1000 Facts

When India was partitioned in 1947, the country now known asBangladesh was originally called
East Pakistan.2. Mary Poppins (1964) was the feature film debut for Julie Andrews ina role for
which she won the Academy Award for Best
Actress.3. A twin rotor helicopter has two main rotors spinning in oppositedirections so no tail
rotor is required.4. With about 260,000,000 speakers, Hindi is the fourth most-spokenfirst
language in the world.5. In Greek and Roman mythology, the lotus tree bore a delicious fruitthat
would cause its eaters to become lazy and disinterested in theworld.6. Margaret Bourke-
White was the first woman war correspondentallowed to travel in combat zones during WWII
and also the onlyforeign photojournalist in Moscow when the Nazis
invaded.7. The oldest goldfish on record was 43 years old.8. The restriction that flight attendants
could only be female was liftedafter a 1971 court
decision.9. Shigetaka Kurita created the emoji while working with a teamdesigning the first
mobile internet
system.10. The third rail is a charged rail with provides power to electric trainsand subways and
became a metaphor for political issues so chargedthat touching them would bring about the death
of a political
career.11. Stratigraphy is the study of layers of sedimentary rock.12. Henry VII became the first
Tudor king after the death of Richard III.13. The U.S. Department of Justice was established in 1
870 due to thegrowing responsibilities of the Attorney
General.14. The Acme Thunderer is a loud whistle popular with sports referees.15. Emperor pen
guins may go for up to two months without eating during
ADDownload to read ad-free.
incubation.16. Generally considered the first stoner comedy, the 1978 Cheech &Chong movie
Up in Smoke cost $2 million to make and earned morethan $44 million at the box
office.17. Triage is a system of sorting patients based on need from the French“to
sort.”18. In Greek myth the goddess Athena was said to have sprung directlyfrom the head of
Zeus.19. Mad cow disease is caused by a malformed protein known as a prion.20. Upon its comp
letion in 1930, the Eiffel Tower beat out the ChryslerBuilding as the world’s tallest
structure.21. On average a car going five mph below that speed of surroundingtraffic has a
greater chance of causing an accident than one going fivemph above the speed
limit.22. Catalan is the official language of Andorra and the second mostspoken language in
Spain.23. A traditional gin & tonic contains 2 ounces of gin, 5 ounces of tonicwater, and a lime
wedge.24. Mother Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Albania in 1910.25. In the Old T
estament, Jacob’s brother Esau sells his birthright inexchange for a bowl of lentil
stew.26. In 1821 Thomas L. Jennings became the first African-American to begranted a patent,
for a dry cleaning
process.27. The USS Kearsarge was the only battleship in the U.S. Navy notnamed for a
state.28. Founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon in 1996, Ozzfest is atouring music
festival featuring a variety of hard rock and heavymetal
acts.29. In 1882 the city then known as “Pile O’ Bones” in Canada wasrenamed Regina in honor
of Queen Elizabeth.
30. Just shy of his 30th birthday, Adrien Brody is the youngest man everto with the Best Lead
Actor Oscar for his role in The
Pianist.31. The 1968 album S.F. Sorrow by British rock group The Pretty Thingsis generally
considered the first rock
opera.32. Quechua is the most widely surviving language of Native Americanswith between 8
and 10 million speakers in the Andes of
SouthAmerica.33. A croupier is the person who runs a casino roulette table.34. “Say Hey Kid” w
as the most popular nickname for baseball greatWillie
Mays.35. In ancient Greek mythology, the chimera was a terrible fire-breathingmonster that was
part lion, part goat, and part
snake.36. Founded in 1873 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)was one of the
first female-led social reform organizations in theUnited
States.37. Philip II of Spain moved the capital of his nation from Valladolid toMadrid in
1561.38. Brownstone was a local sedimentary stone in the New York City areafrom which
single-family homes were
built.39. The Dome of the Rock, also known as the Mosque of Omar, washome to the Knights
Templar for much of the
Crusades.40. The Juntas Provinciales organized Spanish resistance to the 1808invasion of
Napoleon
Bonaparte.41. The creature known as a false scorpion has venomous pincers but notail.42. Micha
el was the czar that rule Russia from 1613 to 1645 and foundedthe
Romanov dynasty.43. The Houston Comets have won by far the most championships of anyWN
BA team.44. Also known as halite, rock salt can be formed when a body of salt
water dries up.45. Béchamel, velouté, espagnole, sauce tomat, and hollandaise are thefive
“mother sauces” of French cooking.46. Abscam was an FBI sting operation starting in the late-
1970s that gotits name from the fictitious business Abdul
Enterprises.47. The Key Deer is an endangered species found only in Florida that caneasily swim
between
islands.48. Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Richard III are the four plays byShakespeare in
which ghosts appear on
stage.49. On October 5, 1877, Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph surrendered togeneral Nelson
Miles within 30 miles of the Canadian
border.50. Alabaster is a variety of the rock gypsum.51. The NPR program All Things Considere
d has been on air since 1971and has had Robert Siegel as one of its weekday hosts since
1987.52. Located more than 8,500 feet above sea level, Sucre is the judicialcapital of
Bolivia.53. Kingston, New York became the first capital city of that state in 1777and was burned
by the British that same
year.r54. Pacifist and activist Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to winthe Nobel Prize for
Peace in 1905.55. You Are There was a 1950’s television program hosted by WalterCronkite that
recreated historical events as news
events.56. The only two states with precious metals in their nicknames areCalifornia (The
Golden State) and Nevada (The Silver
State).57. The 1980 REO Speedwagon album Hi Infidelity was their biggest hitselling more than
10 million copies and producing their first numberone song “Take It on the
Run.”58. The brown pelican is the state bird of Louisiana.59. Prior to a 1968 ruling, flight attend
ants could be terminated if they gotmarried or reached the age of 32 or 35 depending on the
airline.
60. Louis Daguerre began producing photographs in the 1830s byexposing silver-coated copper
plates.61. Rose Mary Woods became famous during the Watergate investigationas the loyal
secretary of Richard Nixon who had been with him sincehis time in congress in
1951.62. Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first female governor of the state ofWyoming in 1927,
making her the first female governor of any U.S.state, who went on the head the U.S. Mint for 20
years starting
in1933.63. In 1719 certain prisoners in Paris were allowed to go free if theymarried prostitutes
and moved to
Louisiana.64. Clint Eastwood is the oldest person ever to win the Academy Awardfor Best
Director for the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby.65. Coined in the mid-
1960s, the word “pixel” is combination of slang forpictures and the word
elements.66. The state of Vermont once tried to become part of Quebec.67. Virginia Wade was t
he last English woman to win the women’ssingles title at Wimbledon in
1977.68. The current King of Jordan once worked as an extra on the TV seriesStar Trek:
Voyager.69. The state capital of Arizona moved four different times before finallysettling in
Phoenix.70. The Obie, introduced the newspaper The Village Voice in 1956, isconsidered Off-
Broadway’s
highest honor.71. John Dillinger made a daring prison escape in 1934 using a carvedwooden
gun.72. Chuck is the cut of meat between the neck and shoulder blade of acow.73. Geologists disc
overed that much of sand in the Grand Canyonactually originated in the Appalachian Mountains.
74. Former surfing champion Jack Murphy was one of three menconvicted of the theft of the Star
of India diamond (along with severalother precious stones) from the American Museum of
Natural Historyin
1964.75. Lemurs are only found on the island of Madagascar and a few smallneighboring
islands.76. Accounting for approximately 10% of the population, the Kurds arethe largest
minority ethnic group
in Turkey.77. David Herold, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt werethe four
conspirators hanged for the assassination of
AbrahamLincoln.78. Approximately 1.3 million Americans have died as a result of warsince
1775.79. Belgium has three federal regions; Wallonia, Flanders, and Brussels.80. Japanese inven
tor Atsushi Shimizu has developed a turbine that canwithstand typhoon force winds and generate
electricity.81. Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan, and Cathy Rigby are among the womenwho have
played the character Peter Pan on
Broadway.82. The Super Bowl’s MVP Award is named for Pete Rozelle who servedas
the NFL’s Commissioner from 1960 to
1989.83. The Rosetta Stone which allowed for the translation of Egyptianhieroglyphs is actually
a tax document written in three
languages.84. Sears, Roebuck and Company sold more than 70,000 catalog kithomes between
1908 and 1940.85. The First Reich of Germany was the Holy Roman Empire whichexisted in
various forms from 962 to 1806.86. Corona Extra is the top-
selling imported beer in the United Stateswith more than $1.44 billion in annual
sales.87. The three AKC-recognized dog breeds that have miniature in theirname are the
miniature pinscher, miniature bull terrier, and miniature
schnauzer.88. Patsy Cline’s recording career lasted just eight years starting in 1955.89. Martin Lut
her King, Jr. was the first African American to be TimeMagazine’s Man of the Year
(1963)90. The first stagecoach line was established in 1732 between Burlingtonand Amboy
in New Jersey.91. The name of the band Stone Temple Pilots was partly inspired by anSTP
motor oil logo.92. Rich Man, Poor Man, a 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shawnovel, was
one of the first TV
miniseries.93. Seven different species of Hawaiian bee have been declaredendangered, the first
time the designation has ever been given to
abee.94. The Alabama nickname “The Yellowhammer State” comes from theCivil War when a
company of soldiers wore uniforms trimmed withyellow and were nicknamed Yellowhammers
after a type ofwoodpecker.95. Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) served as the capital of British-
occupiedIndia until 1911.96. Four-hundred-
million years ago there were about 22 hours in a day onEarth.97. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W.Bush are the four vice presidents who have been elected
to thepresidency while a sitting vice
president.98. Science fiction author H.G. Wells coined the phrase “the war that willend war” in
1914.99. The Mongol Empire was the second largest in history controllingmore than 9 ¼ million
square miles of territory.100. In bullfighting a Veronica is a motion in which the
matador slowlytwirls his cape away from a charging bull.
101. While writing Invisible Man, author Ralph Ellison worked as awaiter, photographer, and
jazz trumpeter.102. A legend is a table accompanying a map that explains what the colorsand
symbols used represent.103. The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
becameknown as the Five Civilized Tribes in early America because of theirwillingness to adopt
aspects of western culture and government.104. Algeria has been the largest country in Africa
since South Sudangained its independence from Sudan in 2011.105. A 9,000-year-old skeleton
was discovered in Cheddar, England, andgenetic testing found a 300 generation later relative of
his teachingschool half a mile away.106. Skylab, which orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979,
was the first U.S.space station.107. Donnie Osmond has his first solo hit as a teen idol in 1970
with acover of Roy Orbison’s “Sweet and Innocent.”108. In a single mouthful a blue whale
can consume as many calories asthe average human takes in in 180 days.109. About 22
million gallons of water are trapped inside plastic bottles inU.S. landfills.110. The Larry
O’Brien Trophy features a regulation size sterling silverbasketball.111. Ivan the Terrible was
the first Russian ruler to hold the title of czarwhen he was proclaimed Crown Prince of Moscow
in 1533.112. The use of the word “flak” for anti-aircraft guns comes from WWIIand the German
word Flugabwehrkanone meaning “aircraft defensecannon.”113. Cape Canaveral was renamed
Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973.114. Delivering the ball to the batsman in cricket is
called bowling.115. The first youth hostel in the U.S. opened in 1934 in Massachusetts.
116. In addition to its technological fame, Hoover Dam is known as amasterpiece of the art deco
style of design.117. Actor Harrison Ford once put his carpentry skills to use as astagehand for
The Doors.118. “Home on the Range” is the official state song of Kansas.119. Englishman
Thomas Cook founded one of the world’s oldest andmost enduring travel agencies when he
started giving rail tours bygetting bulk discounts for train travel.120. Motorola engineer Martin
Cooper placed history’s first cell phone callApril 3, 1973 to a rival to brag about his
