Trivia for Squiggle #XLI
This installment of Trivia for Squiggle was originally intended for Monday, December 26, 2005.
1001. Shakespeare referred to the penis as “the dart of love” and “the potato finger,” among other things.
1002. There are no irregular verbs in Esperanto.
1003. Emergency telephone number 911’s counterpart in Australia is 000.
1004. .005 (1/2%) is the minimum proportion of alcohol in a beverage for it to be considering “intoxicating liquor>” according to the Volstead Act of 1919.
1005. Beethoven’s only opera was “Fidelio.”
1006. Even though China spans multiple time zones, it chooses to have one time setting for the entire country.
1007. The Barenaked Ladies tune “One Week” was #1 on the Billboard charts for...one week.
1008. The standard precooked weight of a McDonald’s hamburger is 1.6 ounces.
1009. The price tag on the straw hat of country music comedienne Minnie Pearl reads $1.98.
1010. There are two books in the King James version of the Bible that do not mention the word “god”: Esther and Song of Solomon.
1011. There were only two graduates in the first class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1802.
1012. The Bactrian camel has two humps. The dromedary only has one.
1013. The original nightly room rate at the first Motel 6, which opened in 1962 in Santa Barbara, CA, was $6.00.
1014. The name of automaker Isuzu means “50 bells” in Japanese.
1015. Snuffleupagusm of TV’s “Sesame Street” wears a shoe size of 65 GGG.
1016. The Swedish group ABBA was named for the first letters of each members’ first name: Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
1017. Ethiopia was once known as Abyssinia.
1018.The motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point, NY is “Acta non verba,” or “Deeds, not words.”
1019. Musician/actor Meat Loaf’s real name is Marvin Lee Aday.
1020. Actor/comedian Sinbad’s real name is David Adkins.
1021. Author Salman Rushdie’s real first name is Ahmed: Ahmed Salman Rushdie.
1022. President Theodore Roosevelt had a pet guinea pig named Admiral Dewey.
1023. Michael J. Fox’s real middle name is Andrew. He adopted the middle initial J in honor of character actor Michael J. Pollard.
1024. Pat Benatar’s maiden name is Andrzejewski. Her first husband was Dennis Benatar.
1025. Albion is the literary name for Great Britain.
“You want to see my tits?!?! Here! Look at them!”
1001. Shakespeare referred to the penis as “the dart of love” and “the potato finger,” among other things.
1002. There are no irregular verbs in Esperanto.
1003. Emergency telephone number 911’s counterpart in Australia is 000.
1004. .005 (1/2%) is the minimum proportion of alcohol in a beverage for it to be considering “intoxicating liquor>” according to the Volstead Act of 1919.
1005. Beethoven’s only opera was “Fidelio.”
1006. Even though China spans multiple time zones, it chooses to have one time setting for the entire country.
1007. The Barenaked Ladies tune “One Week” was #1 on the Billboard charts for...one week.
1008. The standard precooked weight of a McDonald’s hamburger is 1.6 ounces.
1009. The price tag on the straw hat of country music comedienne Minnie Pearl reads $1.98.
1010. There are two books in the King James version of the Bible that do not mention the word “god”: Esther and Song of Solomon.
1011. There were only two graduates in the first class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1802.
1012. The Bactrian camel has two humps. The dromedary only has one.
1013. The original nightly room rate at the first Motel 6, which opened in 1962 in Santa Barbara, CA, was $6.00.
1014. The name of automaker Isuzu means “50 bells” in Japanese.
1015. Snuffleupagusm of TV’s “Sesame Street” wears a shoe size of 65 GGG.
1016. The Swedish group ABBA was named for the first letters of each members’ first name: Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
1017. Ethiopia was once known as Abyssinia.
1018.The motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point, NY is “Acta non verba,” or “Deeds, not words.”
1019. Musician/actor Meat Loaf’s real name is Marvin Lee Aday.
1020. Actor/comedian Sinbad’s real name is David Adkins.
1021. Author Salman Rushdie’s real first name is Ahmed: Ahmed Salman Rushdie.
1022. President Theodore Roosevelt had a pet guinea pig named Admiral Dewey.
1023. Michael J. Fox’s real middle name is Andrew. He adopted the middle initial J in honor of character actor Michael J. Pollard.
1024. Pat Benatar’s maiden name is Andrzejewski. Her first husband was Dennis Benatar.
1025. Albion is the literary name for Great Britain.
“You want to see my tits?!?! Here! Look at them!”
posted by Scott at 1:20 PM
2 Comments:
"the potato finger".
Brilliant.
#1019 - Marvin Lee Aday was Meat Loaf's birth name, he legally changed it Meat Loaf, then has changed it to Michael Lee Aday.
FYI.
:D
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