Total Trivia

[smotherman]

Shall we take a poll?

Sure!

 

[fire_breeze]

Swans are the only birds with penises.

 

[fire_breeze]

Sure!

Fantastic! So... how do we begin?

 

[smotherman]

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

 

[fire_breeze]

There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.

Go figure

 

[fire_breeze]

Zsa Zsa Gabor was the first - and only - recipient of a Golden Globe Award for "Most Glamorous Actress." She won the peculiar award in 1958. The category was deleted thereafter.

 

[smotherman]

Fantastic! So... how do we begin?

Why are you asking me? You're the one that said we should take a poll! lol

You could always start a new thread on Lit asking how many guys talk dirty during sex. no that won't work! Fuck!

 

[fire_breeze]

Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games. This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.

I'd be in biiig trouble.

 

[fire_breeze]

Why are you asking me? You're the one that said we should take a poll! lol

You could always start a new thread on Lit asking how many guys talk dirty during sex. no that won't work! Fuck!

I don't know... my brain's on a break, so I decided to pick yours

No, it doesn't. But if I did, should I put you down for two?

 

[fire_breeze]

Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.

 

[fire_breeze]

Hawaii is the only state of the United States in which coffee is commercially grown. Hawaii features an annual Kona Festival, coffee picking contest. Each year the winner becomes a state celebrity. In Hawaii coffee is harvested between November and April.

 

[smotherman]

No, it doesn't. But if I did, should I put you down for two?

If That'll Make You Happy, go for it!

I aim to please!

 

[fire_breeze]

If That'll Make You Happy, go for it!

I aim to please!

Well, if you put it that way, how can I refuse?

*1 Smotherman = 2 men*

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Japanese people do not have a middle name. In Japan, last name comes first, and the first name comes last.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Only about 1.6 percent of the water on Earth is fresh. Most of it is locked — unusable for living things — in snow and the ice at the poles and on the peaks of the highest mountains.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There is no mention of cats or rats in the Bible.

 

[fire_breeze]

The order family-name given-name is commonly known as the Eastern order and is used in Africa, East Asia (for example in mainland China, Japan, Korea, Malaysian Chinese, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam), and Hungary (an anomaly in Europe).

The order given-name family-name is commonly known as the Western order and is usually used in most Western European countries and in countries that have cultures predominantly influenced by Western Europe (North and South America and Australia). In these countries, the family name is often used first in lists and catalogues, with the family and given names separated with a comma (e.g. Smith, John). For example, most Western libraries use this order.

 

[Daizie]

"It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.

 

[Daizie]

In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.

 

[Daizie]

Merry Christmas In Different Languages

Afrikaans - Gesëende Kersfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinj - Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian - Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic - Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Argentine - Feliz Navidad
Armenian - Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Bahasa Malaysia - Selamat Hari Natal
Basque - Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali - Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian - Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian - Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Bulgarian - Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Chile - Feliz Navidad
Chinese (Cantonese) - Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese (Mandarin) - Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Columbia - Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Croatian - Sretan Bozic
Czech - Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish - Glædelig Jul
Dutch - Vrolijk Kerstfeest or Zalig Kerstfeast
English - Merry Christmas
Eskimo - Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Estonian - Ruumsaid juulup|hi
Farsi - Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish - Hyvaa joulua
French - Joyeux Noel
Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German - Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek - Kala Christouyenna!
Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew - Mo'adim Lesimkha Chena tova
Hindi - Shub Naya Baras
Hungarian - Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic - Gledileg Jol
Indonesian - Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi - Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish - Nollaig Shona Dhuit or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Italian - Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese - Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Korean - Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latin - Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian - Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lithuanian - Linksmu Kaledu
Maltese - IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Maori - Meri Kirihimete
Marathi - Shub Naya Varsh
Navajo - Merry Keshmish
Norwegian - God Jul or Gledelig Jul
Papua New Guinea - Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German - En frehlicher Grischtdaag
Peru - Feliz Navidad
Philipines - Maligayan Pasko!
Polish - Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese - Feliz Natal
Pushto - Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Russian - Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sardinian - Bonu nadale
Serbian - Hristos se rodi
Serb-Croatian - Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
Singhalese - Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak - Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Spanish - Feliz Navidad
Swedish - God Jul
Thai - Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish - Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian - Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu - Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese - Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh - Nadolig Llawen
Yugoslavian - Cestitamo Bozic

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

British parents like the female name Jane a lot more than do American parents. Although it has been a very poplar name in both countries for the last 100 years, it consistently ranked Number 1 in England in the 1980s.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The working section of the piano is called the action. There are about 7,500 parts here, all playing a role in sending the hammers against the strings when keys are struck.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A cheetah can advance 7 to 8 meters in a single stride, and the animal completes four strides per second. A stride is measured as the distance between successive imprints of the same paw.

 

[fire_breeze]

The Louvre was originally constructed as the fortress of Philippe Auguste in 1190.

 

[fire_breeze]

The word 'cartoon' originally comes from painting terminology. The term 'cartoon' relates to a preliminary, but fully worked, sketch from which the outlines could be transferred to be the basis of a design for a fresco or painting.