achievement.121. History’s deadliest recorded earthquake took place in China in 1556and
reportedly killed 830,000 people.122. A major port on the Red Sea, Jeddah is the second most
populous cityin Saudi Arabia.123. The plastic tag closures on loaves of bread are color coded to
differentdays of the week to help ensure proper stock rotation.124. Studies have shown that most
people are more likely to rememberwhat they’ve written if they write it in blue ink.125. The tiny
nation of Monaco is the mostly densely populated in theworld with more than 18,000 people per
square kilometer.126. Mount Godwin-Austen and Chhogori are other names for
the world’ssecond highest mountain commonly known as K2.127. James Michener’s book Tales
of the South Pacific became the basisfor the Broadway musical South Pacific.128. Nathan
Hale gave his “one life” for his country on Sept. 22, 1776.129. Paranormal and psychic debunker
James “The Amazing” Randi set upthe James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) which
offers a $1million prize to anyone able to demonstrate supernatural abilitiesunder scientific
testing.130. In a record which has stood since 1931, Norman Taurog is the
youngest person ever to win the Oscar for Best Director at the age of32.131. Legend claims
that the tapping noise made by the death watch beetleheralds a death in the house.132. The
CN Tower in Toronto is the tallest freestanding structure in theWestern Hemisphere.133. Tojo,
the Prime Minister of Japan during WWII, was hanged for warcrimes in 1948.134. There
are about 9 million people having a birthday on any given day.135. First run on June 19,
1867, the Belmont Stakes is the oldest of horseracing’s Triple Crown races.136. Two-thirds
of Greenland lies north of the Arctic Circle.137. In the 16th century Dutch growers specially
bred carrots to come outorange to honor the ruling house of that country.138. About 1 in 12 men
is colorblind but only about 1 in 200
women.139. Azrael is a Muslim name for the Angel of Death.140. Built in the early 1700s,
the Alamo was originally the chapel of theMission San Antonio de Valero.141. In 2007 a
bowhead whale was discovered with the tip of a harpoonembedded in its back from
1890.142. UNICEF is the world’s largest buyer of vaccinations for poorcountries.143. Paul
Anderson holds the record for the greatest weight ever lifted by ahuman, backlifting 6,270 lbs. in
1957.144. Betty Ford had a CB handle in the 1970s, “Frist
Mama.”145. Unimak and Unalaska are the largest of the Aleutian Islands.146. Admiral
Chester Nimitz formed the Blue Angels during World War IIto showcase Naval
aviation.147. The first color TV transmission was produced by John Baird in thisLondon in
1928.
148. The Spanish word for beer comes from Ceres the Roman goddess
ofagriculture.149. Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, captured Palmela Castlefrom the
Moors in the 12th century.150. Lisbon and Eureka are popular types of lemon.151. Joe and Ben
Weider were scrawny kids who became bodybuilders andfounded a bodybuilding equipment,
competition, and magazineempire.152. In 1950s England Teddy Boys dressed in styles inspired
by nobles ofEdwardian England.153. Russia’s Alexander the Great passed a proclamation
in 1861 freeingthe serfs.154. Crown Cork & Seal makes 1/3 of the cans used for food in
NorthAmerica.155. Living in what is now Mexico more than 3,000 years ago, the Olmecswere
the first known Mesoamerican civilization.156. Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President ever to
publish a novel.157. Bewitched was the first live-action television show to put a husbandand
wife in the same bed together.158. A call is a stock market option that lets you purchase a
certain stockfor a set price until a certain date.159. With more than 10 million visitors annually,
the Great SmokyMountains National Park is the most visited national park in theUnited
States.160. Erich Remarque was working as a sportswriter in Germany when hewrote All
Quiet on the Western Front.161. When ABC lost the contract to air The Grammy Awards
in 1973, theyhad Dick Clark create the American Music Awards for them.162. In a synagogue
the cantor leads the congregation in singing and thechanting of prayers.
163. The game of canasta is played with two decks of cards and four jokers.164. Penicillin
came into wide use in World War II, replacing sulfonamidedrugs which were first synthesized in
1932.165. In Scotland firths are the wide bays into which most of Scotland’srivers
flow.166. Stringers are freelance reporters not directly employed by anewspaper but working
part-time and were once paid by the columninch.167. In a 1937 Stephen Vincent Benet
short story, Daniel Webster defendsJabez Stone before the Devil’s jury of
villains.168. The 16th century Corsairs of northern Africa were known collectivelyas the Barbary
pirates.169. An early proposed name for Utah was Deseret meaning “land
ofhoneybees.”170. Head Start is a government program for preschoolers which began asa summer
project in LBJ’s War on Poverty.171. Forced into exile in 1955, Emperor Bao Dai was the
last rulingmonarch of Vietnam.172. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibited
sexdiscrimination in athletics.173. West Quoddy Head in Maine is the easternmost point in the
UnitedStates.174. During the 5th century the Teutonic tribe known as the Vandalsconquered part
of North Africa and ruled there for a century.175. Singer El DeBarge left his family
group DeBarge in 1986 and scoredhis only major solo hit that year when “Who’s Johnny”
reached thetop of the charts.176. The sepoys were native Indians who served in the
British army andmutinied in 1857.
177. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who crated largeoutdoor environmental
art installations such as “The Gates” in CentralPark, NY and the wrapping of the Reichstag in
Berlin.178. The metal Gallium will melt in your hand.179. Human blood will appear green at 30
ft. under water since red lightdoesn’t penetrate that deeply.180. With an area of 215 square
miles, Lake Winnebago is the largest lakein Wisconsin.181. The first two New York Times
headlines to be set in 96-point typewere five years apart; “MEN WALK ON THE MOON” in
1969 and“NIXON RESIGNS” in 1974.182. The state of California ranks #1 in both
population and agriculturalproduction.183. Hank Aaron reached the top of Major
League Baseball’s RBIrankings in 1975 and has remained in that position ever since.184. In
1865, Wellington succeeded Auckland as the capital of NewZealand.185. George Pullman
built the modern sleeping coach with a folding upperberth & a lower berth made from seat
cushions.186. In 1972 Bobby Fischer became the first American chess player to winthe world
championship.187. The state of Delaware has only three counties the least of
any U.S.state.188. Lord Humongous is the main antagonist in the 1981 post-
apocalypticAustralian film The Road Warrior.189. Located in Scotland and with an elevation
of more than 4,400 ft., BenNevis is the highest point in the British Isles.190. “The Impossible
Dream (The Quest)” is the most popular song fromthe 1965 Broadway musical Man of La
Mancha.191. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit discovered that the boiling point of liquid
varies based on atmospheric pressure.192. South American soccer great Pelé was known as
Perola Negra, “TheBlack Pearl.”193. There are 145 Latin Catholic dioceses in the United
States.194. The United States removed itself from the gold standard on April
19,1933.195.196. 5th century invaders the Angles gave England its name.197. Tora! Tora! Tora!
was a 1970 film that showed the bombing of PearlHarbor from the perspectives of both the
Japanese and Americansides.198. John Adams was President of the United
States when Napoleonbecame First Consul and began rule as dictator of France.199. From 1838
to 1841 Charles Darwin was Secretary of the GeologicalSociety of London.200. The term
midshipman was used in the 17th century to denote andexperienced seaman, but in more modern
usage refers to a juniorofficer or officer cadet.201. “With windows” are diagonal
windows found almost exclusively inVermont that date back to the superstition that witches
can’t fly theirbrooms through them.202. President Lyndon Johnson had a pair of beagles
named Him and Her.203. The Motorized Victrola was the first car radio and gave the name tothe
company Motorola.204. A large thunderstorm that forms almost every day over the TiwiIslands
in Australia has been named Hector.205. In Parcheesi a player begins with four pieces and can
move amaximum of two of them on one roll of the dice.206. The 2004 film Cold Mountain
had two songs which were nominatedfor the Best Original Song Oscar, although they lost to
“Into the
West” from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.207. At 230 miles, the River
Shannon is both the longest river in Irelandand in the British Isles.208. Any bald or golden eagle
that dies in the U.S. is sent to the NationalEagle Repository in Colorado where parts of the birds
may bedistributed to Native American tribes for ceremonial use.209. President
Woodrow Wilson was sometimes known as “TheSchoolmaster in Politics.”210. Jacques
Piccard, USN Lieutenant Don Walsh and film director JamesCameron are the only three people
ever to have reached the deepestknown point in the ocean, Challenger Deep.211. In the 1890s
British artist Francis Barraud painted his now famousdog Nipper listening to a
gramophone.212. The Monkees received the Emmy Award for Outstanding ComedySeries in
1967.213. British explorer James Cook was killed attempted to kidnap andransom the King of
Hawaii.214. Typically, the first floor in a building in England would be known asthe second
floor in the United States.215. Malcolm III of Scotland was the king crowned at the end
of theShakespeare play Macbeth.216. Carlos Alazraqui was the voice of the popular Taco
Bell Chihuahua inthe 1990s.217. Founded in 1835, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses
the goldcoffin of
Tutankhamen.218. Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano won all 49 of hisprofessiona
l fights, 43 by knockout.219. At 4,973 feet, Black Mesa is the highest point in the
state ofOklahoma.220. Maria Shriver became the First Lady of California in 2003.
221. The Romans founded the city of Antinoopolis in Egypt to honorAntinous, who had drowned
in the Nile.222. The “M” in Britain’s M1, which opened in 1959, stands
for“motorway.”223. Launched in 1975, the César Award is the French equivalent
of theOscars.224. The Alps and the Andes were built up during the Miocene epochbetween 5 and
23 million years ago.225. The first drinking straw was designed to have a diameter
smaller thanthe typical lemon pip.226. French for “half cup,” demitasse may refer to a small cup
or thestrong, black coffee served in it.227. France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Japan,
the Netherlands, Sweden, theUnited Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Switzerland
formthe G10 group of industrialized nations which meets annually.228. 70% of the non-
public land in England is owned by about 1% of thepopulation who is largely descended from
William the Conqueror’sarmy.229. The Canadian city of Toronto is home to the annual Dora
Awardswhich honor achievements in theatre, dance, and opera.230. Barbara Walters,
J.J. Abrams, and Julianna Margulies are among thefamous graduates of Sarah Lawrence
College in Bronxville, NY.231. Almost all Koreans lack the gene that causes armpit odor.232. In
1983 Neil Simon became the first living playwright to have aBroadway theater named for
him.233. Turquoise is the state gem of both Arizona and New Mexico.234. The gender
neutral term for a niece or nephew is a nibling.235. Future French leader Charles De Gaulle’s
1934 book The Army of theFuture helped inspire the Blitzkrieg.236. Michigan is the only state
that touches three of the Great Lakes.
237. A Nassau is a type of casual golf wager named for a Long Islandcountry
club.238. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky are the four U.S.states officially
called commonwealths.239. The Shetland Islands are the northernmost
part of the UnitedKingdom and are largely inhabited by people of
Scandinaviandescent.240. A gun cartridge belt worn over the shoulder and across the chest
isknown as a bandolier.241. Jam rock band Spin Doctors had their
biggest mainstream successwith their 1991 album Pocket Full of Kryptonite which sold
morethan 5 million copies and spawned three chart hits.242. Michael Jordan had a batting
average of .202 in his time in thebaseball minor leagues in the mid-1990s.243. At 13,800 feet
Mauna Kea is the highest point in the state of Hawaiiand the second highest island peak in the
world.244. By Mexican law, tequila must be made from a minimum of 51%agave plant
sugars.245. The presidential library of FDR was the first such library everplanned while the
president was still in office.246. After developing his Maine hunting shoe in 1911, L.L.
Bean opened amail order business.247. The 2001 Christopher Nolan film Memento to told
in reversechronological order.248. A cartoon within a cartoon, the Brown Hornet was a
favoritesuperhero of the kids in the 1970’s cartoon Fat Albert and the
CosbyKids.249. The average human will produce 72 million red blood cells
every 30seconds.250. Joe Lieberman ran for both the Vice Presidency of the United States
and for his Senate seat in

