. - Theodolite
d. - Electrolyte
2. Johnny Carson hosted 'The Tonight Show' for thirty years, 1962-92 ; how many Emmys did he rack up in that time ?
a. - 6
b. - 12
c. - 18
d. - 24
3. Name the first Film to receive an X rating and receive a 'Best Picture' Academy Award..
4. Which Yiddish word means 'audacity'?
5. What notorious crime syndicate figure spearheaded the development of Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel?
a. - Dutch Shultz
b. - Bugsy Siegel
c. - Bugs Moran
d. - Meyer Lansky
6. The uppercase Greek letter Delta looks like what geometric figure?
7. The word "bimbo", used to describe a dumb but attractive woman, comes from Italian. What does it mean in Italian?
8. In the USA, we call it a sidewalk; what do the Brits call it ?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Ouija Board is named after a lesser God in the Hindi belief system, who
is looked to for advice about one’s future.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. - c
2. - a
3. 'Midnight Cowboy'
4. Chutzpah
5. - b
6. Triangle
7. a Male Baby
8. Pavement
CRAP !!
The Ouija Board named itself.
In 1890, the Ouija Board got its name when the owners of the game and
several of their friends asked the board for an appropriate name.
Under their focused fingers, the Board spelled out O-U-I-J-A.
Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on July 1,
1890, the Ouija board was regarded as a parlor game unrelated to the occult
until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining
tool during World War I. Spiritualists claimed that the dead were able to
contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a
modern Ouija board at their camps in Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable
faster communication with spirits.
