What was the first country to adopt time zones? When was this?
Timezones were really not needed much until the railway became a major form of transportation. Most places based their time on when the sun would be at its zenith which created problems when traveling either east or west on a fast train. On 2 November 1868 New Zealand became the first country to adopt a standard time which they designated as New Zealand Mean time. It was 17 and 1/2 hours ahead of London time. Within 35 years most places in the world had adopted a standard time, however, not all adopted them in hour increments and some still have half-hour differences between their neighbor. Some timezones end up quite large like China, while others have almost no one living within the zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 06 24 by psnz
What did a besom maker do in the Middle Ages?
Made brooms (for witches?)
[quote]Traditionally, besom brooms are made from the twiggy growth of the birch tree, and the craft was particularly strong in areas where birch coppices abounded. In other parts of the country, such as North Wales and Yorkshire, birch was frequently substituted by heather. Marram grass has also been occasionally used.
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In most coppices, besom-making was rarely a full-time job. Instead it is a summer job, to be fitted in when more demanding jobs are over and using up materials that would otherwise be wasted.[/quote]https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/craft/broom-making/ (psnz)
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Jun 06 24 by BigTriviaDawg
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Jun 05 24 by chabenao1
Who is Kelvin MacKenzie?
Thanks psnz. I should have made my question more precise. What is he notorious for, especially in the football (soccer) world? (elvislennon)
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Jun 05 24 by elvislennon
Who is Kelvin MacKenzie?
He is described as an English media executive.
Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (1946-) was editor of Britain's "The Sun" newspaper from 1981 to 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie (psnz)
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Jun 05 24 by elvislennon
It is claimed that the "Three Choirs Festival" is the World's longest running music festival. When did it begin?
The music festival started in 1715 and has only been paused during the two great wars. In 2020 the music went virtual due to COVID-19. The Three Choirs come from the cathedrals in Hereford, Gloucester, and Worcester.
[quote] The origins of the annual Music Meetings of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford were outlined in 1729 in a sermon preached by Thomas Bisse, Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral, and his three-centuries-old words still serve to describe our festival today. [/quote]
[quote] The festival has always prided itself on bringing new works to its audiences, and over its 300-year history has included premieres by Edward Elgar, Arthur Sullivan, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Hubert Parry, Ethel Smyth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius, Camille Saint-Saëns, Judith Weir, Judith Bingham, James MacMillan and Cheryl Frances Hoad, many of which were conducted by the composers themselves. Numerous celebrated composers, conductors and soloists have been welcomed to the festival, and it has enjoyed regular royal visits and patronage since the attendance of King George III at a performance of Messiah in 1788. [/quote]
https://3choirs.org/about/our-history (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 05 24 by psnz
Where would you find the geocache GC1BE91?
You wouldn't! It's out of this world, upon the International Space Station.
Astronaut Richard Garriott traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) in October of 2008. Whilst aboard, he created the geocache in locker #218 of the Russian Segment of the ISS. Included was a Travel Bug, with the wish that future geocachers would start the bug on it's way home, while leaving another.
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1BE91 (psnz)
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Jun 05 24 by BigTriviaDawg
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Jun 05 24 by psnz
What decibel level was achieved at the Microsoft Anechoic Laboratory?
Anechoic refers to "A chamber having very little reverberation."
https://www.wordwebonline.com/search.pl?w=anechoic+chamber
[quote]HBK and BlackHawk Technology Inc. measured the noise floor of Microsoft’s quietest anechoic chamber at –20.6 dB(A) SPL.[/quote]https://www.hbkworld.com/en/knowledge/resource-center/articles/worlds-quietest-room
SPL: Sound Pressure Level
https://pulsarinstruments.com/news/sound-pressure-level-and-spl-meters/ (psnz)
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Jun 05 24 by BigTriviaDawg
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Jun 05 24 by psnz
What did Babe Ruth put under his cap to keep cool?
