Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The game that would become Scrabble was created by an unemployed architect, Alfred Mosher Butts in the early 1930s. He called it Lexiko, then Criss Cross Words and then sold the rights to James Brunot. In 1948 it was renamed Scrabble and was manufactured in a converted school house in Connecticut. Bruno sold the game to Selchow and Righter, who were bought out by Coleco in 1987, and in 1989 Milton Bradley bought it. More than 100 million Scrabble games have been sold worldwide.

 

[Morrigu]

The game that would become Scrabble was created by an unemployed architect, Alfred Mosher Butts in the early 1930s. He called it Lexiko, then Criss Cross Words and then sold the rights to James Brunot. In 1948 it was renamed Scrabble and was manufactured in a converted school house in Connecticut. Bruno sold the game to Selchow and Righter, who were bought out by Coleco in 1987, and in 1989 Milton Bradley bought it. More than 100 million Scrabble games have been sold worldwide.

That's my favourite holiday game

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The state of not being able to remember the word you want

That happens to me all the time

What was that word again?

 

[fire_breeze]

What was that word again?

I can't remember

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

That's my favourite holiday game

The maximum score obtainable from a single word,when placed in the correct position, is 392.
And I've forgotten the word

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The maximum score obtainable from a single word,when placed in the correct position, is 392.
And I've forgotten the word

I found it...

CAZIQUES - (1) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics (2) A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Mount Carmel is one of Chicago's finest graveyards, and is the oldest Catholic cemetery in the western part of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The vast majority of persons buried here are Italian. There are more than 400 private Italian family mausoleums in Mount Carmel, more than any other cemetery in the area. The most popular attraction is the Bishops' mausoleum, which received over 50,000 visitors in the two months following the death of Cardinal Bernardin in October 1996. But to many, Mount Carmel is equally famous for the graves of Chicago’s notorious gangsters of the 1920s — including the infamous Al Capone.

 

[Daizie]

The largest crossword puzzle ever constructed had 5,553 words!

 

[Daizie]

People have always been superstitious about mentioning the name of a dead person. Primitive man thought that by doing this, the dead person's spirit would be disturbed and it would return to haunt the living. By wishing for a soul to "rest in peace," people hoped that the spirit would stay within the dead body.

Today, "May his soul rest in peace" is used more as a sign of respect for the dead person rather than the continuation of a superstition.

 

[Daizie]

The marking of graves goes back to ancient times when primitive people put stones on top of graves. These superstitious people believed that evil spirits lived in the bodies of dead people and that the stones would prevent these evil spirits from rising up. These stones also served to mark the grave as a warning for people to keep away from the spot where these evil spirits lived.

Each society developed its own purpose and its own style of marking graves as centuries passed and superstitions slowly passed on. The Hebrews erected stone pillars; the Greeks erected beautifully sculpted headstones with wreaths of pure gold; and the Egyptians erected towering In India, war heroes were buried in tombs 27 feet long, for it was believed that their fame would continue to grow after death and so would their bodies!

 

[Daizie]

The tradition of wearing earrings goes back to early days when earrings were treated not as jewelry, but as amulets to protect the wearer from wicked spirits.

This tradition carried over to sea-going men, especially pirates who believed that earrings made them see better and could give them stronger eyesight.

 

[desideratum]

It is possible to drown & not die.
Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into your lungs, not to death caused by that process.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It has been estimated that the typical American will spend an average of 2 years of his/her life reading newspapers.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The age recorded on a whiskey bottle refers to the number of years it is aged prior to being bottled. Once in the bottle, whiskey does not improve.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

If our whole galaxy were the size of a quarter, our solar system would be less than the size of a molecule. Other galaxies would be from a foot to 1,000 feet away.

 

[desideratum]

If our whole galaxy were the size of a quarter, our solar system would be less than the size of a molecule. Other galaxies would be from a foot to 1,000 feet away.

see? now that analogy blows my mind Lorraine! wowee

All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.

 

[desideratum]

You can see the stars during the day, if you just happened to be at the bottom of a well

Though they seem white through a telescope, the hottest stars are blue and the coolest are red.

and... "don't try this at home" hehe....
A treatment for acne prescribed around 350AD was to watch for a falling star, then wipe the pimples away as the star fell *scratching my head* lol

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

see? now that analogy blows my mind Lorraine! wowee

It kinda puts it in perspective doesn't it, just how small we are?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

An ostrich egg is equivalent in size to 24 hens' eggs and will take 50 minutes to soft boil.

 

[smotherman]

Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

 

[smotherman]

Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.

 

[smotherman]

Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.

 

[smotherman]

A person will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

 

[smotherman]

The largest crossword puzzle ever constructed had 5,553 words!

I just finished the World's Largest Crossword Puzzle last night.

 

[desideratum]

A person will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

trying to work out how many times a week that is!
I think I have some catching up to do lmao