Trivia 4/16

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Trivia 4/16
DID YOU KNOW...
In Ancient Egypt, the word for 'cat' was actually pronounced 'mew', or 'meow'.


1. What's the chemical name for laughing gas ?
2. On what surface is the sport of Bandy played ?
a. - Grass
b. - Hardwood
c. - Ice
d. - Card Table
3. What city has the world's largest New Year's Eve celebration--attracting over two million people ?
a. - New York City
b. Rio de Janeiro
c. - Tokyo
d. - Soul
4. Which Star Trek character has an insane older half brother named Sybok ?
5. About how much does the average human eyeball weigh ?
a. - 1/4 ounce
b. - 1/2 ounce
c. - 3/4 ounce
d. - 1 ounce
6. What brand of cat food does the finicky Morris hype ?
7. What practical purpose did the early hood ornaments serve ?
8. What R.E.M. song is the title of a Jim Carrey film ?

TRUTH OR CRAP ??
Goats were kept on the White House lawn during the WWI years.
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1. NITROUS OXIDE
2. - c
3. - b
4. Mr. Spock
5. - d
6. NINE LIVES
7. RADIATOR CAPS
8. "MAN ON THE MOON"

CRAP !!
But Sheep were .......
They were put there to free the gardeners for military service. The sheep of state--which at one point numbered eighteen--not only grazed and kept the lawn well manicured, but their wool was auctioned off to raise money for the Red Cross.

 

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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]O[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ne of my linguistic studies has 536,000 Google hits. That study was done in 1982. Google started in 1995. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Google missed most of the ‘hits’ for that study.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif] [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I don’t buy the argument that ancient Egyptian pronunciation is known. Here’s how it worked. Find a document written in both English and French. Paris is in both languages. You know English, you don’t know French, but since English says Pare-is[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]s[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], so do the French. No [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]they don’t[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]T[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]his ancient Egyptian [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]snuff is [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]crap.
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]But here is something about cats that is real. The domestic cat originated in or near Egypt. It was orange. 3 weeks ago, we got an orange cat, an Egyptian original . [/FONT]​