He used cabbage leaves! These were changed as the game progressed. With woolen uniforms being the norm in Babe Ruth's day, overheating was a very real problem for baseball athletes. [quote]He would take cabbage leaves and spread them over ice in a cooler and then place them underneath his hat during the game to keep cool. Babe shared this single cabbage leaf trick with his teammates but for himself, he actually needed two leaves to keep cool thanks to his famously large head.[/quote] https://www.needtoknowfacts.com/sports/babe-ruth-wore-a-cabbage-leaf-under-his-cap-to-keep-him-cool-and-changed-it-every-two-innings
(psnz)
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Jun 05 24 by BigTriviaDawg
What are the two US state capitals that rhyme?
Boston and Austin according to the source below.
[quote]Yes, the "rhyming capitals" question proved to be the surprise stumper, tripping up almost a third of our entrants. We were looking for a perfect rhyme. So, Indianapolis/Annapolis, Topeka/Santa Fe, Denver/Dover and Albany/Montgomery didn't make the cut.[/quote]https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/2003/11/16/a-dome-deal-our-capital-quiz-results/8f074827-95c0-4913-aca7-15ebc9fc40ca/ (psnz)
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Jun 05 24 by chabenao1
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Jun 05 24 by chabenao1
What is the national bird of the Bahamas?
The National Bird of the Bahamas is the Caribbean Flamingo which is native to Great Inagua the southern most island of the Bahamas. Flamingos used to be common in the Bahamas but hunting for their feathers and their eggs nearly led to their extinction on the island. The beautiful pink feathers are not natural but rather the result of a diet of shrimp and other crustacean.
https://www.bahamas.com/blog/how-the-bahamas-rescued-the-flamingo (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 03 24 by chabenao1
Which library holds the world's biggest collection of Shakespearean First Folios?
The Folger Shakespeare Library. 82 of the 235 known folios are at the Folger Library. One might expect such a prestigious library would be in London or perhaps Oxford, but instead, it is in Washington DC on Capitol Hill.
[quote] Standard Oil of New York executive Henry Clay Folger, a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University, was an avid collector of Shakespeareana, beginning in 1889 with the purchase of a 1685 Fourth Folio. Toward the end of World War I, he and his wife Emily Jordan Folger began searching for a location for a Shakespeare library based on their collection. They chose a location adjacent to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The land was then occupied by townhouses, and Folger spent several years buying the separate lots. The site was designated for expansion by the Library of Congress, but in 1928, Congress passed a resolution allowing its use for Folger's project. [/quote]
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeare-in-print/about-the-folger-first-folios/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 02 24 by psnz
Which hymn is the oldest known song?
It's called the "Hurrian Hymn" and dates as far back as the 13th century BCE.
[quote]The Hurrian songs are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit, a headland in northern Syria, which date to approximately 1400 BC. One of these tablets, which is nearly complete, contains the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal (also known as the Hurrian cult hymn or "a zaluzi-prayer to the gods," or simply "h.6"), making it the oldest surviving substantially complete work of notated music in the world. While the composers' names of some of the fragmentary pieces are known, h.6 is an anonymous work.[/quote]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs
Nikkal was a goddess worshipped in the Mesopotamian region. The hymn to her would probably have been accompanied by a primitive stringed instrument. (psnz)
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Jun 02 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Why did Fiji issue $7 commemorative banknotes in 2017 and 2022?
To commemorate their Rugby 7s gold medals in the Rio and Tokyo games! The notes are legal tender and have images of the seven players on them. Odds are that most people will not actually spend them but rather will keep them safe as a souvenir for a proud victory.
https://www.rbf.gov.fj/press-release-no-04-rbf-issues-fijis-new-circulation-commemorative-banknote/ (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 02 24 by psnz
When Xi Jinping was a child he lived in a yaodong for a time. What is a yaodong?
A yaodong is a form of earth shelter.
These dwellings are common in China's Loess Plateau in the north of the country. They are carved out of hillsides or may be the result of horizontal excavations. The earth around the dwelling acts as an effective insulator, both in winter and in summer.
