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41 ‘X’ Zone Trivia For One & All 41 ‘X’ Zone Trivia For One & All * Researchers say that 5% of Americans never * First U.S. coin to have a president on it: the * You can buy horseradish ice cream in Tokyo. get married. 1909 Lincoln penny. * Chances are that 13% of the letters in this * Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons. * London police photographed the eyes of Jack newspaper are the letter “e.” * A hibernating bear can go as long as six the Ripper’s victims theorizing that his image * In the 1820s, a temperance movement tried ot months without a bathroom break. might be recorded on their retinas. ban coffee, and nearly succeeded. * 60% of the country of Liechtensteins GNP is * Why is Wyoming Valley so difficult to find? * In 1912 the Archbishop of Paris declared generated by the sale of false teeth. It’s in Pennsylvania. dancing the tango a sin. * When medieval Europeans burned witches, * First movie ever shown in the White House: * It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if the witches’ families had to pay for the wood. Birth of a Nation, in 1916. you stop working out than it did to gain it. * Most common phobia in the world: * How can you tell when a panda is roaring? It * Face value of a Titanic boarding pass odynophobia - the fear of pain sounds like it has indigestion. auctioned in 1999: $8. It sold for $100,000. * How do you know when a turkey is * World’s actual oldest profession. according to * Researchers say: The three things pregnant panicking? That is the only time it whistles. anthropologists: witch doctor. women dream of most during their first * Four most dangerous steps on most staircases: * When you’re looking for someone you love, trimester are: 1) frogs, 2) worms, and 3) potted the two at the top and the two at the bottom. your pupils dilate. plants. * It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of * When you look for someone you hate, they do * What’s another word for Minonette? peanut butter. the same thing. “Volleyball.” * India has an estimated 550 million voters. * Hot chocolate: In Japan, you can buy cocoa * Number of grooves etched into U.S. dimes: * In Montreal, Quebec, Canada it is illegal to flavored with 2% chili pepper sauce. 118. Into U.S. quarters: 119. water a garden in the rain. * Pollination experts say: We can thank the bees * The only state with official vegetables: New * What do whales and buffaloes have in for apples, flies for chocolate, and bats for Mexico, with the chili and the frijole. common? They both stampede. tequila. * The largest of the Easter Island statues weighs * Medieval term for earwax: cerumen. * Busiest stretch of highway in the U.S.: New more than 80 tons. * At last count, Minnesota had 99 lakes named York’s George Washington Bridge. * The average American uses 730 crayons by Mud Lake. * The world’s first golf rule book was published the age of 10. * Top speed of a pigeon in flight is 90 mph. in Scotland in 1754. * The blood vessels of a blue whale are wide * Hitler had his own private train, complete * Highest bill ever minted by the U.S. Treasury: enough for an adult trout rto swin through. with 15 railcars. It was named Amerika. $100,000 bill. Lowest: 5 cent bill. * 63% of American adults will rent at least one * In Athens, Greece, you can lose your driver’s * If you’re average, you’ll move your residence video this month. license for being “poorly dressed” or 11 times in your life. * Farthest distance a pumpkin has been hurled “unbathed.” * Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at without the use of explosives: 3,718 feet. * When pizza became popular in the U.S. in the room temperature. * Highest fast-food restaurant: McDonald’s in 1930s, sales of oregano shot up 5,200%. * Tigers can be taught to use litter boxes. Big La Paz, Bolivia, ay 11,000 feet above seal level. * Squirrels cannot see the color red. litter boxes. * Humdinger: Hawaii’s state fish is the * On average, adults have 2 gallons of air in the * You can quote us: Quotation marks have only humuhumumukunkuapua’a. space between their skin and clothes. been around for 300 years. They’re the youngest * According to Pickle Packers International, the * According to market research, if a girl owns punctuation marks in the English language. crunch of a pickle should be audible from 10 one Barbie, she probably owns seven. * Survey results: 30% of people watching TV paces. * Given the opportunity, chimpanzees will hunt yell at it! * Checkers used to be known as “chess for ducks. * According to Gallup poll, one in seven ladies.” * Injured fungernails grow faster than uninjured Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a map. * Iron Magazine once called Theodore ones. * The world’s larget restaurant, the Royal Roosevelt “A drunk.” He sued and won 6 cents. * An exocannibal is a cannibal who eats only Dragon, in Bangkok serves 5,000 dinners at a * In the 1500s, England’s Queen Elizabeth I enemies. An undocannibal eats only friends. time. All 541 waiters are on roller skates. outlawed wife beating after 10 p.m. * Al Capone’s older brother Vince Capone was * American office workers send an average of * If you’re an average sleeper, you’ll roll over a policeman in Nebraska. 36 e-mails a day. 12 times in bed tonight. * The ancient Greeks played cards. In those * Bottle-nosed whales can dive 3,000 in two * In France, a good snack is pig brain pate days, aces were known as “dogs.” minutes. spread over crackers. * Most-used expression of any language on * Total combined population of North America * Sheep snore. earth: “OK.” colonies in 1610: 350. * Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes * The average computer worker types 90,000 * In the 19th century, India imported ice to boil a half gallon of water. ketystrokes in an eight-hour shift. harvested from ponds in the United States. * Sigmund Freud charged the equivalent of * On average, people aged 24 to 35 worry less * In a recent poll, 20% of workers surveyed $8.10 an hour for his therapy sessions. than adults of any other age group. saiod they’d work harder if their employer * Top three “problem” employees, according to * About 12,000 commercial airline flights are offered them a “$1,000 shopping spree at the the Wall Street Journal: “The Non-Stop Talker,” scheduled daily in the United States. Only about store of their choice.” “The Screamer,” and “The Practical Joker.” 5,000 planes are able to fly them. * If a grasshopper is hungry enough, it will eat * Food for thought: The French eat an average * First baseball player to be named Rookie of the paint off your house. of 200 million frogs each year. the Year: Jackie Robinson, in 1947. * When you use your car’s brakes, they generate * A group of jellyfish is known as a “smack.” * There is no leading cause of death for people enough heat to warm your house. * Chrostopher Columbus’s fee for who live past the age of 100. *Bug rule of thumb: Centipedes are carnivores, “discovering” America: about $300. *Chameleon rule of thumb: If it loses a fight, it millipedes are vegetarians. * Washington, D.C., has more psychiatrists per tuns grey. If it wins, it turns green. * If you count things compulsively, you’re an capita than any other city in the country. * Most common plastic surgery performed on arithmomaniac. * Largest cast ever assembled for a film scene: American men: Breast reduction. * Snails have teeth. 300,000, for the funeral scene in Ghandi. * When William Shakespeare moved into his * Second most-published playwright in history, * What does genitofemoral neuropahthy mean? new home, he named it New Home. after Shakespeare: Neil Simon. “Jeans are too tight.” * The average person’s skin weighs twice as * Who says advertsiing doesn’t work? 30% os * Camel rule of thumb: One-humped camels run much as their brain. U.S. adults have dandruff but nearly 50% say faster than two-humped camels. * Five percent of Americans say they never “they’re self-conscious about it.” * A misodoctakleidist is someone who hates make their beds. * 32% of women and 8% of men say they’re practicing the piano. * President McKinley’s pet parrot was named better at doing laundry than their spouse. * About a third of the human race has perfect Washington Post. * City with the largest Polish population: 20-20 vision. * Oregon has the most ghost towns of any state. Warsaw. Second largest city: Chicago. * The capital of Canada is Ottawa.