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of the most lopsided game in college football history, in which Georgia
Tech beat Cumberland College on October 7, 1916.
879
The U.S. women’s shoe size of the
Statue of Liberty, based on the 25-foot length of her sandal.
86,331
Total
number of times that the Russian space station Mir orbited the Earth. Mir
was launched February 19, 1986, and was taken out of orbit March 23, 2001.
$3,418,416.01
Total amount of cash in the 26 briefcases on the TV game show Deal
or No Deal.
arachibutyrophobia
Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one’s mouth.
The
Best of Marcel Marceau
1970 album consisting of 19 minutes of silence and one minute of applause
on each side.
“The
buck starts here”
Motto of Dalton, Massachusetts. The town is
the home of Crane & Co., the company that manufactures the paper on
which U.S. currency is printed.
The
Candyland Hour
Radio show whose theme song, “On the Good Ship Lollipop,” is sung by
Shirley Blake (Shirley Temple) in the film Bright
Eyes. The title vehicle
of the song is an airplane.
H.
Full first name of retired Desert Storm general H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
His father, Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, disliked his first name.
Loretta
Lynn
Real first and middle names of country singer Lorrie Morgan.
She is not named for Loretta Lynn; Morgan was born before Lynn
recorded her first record.
“No
dragons were harmed in the making of this movie.”
Line in the closing credits of the film Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Santa Clara
Actual name of the ship used by
Christopher Columbus in his 1492 voyage known as the Niña (Spanish for “girl”).
The nickname was a pun on the name of the ship’s owner, Juan Niño.
trademarks,
genericized
These product names were all formerly trademarks, whose trademark status
was lost because the word became synonymous with the entire category of
product.
Allen wrench
aspirin
bikini
cellophane
dry ice
escalator
granola
linoleum
milk of magnesia
mimeograph
yo-yo
zipper
“What
mighty contests rise from trivial things”
Quote by poet Alexander Pope that appears on the box of the original Genus
Edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit.