Yaodongs have been used for many centuries. In 2006, it was estimated that as many as 40 million people lived in them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaodong (psnz)
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Jun 02 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Which US founding father appears on the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal?
Ben Franklin graces the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal. The Pulitzer Prize is given for journalistic excellence so it makes sense that the first major US journalist would be the face of the medal. On the back of the medal is an image of the type of printing press Franklin would have used. The winning news organization is engraved on the Franklin side of the medal and the year of the award is engraved on the printing press side. Its a beautiful medal!
https://www.pulitzer.org/page/medal (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 01 24 by psnz
Which little green character made his first appearance on "Sam and Friends" in 1955?
Jim Henson's "Kermit the Frog."
[quote]Kermit evolved into a frog over the years, gaining his collar in the mid-1960s and his flippers in 1968.
Kermit's name was inspired by Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Jim Henson's.
Kermit made his first TV appearance on the Washington show "Sam and Friends" in 1955. A year later, he was a guest on Steve Allen's "Tonight" show.
[/quote]https://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/05/kermit.frog/
"Time's fun when you're having flies."
-- Kermit the Frog (psnz)
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Jun 01 24 by BigTriviaDawg
What unusual activity does the Chinese soft-shell turtle perform with its mouth?
They excrete most of their body's urea through their mouth. As yucky as this sounds, it seems better than how my cat cleans her bum or things my dog eats... A research team in Singapore did an experiment to see what was happening when the turtles had their head in a puddle for over an hour. They set up an experiment with the following results:
[quote] To find out what was being excreted from the mouth, the team perched the turtles beside a tank of water which acted as the "puddle" for them to dunk their heads in. They would spend between 20 and 100 minutes with their heads submerged and, while this was occurring, the team witnessed the turtles engaging in a "rhythmic throat movement characteristic of buccopharyngeal respiration"; the turtles were breathing, as well as swirling the water around their mouths. After submersion, the team measured the urea present in the tank and found that it was up to 50 percent higher than the rate of excretion via the cloaca. The turtles were simultaneously breathing, and contracting their throats to excrete urea from their mouths. [/quote]
https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-turtles-urinate-from-mouths/ (BigTriviaDawg)
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Jun 01 24 by psnz
Which plant has the record for the largest known genome in the world?
It's a New Caledonian fern from a remote Pacific island.
Genome refers to the length of the DNA sequence in the plant.
[quote]A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth.
The New Caledonian fern, "Tmesipteris oblanceolata," has more than 50 times more DNA packed into the nucleus of its cells than humans do.[/quote]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiny-fern-world-record-largest-genome-tmesipteris-oblanceolata/ (psnz)
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Jun 01 24 by BigTriviaDawg
In 1936, who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic in nonstop from east to west, proving that an airline service between London and New York was possible?
The first non-stop transatlantic flight from east to west seems to be in 1919 by a British airship R34, actually part of a return journey carrying about 30 people. They left from East Fortune, Scotland and arrived in Long Island, USA after 108 hours of flight.
The first non-stop solo flight in an airplane was by Jim Mollison in 1932, flying from Portmarnock, Ireland to Pennfield, New Brunswick, Canada.
The flight to which you refer is presumably that of Beryl Markham who became the first woman to achieve the feat in 1936. She flew from Abingdon, England to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight (patrickk)
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Jun 01 24 by pehinhota
Who was the first person born in the Falkland Islands to win a medal at the Olympic Games?
That would be one Louis Charles Baillon.
[quote]Louis Charles Baillon was born in Stanley in 1881, one of the fourteen children of Louis Augustine Baillon who had bought nearly 80,000 acres of land in West Falkland in 1866. The family returned to England in 1888 and settled in the Northampton area. Louis Charles excelled as a sportsman and in 1908 played as full-back in the England hockey team at the Olympics in London. The team won the hockey tournament and received gold medals.[/quote]
https://en.mercopress.com/2018/05/14/falklands-olympic-games-gold-medal-athlete-who-competed-in-1908-london-games (elburcher)
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Jun 01 24 by pehinhota
Launched in the US in 2011, what is "Funko Pop!"?
