Luckytrim
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Trivia 1/9
DID YOU KNOW...
Born 7 January, 1978, Argentine Emilio Palma is the first recognized person to be born on the continent of Antarctica...
1. A number of Irish family surnames begin with "Mac-" or "O'-". What do these mean in Gaelic?
2. Who Said That ??
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."?
3. Who was duped into becoming the Queen of England for nine days?
4. Who's image appears on the U.S. one hundred dollar bill?
5. Who Am I ??
I was an Olympic boxing champion. I beat the pulp out of Joe Frazier to become champion and I defeated Michael Moorer in 1994 to win the heavyweight crown...again.
6. In which Charles Boyer film does he try to convince Ingrid Bergman that she is going insane?
a. - A Matter of Time
b. - Three Faces of Eve
c. - Gaslight
d. - Fanny
7. Do you recall the make and model of the two cars in the famous chase scene in the film, "Bullitt" ?
(Bonus; Which of these 'Muscle' cars was faster in the Quarter-Mile ?)
8. The spider-webs we see around us are constructed out of fine, silky threads of a certain variety of chemical compounds. Which compounds are these?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Ancient Greeks did not describe the sky or the sea as blue.
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1. "son of" and "grandson of"
2. Groucho Marx
3. Lady Jane Grey
4. Ben Franklin
5. I am George Forman
6. - c
7. a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2, and a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum.
(The Charger is just barely faster than the Mustang, with a 13.6-second quarter-mile compared to the Mustang's 13.8-second.)
8. Proteins
TRUTH !!
They did not have a word for blue.
In the entire ancient Greek literature there is not a single pure blue sea or sky. Ancient Greeks had two words for blue: "kuaneos", a dark shade of blue verging on black and "glaukos", which denotes a sort of blue-grey, as in Athena's epithet "glaukopis", her grey-gleaming eyes. The reason is their imperfect discrimination of prismatic colors, as opposed to Newton's correct description (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). The sea was described as whitish (polios), blue-grey (glaukos) or deep blue and almost black (kuaneos, melas). Homer often refers to the sea as winey, or wine-like
(oinops) when it was calm, and porphureos (purple) when he wanted to stress its brightness and movement according to the changing light conditions.
DID YOU KNOW...
Born 7 January, 1978, Argentine Emilio Palma is the first recognized person to be born on the continent of Antarctica...
1. A number of Irish family surnames begin with "Mac-" or "O'-". What do these mean in Gaelic?
2. Who Said That ??
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."?
3. Who was duped into becoming the Queen of England for nine days?
4. Who's image appears on the U.S. one hundred dollar bill?
5. Who Am I ??
I was an Olympic boxing champion. I beat the pulp out of Joe Frazier to become champion and I defeated Michael Moorer in 1994 to win the heavyweight crown...again.
6. In which Charles Boyer film does he try to convince Ingrid Bergman that she is going insane?
a. - A Matter of Time
b. - Three Faces of Eve
c. - Gaslight
d. - Fanny
7. Do you recall the make and model of the two cars in the famous chase scene in the film, "Bullitt" ?
(Bonus; Which of these 'Muscle' cars was faster in the Quarter-Mile ?)
8. The spider-webs we see around us are constructed out of fine, silky threads of a certain variety of chemical compounds. Which compounds are these?
TRUTH OR CRAP ??
The Ancient Greeks did not describe the sky or the sea as blue.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. "son of" and "grandson of"
2. Groucho Marx
3. Lady Jane Grey
4. Ben Franklin
5. I am George Forman
6. - c
7. a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2, and a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum.
(The Charger is just barely faster than the Mustang, with a 13.6-second quarter-mile compared to the Mustang's 13.8-second.)
8. Proteins
TRUTH !!
They did not have a word for blue.
In the entire ancient Greek literature there is not a single pure blue sea or sky. Ancient Greeks had two words for blue: "kuaneos", a dark shade of blue verging on black and "glaukos", which denotes a sort of blue-grey, as in Athena's epithet "glaukopis", her grey-gleaming eyes. The reason is their imperfect discrimination of prismatic colors, as opposed to Newton's correct description (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). The sea was described as whitish (polios), blue-grey (glaukos) or deep blue and almost black (kuaneos, melas). Homer often refers to the sea as winey, or wine-like
(oinops) when it was calm, and porphureos (purple) when he wanted to stress its brightness and movement according to the changing light conditions.