2000.251. The national memorial that commemorates the 1889 Johnstown Floodin Pennsylvania
preserves what’s left of the South Fork Dam.252. Starting with its fourth issue, Stan Lee put
the hyperbolic slogan “TheWorld’s Greatest Comic Magazine!” on the cover of every issue
ofThe Fantastic Four.253. The Chinese Song Dynasty made military use of gunpowder as earlyas
the 11th century.254. In 1877 British activist Annie Besant was prosecuted for a pamphleton birth
control.255. Pagan ruler Vladimir the Great of Kiev sent envoys throughoutneighboring nations
to determine which of the monotheistic religionsmight be suitable for his people ultimately
settling on EasternOrthodox Christianity.256. Among the alumni of the exclusive Harrow School
in London areWinston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Byron257. The Bronze Star is
awarded by the U.S. military for meritoriousachievement in ground
combat.258. The medieval order The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and theTemple of Solomon
were more commonly known as the KnightsTemplar.259. The major hub of the Washington
Metro is the stop named for Frenchplanner Pierre Charles L’Enfant.260. Born in
1564, Christopher Marlowe was employed by Elizabeth I’sSecretary of State to uncover Catholic
plots against her reign.261. “The Great Engineer” was a nickname for President Herbert
Hoover.262. Mascots Snap, Crackle, and Pop first appeared on Rice Krispiespackaging in
1933.263. About 7% of the world’s population get a sneeze reflex from staringinto bright light,
and 94% of people with this condition are Caucasian.
264. Lou Gehrig had the first number ever retired in Major LeagueBaseball in 1939.265. When
racehorse American Pharoah won the Triple Crown in 2015, itwas the first horse to do so since
1978.266. A U.S. Army wedding may end with an arch of heavy cavalry sabers.267. Going
online in October of 2016, the Watts Bar 2 reactor was the firstnew reactor in the United States
in 20 years.268. The world’s largest deposits of amber are found along the shores ofthe Baltic
Sea.269. Ulster is a traditional political division of Ireland with six of its ninecounties in
Northern Ireland.270. 17th century British author Izaak Walton is best remembered for hiswork
on fishing The Compleat Angler.271. An atoll is a ring-shaped coral island surrounding
a lagoon.272. In 1920 author A.A. Milne celebrated the birth of his only child,Christopher
Robin.273. Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei designed the Richelieu Wing ofthe Louvre, as
well as the pyramidal glass
entrance.274. Cleopatra died in Alexandria, Egypt in 30 B.C.275. Milan is the capital of
the Lombardy region of Italy.276. The Raytheon Company produced both the first
microwave oven andthe Patriot Missile.277. About 10,000 containers fall off ships at sea
every year.278. The word pistol
originally descends from a Czech word meaning“whistle.”279. The construction of London
Bridge over the Thames between 1176and 1209 reportedly cost the lives of 150
workmen.280. The 7-mile-long Mystic River which flows into Boston Harbor getsits name from
a Wampanoag word meaning “big river.”281. Priapus was a fertility god of Ancient Greece.
282. One of the southernmost points on the Iberian Peninsula, Gibraltar isa
British dependency.283. Singer Madonna was dropped from her Pepsi sponsorship in 1989after
controversy surrounding her “Like a Prayer” video.284. The dorsal striatum is the part of
the brain that takes over when youdrive to work or home and don’t remember how you got
there.285. Izanagi are Izanami are the male and female creator gods intraditional
Japanese mythology.286. In the ’60s and ’70s, the Minnesota Viking’s defensive
line memberswere known as the Purple People Eaters.287. Henry Ford II, the eldest son of
Henry Ford, was the head of FordMotor Company from 1945 to 1979.288. Little was known
about the planet Mercury until Mariner 10 visited itin 1974.289. Booker T. Washington
founded Tuskegee University as a “School forColored Teachers” in 1881.290. Written for
the 1932 movies Chasing Rainbows, “Happy Days AreHere Again” became the campaign song
for FDR.291. Prior to the European Union, the European Community existed from1967 to
1993.292. In its first broadcast on February 24, 1942, Voice of America said“The news may be
good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you
thetruth.”293. Washington Roebling supervised the construction of the BrooklynBridge designed
by his father John A. Roebling.294. Mont Blanc on the border between France and Italy is
the highestpoint in continental Europe.295. Born July 7, 1940, Ringo Starr was the senior
member of The Beatles.296. The Pearl Harbor Memorial spans the hull of the U.S.S. Arizona
sunkon December 7, 1941.
297. Running back Marcus Allen has scored the most game-winningtouchdowns of any player in
NFL history with 10.298. The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia began asthe
personal art collection of Catherine the Great.299. Groucho Marx was Johnny Carson’s first
ever guest on The TonightShow.300. Häagen-Dazs was the name created for an ice cream
brand launchedin Bronx, New York in 1961 which was meant to sound Danish eventhough that
language has no umlaut ä or zs.301. The 41-story Umeda Hankyu Building in Osaka, Japan has
five of theworld’s largest elevators each of which can accommodate 80passengers.302. Explorer
I was the first U.S. satellite launched in 1958 and weighing just 31 lbs.303. The nation of
Monaco has just 3 ½ miles of coastline, the least of anynon-
landlocked country.304. Solid hydrogenated vegetable shortening Crisco was first introducedin
1911.305. Thomas Hart Benton was a 19th century United States senator fromthe state of
Missouri who strongly advocated for westward expansionand was the first senator to serve five
terms.306. In 1954 Ronald Reagan began hosting a TV show for General Electricand making
speeches to its workers.307. The iconic Wonder Wheel Ferris wheel at Coney Island, NY was
builtin 1920.308. The longest jellyfish ever recorded measured 160 ft.309. The Endless
Summer is a 1966 documentary about two surfers whotravel the world looking for the perfect
wave.310. “Vulgar” originally referred to the everyday form of Latin spoken byancient Romans.
311. The famous triangular skyscraper located in New York City at 175Fifth Avenue is known as
the Flatiron Building.312. The catchy “Gimme a Break” Kit Kat jingle was created in 1986 bythe
DDB advertising agency.313. Meteorologists began assigning female names to hurricanes
in 1953.314. A Siamese fighting fish is so aggressive it will even attack its ownreflection in the
mirror.315. The “El Nino” weather phenomenon in the Pacific causes unusualweather
fluctuations every three to seven years.316. Ruben Studdard edged out Clay Aiken to win the
second season ofAmerican Idol.317. During the eight-day Jewish observance
of Passover, the eating ofhametz, leavened bread, is prohibited.318. The record for snowfall in
a single snowstorm was 189 inches in 1959on Mount Shasta in California.319. Neoprene
is a type of synthetic rubber first developed at DuPont in1930.320. Uruguayans call their
highlands Cuchilla Grande, or “big knife” forthe sharp, narrow rock formations.321. The striped
bass is the state fish of Rhode Island.322. Blanche of Castile ruled France as regent when her
son Louis IX wentto the Crusades in 1248.323. The Bulldogs of Gonzaga University
in Spokane, Washington arepopularly known as the “Zags.”324. Dr. Kubler-Ross’ list of the five
states of grief goes from denial toacceptance.325. James Smith, who became the
WBA heavyweight champion in themid-1980s, was known by the nickname “Bonecrusher,” and
was thefirst heavyweight champion with a college degree.326. A docket is a list of cases in
court for trial or the names of the parties
who have cases pending.327. In ancient Greek legend Clytemnestra was the wife of
Greek kingAgamemnon who may or may not have murdered him depending onwhether the
author was Homer or Aeschylus.328. A bias is a line of thread diagonal to the grain of
the fabric.329. Early recordings of Motown singers were made in a convertedwarehouse on West
Grand Boulevard in Detroit.330. Pat Benetar’s “You Better Run” was the second video
ever aired onMTV.331. The famed Pony Express only lasted for 19 months before thetelegraph
made it impractical.332. Dennis Wilson was the only member of the Beach Boys
who actuallyknew how to surf.333. At their closest point, Canada and Greenland are only sixteen
milesapart.334. The Army of the Potomac was the first Union Army organized for theAmerican
Civil War and would remain the primary Union Army inthe east.335. The Purple Heart
medal bears a profile of George Washington on itsobverse
side.336. Popular 1980’s Bud Light spokesdog Spuds MacKenzie was actuallya female named
Honey Tree Evil Eye.337. Pico de Orizaba is the highest volcanic mountain in
North Americaand the third-highest North American peak overall.338. About one out of
every two million lobsters is born blue.339. The CBS game show The $64,000 Question first hit
the air in 1955gave away $1,000,000 in its first 17 months.340. Woodrow Wilson was the
first U.S. President to earn a PhD.341. Former Laker Jerry West is the basketball player
that appears on theNBA logo.
342. It is actually the larva of moths that eat clothing.343. The Spirit of Ecstasy is the name
of the Rolls Royce hood ornament.344.345. Since 1930 there have been fewer than 10 left-
handed catchers inMajor League Baseball.346. The Cozy Dog Drive-In in Springfield,
IL was the birthplace of thecorndog.347. From 1958 to 1961 television westerns Gunsmoke and
Wagon Trainwere the number one and two rated shows in the U.S.348. Germany, France, UK,
and Italy all have 29 votes in the EU, thecurrent maximum number possible.349. J.S.
Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” were originally designed to help aninsomniac nobleman
sleep.350. In Monopoly the rent on utilities is 4 times the amount rolled if one isowned or 10
times if both are owned.351. Proof sheets are a system for displaying an entire roll of 35 mm
filmto make it easier to choose photos for enlargement.352. Nathan Pritikin, advocate of a low-
fat, low-cholesterol diet, was thesubject of the book The Man Who Healed America’s
Heart.353. Alfred Dreyfus was a French Jewish artillery officer in the late-19thand early-20th
centuries who was wrongly convicted as a spy forGermany and ultimately exonerated in a
scandal that echoed acrossEurope.354. The capacity of an adult human stomach is about
a quart.355. When Katie the Carrot was introduced to the Mr. Potato Head line oftoys in 1964,
Mrs. Potato Head was temporarily discontinued.356. There have been five different versions
of Space Mountain since theride first opened at Walt Disney World in 1975.357. The narrowest
bone in the leg, the fibula, is Latin for “clasp.”358. A kanabō was a type of heavy, knobbed war
club used by samurai in
feudal Japan.359. The three Midwestern state capitals named for U.S. Presidents areLincoln,
Jefferson City, and Madison.360. During the English Civil War the Roundheads, members
of thePuritan religious group, closed the theaters.361. For Sense
and Sensibility, Emma Thompson became the first actressto be nominated for both Best Actress
and Best Screenplay in 1995.362. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an agency
of thisdepartment Health and Human
Services.363. Nashville, Tennesee was named for General Francis Nash andancestor of 20th
century poet Ogden Nash.364. Astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer first conceived of the idea of
a spacebased telescope, which would ultimately result in the HubbleTelescope, in 1946, 11 years
before Sputnik was launched.365. Josephine Cochrane was the inventor of the first
commerciallysuccessful dishwasher which she built in her shed, along withmechanic George
Butters, in 1886.366. Angelo Siciliano became better known as Charles Atlas, and wasbilled as
“the world’s most perfectly developed man.”367. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who won two track
and field gold medals atthe 1932 Summer Olympics and 10 LPGA major championships, wasthe
Associated Press’ female athlete of the year for 1932, 1945, 1946,1947, 1950, and
1954.368. The Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona completely surrounds thereservation of
another tribe, the Hopi.369. Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie
called life a “a longlesson in humility.”370. Better Homes and Gardens magazine was
first launched in 1922 asFruit, Garden and Home.371. The master gland of the body,
the pituitary, is controlled by a small
area at the base of the brain known as the hypothalamus.372. The title character’s full name
in The Wizard of Oz is Oscar ZoroasterPhadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise
Digg.373. Often misused, the Greek term “hoi polloi” mean the common peopleor the
masses.374. Since it was unable to prevent the use of the word spam to refer tounwanted email,
Hormel began referring to its meat product in allcapital
letters.375. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.376. Solar, lunar, equinoctial,
and sidereal are all types of year inastronomy.377. The park bench that Tom Hanks sits on for
much of Forrest Gumpwas in Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia.378. 18th century British
agriculturalist Jethro Tull perfected the seed drill.379. The Whitehouse Press Briefing Room is
built over a swimming poolconstructed for FDR.380. The Harlem Globetrotters was actually
formed in Chicago in the1920s, and didn’t play a game in Harlem until 1968.381. The collective
noun for a group of jellyfish is a smack.382. In the 2003 movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The
Cradle of Life, theeponymous hero is seeking Pandora’s Box.383. St. Louis, Missouri
boasted the world’s first purpose built gas stationin 1905. Gasoline was originally sold by
pharmacies and otherestablishments as a side business.384. A perambulator, or pram, was
invented in 1733 by William Kent forthe children of the Duke of Devonshire.385. The Salt Lake
Temple, Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake AssemblyHall, and the Seagull Monument are all in the
area known as TempleSquare in Salt Lake City, Utah.386. The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan is
the longest suspension bridge
in the world and contains enough cable to circle the globe 7 ½ times iflaid end-to-
end.387. William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp were the authors of the Dick andJane books which
taught reading to schoolchildren throughout theUnited States from the 1930s through the
1970s.388. “In Flanders Fields” was a famous WWI memorial poem written byCanadian
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.389. The northernmost
point of South America is Santa Catalina Island,Colombia.390. A modern airplane’s “black
box” is actually colored bright orange tomake it easier to find among wreckage.391. The first
commercial telefax system between London and Paris began11 years before the invention of the
telephone.392. Alicia Keys received five Grammy Awards for 2001 including BestNew Artist
and Song of the Year for her hit “Fallin’”.393. The Rocky Mountain Columbine is the state
flower of Colorado394. The tomb at the center of the Taj Mahal contains the remains ofMumtaz
Mahal and Shah Jahan.395. The shell of a cashew, which is actually a seed, is toxic and must
beremoved for consumption.396. On April 4, 1964 The Beatles held all of the top five spots on
theBillboard pop charts, a feat which has never been repeated.397. 2012 was the first year in
which 60 million passenger cars wereproduced in the world, about 165,000 new cars every
day.398. Director Gore Verbinski who is known for directing the first threePirates of the
Caribbean films as well as winning an Oscar for hisanimated film Rango is the ninth highest
grossing director of all time.399. Washington state has the only state flag that includes the image
of aU.S. president.400. The role of Rudy on The Cosby Show was originally intended to be
for a boy.401. The condor appears on the coats of arms of four South
Americancountries.402. Teddy Roosevelt tried unsuccessfully to remove “In God We
Trust”from U.S. currency because, as a devout Christian, he felt putting Godon money was
sacrilege.403. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain all died atthe age of
27.404. New York Tammany Hall machine politician William Magear Tweedwas better known by the
name “Boss.”405. Gossima was the original name of table tennis when it was introducedin
1889.406. The Chinese Manchu dynasty introduce the queue (or pigtail)hairstyle for men in the
1600s as a sign of submission to the emperor.407. Frequent James Bond antagonist organization
SPECTRE stands forSPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge
andExtortion.408. The musical duo of Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley are better knownas The
Righteous Brothers.409. Spim is a name for unsolicited advertising sent of instant
messaging.410. In 1803, Ohio became the first state created out of
the NorthwestTerritory.411. American businessman John Jacob Astor IV was the wealthiestperson
to die during the sinking of the Titanic and among thewealthiest men in the world at the
time.412. Americans consume in excess of 150 million hot dogs over the Fourthof
July holiday.413. In the first shot of the opening credits of the 1960’s sitcom Gilligan’sIsland,
the American flag over the harbor can be seen flying at half-mast because of the recent
assassination of JFK.
414. Forensic expert Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been the protagonist in 23different mystery novels by
Patricia Cornwell.415. Columnist Herb Caen coined the term “beatnik” in 1958 to refer toyoung
people involved in the beat culture popularized by JackKerouac.416. Designed by Vincent
Connare and inspired by comic book lettering,the Comic Sans font was introduced by Microsoft
in 1994.417. Abbreviated Wb, a weber is a unit of magnetic flux.418. Charles Lindbergh was
Time Magazine’s very first Man of the Year
in1927.419. Actress Betty White has received 21 nominations of PrimetimeEmmy Awards
starting in 1951 and has won 5.420. In 1901 U.S. Surgeon General Walter Wyman
helped establish ahospital in Hawaii for leprosy.421. The original Ferris Wheel was designed for
the Chicago World’s Fairin 1893 and could carry 2,160
people.422. The Long John Silver’s chain of fast seafood restaurants started inLexington, KY in
1969 and now has more than 1,200 storesworldwide.423. Based on a Biblical story the Dance of
the Seven Veils which Salomedoes before King Harod first appeared in an 1891 Oscar Wilde
playand was later made famous in the Strauss opera Salome.424. King James V was not yet
two when he was crowned king ofScotland at Stirling Castle in 1513.425. Jerry Rice holds
the NFL record for most career receiving yards at22,895 with the next closest being Terrell
Owens with 15,934 yards.426. A heptagon is a plane figure of seven sides and
seven angles.427. The 1968 family musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was looselybased on a
children’s book by James Bond author Ian Fleming.428. Canadian singer-
songwriter Michael Bublé has sold more than 55
million albums worldwide, but has had only one hit on the BillboardHot 100 in the U.S. with 2009’s
“Haven’t Met You Yet.”429. From Sanskrit, hatha literally means “force yoga.”430. Creedence
Clearwater Revival had seven songs reach #2 on the popcharts but never had a #1
hit.431. Nelson Rockefeller was elected Governor of New York four timesbetween 1958 and
1970.432. The famed Gunfight at the O.K. Corral with took place in Tombstone,Arizona
Territory on October 26, 1881 lasted about 30 seconds.433. From the Arabic for “old man”, a
sheik is the head of a family, tribe,or village.434. The French call the game tiddlywinks
jeu de puce meaning “the fleagame,” since the disks act like jumping fleas.435. The “Big Four”
film schools are USC and UCLA in Los Angeles andNYU and Columbia in New
York.436. Francesco Scavullo was a fashion photographer who defined the“Cosmo Girl,”
shooting covers for three decades.437. Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland is one of the world’s most
active volcanoswith its last major eruption in 2010 disrupting air travel acrosswestern and
northern Europe.438. Brooklyn Dodgers owner Charles Ebbets financed the construction
ofEbbets Field in 1912 by selling half of his shares in the team.439. The U.S. graduate
school system was largely modeled on that ofGermany.440. The “ZIP” in ZIP code stands
for Zone Improvement Plan.441. Elvis Presley booked a month-long gig at the Grand Ole Opry
in 1954but was booted out after just one
performance.442. A drop is considered 1/60th of a teaspoon.443. The word seltzer comes
from the name of the small mineral springshamlet of Nieder-Selters, Germany.
444. Lord Hastings, a foe of Richard III, gained the distinction of being thefirst person executed
at the Tower of London.445. A trillion used to mean a number with 12 zeros behind it
in BritishEnglish, but the UK has more recently shifted to the Americandefinition of a number
with 9 zeros following.446. In astronomy magnitude refers to the apparent
brightness of celestialobjects; the Moon has a magnitude of -12.6 and the sun -26.7.447. Peter
Gabriel had his last number one hit on the U.S. charts
in 1986with “Sledgehammer.”448. Over 1,000 years old, the Danish monarchy is the
oldest extantmonarchy in Europe.449. The X in Xmas is actually the Greek letter “Chi,” an
abbreviation ofthe word Christ.450. The phrase “See you next Wednesday” appears on most
of directorJohn Landis’ films and even in the video for “Thriller” which hedirected. It was the
title of a script he wrote as a teenager.451. Daniel Webster tried a failed to be elected
President of the UnitedStates three times, and he turned down offers of the vice presidencyfrom
both presidents Harrison and Taylor who died in office.452. In 2016 a 22-year-old man was the
first confirmed death from a spiderbite in Australia in 37 years.453. Food chemist William
Mitchell received 70 patents over the course ofhis career and was the inventor of Cool Whip,
Pop Rocks, and Tang.454. Most famous for his painting “American Gothic,” artist Grant
Woodwon a Crayola coloring contest as a child.455. Based on gross imports, Canada is
the number one source of foreignoil for the United States.456. The star-nosed mole has 22 pink
appendages on its nose that it uses asfeelers.457. Astronaut John Glenn served four terms as a
senator from the state of
Ohio, not seeking reelection only two years before his death.458. The phrase “work in” means to
alternate sets with someone else onone piece of weight equipment.459. In the Hebrew Bible, the
Book of Lamentations is a collection of fivepoems about the fall of Jerusalem.460. In
ancient Greek myth Athena turned Arachne into a spider so thatshe’d spend the rest of her life
spinning.461. Despite being nominated five times, Gandhi never won a Nobel
PeacePrize.462. “White crane spreads wings” and “step back and repulse monkey” arepostures in
the martial art tai chi.463. Latino-American rock band Los Lobos had their only major chart hitin
1987 when their cover of the song “La Bamba,” from the film ofthe same name, reached the top
of the pop charts in the U.S. as wellas seven other countries.464. Native to central Africa, the
giant otter shrew is the world’s largestinsectivore.465. Oaxaca is a state in southern
Mexico containing 53% of that nationsindigenous population.466. Queen Elizabeth II was in
Kenya in 1953 when she learned she hadbecome monarch.467. “Deacon” was the Secret Service
code name for President JimmyCarter.468. The state of Alaska is bordered by the
Canadian province of BritishColumbia and the Yukon Territory.469. A blind engineer by the name of
Ralph Teetor was the inventor ofcruise control.470. Before entering the NBA, basketball
great Patrick Ewing leadGeorgetown to three NCAA finals and the 1984 championship.471. In
1993 True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female
prime minister of Turkey.472. The only MLB players with more than 700 career home runs
are BabeRuth, Hank Aaron, and the current home run champion Barry Bonds.473. In 1328, in
the Treaty of Northampton, the English recognized Robertthe Bruce as King of the
Scots.474. On the summit of Dunsinane Hill in Scotland are the remains ofMacbeth’s
castle.475. Roger Baldwin, director of the American Union Against Militarism,transformed it
into the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920.476. During World War II, the
Japanese repeatedly bombed the city ofDarwin on Australia’s northern coast.477. An object
that is of equal length across four dimensions is called atesseract.478. Brad Pitt and Casey
Affleck played the two titled characters in the2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward RobertFord.479. Of all the lawyers in the world, two-thirds live and practice in
theUnited States.480. The Artic gets its name from the Greek word “arctos” meaning
bearbecause its proximity to Ursa Major.481. The first VCR was developed in 1956 but
weighed 1,500 pounds, andit would take another 15 years for a commercially viable model to
bedeveloped.482. Mr. Mushnik’s flower shop is the location in both the stage musicaland the
film Little Shop of Horrors.483. The term bantamweight for boxers between 112 and 118 pounds
isbelieved to have come from a town on the island of Java.484. The African language group
known as Bantu contains more than 500languages including Zulu and Xhosa.485. The name of
the mythical female spirit the banshee comes from the
old Irish for “woman of the fairy realm.”486. Developed in Australia,

