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Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
October 12, 2016
September 24, 2016
September 2, 2016
New Moon
New Moon - the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.
There was a new moon last night (Sept 1) and there will be another on Sept 30.
According to superstition, two new moons occurring in one month foretells bad weather.
There was a new moon last night (Sept 1) and there will be another on Sept 30.
According to superstition, two new moons occurring in one month foretells bad weather.
August 17, 2016
June 5, 2016
The McFarthest Spot
What's so special about this place in S. Dakota?
According to Atlas Obscura, it is the McFarthest Spot -the farthest you can be in the continental US from a McDonald's location.
According to Atlas Obscura, it is the McFarthest Spot -the farthest you can be in the continental US from a McDonald's location.
From the website:
Geographically speaking, in the lower 48 United States it is impossible to get farther away from a McDonald's restaurant than this location in South Dakota. From the McFarthest Spot it would take 145 miles driving (only 120 miles as the crow flies) before a visitor could devour their next two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Labels: food, funny, interesting, trivia
May 5, 2016
Can You Name the Movie?
Using only a one-word clue?
I took the quiz and didn't do all that well, surprising me because I consider myself pretty good at movie trivia. I think my biggest problem was being aware of the ticking clock and thinking that the more time I took, the worse my score. That's not the case, so take all the time you need.
That said, there was no way I was going to get them all correct, but there were a few movies I couldn't remember that I should have. Also, I misspelled a couple and it won't accept the answer.
I took the quiz and didn't do all that well, surprising me because I consider myself pretty good at movie trivia. I think my biggest problem was being aware of the ticking clock and thinking that the more time I took, the worse my score. That's not the case, so take all the time you need.
April 2, 2016
March 20, 2016
Spring Has Sprung!
Happy Vernal Equinox!
Summer, fall, winter, spring
The seasons rotate as each brings
Its special beauty to this Earth of ours.
Winter's snow and summer's flowers;
Frozen winters will flow come spring.
There is a renewal of everything.
- Edna Frohock
American poet (1906-97)
Everything you need to know: Vernal equinox 2016
March 14, 2016
March 13, 2016
Not-So-Famous Last Words
Your Last Words Would Be Philosophical |
"What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous." |
I think this one is probably pretty correct, although mine would probably be more along the lines of:
"Did you know Ben Franklin's last words were 'A dying man can do nothing easy.' ?"
March 12, 2016
All in a Day
Yep, it's that time of year again to start out the old mnemonic "Spring forward, Fall back". I usually hear nothing but complaints about losing an hour of sleep, but good grief, it happens on a Saturday night and the next day is Sunday. The only people who it seems like it would really inconvenience are the church goers...and I'd like to know what percentage of them sleep through church anyway. I'd think people who worked the graveyard shift would be happy, having to work only 7 hours.
When I worked on rigs, we usually got paid for the nine hours we were out there during this time change and generally when the fall change of advancing the clock ahead an hour, we got paid for eight, despite having only worked seven hours, but I did have a few companies who refused to do that, saying we got the extra hour in the spring, so it was only fair. The trouble with that was I sometimes hadn't been working for the company then and when that was the case - when I had to be out there for nine hours and only got paid for eight - I'd make a point- if I could- to do absolutely nothing for an hour. If I couldn't, then I'd do it some other night . Don't get me wrong, I was a good hand and conscientious about my job, but it was the principal of the thing.
Enough about my roughnecking days (or nights), here's some day trivia:
The total time between sunrise and sunset is the "day length". This can vary with latitude.
Day length at the equator is about 12 hours every day.
Day length at the poles ranges between 24 and 0 hours every six months.
Why aren’t there exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness on the spring and fall equinoxes?
On the equinoxes, the very center of the Sun sets just 12 hours after it rose. But the day begins when the upper edge of the Sun reaches the horizon (which happens a bit before the center rises), and it doesn’t end until the entire Sun has set. Not only that, but the Sun is actually visible when it is below the horizon, as Earth’s atmosphere refracts the Sun’s rays and bends them in an arc over the horizon.
When I worked on rigs, we usually got paid for the nine hours we were out there during this time change and generally when the fall change of advancing the clock ahead an hour, we got paid for eight, despite having only worked seven hours, but I did have a few companies who refused to do that, saying we got the extra hour in the spring, so it was only fair. The trouble with that was I sometimes hadn't been working for the company then and when that was the case - when I had to be out there for nine hours and only got paid for eight - I'd make a point- if I could- to do absolutely nothing for an hour. If I couldn't, then I'd do it some other night . Don't get me wrong, I was a good hand and conscientious about my job, but it was the principal of the thing.
Enough about my roughnecking days (or nights), here's some day trivia:
The total time between sunrise and sunset is the "day length". This can vary with latitude.
Day length at the equator is about 12 hours every day.
Day length at the poles ranges between 24 and 0 hours every six months.
Why aren’t there exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness on the spring and fall equinoxes?
On the equinoxes, the very center of the Sun sets just 12 hours after it rose. But the day begins when the upper edge of the Sun reaches the horizon (which happens a bit before the center rises), and it doesn’t end until the entire Sun has set. Not only that, but the Sun is actually visible when it is below the horizon, as Earth’s atmosphere refracts the Sun’s rays and bends them in an arc over the horizon.
January 26, 2016
January 20, 2016
January 19, 2016
Brain Freeze
The scientific name for "brain freeze" or Ice cream headache caused by eating something cold is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia
January 10, 2016
January 6, 2016
Dickens' Pet Raven
Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip and Dickens was devastated when the bird died from eating a paint chip. According to Dickens, the bird's last words were "Halloa, old girl!"
Dickens had his adored pet stuffed and it now resides in the Rare Books Dept. of the Free Library of Philadelphia,
Dickens had his adored pet stuffed and it now resides in the Rare Books Dept. of the Free Library of Philadelphia,
January 5, 2016
Rent-A-Typewriter
Ray Bradbury wrote some of his famous novel Fahrenheit 451 on a rented typewriter in a basement typing room at UCLA.
The charge? Ten cents per thirty minutes of typing time.
The charge? Ten cents per thirty minutes of typing time.
Labels: books, celebrities, trivia
December 30, 2015
Hello, Goodbye
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman." It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there'). As in addition to hello, halloo, hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels
"Goodbye" came from the Middle English "godbwdye", which is short for "God be with ye."
"Goodbye" came from the Middle English "godbwdye", which is short for "God be with ye."
Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles
Labels: music videos, trivia, words
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