2018 - Volume 3

Please Don’t Call It Trivia # 3

In Lovell Chronicle October 25, 2018

Test Yourself:
Q1. Name the couple who star in HGTV’s hit show “ Fixer Upper “?
Q2. What hit song from 2012 begins, “ It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters…..“?
Q3. What was the name of the actress who parodied Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live?

Fun Facts:
The popular Smarties Candies are biconcave in shape. They are fat-free, gluten free, dairy free and contain no animal products making them a perfect vegan snack. Source

According to the Urban Dictionary, a fictional character that is sexy, intelligent and carefully rides the line between good and evil is a “Chuck Bass”. Chuck Bass is a character in book and television series Gossip Girls. Source

An old wives tale said, “woe is the child who tastes salty from a kiss on the brow, for he is cursed, and soon must die”. Those children had cystic fibrosis or CF. Although only a few decades ago only a few people with CF lived into their teens, modern medicine has made amazing strides in increasing lifespan. Source

The largest accounting firm in the United States is Deloitte. (Formerly known as Deloitte and Touche) It is an international firm formed by William Welch Deloitte in London in 1845 and opened its first office in the U.S. in 1890. The company is expected to have revenue of $43 Billion in 2018. Source

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have done four films together: Joe vs. the Volcano (1990), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You’ve Got Mail (1998) and Ithaca (2015). All of them together grossed less than Forrest Gump. Source

In 1860, Henry Chadwick, a young sportswriter worked to standardize the abbreviations for baseball statistics. Because he had already used an “ S “ for Sacrifice, he chose the 4th letter in the word strike for its symbol. Since then fans have waved posters with the letter K when a batter strikes out. Source

October 9th is Leif Erikson day in the United States, Norway and Iceland. Leif Erikson is credited as the first European to travel to North America. Source

Answers:
A1. Chip and Joanna Gaines. Joanna’s mother is Korean. Her parents met when her father was stationed in Korea in 1969. Source
A2. “ 22 “ by Taylor Swift. Source
A3. Melissa McCarthy. (McCarthy first gained national fame by playing Sookie St. James in the TV series The Gilmore Girls.) Source

2018 - Volume 2

2018 - Volume 1

November 2009 - Week #2

Please Don't Call it Trivia!
Q1 What is the name of Pluto's largest moon?
Q2 Which baseball team has won the 2nd most World Series?

Fort Hood army base in Texas was named for Confederate General John Bell Hood who fought against the north at Gettysburg.

Mark Twain had three daughters. Clara was the only one that survived him, dying in 1962. The others died in their 20's of spinal menigitis (Susy) and epilepsy (Jean).

One of the most heavily fortified borders on Earth was between East and West Germany. Today little remains of the 858 miles of high walls and razor wire. They reunified in 1990.

A semi-prime number is a product of two primes. The first two semi-primes are 4 (2x2) and 6 (2x3). The next semi-prime year will be 2018 which is 2 times 1009.

In the center of the Pacific Ocean there is a “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” that is twice the size of Texas. It is mostly made of floating plastic garbage that washes into the oceans from beaches, rivers or is dumped by ships including cruise ships.

A1 Charon (The "Former" planet also has two other moons: Nix and Hydra).
Q2 The St. Louis Cardinals (The Yankees have won 27 and the Cardinals 10. The Yankees won their 10th in 1943).

November 2009 - Week #1

Please Don't Call it Trivia

Q1 Give the names of Louisa May Alcott's four "Little Women" in order by age.
Q2 How many years is "Four score and seven"?

The Great London Fire in September, 1666 destroyed over 13,000 homes and 87 churches. Officially, only eight people died in the fire, but many thousands of those left homeless died from cold and starvation that winter.

Chances are, a girl born today in the African country of Mozambique will have a 32 percent chance of learning to read, bear 5.3 children and will die at age 40.

A 110 pound woman would have to run 3.2 miles to burn the 273 calories in a Snickers Bar, while a 185 pound man would have to run only 1.9 miles. You can cut your run by 20% if you ate a Milky Way.

Roman legions would carry a battle standard or banner called a vexillum to inspire the troops. The word vexillology, meaning "the study of flags", is taken from same root word.

The Colorado Rockies play home games at an elevation of 5,280 feet in Denver's Coors Field. The 2nd highest Major League ball park is in Phoenix where the Diamondbacks play at only 1,090 ft. Physicists claim that a 400 foot hit at sea level would fly 430 feet in Denver.

A1 From oldest to youngest: Margaret (Meg), Josephine (Jo), Elizabeth (Beth) and Amy.
A2 87 years (It is the number of years from 1776 to 1863, the year the Gettysburg Address was given)