the Sugarbaby and the Crimson Glow arerecent breeds of strawberry.487. Ground was first
broken for the construction of the Pentagon onSeptember 11, 1941.488. By the time they’re a
high school senior, a typical American has spent17,000 hours of their life in school.489. The
1917 Stanley Cup finals were the first to be played in the UnitedStates and the first to be won by
and American team, the SeattleMetropolitans.490. Bela Lugosi turned down the role of the
monster in Frankensteinbefore it went to little-known actor Brois Karloff.491. Sammy “The
Bull” Gravano was the star witness in the 1992 trial ofcrime boss John Gotti.492. The name of
Paul Simon’s hit 1972 song “Mother and ChildReunion” was inspired by an item on a Chinese
restaurant menu.493. The country of Namibia was known as South-West Africa from 1915to
1990.494. After having an argument with his son about the game Crazy 8s,Merle Robbins
invented UNO in 1971.495. Liberty Island was known as Bedloe’s Island before the arrival of
theStatue of Liberty.496. For his brilliant but minority
Supreme Court opinions, John MarshallHarlan became known as “The Great
Dissenter.”497. President Garfield’s assassin chose to use an in ivory handled gunover a wooden
one because he believed it would look better in amuseum exhibit.498. In the U.S. Army, a Major
General wears two stars.499. The 1934 Shirley Temple movie Bright Eyes featured her
iconic song“On the Good Ship Lollipop.”
500. The letter “Q” is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear inthe name of any U.S.
state or territory.501. Purlicue is the name of the gap between your thumb and index fingeras
well as being the term for a curl or flourish in writing.502. For six consecutive years starting
in 1995, Fortune magazine calledEnron “The Most Innovative Company in Corporate
America.”503. In 1963 actor Peter Sellers became the first man to appear on thecover of Playboy
magazine.504. In 1980 Super Bowl XIV was held in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl andstands as the
most highly attended Super Bowl in history.505. Lemniscate is the name of the sideways 8 used
to represent infinity.506. Oregon is the only state with a different design on each side
of itsflag.507. In a speech in 1895, Booker T. Washington accepted the AtlantaCompromise
which would keep most segregation in place with theunderstanding that African-Americans
would receive free basiceducation and due process under the law.508. Bearskin is the name of
the tall, fuzzy, black hats worn by the guardsat Buckingham Palace.509. Lou Dobbs was
the chief economic correspondent for CNN from itslaunch in 1980, and worked for the network
with the exclusion of oneyear until
2009.510. Cereal icon Cap’n Crunch commands the S.S. Guppy.511. The Domesday Book was
William the Conqueror’s census of 11thcentury England.512. States may determine the color
of their own school buses, but mosthave used National School Bus Chrome Yellow since
it wasrecommended at a 1939 national conference.513. Unlike the honeybee, the bumblebee
does not die when it stings andmay do so multiple times.
514. In 1950 Chuck Cooper became the first African American drafted byan NBA team when he
joined the Celtics.515. The 1948 car known as the Tucker Torpedo and later the Tucker
48introduced many cutting edge automotive concepts later widelyadopted by automobile
manufacturers even though only 51 cars madebefore the company
collapsed.516. About 30% of all animal species are beetles.517. His name is not as well known,
but Fred Noonan was the navigatorwho disappeared along with Amelia Earhart in
1937.518. Vietnamese revolutionary and diplomat Le Duc Tho engaged in secretpeace talks with
Henry Kissinger between 1970 and 1973 to end theVietnam War, the success of which led to
both being awarded a NobelPeace Prize.519. Cerium is the most abundant of the rare earth
minerals.520. While Medusa is the most commonly known from Greek myth, hersisters Stheno
and Euryale were also gorgons.521. In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni introduced
the GregorianCalendar still in use today.522. Mike Mansfield of Montana was a U.S. senator
and the longestserving Senate Majority Leader from 1961 to 1977.523. After four nominations,
Sean Penn took home the Beast Lead ActorOscar of 2004’s Mystic River.524. Because of his
uncanny skill at reading the stock market, WarrenBuffet earned the nickname “The Oracle of
Omaha.”525. Psychologist Carl Jung named the Electra complex after an ancientGreek woman
famous for her attachment to Agamemnon.526. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Reservoir was created
by Grand CouleeDam in Washington.527. It’s thought that construction of Stonehenge started as
early as 2900B.C. on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
528. A controversial defense secretary under Kennedy and Johnson wasthe subject of the Oscar-
winning 2003 documentary The Fog of War:Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S.
McNamara.529. Due to the efforts of Spokane, Washington resident Sonora Dodd,Father’s Day
was first celebrated there, on June 19, 1910.530. Glam rocker Paul Gadd recorded the popular
sporting event anthem“Rock and Roll Part 2” under the name Gary Glitter.531. Former heads
of state Syngman Rhee of Korea and Ferdinand Marcosof the Philippines both had to find
asylum in Hawaii after fleetingtheir home countries.532. In a dark room, a stop bath is used
to arrest the action of thedeveloper.533. Little
Green Men became a popular newspaper description of aliensassociated with flying saucer
sightings in the 1950s.534. Among the many flying records of billionaire Howard Hughes was
aflight around the world in 3 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes.535. In 1725 Peter the Great sent Danish
explorer Vitus Bering to explorethe Pacific
coast.536. Serving from 1982 to 1998, Helmut Kohl was the longest-servingdemocratically
elected Chancellor of Germany.537. B-612 is the asteroid the title character is from in The
Little Prince.538. Lady Flash was a group formed by a trio of backup singers for BarryManilow
who had their own chart hit in 1976 when the song “StreetSingin’” reached
#27.539. Shakespeare characters Romeo and Juliet appear as letter codes in theNATO phonetic
alphabet.540. The 1952 Charlie Chaplin film Limelight won an Oscar for BestDramatic Score 21
years later since it was never released in LosAngeles until then.541. Cadbury produces more
than 300 million Crème Eggs every year.
542. There is more copper in the U.S. nickel than in a penny.543. Armsaye is the name of
the hole in your shirt that your arm goesthrough.544. The first recorded automobile
accident in the United States took place1896 when a car struck a bicyclist in New York.545. Just
weeks after leaving office, Teddy Roosevelt and his son Kermitleft on a year-long African
hunting expedition.546. All modern powered vacuum cleaners are based on designs developedby
British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth.547. The highest scoring game in college football history
was in 1916when Georgia Tech (coached by John Heisman) defeated CumberlandCollege 222-
0.548. Anne Boleyn was beheaded with a sword rather than an axe.549. Spanish-
language network Univision started in 1962 as SIN (SpanishInternational
Network).550. The shaggy haircut of Chekov in the original Star Trek series wasreportedly
modeled after Monkees singer Davy Jones in an effort toattract younger viewers.551. A runaway
sheep in New Zealand named Shrek was missing for sixyears and had to have 60 pounds of wool
sheared off him when hewas finally tracked down in 2004.552. The Margherita pizza
was created in 1889 to honor the Queen consortof Italy, Margherita of Savoy.553. Covering 2.32 sq
mi and containing over 5 million remains, Wadi Al-Salaam (Valley of Peace) cemetery in
Najaf, Iraq is the largestcemetery in the world.554. James Munroe was almost
the second president to be electedunanimously, however one elector voted for John Quincy
Adams toreserve that honor for George Washington.555. In the year 1958 the United States
Senate was made up of 96
members.556. Seedless varieties of Ribier and Thompson are among the best-sellingtypes of
grapes.557. Boudica was a British Celtic queen who led an uprising againstoccupying Roman
forces around 60 A.D.558. The position of First Lady of the United States does not need to
befilled by a president’s wife and may be assumed by his daughter,niece, or sister
instead.559. Moving Buddies and Made in Taiwan were alternative titlesconsidered for
the animated feature Toy Story.560. A symbol of fertility in mythology, the
pomegranate been called“Nature’s most labor-intensive fruit.”561. An American seal hunter
named John Davis is believed to be the firstperson to set foot on Antarctica.562. In a 2003
CNN poll, former First Lady Hillary Clinton was voted“The Most Admired Woman in
America.”563. Related to Old Norse, Islenska is the official language of Iceland.564. Roger
Maris held the record for most home runs in a season from1961 until 1998.565. The
absolute limit to the height of a tree is around 130 meters as it isimpossible for them to get water
any higher.566. With temperatures as low as -94 F., Oymyakon in Siberia is thecoldest
permanently inhabited place on Earth.567. In 1968 she reached the Billboard Top 10 for the first
and only timewith “Both Sides Now,” a song written by Joni Mitchell.568. After
retiring from medicine in 1840, Peter Roget began work on histhesaurus in London.569. The first
national census in the United States was held in 1790 andrevealed a population of nearly 4
million.570. In music, a hemidemisemiquaver is also known as a 64th note.
571. Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on the coins and stamps ofSwitzerland.572. The Gulf
of Finland, which freezes over for several months duringwinter, is the easternmost arm of the
Baltic Sea.573. First designed as a surgical disinfectant, Listerine was available todentists in
1895 and became available over the counter in 1914.574. There are more than 119,000 public
libraries of some sort in the U.S.575. A lavish gadget-laden railroad
car called the “Nimrod” transported theheroes in the 1960’s TV series The Wild Wild
West.576. The state of Vermont has the lowest rate of violent crime in the U.S.at just over 99
incidents per 100,000 population.577. In 1965 a Senate subcommittee predicted that by the
year 2000 theaverage American would be working 20 hours/week and taking sevenweeks of
vacation every year.578. Narrator Boris Karloff does not sing “You’re a Mean One, Mr.Grinch”
in the 1966 animated classic How the Grinch StoleChristmas, but rather it is sung by the original
voice of Tony theTiger, Thurl Ravenscroft.579. Hector Boiardi was a gourmet chef at the Plaza
Hotel in NYC andnow graces the cans of Chef Boyardee products.580. Fiordland, Tongariro,
and Abel Tasman are among New Zealand’smost popular national parks.581. Who Stephen
Hawking was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in1963, doctors gave him a life expectancy
of two years.582. South America’s largest known petroleum deposits lie in
Venezuela’sMaracaibo Basin.583. Barbie’s younger sister Skipper was introduced
by Mattel in 1964.584. Tired of dealing with the storage problems they presented, AntoineGibus
invented the spring-loaded collapsible top hat in
1840.585. Most species of piranha eat plant matter and insects.
586. Walt Disney promised that “as long as there is imagination left in theworld” his theme park
would never be completed.587. The Rams were the first NFL team to decorate
their helmets.588. Elmo is the only non-human ever to testify before congress.589. In 1918 the
U.S. military revived the newspaper Stars & Stripeswhich originated during the Civil
War.590. Annie Sullivan, Hellen Keller’s “Miracle Worker,” was inducted intothe Women’s
Hall of Fame in 2003.591. Ansel Adams first took an interest in photography during a family
tripto Yosemite in 1916.592. Subatomic particles known as quarks are named for a word JamesJoyce
used in Finnegan’s Wake.593. In 1917, Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first female
memberof the U.S. House of Representatives.594. The final resting place of the Titanic is on the
sea floor about 12,500feet down where the pressure equals 380 atmospheres.595. For the first
time, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London started allraces with all-electronic starting
pistols.596. Fort Caroline is a memorial to France’s 16th century attempt toestablish a permanent
colony in what is now Florida.597. On March 3, 1918 the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended the war
betweenRussia and the Central Powers and ceded the Baltic states toGermany.598. The name of
Canada may come from a word meaning “collection ofhuts.”599. You can visit the home
of Betsy Ross at 239 Arch Street inPhiladelphia.600. The longest combined road and rail
bridge in Europe is the OresundBridge which connects Copenhagen, Denmark to the Swedish
city ofMalmo.
601. The home furnishings store Pottery Barn was founded by twobrothers in 1949 in West Chelsea,
New York.602. Kate Chopin’s 1899 book The Awakening shocked critics with itsfrank portrayal
of women’s emotional lives.603. Russians comprise the largest ethnic minority
in Ukraine at about17.3% of the population.604. Great Britain has the third most Olympic
medals in the world,summer and winter games combined.605. In 1969 surrealist Salvador Dali
created a logo for a Spanish brand oflollipops.606. According to Aristotle, the Phrygian
King Midas died of starvation.607. Hb is the medical abbreviation for the oxygen
carrying component ofblood, hemoglobin.608. The Fab Five were five freshman University
of Michigan basketballplayers starting in 1991 considered by many to be the greatest classever
recruited.609. A Raisin the Sun was the first Broadway play written and directed byAfrican
Americans.610. Chiaroscuro is an Italian term in art meaning the balance of
light andshade.611. The longest speech ever given at the UN was 4 hours 29 minutesdelivered by
Fidel Castro in 1960.612. Singer Mandy Moore provided the voice of Rapunzel for the
2010Disney animated film Tangled.613. As of 2015 more than 2 million people were still using
AOL dial-upservice.614. Elijah Bond patented the Ouija board in 1891.615. The distance
between the lowest and highest points in the continentalUnited States, Mount Whitney and
Death Valley, is only 88 miles.616. Wallis Simpson, for whom Edward VIII abdicated the
British throne
to marry, was Time Magazine’s first Woman of the Year in 1936.617. Chocolaty drink Yoo-hoo was
invented Natale Oliveri for his smallstore in New Jersey in 1926.618. Pier 21 National
Historic Site is Canada’s equivalent of Ellis Island.619. Held between 1962 and 1965, the
21st Ecumenical Council of theCatholic Church was popularly called Vatican II.620. The color
of fire hydrant caps indicate to firefighters the amount ofwater pressure they can expect from that
hydrant.621. The Canary Islands were named for their large population of wilddogs (the Latin
root of dog is canaria).622. Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP is currently the best-
sellingalbum of the 21st century with more than 32 million in
worldwidesales.623. Placekicker Morten Andersen is the all-time career scoring championfor the
NFL with 2,544 points.624. Men being clean shaven in the U.S. became popular
after WWIbecause returning soldiers were clean shaven so that gas masks wouldfit
properly.625. Ostracism was a process in Classical Athens by which a vote could betaken to
banish a person who was becoming too powerful politically.626. Pumbaa from The Lion King
was the first Disney character to fart.627. Steve Jobs’ high school GPA was 2.65.628. Goats
are immune to poison ivy and poison oak, and are thereforesometimes used to control the spread
of those plants.629. 2015 was the first year in the company’s history that McDonald’sclosed
more stores than it opened in the U.S.630. Founded in 1827, the Boston Globe won
Pulitzer Prizes for publicservice in 1966, 1975, and
2003.631. Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern bulgur wheat salad.632. C2H5OH is the formula
for ethyl alcohol the intoxicant in most

