Archive for the ‘alfred nobel’ Tag
- Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Robert Mitchum, and Mr.T. all have photographic memories.
- The first of the five senses that deteriorate with old age is smell.
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- The baby blue whale gains ten pounds of weight per hour.
- Seventy-five percent of wild birds die before they are six months old.
- The odds of being hit by a meteorite are one in 200 million.
- Hans Christian Anderson, the Danish writer of fairy tales died falling out of bed.
- When singer John Denver lost his temper with his then wife, Annie (made famous in “Annie’s Song”), he sawed their bed in half.
- Country Western star Loretta Lynn was married at the age of 13.
- Mark Twain, Bob Hope, Daniel Boone, and Alfred Nobel all read their own obituaries.
- My favorite Country-Western song title was by Jerry Reed – “She Got the Gold Mine (I got the Shaft).
- Model Claudia Schiffer collects dried insects which she then paints and frames.
- Charles Manson once auditioned unsuccessfully for the band The Monkees.
- Famous Nazi Hermann Gohring refused to use standard toilet paper and bought a large supply of soft white handkerchiefs instead.
EVERYUSELESSTHINGS TO FILL YOUR BRAIN
This quiz may interest some of you trivia experts. This is truly a “Miscellaneous” selection from many and varied categories of trivia. As always, the answers will be posted below.
- How large was the fund bequeathed in 1896 by Alfred Nobel to establish the annual Nobel Prizes?
- What philosophy was expounded by the American League for Physical Culture, established in 1929?
- What was the first word that the blind Helen Keller learned in sign language from her teacher, Annie Sullivan?
- How much weight is saved by an airline if it doesn’t paint a Jumbo Jet?
- What was used to erase lead pencil marks before the rubber eraser was invented?
- What did Nippon Airways do to keep birds from being sucked into their plane’s engines?
- Who was described in Playboy magazine as “Mary Poppins in Joan Collins’ clothing?
- What did Lizzie Borden, Napolean, and Titian have in common?
- How big is a cord of wood?
- Where are the islands of Langerhans?
Answers
$9.2 million, Nudism, Water, 300 lbs., Pieces of Bread, They painted large eyes on engine intake manifolds, Vanna White, They were red heads, 4’X4’X8′ long, In the human body – Pancreas.
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