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October, November & December 2008 - Volume 3, Issue 4
Trivia Quiz Answers
  1. B
  2. C
  3. True
  4. B
  5. C
  6. A
  7. C
  8. C
  9. True
  10. A

Past Issues
July, August, September 2008 - Volume 3, Issue 3
Trivia Quiz Answers
  1. Chichen Itza – Mexico
  2. Christ the Redeemer – Brazil
  3. Colosseum – Italy
  4. Great Wall of China – China
  5. Machu Picchu – Peru
  6. Petra – Jordan
  7. Taj Mahal – India
  8. Great Pyramid of Gyza - Egypt
April, May, June 2008 - Volume 3, Issue 2
Are you Smarter... Answers
  1. B – John Hancock
  2. B – Lincoln
  3. A – Sodium Chloride
  4. B – 0.75
  5. C – Nile
  6. D – 10/8
  7. B- Talc
  8. C – The dog will wag it’s tale. (incorrect use of it’s. It should read “The dog will wag its tail)
  9. D – It’s a noble gas
January, February, March 2008 - Volume 3, Issue 1
October, November, December 2007 - Volume 2, Issue 4
Puzzle Answer
If you add a little to a little and then do it again soon that little shall be much.        - Hesiod
July, August, September 2007 - Volume 2, Issue 3
April, May, June 2007 - Volume 2, Issue 2
January, February, March 2007 - Volume 2, Issue 1
True & False Answers
Volume 2, Issue 3
  1. The average child in the USA will wear down 730 crayons by his 10th birthday. True. That’s 11.4 boxes of 64s.
  2. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. False. Alfred Hitchcock was a mammal and therefore at one time ha a belly button. However, it is said to have been removed in surgery. He had a number of operations on his stomach.
  3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years. True, According to the Academy of General Dentistry.
  4. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. False. It is actually less than 1. In 1998 JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) reported that during a three month period an average of 914 dog bites were reported per day. Since there are 1440 minutes in a day that’s less than one per minute.
  5. Only seven per cent of the population are lefties. True. (Well, 7-10% actually.)
  6. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2 – 6 years old. False. Babies are born with knee caps, they just do not completely calcify until a little later.
  7. The average housefly lives for one month. False-ish. It’s actually 20 – 30 days.
  1. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep. True. Ewww!
  2. The real reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. True-ish. They are looking for food and water.
  3. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot. True. According to www.indianchild.com
  4. Sir Thomas Crapper invented the toilet. False. Thomas Crapper was a real person who operated a plumbing business in 19th century London, but he didn’t invent the flush toilet. This is credited to Joseph Adamson who took out the first patent for a flush toilet in 1853.
  5. The Eskimo language has over 100 words for snow. False. The Eskimo languages have two root words for snow: ‘qanik’, which means snow in the air and ‘aput’, which means snow on the ground. These words can be modified to create more words (such as snowfall, snowflake, snowshoe, etc).
  6. Mud throwing was an official event at the 1904 Olympics. True. The 1904 Olympic Games, held in St. Louis, MO allowed “primitive” tribes to compete in events such as mud throwing, greased-pole climbing, rock throwing etc. The dates set aside for the “primitive” events were referred to as the “Anthropology Days”.
  7. The ancient Sumerians worshiped Ninkasi, a goddess of beer. True. Archaeologists discovered a 3,800 year old recipe for beer on a clay tablet in Sumeria. The recipe appeared as part of a hymn to the goddess Ninkasi. Apparently beer played a major role in Sumerian culture.
Crossword Puzzle Answers
Volume 2, Issue 1
Down:
  1. Jimmy Carter
  2. Eisenhower
  3. Martin Van Buren
  4. Bill Clinton
  5. Woodrow Wilson
  6. William Taft
  7. McKinley
  8. His Accidency
  9. Jefferson
  10. Raegan
  11. Cleveland
 Across:
  1. George Washington
  2. Adams
  3. Benjamin
  4. George Bush
  5. Lincoln
  6. James Monroe
  7. Richard Nixon
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