Total Trivia

[smotherman]

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

 

[Daizie]

On average, Americans eat one hundred acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about three hundred fifty slices per second.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

in Germany there is a street in Johanneskirchen called: Fürkhofstrasse.

 

[fire_breeze]

Did you eat yet? lol


If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

And if you part it in the middle?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In Garmisch, Germany, there is a 'Wankbahn' and also a Wankstrasse.
I wonder what happens on the street corner?

 

[Daizie]

Cimetire du Pre Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.

 

[smotherman]

And if you part it in the middle?

You're a sexual deviate!



In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Move to North Carolina, these guys sure know how to make a town buzz

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/climaxthumbnail.jpg

 

[smotherman]

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

 

[fire_breeze]

Cimetire du Pre Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.

A few of the more famous inhabitants of this world famous cemetery...

* Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), composer
* Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer
* André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), physicist (electrical unit ampere named for him)
* Michel Berger (1947-1992), composer, singer
* Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), composer
* Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), composer
* Václav Brožík (1851-1901), Czech painter
* Antoine Carême (1784-1883), famed inventor of classical cuisine. The "king of chefs and chef of kings."
* Fanny Cerrito (1817-1909), Italian ballerina
* Dalida (1933-1987), Egyptian-born singer/actress
* Edgar Degas (1834-1917), famous painter, sculptor
* Léo Delibes (1836-1891), composer of Romantic music
* Maria Deraismes (1828-1894), social reformer, feminist
* Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895), novelist, playwright
* Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), playwright of La Belle Époque
* Léon Foucault (1819-1868), scientist
* Carole Fredericks (1952-2001), African-American singer
* Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821-1910), opera singer, composer
* Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), poet, novelist
* Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author/publisher (patron of the Prix Goncourt)
* La Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866-1929), Can-can dancer
* Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), artist
* Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), actor/director
* Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet
* Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), actor
* Marie Pierre Koenig (1898-1970), Free French Field Marshal
* Eugène Labiche (1815-1888), dramatist
* Frédérick Lemaître (1800-1876), actor
* Mary Marquet (1895-1979), actress
* Auguste de Montferrand (1786-1858), architect
* Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), symbolist painter
* Musidora (Jeanne Roques) ([[1889-1957), silent film actress, film director
* Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer
* Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), German composer
* Francisque Poulbot (1879-1946), painter & illustrator
* Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone)
* Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)(1783-1842), writer
* François Truffaut (1932-1984), film-maker in French New Wave
* Horace Vernet (1789-1863), painter
* Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), poet, playwright, novelist
* Émile Zola (1840-1902), author (buried here for six years, then moved to the Panthéon in 1908)
* Johann Maria Farina (1785-1864) (also known as Jean Marie Jospeh Farina or Giovanni Maria Farina), inventor and manufacturer of Eau-de-Cologne. (There is also a gravestone for him in the Melaten-Friedhof cemetery, in Cologne, Germany.)

 

[fire_breeze]

You're a sexual deviate!

Hmmm.... I had no idea that so much was revealed by my part!

 

[packersfan]

Move to North Carolina, these guys sure know how to make a town buzz

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/climaxthumbnail.jpg

Hey, that's right down the road from me!

90 % of auto accidents happen within 10 miles of your home.

Does that mean you should move?

 

[questing_maiden]

Pointless Trivia!

90 % of auto accidents happen within 10 miles of your home.

Does that mean you should move?

lol @ packer's last comment!

Your glabella is the space above your nose and below your forehead... from the Latin "glabellus," or "smooth".

 

[desideratum]

In Turkey the color of mourning is violet. In other Muslim countries and in Chinas it is White.

Neptune's blue color is the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere.

Mice feeding on colored crayons will produce droppings based on the color of crayon they were feeding on.

Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat, the deeper pink they become.

 

[sassypeach]

In Turkey the color of mourning is violet. In other Muslim countries and in Chinas it is White.

Neptune's blue color is the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere.

Mice feeding on colored crayons will produce droppings based on the color of crayon they were feeding on.

Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat, the deeper pink they become.

The nursery rhyme

Sing a song of sixpence,
pocket full of rye
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie

was a coded message for pirates.

As Henry Betts points out in his book on the origins and history of nursery rhymes, "It was a favourite trick in the sixteenth century to conceal all sorts of surprises in a pie." Buccaneers, too, were fond of surprises, and one of Blackbeard's favorite ruses to lure a ship within boarding range was to make his own vessel (or crew) appear to be in distress, typically by pretending to have been dismasted in a storm or to have sprung a leak below the waterline. Passing ships — both honest sailors wanting to help and other pirates looking for an easy catch — would sail in close to offer assistance, whereupon a crew of two dozen heavily-armed seamen dressed in black would board the other vessel (via a boat in darkness or fog, or by simply jumping into the other ship when it came alongside if no other means of surprise attack was possible) to quickly kill or disable as many crew members as possible. Thus the four and twenty "blackbirds" (i.e., Blackbeard's crewmen) "baked in a pie" (i.e., concealed in anticipation of springing a trap).

