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trivia 3/12
DID YOU KNOW...


It is estimated that about 20 percent of all the water that runs off the Earth's surface is carried by the Amazon River.

1. Sailors often scratched or carved designs on bone, tusk or wood; what was this craft was called ?
2. Which American state produces the most potatoes ?
(Bonus; Which state is second ?)
3. Who wrote Dr. Zhivago?
4. Emerald is the birth stone for which Month ?
5. Whose yacht was called Honey Fitz ?
6. The visible lines of condensed water vapor made by the exhaust of aircraft engines
are called......what ?
7. If I am executing a “Purl”, what activity am I involved in ?
8. Mary Mallen was locked up from 1915 till her death in 1938 without committing any crime;
What nickname did the newspapers of the day give her ?

TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Gatorade was developed by a Football Coach .
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1. Scrimshaw
2. Idaho (Washington)
3. Boris Pasternak
4. May
5. J.F. Kennedy
6. Contrails
7. Knitting
8. “Typhoid Mary”
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/a/typhoidmary.htm




TRUTH!!
Gatorade does have something to do with "Gators"
In 1965, a coach for the Florida Gators college football team and one of the university's kidney specialists came up with a concoction of water, salt, sugar, and lemon juice to keep the school's football players hydrated and energized while playing football under the hot Southern sun. Two years later, Gatorade was marketed nationally and has since netted the University of Florida more than $90 million in revenues.




 
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