alcoholic beverages.633. Phineas Gage was a 19th century American railroad
worker whosurvived and accident in which a large iron rod was driven throughhis skull
destroying most of his left frontal lobe and altering hispersonality.634. Koala’s have the
lowest brain to body mass of any
mammal.635. Sophia Coppola got the part of Michael Corleone’s daughter inGodfather III when
Winona Ryder dropped out of the role.636. George Washington Bush led several families
to found a settlement inwhat is now Washington state in 1846, making him one of the firstsettlers
of mixed African and European heritage.637. Buddhist typically celebrate the days
of Buddha’s birth, the day of hisdeath, and the day of his enlightenment.638. A cave beneath a
cliff in Cornwall, England is said to house the finalresting place of
Merlin.639. Debuting in 1999, the character SpongeBob SquarePants was createdby former
marine biology educator Steve Hillenburg.640. Bob Hope was born in England, moved to the
United States at age 5,and became a citizen at 17.641. Mules are sterile because they have an
odd number of chromosomesand cannot produce viable gametes.642. Before founding his
famous food brand, Duncan Hines was atravelling salesman who became one of the first people
in the U.S. topublish restaurant ratings.643. Only three humans have ever died outside the
Earth’s atmosphere;they were all members of the Soyuz 11 mission who died in 1971.644. Britt
Reed was the secret identity of the superhero the Green Hornet.645. The National Civil Rights
Museum has an exhibit about theenrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi
in1962.
646. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon was the first female prime ministerelected anywhere in
the world in 1960.647. Part of a consumer rewards program, S&H started issuing theirpopular
green stamps in
1896.648. Before becoming an advisor to President Bush, Condoleezza Riceserved 6 years as
provost of Stanford University.649. For decades the Green Line was the buffer zone between the
Greekand Turkish forces on the island of
Cyprus.650. The Scottish surname prefix Mac means “son of.”651. One of the tiles in the first
word put on a Scrabble board must coverthe square with a star on it.652. Cirque du Soleil
began with street performers on stilts in Bay St.Paul, Quebec.653. The daughter of a Duke
or Earl traditionally puts the word Ladybefore her name.654. The theme song for
the US television series The Office wasperformed by The Scrantones.655. Archimedes’ quote
“Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I willmove the Earth” referred to the simple
machine the lever.656. From the Latin for “tie,” ligature are the type of sutures used on
bloodvessels.657. In soul food, chitlins are term for a hog’s innards, popularly fried
orboiled.658. Founded in Trenton, New Jersey in 1889, Lennox is now the onlymajor
manufacturer of bone China in the U.S.659. The phrase “Under God” was added to the Pledge
of Allegiance underthe Eisenhower administration to distinguish the U.S. from the“godless
communists.”660. Weighing more than 35,000 pounds, the Compton Gamma RayObservatory
was the heaviest satellite ever launched.

