Total Trivia

[CCaprice]

With all due respect CCAprice, that's the right concept but the math should be fine tuned a bit. At sea level the speed of sound is 761 mph. So, to figure out how many seconds it takes for sound to travel a mile take 3600 seconds per hour and divide by 761 miles per hour, which is roughly 5 seconds for sound to travel one mile. Alot closer than you thought!

I stand corrected!

 

[luv2lick001]

It takes one hundred years for concreate to fully cure.

 

[BoomerP]

The first flamethrower was invented in 673 AD by the Byzantine Empire. They mounted it on their ships in battle and gained an impressive advantage

 

[luv2lick001]

Hello there ParrishP, nice to meet you, and yes you are very hot!

There is only one male organism which can become pregnant, its a seahorse.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The first banknotes were used in China in the 7th century.

The banknote arrived in Europe in the 18th century when they were used as receipts for gold coins deposited in banks.

The Bank of England now produces £26,731,450 a day in banknotes.

 

[luv2lick001]

Contrary to popular belief, Christopher Columbus did not 'discover' the Americas. The Chinese were there many years before, but did not colonise the continent and left many years before Columbus arrived.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Research News
HUMAN GENETICS:
Genes May Link Ancient Eurasians, Native Americans
Virginia Morell

Anthropologists have recently been puzzled by surprising features on a handful of ancient American skeletons (3%) that resemble those of Europeans rather than Asians, the presumed ancestors of the first people to cross the Bering Strait into the Americas. Now a new genetic study may link Native Americans and people of Europe and the Middle East, offering tantalizing support to a controversial theory that a band of people who originally lived in Europe or Asia Minor were among this continent's first settlers. The new data come from studies of a genetic marker called Lineage X, which has been found both in living Native Americans and in certain groups in Europe and Asia Minor, including Italians, Finns, and certain Israelis--but not in any Asian population.

 

[BoomerP]

Contrary to popular belief, Christopher Columbus did not 'discover' the Americas. The Chinese were there many years before, but did not colonise the continent and left many years before Columbus arrived.

Unless by chinese you mean the indians then I don't think that is right.
Wasn't the vikings the first ones there?

 

[luv2lick001]

Unless by chinese you mean the indians then I don't think that is right.
Wasn't the vikings the first ones there?

I don't believe the Vikings ventured outside of Europe, but I'm not 100% sure.

I understand why you may say Indians, especially since the Native Americans have always been there. So that makes sense, from a certain point of view. However it was in fact the Chinese, however this is not without some skeptism and controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

THE 7 EUROPEAN DAUGHTERS OF EVE

Prof. Sykes and Oxford University researchers in England have identified seven ancestral matriarchal groups from which all Europeans appear to be descended. Every European can trace his or her evolutionary history back to the seven ancestral mother groups, also referred to as the Seven European Daughters of Eve.
What is amazing is that all seven of the genetic groups appear to be descended from the Lara clan, one of three clans that still exist today in Africa. This is called the African Eve theory which states that all humans share a common African ancestor.

The Seven European Daughters of Eve matriarchal groups were given names by Prof. Sykes:

Helena: This clan lived in the ice-capped Pyrenees. As the climate warmed, Helena’s descendants trekked northward to what is now England, some 12,000 years ago. Members of this group are now present in all European countries.

Jasmine: Her people had a relatively happy life in Syria, where they farmed wheat and raised domestic animals. Jasmine’s descendants traveled throughout Europe, spreading their agricultural innovations with them.

Katrine: Members of this group lived in Venice 10,000 years ago. Today most of Katrine’s clan lives in the Alps.

Tara: Settled in Tuscany 17,000 years ago. Descendants ventured across northern Europe and eventually crossed the English Channel.

Ursula: Users of stone tools, Ursula’s clan members drifted across all of Europe.

Valda: Originally from Spain, Valda and her immediate descendants lived 17,000 years ago. Later relatives moved into northern Finland and Norway.

Xenia: Her people lived in the Caucasus Mountains 25,000 years ago. Just before the Ice Age, this clan spread across Europe, and even reached the Americas. [As Dr. Wallace discovered, the X pattern is a rare European lineage and is also among the northern Native Americans such as the Ojibwa and Sioux.]

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Unless by chinese you mean the indians then I don't think that is right.
Wasn't the vikings the first ones there?

In 1960 Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine Ingstad were searching for archeological evidence of Vikings in Labrador and Newfoundland. In the small village of L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland they met a fisherman named George Decker who showed them sod foundations that had the shape of Viking longhouses. More than a decade of archeological investigation at this site has proved conclusively that Vikings had built a settlement in North America 500 years before Columbus, just as the sagas say. The evidence at the site also suggests that more southerly voyages might have taken place, and that other settlements might be found. Archeologists believe L'Anse aux Meadows was a base camp which afforded a way-station to further explorations of North America.

