Category: Trivia
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Question: Alligators have up to 80 teeth in their mouth at a time and when they wear down, they are replaced. How many teeth can an alligator go through in a lifetime? Answer: Between two and three thousand.
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Trivia: Hot Air Balloon Passengers
Question: What were the passengers on the first hot air balloon ride that flew over the heads of Louis XJI, Marie Antoinette and the French court in Versailles in 1783? Answer: A rooster, a duck and a sheep. These three were chosen to test the effects of altitude on a land dweller.
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Question: According to Guinness World Records, what is the laziest freshwater turtle in the world? Answer: The Giant Soft-Shelled Turtle (Pelochelys Cantorii), which spends 95 percent of its life motionless in sand on the river bottom and comes to the water surface to breathe just twice each day.
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Trivia: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland
Question: How old was Mary Stuart when she became Queen of Scotland in December 1542? Answer: Six days old.
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Question: Which of the 50 states has the longest official name? Answer: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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Question: What is the largest flying animal in the world today? Answer: Andean Condor
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Question: What 20th century art movement was founded by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso? Answer: Cubism, considered the most influential art movement of that century.
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Trivia: Pluto’s Orbit around the Sun
Question: Pluto orbits the Sun once every how many years? Answer: 248
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Question: Pluto orbits the Sun once every how many years? Answer: 248
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Trivia: Rubik’s Cube Configurations
Question: How many possible configurations does a standard 3×3 Rubik’s Cube have? Answer: 43,252,003,274,489,856,000
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Trivia: Who Is Baby Ruth Candy Named After?
Question: Who was the Baby Ruth candy bar named after? Answer: Former President Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.
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Trivia: What is the Origin of the Bridal Shower
Question: What is the origin of the bridal shower? Answer: In Holland, when a bride’s father didn’t approve of his daughter’s husband-to-be, he would not give her the necessary dowry. Her friends would therefore “shower” her with gifts to provide the necessary dowry that would allow her to marry the man of her choice.
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Trivia: Official Birthplace of Memorial Day?
Question: Which New York village is the official birthplace of Memorial Day? Answer: Waterloo, New York, which first honored the holiday on May 5, 1866.
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Trivia: How Fast Did the “Galileo” Travel in 1995?
Question: How fast was the unmanned Galileo spacecraft going when it entered Jupiter’s atmosphere in 1995 (six years after it launched with the space shuttle Atlantis)? Answer: 108,000 miles per hour (or 30 miles per second)
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Trivia: What’s the Longest Golf Course in the World?
Question: What is the longest golf course in the world, and how many yards long is it? Answer: The par 77 International Golf Club in Massachusetts. It measures 8,325 yards.
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Trivia: John Denver’s Last Name
Question: What is John Denver’s real last name? Answer: Deutschendorf. He changed it to Denver because his real last name would not fit on a marquee.
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Trivia: Who Was Prince Named After?
Question: Who was Prince named after? Answer: Prince Rogers Nelson was named after the stage name of his jazz musician father, John Lewis Nelson, also known as Prince Rogers.
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Trivia: What’s On Shakespeare’s Grave Marker?
Question: What did William Shakespeare’s original grave marker show him holding? Answer: A bag of grain. In 1747, the citizens of his hometown of Stratford, Warwickshire had the bag of grain replaced with a quill.
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Trivia: Where Did John Purves Tug Start Career?
Question: How did the tug John Purves start her career? Answer: As a floating radio station for the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean.
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Trivia: How Much Did A Model T Cost in 1908?
Question: What was the price of a Ford Model T when it was introduced in 1908? Answer: $850. It was lowered to less than $300 in 1925.