... Buddy's Trivia Page 6 ...

Table money is money appropriated to the purposes of hospitality.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr, or see my …Acceleration Converter ... almost 100 miles per hour.
Tarpaulins were originally tarred cloths and were commonly used on board ship to keep articles from the sea-spray, etc. The more correct spelling is tar-palling, from the Latin "pall" ... a cloak or cloth.
Tawdry means showy, worthless finery; a corruption of St. Audrey. At the annual fair of St. Audrey, in the isle of Ely, showy lace called St. Audrey's lace was sold, and this gave foundation to our word tawdry, which means anything gaudy, in bad taste, and of little value.
Teddy Roosevelt had four sons. Three of them died in war.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
Tesserarian art is the art of gambling, from the Latin, "tessera" ... a die.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
The "rack" which was an instrument of torture was a frame in which a man was fastened, and his arms and legs were stretched till the body was lifted by the tension several inches from the floor. Not unfrequently the limbs were forced thereby out of their sockets. Note that the rack was first introduced into the Tower by the Duke of Exeter, the constable of the Tower, in 1447, whence it was called the "Duke of Exeter's daughter."
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word (some versions) shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of ingredients in the sauce.
The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
The Arch of Titus commemorates the capture of Jerusalem, 70C.E. ... also depicting the Jewish people being let away in slavery ... those Romans, they were such beautiful people, and then there was the Coliseum.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
The average person can live 11 days without water.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
The Big Apple, New York's nickname, was coined by jazz musicians, who used to say "There are many apples on the tree, but to play in New York City is to play The Big Time, "The Big Apple.". Later, the New York City Convention and Visitors Bureau popularized the nickname because the Bureau thought it gave the city a "bright and shining image."
The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The Chinese invented toilet paper in the year 1391. Their Bureau of Imperial Supplies began producing 720,000 sheets of toilet paper a year, each sheet measuring two feet by three feet, for use by the Emperors.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; the '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles.
The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways, and the following sentence contains all of them ... "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed" ... phew.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself.”
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps, and 2,500,000 rivets in it.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight ... These straight sections are then usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. All polar bears are left handed.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
The face of comic book hero Captain Marvel was modeled after Fred MacMurray.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of blood pumped per heartbeat.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The first traffic light was used in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), in 1914 ... The stop sign was born the same year owing its octagonal shape to the Detroit cop who took a square sign and cut off the corners.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field.
The full name of Los Angeles is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size (which is, "LA").
The Gettysburg Address is 269 words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,337 words. The Bible is approximately 773,000 words ... The USA federal tax law today, 1999, is more than seven million words long ... There are 500 different tax forms, the simplest one (1040 E), has 33 pages of instructions and rules, all in fine print. The IRS mails out eight billion pages of forms and instructions every year, and laid end to end, they would stretch around the planet 28 times ... Can gov't ever be more efficient than the private sector?
An aside: We tend to forget that President Lincoln's remarks (lasting only a minute or so) were NOT the featured oration that day. Edward Everett gave a three-hour speech describing the battle.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The largest cabbage on record is 144 pounds, and the largest pumpkin is 377 pounds.
The largest pyramid is that of Cholula, in Mexico, which covers fifty acres of ground ... The largest in Egypt is that of Cheops, near Cairo, and which covers thirteen acres.
The largest statue ever made was the Colossos of Rhodes; the next largest is the statue of Bavaria, erected by Louis I, King of Bavaria ... Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty in New York harbor is certainly worthy of mention.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The longest place name still in use is: Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronu kupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu (that's one word without a space). It's a New Zealand hill found in Porangahau, famous for it's seafood and just 44 kilometers (my excellent and handylength convertersays that's a little over 27 miles) from Waipukurau. It means "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knee who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played on his flute to his loved one." I wonder if anyone in NZ actually knows how to spell it. Don’t ask me, I'm still having trouble with supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, the engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The Manhattan cocktail, a mixture of whiskey and sweet vermouth, was invented by WInston Churchill's mother.
The Matterhorn is the German name for Mont Cervin, which is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, about 40 miles east-north-east of Mont Blanc ... Above an unbroken glacier-line of 11,000 feet high, it rises in an inaccessible obelisk of rock more than 3,000 feet higher. The total elevation of the Matterhorn is 14,836 feet.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday (interesting that Saturday is a day when orthodox Jews are not permitted to drive).
