Interesting Trivia 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: All of these

John Weeks died in 1798, after marrying 10 times. His 10th, and youngest bride was a mere 16 years old. Hours before he died, Mr. Weeks consumed a final meal consisting of three pounds of pork, two pounds of bread, and a pint of wine. I guess like the old saying goes: 'Eat, drink, and be married'.

Answer: Calculating the distance a clock pendulum would swing in a give amount of time

George Bidder was asked the following question: 'How far would a pendulum that swings 9 3/4 inches in one second, travel in 7 years, 14 days, 2 hours, 1 minute, and 56 seconds -- taking into account that each year is to be 365 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes, and 50 seconds long.' In less than one minute, Mr. Bidder replied, "2,165,625,744, and 3/4 inches!". George Bidder went on to become an accomplished civil engineer (without a calculator).

Answer: Ink

One of these tributaries contain iron; the other contains gallic acid from a peat swamp. When nature mixes these two streams, black ink is the result. 'Black Brook' in upstate New York is formed by a similar chemical blend.

Answer: Sloth

The sloths' nervous system is very sluggish and its reflexes are almost non-existent. They will not flinch or jump at a sudden noise. And if these lazy creatures fall from a tree, they simply remain in the position in which they fall. They would appear dead.

They even digest food in the same lazy manner. Ingested food takes approximately two weeks to make it to the 'final disposal end'. Now THAT is one lazy animal!

Answer: A device for producing dimples

I guess someone had to have one of these. The device was a pair of hinged revolving arms which would pull the upper-part of the facial skin together, and outward, producing a temporary 'dimple' (Maybe the person who invented the 'eyelash curler' used this thing a proto-type?).

Answer: April 20, 1889

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20,1889. He died on April 30, 1945. Adolf Hitler died at the age of 56.

Answer: Bat guano

Chemists were hard at work to find a replacement for caffeine. The ingredient previously used; 'Coca leaf', or 'Cocaine', was out of the question. These clever people who worked endlessly for a solution finally found a legal remedy. Bat guano. The droppings from bats could be synthetically converted into caffeine.

But this idea was rejected by the Coke executives. They were terrified at the public's reaction if the 'new ingredient' was ever made public. I guess they made the right decision. Would you drink synthetically altered bat droppings? I wouldn't.

Answer: The dying breath of his friend Thomas Edison

When Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford was at his side, and collected Edisons' last breath.

Answer: Rin Tin Tin

This famous canines' gravestone reads: 'Ci Git le Bon Chien Rin-Tin-Tin Au Cinema Grande Vedette Passant, Songe a la Brave Bete Qui Fut Moins Chabot Que Plus Dieu.' (Loosley translated means:) 'Here lies the honorable dog Rin-Tin-Tin, a great movie star; passerby, think about the good animal who was less than a ham than most.'

Answer: 3422

3,422 miles to Madison Square Garden in New York City. An entry fee of $100.00 would be charged to all runners of the 'Bunion Derby." The prize was a cool $25,000 to the winner. Well, okay, who won the race? A 19 year-old farm boy named Andy Payne. Andy covered the the distance of 3,422 miles in 573 hours, 4 minutes, and 34 seconds. Every runner had his time recorded for a set distance each day. John Salo took 2nd place, more than 15 hours behind Andy Payne.