661. Dr. Herman Tarnower originally published his Scarsdale Diet in 1978,and the book received
an unexpected boost two years later when hewas murdered by a jilted lover.662. In 1835 Zachary
Taylor’s daughter Sarah married Jefferson Davis, thefuture President of the
Confederacy.663. Characterized by good flavor, extra virgin olive oil has and acid levelof less
than one percent.664. Belize is the only country in Latin America with a national anthemsung in
English.665. From the Italian for “more than usual wandering”, an extravaganza isa lavish
entertainment or a spectacular display.666. The first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge
was a professionalhigh diver who died on impact with the water.667. The Jim Beam whiskey
brand is now owned and produced by theJapanese company Beam Suntory.668. The poke
bonnet which was a popular women’s fashion accessory inthe 19th century steadily gained a
longer brim until a woman’s facecould only be seen directly from the front.669. The first
independent credit card company was Diners Club whichstarted in New York City in 1950 and
initially included 14 restaurants.670. Depending on equipment and Sherpas, the cost
of climbing Mt.Everest is between $60,000 and $120,000.671. On November 18, 1913, Lincoln
Beachy did the first loop-de-loop inan airplane.672. Nebraska is the only U.S. state
with a unicameral legislature.673. The tail of a comet always points away from the
sun674. A mill is one-tenth of a cent.675. The steamship S.S. Great Britain was the first
iron steamer to crossthe Atlantic in 1845.676. Gavdos, an islet administratively
part of Crete, is Europe’s
southernmost point.677. Mt. Saint Helens lost over 1,200 feet in height after its
1980 eruption.678. The band Queen had their first U.S. chart-topper in 1979 with thesong “Crazy
Little Thing Called Love.”679. Pinckney’s Treaty of 1795 ended disputes between the U.S. and
Spainover Florida’s borders and access to the mouth of the Mississippi.680. Stretching
across the Northwest Territories, the Mackenzie River isthe longest river in Canada.681. St.
Croix, largest island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was earlier ownedby the Dutch, English, Spanish,
French, and Danes., who682. Tricolore is a nickname often applied to the flag of France.683. In
1884, the year of his death, Alan Pinkerton published the memoir30 Years a Detective.684. In
2010 Evan Lysacek became the first American to win the men’sfigure skating gold medal since
Brian Boitano in 1988.685. Madeline Albright became the first female Secretary
of State in 1997.686. Bill Rosenberg opened the first Dunkin’ Donuts in 1950
in Quincy,Massachusetts.687. While the term didn’t come into common use until
the 1950s, theInstitute for Defence and Security Studies 1831 in London is arguablythe world’s
oldest think tank.688. William “The Refrigerator” Perry has the largest Super Bowl ring size(25)
in the history of the NFL.689. One of James Madison’s two failed
Constitutional amendment’s (10of 12 of which were passed) forbade Congress from giving itself
apay raise during its current session.690. Professional
pool player Rudolf Wanderone who adopted thenickname “Minnesota Fats” was actually from
New York but took thename from the 1961 film The Hustler.691. Whiskey is
clear when distilled and gains its characteristic color from
the oak barrels it’s aged in.692. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, was Time’s Person
of theYear for 1999.693. Elba, famous site of Napoleon’s exile, is the largest island in
Italy’sTuscan Archipeligo.694. The successor of Charlemagne as king of the Franks Louis I
was thefirst of 18 French kings with his name.695. For much of its early history, Hoover
Dam was called Boulder Dam,from a canyon where it was once going to be built.696. A British
lawyer known as a solicitor does not argue high court casesbut rather must hire a barrister to do
so.697. Avoirdupois is a French measuring system based on 16 ounces in apound, the name
coming from Old French for “goods of weight.”698. Jon Hornbuckle has the largest lifelist
for birdwatching with 9,414distinct species spotted.699. Sulfuric acid is the most produced
chemical in the United States.700. In 1901 a California law abolished homework for grades 1
through 8.701. Nicknames of the Dalmatian include the spotted dick and the plumpudding
dog.702. Launched in 1922 Thom McAn shoe stores became the largest retailshoe chain in the
U.S. by the 1960s, but would begin declining in the1980s with the rise of sneakers as the casual
shoe of choice.703. Herbert Hoover’s vice president Charles Curtis was Native Americanon his
mother’s side making him the highest ranking Native Americanever in U.S. government.704. In
January of 2016 there was a single winner of the $1.6 billionPowerball jackpot, the largest
lottery ever won.705. In a cameo in the 1996 movie The First Wives Club, wealthy exIvanka
Trump advises “Don’t get mad, get everything.”706. Introduced
in 1975, the IBM 5100 was the first commercially
available portable computer.707. In Jewish folklore, before Eve, Adam was married to the she-
demonLilith.708. The first public kindergarten in the U.S. opened in 1873 in St.
Louis,MO.709. Part of Time, Inc. Henry Luce founded Fortune magazine in 1929.710. For
his dying father, Welshman Dylan Thomas wrote the poem “DoNot Go Gentle into That Good
Night.”711. In 1902 former wild west peace officer Bat Masterson moved to NewYork City
and became a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph.712. Richard Nixon’s running mate
in 1960, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., hadlost his senate seat eight years earlier to John F.
Kennedy.713. With more than 376 days, biochemist Peggy Whitson has the mosttime in space of
any woman.714. The Biography installment about Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton wassubtitled
“Bargain Billionaire.”715. In the card game pinochle, an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and Ten
oftrump is known as a royal sequence.716. In 1992 President George H.W. Bush pardoned six
Iran-Contrafigures, saying patriotism was their main
motivation.717. Ovine means pertaining to or resembling sheep.718. When the first
regular phone service was established in 1878, “Ahoy”was the standard greeting rather than
“Hello.”719. Golfer Sam Snead has the most PGA wins of any professional playerat 82,
just three ahead of Tiger Woods.720. In April of 1939 Italy absorbed the country
of Albania721. The word for circumstances that lessen a punishment, mitigating,comes from the
Latin for “soft.722. In 1987 John McCain was elected to the senate seat previously heldby
conservative icon Barry Goldwater upon the latter’s retirement.
723. Prefab metal sheets used to print newspapers gave us the term“boilerplate” for standard
wording such as in contract.724. What was long ago called Cush, part of Nubia, is
modern dayEthiopia.725. In 2000 Marion Jones became the first female track and field athleteto
win medals in five different events at a single Olympics.726. Hinda Miller
and Lisa Lindahl sewed two athletic supporters togetherto make the first sports
bra727. Regina is the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.728. In the operetta
“Thespis”, a troupe of actors takes over the duties onOlympus so the gods can go on
vacation.729. In the 1240s David ap Llywelyn was the first to declare himselfPrince
of Wales.730. Built in 1970, the U.S. Steel Tower is the tallest building inPittsburgh,
PA.731. The surface shape of a mirror in a reflecting telescope is a parabola.732. Tyson
Foods, the second largest meat producer in the world, wasfounded in Springdale, Arkansas in
1935.733. At age 10, Michelle Wie became the youngest person ever to qualifyfor the USGA
amateur championship in 2000.734. Patricius, the son of Calpurnius,
a Roman nobleman, traveled to &became the patron saint of Ireland.735. Brunei and Oman are
the two countries in the world that aresultanates.736. David McCullouch earned the
1978 National Book Award for Historyfor his Path Between the Seas about the creation of the
Panama Canalfrom 1870 to 1914.737. Johnny Depp has played gonzo journalist
Hunter S. Thompson inboth Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Rum Diary(2011).
738. Average album length increased from 40 minutes in the LP ear to overand hour in the era of
CDs.739. Horses are incapable of breathing through their mouths.740. Vatnajökull is the
largest glacier in Europe and covers in excess of3,200 square miles of
Iceland.741. The Liberty Bell was actually cast in London, England.742. In 1968 the
nuclear submarine U.S.S. Scorpion sank and neither itsreactor nor the nuclear weapons aboard it
have ever been recovered.743. In 1981 Miss New York Deborah Ann Fountain became
the firstperson ever disqualified from the Miss U.S.A. pageant for the illegaluse of
padding.744. The tires for a Bugatti Veyron cost $42,000 a set and will last for 15minutes at top
speed.745. Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary
is the highest rank ofdiplomat.746. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, orbited
the Earth 48times in 1963.747. American industrialist
Elisha Otis invented the safety devices thatkeep elevators from falling if the cable fails in the
1850s.748. HAZMAT teams are specially trained and equipped to handlehazardous materials
such as chemical, nuclear, corrosive, radioactive,or explosive.749. The Twentieth Amendment to
the Constitution changed the date ofthe presidential inauguration to January 20th in
1933.750. By 1946, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh had catalogued over 29,000galaxies, almost
4,000 asteroids, and one new planet, Pluto.751. At 563.35 carats the world’s largest star
sapphire, the Star of India,was actually discovered in Sri Lanka.752. The only father-
daughter collaboration ever to hit the top of theBillboard pop charts was “Something Stupid” in
1967 by Frank and
Nancy Sinatra.753. The glue used on Israeli