Funko Pop! are figurines with really big heads and big eyes in the chibi Japanese art style. They are considered pop art originally consisting of characters from Marvel, DC, Star Wars, and Dr Who. Like many collectibles, these can get quite pricy. Currently, the most valuable one is a Willy Wonka and an oompa loompa which has sold for $100,000. Apparently, there were only 10 of them made like the 5 golden tickets from the book...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funko
https://vaultedcollection.com/blogs/vaulted-blog/most-expensive-funko-pop?utm_source=SEM&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=pmax-pactx&utm_term=brand&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6uWyBhD1ARIsAIMcADoXdjg8BLNhgDPtM8K98ZMkoZN1tvYB3Hzgya5DepMWU-DH6pqlDgcaAsASEALw_wcB (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 31 24 by psnz
Where are the eyes of a barreleye fish?
They are found on its forehead.
[quote]This peculiar fish is known for its strange eyes — two bright green upward-pointing orbs that are visible through the transparent dome on its forehead. The upward-pointing eyes are able to spot prey above them in the water column but can rotate forward when needed.[/quote]https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/barreleye
In the above link, click on the first picture for an enlarged view of this fish with a peculiar ocular arrangement. Further down the page, there's about a minute of video footage, too. (psnz)
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May 31 24 by BigTriviaDawg
What is special about the Rh-null (golden) blood type and how common is it?
The golden blood type has no Rh antigens in its red blood cells.
It is incredibly rare. Fewer than 50 individuals are thought to have this blood group.
The golden blood type was first found in Aboriginal Australians.
One of the concerns for people in this blood group is if they need transfusions, the pool of donors is very small.
https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_the_golden_blood_type/article.htm (psnz)
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May 31 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Who was the first NBA player to have two numbers retired by the same team?
Kobe Bryant has had both the number 8 and the number 24 retired for the Los Angeles Lakers. After eight years with the number 8 Kobe changed to 24 because he said he had experienced growth in his career and life outside of basketball.
[quote] When late Los Angeles Lakers Hall of Fame shooting guard Kobe Bryant changed his jersey number from eight to 24 during the 2006-07 season, he explained it at the time as "growth" from his prior digits. [/quote]
https://www.nba.com/news/nba-players-two-numbers-retired
https://www.si.com/nba/lakers/news/kobe-bryant-frenemy-reveals-motivation-behind-no-24-jersey-ak1987 (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 31 24 by psnz
In 14th century England by what name was John of Powderham better known?
John Deydras, was also known as John of Powderham.
[quote]On some day in June 1318, a cat and a one-eared man called John Deydras or Dydras, also known as John of Powderham, were hung in Oxford for challenging the right of Edward II to rule; indeed, John had claimed he was Edward II himself.[/quote]
https://www.executedtoday.com/2012/06/05/1318-john-deydras-aka-john-of-powderham/ (elburcher)
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May 31 24 by pehinhota
What is/was the use of Pascal's Triangle?
Pascal's triangle is a wonderful piece of mathematics that can be created and understood by a primary school child and yet hides dozens of fascinating properties and links to real world applications, including probability, combinatorics and algebra. The triangle is constructed starting with '1' in the top row. Each subsequent row is offset by half a place, and has one more number in it. Each number can be found by adding the two above it (if only one number is above, add 0 to it). The triangle is in principle infinite, though I'm not sure anyone has ever managed to write out that many lines. The first 5 rows look like:
1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
(well technically the first row is the 0th row and the last shown is the 4th, is that still 5 rows?)
The most common application of the triangle is to find the coefficients of the binomial expansion. For the expression "(x+y)^n", the nth row of the triangle lists out the coefficients of the expanded expression - e.g. 1,4,6,4,1 if n = 4
Another application that is perhaps easier to grasp intuitively is that for the nth row, the kth entry in that row (again starting from 0 as the first entry)) is given by the function nCk (n choose k). Put simply this function tells you how many ways there are to pick k objects out a of a group of n. One example is how many teams of 2 can be picked from a group of 4 people - the triangle tells us that the 2nd entry from the 4th row is 6, so 6 different teams can be created.
