TASTY TRIVIA -- A Call for suggestions & submissions of favorite bits of triva (vanity)

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[Our man in washington]

The late John Cazale.

Correct! To repeat the question, what actor made only five movies in his lifetime, and all five were nominated for Best Picture, and three of them won best picture? Cazale played Fredo in both Godfather movies, and was also in "Dog Day Afternoon", "The Conversation", and "The Deer Hunter." Tragically, he died of cancer just after "The Deer Hunter" was released.

[Uriah]

red ball jets

[Tainan]

Amazingly, well to me at least, they are still being sold..."Retro" and all that.

P.F. Flyers...turn the sound DOWN for this link.

[PENANCE]

I was going for Smallpox and Edward Jenner.

Malaria seems to be making a good case for itself, though. I wonder if DDT could be considered a “cure” for malaria.

[FreeKeys]

trivia ping, anyone?

apologies if this is a duplicate

[grey_whiskers]

My cerebrum just fractured on that one.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

My cerebrum just fractured on that one.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

My cerebrum just fractured on that one.

Cheers!

[null and void]

United States Notes. Some say this is why he was assassinated.

(Red seal and serial numbers, what other colors have been used, and which classes of notes do they correspond with?)

[grey_whiskers]

Sean Bean (who played Alex Trevelyan in the James Bond movie Goldeneye) also played Boromir in The Lord of The Rings.

Christopher Lee (who played Francisco Scaramanga in the Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun) played Saruman in The Lord of the Rings.

Ian McKellen (who played Magneto in X-Men) played Gandalf in The Lord of The Rings.

Cheers!

[K-Stater]

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 2nd and 3rd Presidents respectively, (also 1st and 2nd Vice Presidents respectively) both died on July 4, 1826 -- exactly 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Although they belonged to opposing parties, they remained fast friends who corresponded regularly until their simultaneous deaths.

To expand on this bit of trivia, James Monroe died on July 4, 1831. And Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872.

Finally, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford both died on December 26 - 1972 and 2006 respectively.

[grey_whiskers]

That's Hedley.

Cheers!

[K-Stater]

Toward the end of the Nixon presidency, there were no living former presidents.

There have three occasions where we have had 5 living former presidents at the same time:

Under Clinton: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, Sr.
Under George W. Bush: Clinton, Bush, Sr., Reagan, Carter, Ford
and under Lincoln: Buchanan, Pierce, Filmore, Van Buren, and Tyler.

[MsLady]

Matthew 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

The eye of the needle was the security door/gate in the wall of Jerusalem, that was guarded and left open for night travelers. It wasn't big enough for a camel to get through, unless he was unpacked and crawled through on his knees. Think about it ;)

[MsLady]

Malaria-Madame Curie.

[FreeKeys]

The eye of the needle was the security door/gate in the wall of Jerusalem, that was guarded and left open for night travelers. It wasn't big enough for a camel to get through, unless he was unpacked and crawled through on his knees.

So, the way I take it, the admonition was NOT against getting rich; it was against getting rich by taking advantage of people without their permission (i.e., by extortion, theft or fraud instead of by trade in beneficial, wanted goods and services).

"It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not." -- Thomas Sowell, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Economics, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

[ctdonath2]

The number of gifts in “The 12 Days of Christmas” is 364 - one for every day of the year except Christmas.

[ctdonath2]

42 is what you get when you multiply 6 by 9 ... in base 13.

(fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will appreciate this)

[ctdonath2]

WWII would not have happened if Adolph Hitler had not failed his painting class.

[Larry Lucido]

No trivia thread can be complete without discussion of the Moops.