GregR
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A collection of mostly useless but sometimes interesting things I've come across. There are bugs with opening a lot of spoiler boxes at once. Easiest to avoid if you close each box again once you read the answer. If that doesn't work, just reload the thread and they should work again.
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1) According to Guinness, an Indian actor named K Brahmanandamhas has the most acknowledged film roles, with 857. But an American has the record for most leading roles. Who is it?
2) How many times hotter would a lightning bolt have to get to be as hot as the the surface of the Sun (10,000 degrees fahrenheit)?
3) How many sitting US Presidents have been assassinated?
4) What unique distinction do the words, "we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return: with peace and hope for all mankind" have?
5) Though often regarded as the first emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar never held that title. What was Julius Caesar's actual title granted by the Roman senate?
6) So then who was Rome's first actual emperor?
7) What country was the first to allow women to vote, in 1893?
A) United States
B) New Zealand
C) Switzerland
D) Sweden
E) Portugal
F) Saudi Arabia
8) About what percent of the count of bones in a human body are in your feet?
A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 15%
D) 25%
E) 35%
9) What was invented in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts?
10) The Oscar awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay are sometimes known as "The Big Five". Only three films have won all five. Name any of the three.
11) What do the following list of cities have in common?
Luxor, Egypt
Mexico City, Mexico
Upper Xingu, Brazil
Byblos, Lebanon
Argos, Greece
Sydney, Australia
12) There are 13 countries in South America. How many of them do not border Brazil?
13) Shout out to the FBGs vs Kasparov- chess game thread. What is the only move in chess where a piece is captured but is not replaced on its square by the capturing piece?
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1) According to Guinness, an Indian actor named K Brahmanandamhas has the most acknowledged film roles, with 857. But an American has the record for most leading roles. Who is it?
John Wayne. Of his 153 films, he played the lead in 142 of them.
Trick question. Lightning bolts are already 5x hotter than the surface of the Sun, about 53,000 degrees.
Four. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. All were killed by gunshot.
They were the last words said on the surface of the moon, by astronaut Gene Cernan.
Dictator
Julius Caesar's nephew Octavian became the first emperor of Rome after the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE. He took the name Augustus Caesar.
A) United States
B) New Zealand
C) Switzerland
D) Sweden
E) Portugal
F) Saudi Arabia
B) New Zealand. Saudi Arabia granted the right to women in 2011, though it would be 2015 before they could exercise it.
A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 15%
D) 25%
E) 35%
D) The 52 bones in your feet make up about 25 percent of all the bones in your body.
The chocolate chip. Wakefield cut up chunks of a Nestle chocolate bar and added them to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success. Wakefield reached an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to their packaging in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Luxor, Egypt
Mexico City, Mexico
Upper Xingu, Brazil
Byblos, Lebanon
Argos, Greece
Sydney, Australia
They are listed as the oldest cities with continuous habitation for each of the major continents. The oldest is Argos, Greece, which is listed as having been continuously inhabited for the past 7,000 years.
Two. Only Chile and Ecuador do not border Brazil.
En passant, which happens immediately after a pawn moves two ranks forward from its starting position and an enemy pawn could have captured it had the pawn moved only one square forward. The enemy pawn captures it but takes the position as if the pawn had only moved 1 square forward. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Ajedrez_captura_al_paso_del_peon.png
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These are always fun, thanks Greg.