There are so many other patterns and connections hidden within the triangle, many well beyond my level to comprehend. The practical uses are largely superseded by calculators and computers, but the table still provides a useful reference to do these tasks manually. I think the real use is to demonstrate how interconnected seemingly independent aspects of mathematics and real world applications can be, and just to enjoy a pure piece of wonderful mathematics.
(patrickk)
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May 31 24 by chabenao1
What is/was the use of Pascal's Triangle?
I personally am mathematically declined...!, but see below
[quote] Pascal's triangle is named for 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal wrote a treatise on triangles in his 1654 (published 1655) treatise Traité du triangle arithmétique. However, Pascal did not invent the triangle, so it bears different names in other countries.
In algebra and other branches of mathematics, Pascal's triangle is a triangular array of numbers that lists the coefficients of the expansion of any binomial expression (x + y)n, where n is any positive integer and x and y are real numbers. Its construction is simple: the numbers in each row are the sum of the numbers in the preceding row. So, each row begins and ends with the number 1.
How to Use Pascal's Triangle (Binomial Theorem)
The binomial theorem states that the nth row of Pascal's triangle gives the coefficients of the expanded polynomial (x + y)n.[/quote]
https://sciencenotes.org/pascals-triangle/ (elburcher)
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May 31 24 by chabenao1
What is "cuckoo smurfing"?
Cuckoo smurfing is a form of money laundering. The idea is to make transactions low enough in value to escape detection. The launderers will do things like use the cash in a casino to buy chips and then turn the chips in to get their money back. There are other ways they try to hide their trail.
[quote] An Example of Cuckoo Smurfing
A common example of cuckoo Smurfing is when a criminal syndicate arranges for cash sums of under $10,000 to be transferred in or out of Australia using the bank account details of an unwitting third party.
Banks rarely are alerted as it falls below the threshold. As such, it does not get the attention of AUSTRAC. The identity of the money launderer is also hidden as the only details provided are that of the innocent third party.
From there, the money is transferred to numerous other bank accounts by making multiple complex transactions. This disguises the source of the money to be laundered and makes tracing it both difficult and expensive.
Ultimately the money is returned to the money launderer and will appear legitimate to only the most shrewd experts, such as money laundering lawyers. [/quote]
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=67b2261a-4988-4804-b066-bd502bc3eb74 (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 30 24 by psnz
What killed 21 people in Boston MA, USA, on 15 January 1919?
Molasses! Gallows humour suggests that they came to a sticky end.
[quote]The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons (8,700 cubic meters) of molasses, weighing approximately 13,000 short tons (12,000 metric tons), burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 people and injuring 150. The event entered local folklore and residents reported for decades afterwards that the area still smelled of molasses on hot summer days.[/quote]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Some have termed the Flood, the "Boston Molassacre." (psnz)
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May 30 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Where did Poland's Zbigniew Turski win a 1948 gold medal in the "choral and orchestral" category?
Would you believe at the Summer Olympics in London! From 1912 to 1948 competitors could win medals for the arts of architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture. The IOC decided in 1949 that they would no longer give medals for the arts and stick to athletic competitions only. Interestingly, some of the categories did not have a gold medal or silver medal winner but did have a bronze medal winner. I guess they had a standard and if an artwork was not outstanding it did not win the gold by default.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 30 24 by psnz
Which pet did Mary Sawyer of the U.S. state of Massachusetts nurse back to health?
It was Mary's little lamb!
Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was the person that the nursery rhyme "Mary had a little lamb" was based upon.
Along with her father, Mary discovered a sickly lamb abandoned by its mother, while performing farm tasks. Surprisingly, Mary was able to nurse the lamb back to health. The rhyme was penned by fellow student John Roulstone when the lamb accompanied Mary and her brother to school.
https://modernfarmer.com/2017/12/true-story-behind-mary-little-lamb/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb (psnz)
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May 30 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Which 1980s film claimed to be filmed in "Odorama"?