 

[luv1]

In Turkey the color of mourning is violet. In other Muslim countries and in Chinas it is White.

Neptune's blue color is the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere.

Mice feeding on colored crayons will produce droppings based on the color of crayon they were feeding on.

Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat, the deeper pink they become.

That's a myth. Flamingos don't eat shrimps. Flamingos eat blue-green algae. Which ironicly can be red, violet, brown, yellow or orange

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Song titles with female names...

-------- D ---------

Darlene : Led Zeppelin : 1982
Dawn : The Four Seasons : 1964
Delia Gone : Pat Boone : 1960
Delilah : Tom Jones : 1967
Who Killed Delores? : City Boy : 1981
Denis : Blondie : 1977
Denise : Randy & The Rainbows : 1963
That's My Desire : The Sensations : 1962
Desiree : Curved Air : 1976
Desiree : Streets : 1985
Sweet Desiree : The Family : 1973
Desirie : The Charts : 1957
Diana : Bobby Rydell : 1965
Diana : Paul Anka : 1957
Remember Diana : Paul Anka : 1963
Diane : Bachelors : 1964
Little Diane : Dion : 1962
Oh Diane : Fleetwood Mac : 1982
Dede Dinah : Frankie Avalon : 1958
Hello Dolly : Bobby Darin : 1965
Hello Dolly : Louis Armstrong : 1964
Dolores Dolores : Chris Montez & Raza : 1972
Dominique : The Singing Nun : 1963
Donna : Ritchie Valens : 1958
Donna : Marty Wilde : 1959
Donna : 10cc : 1972
Donna : From 'Hair' (Musical) : 1979
Donna Donna : Chad & Jeremy : 1963
Donna The Prima Donna : Dion : 1963
Doreen : Frank Zappa : 1981
Dottie : Danny & The Juniors : 1958

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There were no flying dinosaurs or swimming dinosaurs.

All dinosaurs lived on the land; none of them lived in the seas or flew (until the birds)! Neither the flying pterosaurs, nor the swimming ichthyosaurs were dinosaurs, although all were closely related.

Some advanced meat-eating dinosaurs did develop feathers, and evolved into birds.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Not all dinosaurs were huge.

There were plenty of small and medium-sized dinosaurs. The smallest dinosaur yet discovered is Compsognathus, which was the size of a chicken!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The dinosaurs didn't all live at the same time.

The dinosaurs roamed the Earth for about 165 million years. Different types of dinosaurs existed at different times. Dinosaur species evolved and went extinct throughout the Mesozoic (this is called background extinction).

In the Triassic period, the early dinosaurs were small, and most species died out in an extinction at the end of the Triassic period. In the Jurassic, many new dinosaur species evolved from the Triassic survivors, including the gigantic sauropods (like Apatosaurus and Seismosaurus), Allosaurus , and Stegosaurus , to list but a few. Dinosaurs reached the height of their diversity during the Cretaceous; monstrous giant theropods (like T. rex and Giganotosaurus), Ankylosaurus , Maiasaura and many other dinosaurs lived during that period. Despite popular images to the contrary, Stegosaurus never encountered T. rex.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Not all the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.

Most of the dinosaur groups went extinct long before the K-T mass extinction of 65 million years ago. The remaining dinosaurs died out at that time, but many bird species (which are technically dinosaurs) survived it.

The dinosaurs were not a failure.

Various dinosaurs lived all around the Earth for about 165 million years. In comparison, people have only been around for about a million years. In terms of survival through geological time, the dinosaurs were long-lasting animals, probably leaving birds as their descendants.

 

[smotherman]

There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

 

[smotherman]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 

[smotherman]

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Pufferfish is also known as the blowfish, fugu, swellfish, and globefish. It is called the pufferfish because when it is threatened, it puffs up to about twice its normal size by gulping water. In this engorged state, the pufferfish can swim at only about half its normal speed.

There are about 100 species of pufferfish. Most pufferfish are found in sub-tropical and tropical marine waters (including coral reefs) in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Some puffers live in brackish and fresh water.

Poison: Many parts of the blowfish (including the liver, muscles, skin, and ovaries) contain an extremely strong, paralyzing poison called tetrodoxin. This poison is about a thousand times deadlier than cyanide. There is no known antidote for this poison. Fugu (torafugu or fugu rubripes, Japanese pufferfish) is eaten in Japan, but is only cooked by specially-trained chefs who can minimize the amount of poison. Even so, many Japanese diners have died from eating this poisonous delicacy.