postage stamps is kosher.754. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway gained the nickname “TheBric
kyard” when it was paved with 3.2 million bricks in 1909.755. The newest U.S. cabinet-level
department is the Department ofHomeland Security created in 2002.756. The first
touch tone telephone came into service in 1963.757. The stars on more than 50 national
flags have five points.758. Gymnast George Nissen invented the first
modern trampoline in1936.759. Built in 1807 and operating on the Hudson River, the
North RiverSteamboat was the first vessel to demonstrate the viability of steampower for
travel on water.760. With more than 100 million copies sold in 37 languages, GuinnessWorld
Records is the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.761. The original theme song for
the 1960’s TV sitcom Bewitched was aversion of the jingle for the shows sponsor,
Chevrolet.762. The glass panels on the Grand Canyon Skywalk are 2.5 inches thickbut can
support up to 800 people.763. New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, and Mississippi
are the U.S.states in which nuclear explosions have taken place.764. U.S. consumption of poultry
has doubled in the past 25 years from 18to 36 million pounds per
year.765. The U.S. House of Representatives currently has 19 standingcommittees and 3
permanent select
committees.766. The inventor of television, Philo Farnsworth, was reportedly inspiredto the idea
of scanning parallel rows when watching a farmer plow
afield.767. France had its last guillotine execution in 1977.768. First
developed by the Air Force to test ejection seats,
Anthropomorphic Test Device is proper name for a crash test dummy.769. The Norse colony in
Greenland which began in 986 didn’t die outuntil about 42 years before Columbus
sailed.770. Roberts Smalls was a slave who freed himself, his crew, and theirfamilies from
slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship in 1862and taking it to the
Union.771. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both born in Kentucky.772. After
Rama IV of Siam saw his flag with the elephant flown upside-down, he switched to a striped
flag.773. In 1868 Christopher Sholes and two others patented the typewriter,and in 1873
gunmaker Remington got the contract to market it.774. Lake Victoria is the chief source of the
Nile River.775. According to Hindu myth, the sacred river Ganges emanated from thetoe of
Vishnu.776. Pluto has an orbital speed of only 2.9 miles
per second.777. 17th century German astronomer Kepler’s 1st law states that theplanets move in
elliptical orbits around the sun.778. The Bay of Fundy, noted for its high tides, separates
New Brunswickand Nova
Scotia.779. .kh is the internet country code for Cambodia.780. Kiowa, Chiricahua, and Mescaler
o are major subgroups of theApache Native American tribe.781. From the Latin for “delight,” a
dilettante is someone who takesdelight in dabbling in the
arts.782. Charles Gates Dawes, the vice president under Calvin Coolidge, wasa songwriter who
had a hit that topped the pop charts in 1951 with“Melody in A Major.”783. In the United States the
budget for Nuclear Weapons falls under theDepartment of Energy rather than the Department of
Defense.784. SeaWorld began as a plan to open an ocean-themed restaurant with a
marine show in the 1960s.785. In 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only British
Prime Ministerever to be assassinated.786. Prominent proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-
AfricanismMarcus Garvey was deported to his birth country of Jamaica from theUnited States in
1927.787. When Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase designed the original one-dollar bill in
1862, he put his own picture on it.788. The Straight of Messina separates Italy from the island of
Sicily.789. North Dakota is the only U.S. state that does not require
voterregistration.790. Exempli gratia, abbreviated e.g. in English, means “for example.”791. No
w home to more the 1.4 million people, Munich, Germany beganas a settlement of Benedictine
monks.792. In 1966 Alameda County, California was the first place in the U.S. touse community
service as an alternative form of punishment(originally for female traffic
offenders).793. The genetic mutations that makes someone a redhead also makesthem more
resistant to anesthesia.794. Introduced in 1961, the name of PAM cooking spray stands
forProduct of Arthur Meyerhoff.795. Venetian gondoliers are famous for singing boat
songs known asbarcarolle.796. Both of Baltimore’s major league sports
teams have bird nicknames,both relocated from other cities, and both used to be nicknamed
theBrowns.797. The term “drag” in reference to cross-dressing started in the theater inreference
to men wearing dresses where the hem would drag alongthe ground, and first appeared in
dictionaries in the 1870s.798. The temperature on the Celsius scale is 273.15 degrees lower
than the
temperature on the Kelvin scale.799. In 1593 Queen Elizabeth I changed the length of a mile
from 5,000feet to the current 5,280 feet.800. More than 2,600 record stores closed in the United
States between2005 and 2009.801. Julia-Louis Dreyfus holds the record for most Emmy Awards
for LeadActress in a Comedy with six as well as the record for most such winsin a row with
five.802. Hanging food between trees to keep it from a certain animal is calledbear
bagging.803. In 1990 Colorado voters legalized a limited form of gambling inBlack Hawk,
Central City, and Cripple Creek.804. In common practice electrical power is billed in terms
of kilowatt-hour which is equal to 3.6 million joules.805. Former Soviet
republic Turkmenistan was ruled by President for LifeSaparmurat Niyazov from 1985 when he
became head of that nation’sCommunist Party until his death in 2006.806. British
inventor Matthew Piers Watt Boulton patented the hingedairplane wing flight control surface
known as the aileron in 1868.807. In 1991 three of the five Oscar Nominated songs were
from Beautyand the Beast.808. The first call to a commercially sold pager was in 1950 to a
doctorwho was golfing.809. In 1654 Otto von Guericke of Germany publicly demonstrated
thepower of a vacuum by having two horses attempt to pull apart thehalves a sphere sealed by
one.810. Thirty-two different countries in Africa gained their independence inthe
1960s.811. East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, South Vietnam, and theUSSR are all
countries that only existed in the 20th century.
812. The Sumerians believed the constellation we call Aquariusrepresented their sky-god, An,
pouring waters of immortality upon theEarth.813. Mitsubishi Electric was the first
company to deploy large scale videoscreens for sporting events, now known as jumbotrons, with
the firstbeing at the 1980 Baseball All-Star Game.814. Hydrox cookies were introduced
in 1908 four years before Oreos.815. Second Sex author Simone de Beauvoir taught
philosophy for 12years before writing her first novel.816. High School Musical and High
School Musical 2 had the best-sellingalbums for the years 2006 and 2007.817. North-East
Greenland Park is the largest park in the world covering inexcess of 375,000 square miles or
about twice the size of California.818. Of the eight main Hawaiian Islands, only the smallest
Kahoolawe isnot inhabited.819. Samuel Sewall was the only judge who publicly admitted his
guiltafter the Salem Witch Trials.820. Henry Schoolcraft
is often remembered for his successful 1832expedition to find the source of the Mississippi
River.821. “The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life” is thesubtitle of
Darwin’s 1859 work On the Origin of Species.822. George Eyser won six medals in one day,
including three gold, at the1904 Summer Olympics in spite of the fact that one of his legs was
awooden prosthesis.823. In 1960’s London, Carnaby Street became a center of
independentfashion around the mod and hippie styles.824. Zebulon Pike, after
which Pike’s Peak is named, was accused ofscouting the west for vice president Aaron Burr who
wanted to rulethe area.825. First airing in 1956, The Price is Right is television’s longest-running
game show.826. Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus was the first to use the Mars andVenus symbols
to represent male
and female.827. While working for DuPont, Stephanie Kwolek invented the materialthat came to
be known as Kevlar in
1964.828. Birmingham in the second most populous city in England.829. Ratings of sitcom
The Bing Bang Theory grew from an average of 8.3million viewers in its first season to nearly
20 million viewers in itsseventh.830. Saudi Arabia is connected to this island nation of Bahrain
by the KingFahd Causeway.831. According to the Organization for Economic Co-
operation andDevelopment (OECD), American workers have the 16th longestaverage work week
in the world with Mexicans having the longest at42.58 hours.832. Harrison Ford is the highest
grossing actor of all time having starredin films grossing in excess of $4.9 billion.833. Phil
Jackson has the most championships of any coach in the NBA at11; six with the Chicago Bulls
and five with the Los Angeles Lakers.834. Time, Inc. successfully spun off InStyle
magazine from People in1994.835. The term Left Bank to refer to the south bank of the River
Seine inParis dates to a time of philosophers and artists of the artisticcommunity at Montparnasse
particularly in the 1920s.836. The state capitals of Bismarck, North Dakota, Pierre, South
Dakota,and Jefferson City, Missouri all lie along the Missouri River.837. Low-fare airline
JetBlue began passenger service in 2000 with flightsbetween JFK and Fort
Lauderdale.838. Codeine and morphine are both made from opium, which is obtainedfrom a
species of poppy.
839. Brazil became the seat of the Portuguese colonial empire in 1808when its ruler fled Portugal
during invasion by Napoleon.840. Phil Donahue won Daytime Emmy Awards for his talk show
The PhilDonahue Show in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986,and
1988.841. In 2002, National Geographic finally tracked down and ID’ed Afghanrefugee Sharbat
Gula as the subject of its most famous cover from1985.842. Aeroflot is the flagship
and largest passenger airline of the RussianFederation.843. With 11 ½ years in the position,
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving British Prime Minister since the early-19th century
and thelongest to be referred to as PM.844. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union recalled
all stamps it hadissued to prevent the Confederacy from using those seized fromfederal post
offices they had taken over.845. Richard Bach’s Jonathon Livingston Seagull was the top-
sellingfiction book of 1972 and 1973.846. There are currently eight former Spanish colonies
that use the pesoincluding Mexico, Argentina, and the Philippines.847. Italy is the country that
has won the most Oscars for Best ForeignLanguage Film with 14.848. The Ancient Romans built
Hadrian’s Wall across Britain from themouth of the Tyne River to Solway
Firth.849. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 added the Explosives to thename of the ATF as
well as shifting the agency from the Departmentof Treasury to the Department of
Justice.850. The Latin phrase libra pondo was used in ancient Rome to indicateweight, which is
why the abbreviation for pound is lb.851. Elvis Presley was naturally a dirty blonde but dyed
his hair in 1957 to
emulate his screen idol Tony Curtis.852. In 1759 St. James Gate Brewery was leased to Arthur
Guinness for9,000 years at 45 pounds per year.853. An earthquake along the New Madrid
fault on December 16, 1811caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.854. An
official men’s shot put weighs just over 16 pounds and a women’sweighs 8.8
pounds.855. Some species of possum have a gestation period of less than
twoweeks.856. Equatorial Guinea does not lie on the Equator.857. “Luge” has the distinction
of being the shortest winning word at theNational Spelling Bee.858. Maryland gained the
nickname “The Old Line State” from its soldiersduring the Revolutionary War to whom
General Washington referredto as “The Old Line.”859. With 18,112, Thrissur, Kerala,
India holds the record for the world’slargest gathering of Santa Clauses.860. Near Corbin,
Kentucky, Cumberland Falls is sometimes referred to asthe “Niagara of the
South.”861. The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election which elected actorArnold
Schwarzenegger included on the ballot former child star GaryColeman and porn actress Mary
Carey.862. Before settling on Cornhuskers, the University of Nebraska hadpreviously been
known as the Antelopes and the Bugeaters.863. In August of 1934 FDR was made an honorary
member of theBlackfoot tribe and given the name “Lone Chief.”864. Brown University
is Rhode Island’s only ivy league school.865. Georgia O’Keeffe called
her New Mexico home, where she spent thelast half century of her life, Ghost
Ranch.866. The first Baseball All-Star Game was held as part of the 1933
Chicago World’s Fair.867. Morocco became the first nation to seek diplomatic
relations with theUnited States in 1777.868. “A tomb now suffices him for whom the
whole world was notsufficient” was the quote inscribed on the tomb of Alexander
theGreat.869. Denver was initially awarded the 1976 Winter Olympics, but thecity’s voters
turned the offer down.870. While most of General Stonewall Jackson is
buried in Lexington,Virginia, his left arm is buried at the battle site of Chancellorsville
inFredericksburg, Virginia.871. The Cincinnati Red Stockings was the first baseball team to
pay itsplayers.872. John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States, had the mostchildren of
any POTUS with 15.873. General George S. Patton to fifth place in the pentathlon at the
1912Summer Olympics.874. The View-Master was introduced at the 1939 New York
World’s Fairwith the main subjects available for viewing being the Grand Canyonand Carlsbad
Caverns.875. Agent Orange was named for a single color strip on the canisters ofthe
herbicide.876. Between 1930 and 1972 only 120 roller coasters were built in theUnited States
while more than 1,500 were destroyed.877. Sebastian Shaw was the revealed face of
Darth Vader at the end of1983’s Return of the Jedi.878. Walt Disney’s famous signature was not
his own but rather aninvention of his art department.879. A ferrule is the metal band that joins
a pencil and eraser.880. Because Mt. Everest is growing, to reach the summit today you would
have to climb 27 inches further than Sir Edmund Hilary did in 1953.881. The Chicago
River used to flow into Lake Michigan but the ArmyCorp of Engineers reversed its flow for
sanitation purposes.882. Maine is the only U.S. state that borders only one
other state.883. A pendentive is a curved support shaped like an inverted triangle thatholds up a
domed roof.884. The King, the Wizard, and Sir Rodney the Chicken-Hearted areamong the main
characters in the comic strip The Wizard of Idcreated by Brant Parker and Johnny Hart in
1964.885. Barack Obama was the seventh U.S. President with a degree fromHarvard (John
