trivia 1/7
DID YOU KNOW ...
Snow appears white because snow is a bunch of individual ice crystals
arranged together. When light hits snow, it bounces all around the ice
crystals and the “color” of all the frequencies in the visible spectrum
combined in equal measure is white. While white is the color we see in snow,
individual ice crystals are actually translucent.
1. The first Telstar satellite was launched, Marilyn Monroe died, and John
Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in what year?
2. What does the acronym SIM, as in SIM card, stand for?
3. The 1967 film "To Sir with Love", was about a new teacher at a rather
tough school. What famous British singer was featured in the film, and
sang the title song?
(Hint; Tubby would know ...)
4. Where must I go to see Mount Etna, the volcano ?
5. What was another name for the Covered Wagon' ?
6. Where is the most northerly point of land on earth?
a. - Point Barrow, Alaska, United States
b. - Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Canada
c. - Kaffeeklubben Island, Greenland
d. - Nuorgam, Finland
7. What does a lexicographer do for a living ?
8. Who Said That ??
"Religion is the opiate of the masses"
a. - Joseph Stalin
b. - Leon Trotsky
c. - Karl Marx
d. - Vladimir Lenin
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
the U.S. interstate system, also known as the Eisenhower interstate system,
required that one mile in every five must be straight, so that these parts
of the highways could be used as airstrips in times of war or other
emergencies.
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1. - 1962
2. Subscriber Identity Module
3. Lulu
4. Sicily
5. Prairie Schooner (Accepted ; Conestoga Wagon)
6. - c
7. Writer or compiler of dictionaries
8. - c
CRAP !!
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway
Administration’s Office of Infrastructure and the FHA’s unofficial
historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality
was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including
funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law
that authorized designation of a “National System of Interstate Highways”).
At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land
planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major
highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access
to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was
ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military
air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it’s part of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the
federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower
Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite
concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be
laid out. The act did not, however, contain any “one-in-five” requirement,
nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as
emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later
legislation either.
DID YOU KNOW ...
Snow appears white because snow is a bunch of individual ice crystals
arranged together. When light hits snow, it bounces all around the ice
crystals and the “color” of all the frequencies in the visible spectrum
combined in equal measure is white. While white is the color we see in snow,
individual ice crystals are actually translucent.
1. The first Telstar satellite was launched, Marilyn Monroe died, and John
Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in what year?
2. What does the acronym SIM, as in SIM card, stand for?
3. The 1967 film "To Sir with Love", was about a new teacher at a rather
tough school. What famous British singer was featured in the film, and
sang the title song?
(Hint; Tubby would know ...)
4. Where must I go to see Mount Etna, the volcano ?
5. What was another name for the Covered Wagon' ?
6. Where is the most northerly point of land on earth?
a. - Point Barrow, Alaska, United States
b. - Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Canada
c. - Kaffeeklubben Island, Greenland
d. - Nuorgam, Finland
7. What does a lexicographer do for a living ?
8. Who Said That ??
"Religion is the opiate of the masses"
a. - Joseph Stalin
b. - Leon Trotsky
c. - Karl Marx
d. - Vladimir Lenin
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
the U.S. interstate system, also known as the Eisenhower interstate system,
required that one mile in every five must be straight, so that these parts
of the highways could be used as airstrips in times of war or other
emergencies.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. - 1962
2. Subscriber Identity Module
3. Lulu
4. Sicily
5. Prairie Schooner (Accepted ; Conestoga Wagon)
6. - c
7. Writer or compiler of dictionaries
8. - c
CRAP !!
Richard Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway
Administration’s Office of Infrastructure and the FHA’s unofficial
historian, says the closest any of this came to touching base with reality
was in 1944, when Congress briefly considered the possibility of including
funding for emergency landing strips in the Federal Highway-Aid Act (the law
that authorized designation of a “National System of Interstate Highways”).
At no point was the idea kited of using highways or other roads to land
planes on; the proposed landing strips would have been built alongside major
highways, with the highways serving to handle ground transportation access
to and from these strips. The proposal was quickly dropped, and no more was
ever heard of it. (A few countries do use some of their roads as military
air strips, however.)
Some references to the one-mile-in-five assertion claim it’s part of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This piece of legislation committed the
federal government to build what became the 42,800-mile Eisenhower
Interstate Highway System, which makes it the logical item to cite
concerning regulations about how the interstate highway system was to be
laid out. The act did not, however, contain any “one-in-five” requirement,
nor did it even suggest the use of stretches of the interstate system as
emergency landing strips. The one-out-of-five rule was not part of any later
legislation either.