The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The names of the three wise monkeys (with hands over eyes, ears,and mouth) are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage.”
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-Star Game.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
The palace of the Escurial in Toledo, was built by Felipe II to commemorate his victory over the French at St. Quentin. It was dedicated to San Lorenzo, and Juan Baptista de Toledo. It has 1,860 rooms, 6,200 windows and doors, 80 staircases, 73 fountains, 48 wine cellars, 51 bells, and 8 organs. And its circumference is 4,800 feet (nearly a mile).
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota by C.C. Magee in 1935.
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
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.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses ... The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The reason Moses was slow of speech is given in the Talmud (vi.) is as follows ... Pharach was one day sitting on his throne with Moses on his lap, when the child took off the king's crown and put it on his own head ... The "wise men" tried to persuade the king that this was treason, for which the child ought to be put to death; but Jethro, priest of Midian, then replied ... "It is the act of a child who knows no better. Let two plates be set before him, one containing gold and the other red-hot coals ... and you will readily see he will prefer the latter to the former" ... The experiment being tried, the little boy snatched up the live coal, put it into his mouth, and burnt his tongue so severely that he was ever after "heavy or slow of speech."
The Reign of Terror was period in the French Revolution between the fall of the Girondists and overthrow of Robespierre. It lasted 420 days, from May 31st, 1793, to July 27th, 1794. How many heads were lost? ... I don't know.
The sages of Greece used to be called sophoi (wise men) ... but Pythagoras thought the word too arrogant, and adopted the compound word, philosophoi, "lover of wisdom" ... whence "philosopher," one who courts or loves wisdom.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.
The seven deadly sins are (in alphabetical order): avarice, envy, idleness, gluttony, lechery, pride, and revenge ... the mnemonic might be "ape girl." Creating mnemonics is fun, but then how do you remember the mnemonic?
The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same ... they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
The Shema ... found in the Torah, (Deuteronomy 6:5-9) ... is one of the oldest and most sacred prayer in Judaism, going back way before the "common era" and said every morning and evening. For example, all Jews are commanded to wear on their arm/wrist and forehead during certain prayers, a small slip of parchment bearing a text of Torah. This phylacteries (tefillin) consist of four pieces of parchment, enclosed in two black leather cases, and fastened to the forehead and arm of the left hand. One case contains Ex. xiii. 1-10, 11-16; and the other case Deut. vi. 4-9, xi. 13-21 ... The idea arose from the command of Moses ... "Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart ... and bind them for a sign upon your hand, as frontlets between your eyes" (Deut. xi. 18).
The interpretations are almost endless in the the different levels of understanding found in the Torah ... Now my question is, why does the desciple, Mark (xii 33) take any credit for these words: "Love (G-d) with all thy heart (affection) ... all thy soul (or glow of spiritual life), all thy strength (or physical powers), and all thy understanding (let thy love be also a reasonable service, and not mere enthusiasm.)"
Could his using the words of -The Shema- be plagiarism in the Bible?
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE 2 ... QE II is the actual queen.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback.”
The 'spot' on 7-UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes ... he was albino.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII 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."
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The Universe ... The universe’s massiveness is not easily comprehended by mortal humans. For instance, the Milky Way galaxy is so massive that it would take a beam of light well over 100,000 years to go from one edge to the other. There are approximately 200 billion stars in this medium-sized galaxy. The estimated number of galaxies (which has tended to rise over time) is between 100 and 125 billion itself. And how big is the universe itself? It's been said that the universe which contains these billions of galaxies is about as crowded as the air over the continent of Europe when occupied by three wasps.
The Vatican is an island because it is isolated or cut off from the world ... It is a ringing island because bells are incessantly ringing ... at matin and vespers, at mass and at sermon-time, at noon, vigils, eves, and so on.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other. Explanation: cleave can mean adhere and separate.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The word for "dog" in the Australian aboriginal language Mbabaran happens to be "dog."
The world, the flesh, and the devil .... "the world," i.e. the things of this world, in contradistinction to religious matters; "the flesh," i.e. love of pleasure and sensual enjoyments; and "the devil," i.e. all temptations to evil of every kind, as theft, murder, lying, blasphemy, and so on.
The world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany.
The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X.
The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

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