Polyester in 1981! The moviegoer would get a scratch and sniff card to go along with their movie! When the scene that had a smell came up the film would flash the number that the watchers were supposed to scratch to smell. Not sure I would be eager to scratch numbers 2, 5, or 6!
[quote] The ten smells (developed by 3M per Waters in the supplements section of the DVD release) are:
1) Roses
2) Flatulence
3) Model airplane glue
4) Pizza
5) Gasoline
6) Skunk
7) Natural gas
8) New car smell
9) Dirty shoes
10) Air freshener [/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester_(film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/faq/?ref_=tt_faq_sm (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 29 24 by psnz
What calorie range would the average finisher of an Ironman race burn?
I really like this source's short answer: "a lot!"
The author goes on to point out that there are many factors requiring consideration, including gender, body weight and metabolic rate.
[quote]For example, a 130lb woman will expend roughly 7,290 calories, and a 200lb man will expend roughly 10,890 calories, all within the race itself. Here’s how that breaks down:
130lb Woman:
* Swim: 10cal/min x 90min swim = 900 calories
* Bike: 11cal/min x 6 hour bike = 3,960
* Run: 9cal/min x 4.5 hour run = 2,430
* Total: 7,290 calories
200lb Male:
* Swim: 15cal/min x 90min swim = 1,350 calories
* Bike: 16cal/min x 6 hour bike = 5,760
* Run: 14cal/min x 4.5 hour run = 3,780
* Total: 10,890 calories[/quote]https://joshmuskin.com/ironman-nutrition-faq/
7.29 kilocalories = 30.5 kilojoules
10.89 kilocalories = 45.6 kilojoules
[quote]Considering the average adult expends between 1,500-2,000 calories per day, it’s easy to see how a concerted nutritional effort is needed to make it through an Ironman race without the dreaded “bonk” (aka hyperglycemia).[/quote]https://joshmuskin.com/ironman-nutrition-faq/ (psnz)
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May 29 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Whose paradox seeks to answer the question: "Where are the aliens?"?
The Enrico Fermi Paradox.
[quote] Given that our solar system is quite young compared to the rest of the universe — roughly 4.5 billion years old, compared to 13.8 billion — and that interstellar travel might be fairly easy to achieve given enough time, Earth should have been visited by aliens already, the idea goes. [/quote]
The Drake equation is a fun tool to play with to try to theorize how many worlds have intelligent life. Unfortunately, it is probably impossible to know any of these variables with firm numbers.
[quote] N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L
N, the number of civilizations currently transmitting signals, depends on seven factors:
R* is the yearly formation rate of stars hospitable to planets where life could develop
fp is the fraction of those stars with planets
ne is the number of planets per solar system with conditions suitable for life
fl is the fraction of planets suitable for life on which life actually appears
fi is the fraction of planets with life on which intelligent life emerges
fc is the fraction of planets with intelligent life that develops technologies such as radio transmissions that we could detect
L is the average length of time in years that civilizations produce such signs [/quote]
https://www.space.com/25325-fermi-paradox.html
https://www.planetary.org/articles/fermi-paradox-drake-equation (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 29 24 by psnz
Which insect has the largest population on Earth?
Ants are the Earth's most numerous insect.
Conservative estimates put the number of ants at about 2.5 million for every human. That's a staggering 20 quadrillion or so: 20,000,000,000,000,000.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/how-many-ants-live-on-earth-at-least-20-quadrillion-scientists-say/ (psnz)
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May 29 24 by BigTriviaDawg
Is the surname "Yeboah", popular in Ghana, linked to the Bible?
Yeboah does not appear to be linked to the Bible. For one, it is not included in the Bible. Second, the overwhelming number of people with the last name Yeboah live in Ghana. If it was a Biblical word it would be a bit more universal.
According to the people on names.org the name Yeboah means cheerful giver. The actual origin of the name is unknown.
https://www.names.org/n/yeboah/about (BigTriviaDawg)
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May 29 24 by chabenao1
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