Adams was the first).886. In 1974 People magazine’s first African-American cover
subject wasactress Cicely Tyson who played Miss Jane Pittman.887. From the Latin
for “middle”, the mezzanine is the lowest balcony in atheater.888. In 1675 Jules Hardouin-
Mansart became architect to King Louis XIVand began redesigning the Palace
of Versailles.889. Roan is a term for a horse with a reddish coat sprinkled with white.890. 19th
century sci-fi writer Jules Verne foretold the artificial satellite inhis story “The Begum’s
Fortune.”891. There are 160 visible stars in the constellation Andromeda.892. 1897 was the year
of Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee.893. The Hindi word for “tea”, in the U.S. chai refers to
a blend of tea,spices, and milk.894. The last time two sisters were up against each other for
an Oscar was1967 when Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave were both nominated
for BestActress.895. Babette March was the first cover model for a Sports Illustratedswimsuit
issue in 1964.
896. The Space Shuttle program had 133 successful flights and 2 failures
resulting in 14 fatalities.897. The Tonkinese cat breed developed in the U.S. around 1930 and
is across between a Burmese and a Siamese.898. The sweet potato belongs to the same botanical
family as morningglories.899. NBC executives originally wanted Paul Giamatti for the role
ofMichael Scott on The Office, but he wasn’t interested.900. Cleaning products, pet food, and
frozen foods are the top three areasof coupon distribution.901. In 1982 “Jack & Diane” became
John Mellencamp’s first and onlysong to top the Billboard Hot 100.902. From the Latin
for “healthy,” a sanitarium is a resort where patientsgo to recuperate.903. Jimmy Doolittle led
16 B-25s in a surprise air raid on Japan on April18, 1942.904. The Mall of America occupies
the 78 acres of land where MetStadium, former home of the Minnesota Vikings and Twins,
oncestood.905. The 44-story Erastus Corning Tower in Albany, NY is the tallestbuilding in the
state outside of Manhattan.906. The Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana was the
first place toreceive Gideon Bibles in 1908.907. Wickets are the hoops that balls are driven
through in a game ofcroquette.908. By law, French workers get at least 30 paid vacation
days every year.909. In the early-
1900s Billboard magazine primarily covered outdoorentertainment such as circuses, fairs,
carnivals, vaudeville, andburlesque shows.910. There were only seven inmates in the
Bastille when it was stormed onJuly 14, 1789.
911. An average horse has a peak output of about 14.9 horsepower.912. The Pentagon has 6.5
million square feet of floor space but wasconstructed in such a way that no point in the building
is more than aseven-minute walk from any other point.913. In the early days of the Boeing
corporations they would have theirwoodworkers make furniture when plane orders were
slow.914. It costs $30,000 to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, andsome well-known
A-listers don’t have one because they don’t want topay for it.915. Water is the only substance
that occurs naturally in all three forms ofmatter.916. At 16-years-old Martina Hingis
became the youngest woman ever towin a Grand Slam singles championship when she won the
1997Australian Open.917. The first
skyjacking happened in 1931 above Peru when rebel soldiersforce a pilot to fly them over the
city of Lima to drop propagandapamphlets.918. China’s famed terracotta army guards
the tomb of Emperor Qin ShiHuang Di who died in 210 B.C.919. In the 1903 decision in
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock the Supreme Courtgave Congress power over Native American
lands.920. Harry S. Truman made the first presidential address telecast
from theWhitehouse.921. Though Harlequin Books was founded in 1949, it didn’t concentrateon
romance books until 1964.922. The Danish seaport of Elsinore is the setting
for Shakespeare’sHamlet.923. In 1971 the Super Bowl trophy was renamed for
coach VinceLombardi who had died the previous year.924. Harry Longbaugh was the real
name of the Old West outlaw known as
the Sundance Kid.925. The USDA allows the term “wyngz” for wing-like chicken productsthat
contain no actual wing meat.926. A favorite of Hemmingway, Harry’s New York Bar in Paris
was thebirthplace of the Bloody Mary.927. In the summer of 1586 British navigator Sir Francis
Drake attackedthe Spanish fort at St. Augustine and razed it.928. Clifton Keith Hillegass is the
“Cliff” behind Cliff’s Notes. He startedhis company in 1958 when he published 16
Shakespearian studyguides.929. The gravestone of J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith has the
namesBeren and Luthien, the lovers from The Silmarillion, engraved on
it.930. “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” is the longestofficial state name in the
U.S.931. Convocation is the collective
noun for a group of eagles.932. The 3 Musketeers Bar orginally came in three different piecesfla
vored chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla.933. The USA’s most-climbed mountain,
Monadnock, is located in NewHampshire.934. British philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s term “ghost
in the machine”represented the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls.935. The
term “jaywalker” comes from the fact that “jay” used to be slangfor a foolish person.936. The
string on a box of animal crackers is there so it can be hung on aChristmas tree.937. Despite
being one of the most popular musical artists of all time,Elvis Presley only won three Grammy
Awards during his lifetime allfor gospel performances.938. “X-Y Position Indicator for
a Display System” was the original namefor a computer mouse.
939. Created in 1914, the Federal Trade Commission issues cease anddesist orders against firms
engaging in unlawful practices.940. In an unaired pilot for the 1980’s sitcom Perfect Strangers,
LouieAnderson was the original Cousin Larry.941. Brenda Lee was 13 years old when
she recorded “Rockin’ Around theChristmas Tree” in 1964.942. Former NYU running back Ed
Smith was the model for the HeismanTrophy when it was sculpted in 1934.943. The name of
PEZ is derived from the German word for peppermint,PfeffErminZ.944. The White House is a
132-room building on an 18-acre plot of land.945. A genuphobic is afraid of knees.946. Jack
Nicholson is the male actor with the most Oscar nominationswith 12.947. Strawberry Shortcake
was a character created for greeting cards in1979 by Muriel Fahrion that went on to widespread
popularity in the1980s with a line of toys and a series of cartoon specials.948. The
newspaper Roll Call was started in Washington D.C. in 1955 anddelivers most of its copies free
to Congress and the White House.949. Gin’s name comes from the Latin for juniper, which is
used to flavorit.950. While Darrell Hammond became the Saturday Night Live castmember most
recognized for playing Bill Clinton, Chris Elliot, TimMeadows, and Phil Hartman also portrayed
the president at varioustimes.951. There are four colossal statues of pharaoh Ramses the
Great (RamsesII) carved out of a sandstone cliff at Abu Simbel, Egypt.952. A polar bear can
smell food as much as ten miles away.953. Long-distance runner Uta Pippig became the
first woman to win theBoston Marathon three consecutive times in 1994, 1995, and 1996.
954. In 1876 “Wild” Bill Hickock was killed in the Dakota Territoryholding aces and eights,
later known as a dead man’s
hand.955. Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr’s daughterTheodosia and her
new husband honeymooned at Niagara Falls.956. Advil, the “advanced medicine
for pain,” was the first nonprescriptionbrand of ibuprofen in the
U.S.957. Elizabeth Dole, wife of former presidential candidate Bob Dole,served as Secretary of
Transportation under Reagan and Secretary ofLabor under958. Rhode Island was the only one of
the original 13 states not to senddelegates to the Constitutional Convention.959. On Memorial
Day in 1911 Ray Harroun became the first winner ofthe Indianapolis 500.960. The name of this
transparent blue-green gem aquamarine comes fromthe Latin for “sea water.”961. The proper
way to address bishops and foreign ambassadors is “yourexcellency.”962. Mattel announced the
breakup of Ken and Barbie in 2004 only tohave them reunite seven years later.963. In
2016 Tim Duncan became only the third player in NBA history towin 1,000 games and the first
to reach that mark with only one team(San Antonio
Spurs).964. Maulana Karenga was the creator of the African-American culturalcelebration of
Kwanzaa in 1966.965. Clogging is the official state dance of both Kentucky and
NorthCarolina.966. Established in 1867, Harper’s Bazaar was America’s first
fashionmagazine.967. Joseph Story became the youngest person ever appointed to theSupreme
Court of the United States at the age of 32 in 1812, a
position in which he would serve for 32 years.968. In its pure form, all of the gold ever mined in
the world would make acube about 50 feet to a side.969. With an average of 3.64 million
people per day passing through it,Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest passenger train station
in theworld.970. On January 4, 1995 Newt Gingrich was sworn in as the firstRepublican speaker
of the house in more than 40 years.971. Comcast is America’s largest media conglomerate
by revenue, largestcable television provider, and largest home internet service
provider.972. In 1859 English settler Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits onto hisproperty in
Australia, by the 1920s their number had increased toaround 10
billion.973. Nineteenth century politician and orator Stephen Douglas wasnicknamed “The Little
Giant.”974. When it became independent in 1829, Greece was half its currentsize.975. Long-
time 20/20 host Hugh Downs was the main sidekick to JackParr when he hosted The Tonight
Show in the late-50s and early-60s.976. In 1981 Lean Cuisine became the first widely available
lower fatfrozen dinners.977. Angela Merkel became the first female chancellor
in Germany’shistory in 2005.978. British tabloid News of the World, which began publishing
in 1843,was shut down in 2011 following revelations of a phone
hackingscandal.979. Vanna White has been turning/touching letters on Wheel of Fortunesince
1982.980. Hubba Bubba bubblegum was introduced in 1979 by Wrigley as aless-sticky gum that
could more easily be peeled off of your face.
981. Wide receivers in the NFL must wear numbers 10 to 19 or 80 to 89.982. Hawaii is the
smallest U.S. state that was not part of the original 13colonies.983. From Latin, the name of
the important bone the patella means “smallshallow
dish.”984. Portuguese professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has the highestall-time career
goals.985. Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers are Always Free) is the statemotto of West
Virginia.986. Phosphenes are the lights you see when you close your eyes and pressyour hands to
them.987. Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory controls many of the spaceprobes launched by
NASA.988. Until the 20th century, Great Britain led the world in the productionof
coal.989. New Jersey’s Palisades Park on the Hudson River features 500-footcliffs that rise from
the water’s edge.990. A flyleaf is a blank page on the inside of the front or back cover of
abook.991. In 1620 the Speedwell was found unseaworthy so its passengers werecrowded aboard
the Mayflower.992. Althing is the name of Iceland’s parliament.993. The great east Asian desert
the Gobi is formed by a rain shadowcreated by the Himalayan Mountains.994. In
1868 New Zealand became the first country to adopt a standarduniform time zone.995. Hip-hop
focused magazine Vibe was launched by Time, Inc. andQuincy Jones in 1992 and ultimately
folded during the recession of2009.996. A dressing table for men created in the late 1700s
was named for
British dandy Beau Brummell.997. Released in 1984, Red Dawn was the first film to earn the
rating PG-13.998. Switzerland is the country that consumes the most chocolate
percapita.999. The sordid life of Queen Victoria’s grandson the Duke of Clarence ledsome to
believe he was the notorious killer Jack the Ripper.1000. Actor Peter O’Toole set the record for
the most Academy Awardnominations without a win when he reached eight, however he
didreceive an honorary Oscar in 2003.1001. Child of Uranus and Gaia, Oceanus was believed
by the ancientGreeks to be the personification of the water that surrounded theworld.1002. In
1525 Cortez ordered Cuauhtemoc, the last emperor of the Aztecs,to be hanged.1003. The
satirical website The Onion bills itself as “America’s Finest NewsSource.”1004. The copra is the
dried flesh of a coconut from which oil is obtained.1005. The 1977 execution of Gary
Gilmore by firing squad was the firstU.S. use of capital punishment in 10 years.1006. Launched
in 1975 the 3 Series has become one of BMW’s longest-running nameplates as well as one of the
longest-running inautomotive history.1007. Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian, and Wisconsin are
the four knownNorth American ice ages.1008. In 1868 Louis Lartet dug up the first skeletons of
Cro-Magnons in acave in Les Eyzies in southwest France.1009. Popular as an indoor houseplant,
philodendron actually means “loverof trees.”1010. France has the only Grand Slam tennis event
still held on clay.
1011. Most of the books in the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt werewritten in
Greek.1012. A Chicago park is named for Samuel Gompers the founder andlongtime president
of the American Federation of Labor.1013. A group of foxes is known as a skulk.1014. John
Madden won 112 games as coach of the Raiders and has wonmore than a dozen Emmys for his
football commentating.1015. Sometimes called the worst film director of all time, Ed Wood
diedpenniless in 1978.1016. Consisting of chunks of grilled lamb on skewers, souvlaki is
theGreek version of shish kebab.1017. Marie Antoinette was among the 16 children of Holy
Roman empressand archduchess Maria Theresa.1018. In 1913 at a plant in Highland Park,
Michigan, a car from HenryFord’s company became the first produced on an assembly
line.1019. In the United States 99% of all asphalt is made from recycledmaterials.1020. On
December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 was the first manned space missionto leave Earth’s orbit.

1000 Facts

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

You might also like

1000 Facts

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

1000 Facts

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

When India was partitioned in 1947, the country now known asBangladesh was originally called

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

and for his Senate seat in

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

old Irish for “woman of the fairy realm.”486. Developed in Australia,

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

Nancy Sinatra.753. The glue used on Israeli

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.

ADDownload to read ad-free.