But... they were not the first Europeans, please read my previous post.

 

[luv2lick001]

In 1960 Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine Ingstad were searching for archeological evidence of Vikings in Labrador and Newfoundland. In the small village of L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland they met a fisherman named George Decker who showed them sod foundations that had the shape of Viking longhouses. More than a decade of archeological investigation at this site has proved conclusively that Vikings had built a settlement in North America 500 years before Columbus, just as the sagas say. The evidence at the site also suggests that more southerly voyages might have taken place, and that other settlements might be found. Archeologists believe L'Anse aux Meadows was a base camp which afforded a way-station to further explorations of North America.

But... they were not the first Europeans, please read my previous post.

An intelligent lady, that I do like .

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

An intelligent lady, that I do like .

Intelligence is not about knowing the answers but knowing where to get the answers from

 

[luv2lick001]

Intelligence is not about knowing the answers but knowing where to get the answers from

Absolutely! The perception of 'intelligence' is often misunderstood.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Absolutely! The perception of 'intelligence' is often misunderstood.

Welcome to the thread luv2lick001

 

[luv2lick001]

Welcome to the thread luv2lick001

Thank you Gaia_Lorraine. Nice to meet you (such a hot young lady) .

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Apart from the present Queen and Britannia, the only women to feature on a banknote anywhere in the world are...

- Social reformer Elizabeth Fry (UK £5)
- Florence Nightingale (UK £10)
- Authoress Karen Blixen famous for her memoir Out of Africa (Danish krone)
- The birth of Greek goddess Aphrodite (Cyprus pound)

 

[_Misty_]

Selinsgrove, Pa., home of Susquehana University still holds the world's record for the longest banana split, measuring 4.55 miles in length, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The banana split contained 2,500 gallons of ice cream; 33,000 bananas; 600 pounds of chopped nuts; and 450 gallons of topping. It was created on April 30, 1988, as a local high school band fundraiser. About 24,000 people attended the creation of the split, some from as far as Virginia.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Selinsgrove, Pa., home of Susquehana University still holds the world's record for the longest banana split, measuring 4.55 miles in length, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The banana split contained 2,500 gallons of ice cream; 33,000 bananas; 600 pounds of chopped nuts; and 450 gallons of topping. It was created on April 30, 1988, as a local high school band fundraiser. About 24,000 people attended the creation of the split, some from as far as Virginia.

Let me at it !

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

On August 19th 1998, according to the Guiness Book of Records, Little Caesars filled an order from the VF Corporation of Greensbere, North Carolina, for 13,386 pizzas for 40,160 employees located at 180 locations across the USA.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Belgium is divided between its Dutch-speaking majority (the Flemish) and its French speaking minority (the Walloons).
In World War II, a banknote was issued in two languages: one side in French, the other in Flemish.

 

[_Misty_]

Belgium is divided between its Dutch-speaking majority (the Flemish) and its French speaking minority (the Walloons).
In World War II, a banknote was issued in two languages: one side in French, the other in Flemish.

Children of a Flemish parent and a Walloon parent are often called Flemoons I made that up

 

[_Misty_]

On May 21, 2005 Six Flags Great Adventure introduced Kingda Ka, the tallest, fastest roller coaster on the planet to the public. This $25-million Swiss designed "rocket coaster" uses hydraulic motors to launch the trains along a horizontal section of track from zero to 128 mph in an impressive 3.5 seconds. The trains then begins a vertical ascent up a steel tower that peaks at 456 feet or 45 stories. Crossing over the apex the train enters a vertical descent plunging through a 270-degree spiral twist again reaching speeds in excess of 100 mph. One final surprise comes before the brake run, a 129-foot tall camelback hill, that offers plenty of negative G's also known fondly as "airtime".

 

[Daizie]

Haven't been here in a while. My latest macabre offering:

Three chemicals are used to execute criminals by lethal injection. First, Sodium Thiopental is injected, causing the inmate to fall into a deep sleep.
The second chemical agent, Pancuronium Bromide, a muscle relaxer, follows. This causes the inmate to stop breathing due to paralyses of the diaphragm and lungs.
Finally, Potassium Chloride is injected, stopping the heart.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Bee Gees were born on the Isle of Man (an island in the Irish Sea mid-way between England and Ireland) and were brought up in Manchester, UK, before emigrating to Australia in 1958.
By the time they move back to England in 1967 they had notched up 11 hit records in Australia.
They have sold 110 million records, had six USA number 1's with five releases in the charts in the same week.