Trivial Pursuit

1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
2. Coca-Cola was originally green
3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
4. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
5. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
6. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
7. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
8. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
9. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
10. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
11. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
12. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
13. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
14. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
15. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
16. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
17. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
18. Spades - King David
19. Clubs - Alexander the Great
20. Hearts - Charlemagne
21. Diamonds - Julius Caesar
22. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
23. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
24. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
25. John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
26. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
27. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
28. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
29. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
30. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
31. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
32. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
33. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the Rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies...").

People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").

Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?

A. Conception.

Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?

A. No theme song.

Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

A. Their birthplace.

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?

A. Obsession

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

A. One thousand

Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

A. All invented by women.

Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil.

A. Honey

Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?

A. Father's Day

Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?

A. He was allergic to carrots.

Q. An activity of 40% of all people at a party?

A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.

1. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

2. Maine is the only state with just one syllable.

3. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

4. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

5. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

6. "Bookkeeper" has the most double letters of any word in English.

7. Almonds are members of the peach family.

8. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous:" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous.

9. The average person falls asleep in seven seconds.

10. No word in the English language rhymes with purple, month, silver, or orange.

11. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

12. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

13. A microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

* If Bill Gates purchased a $250,000 Lambourghini, it would be like us making a $0.63 purchase.

* Based on Bill Gates' hourly wage, if he saw a $100 bill lying on the ground, it wouldn't be worth his time to bend over and pick it up!.